fiveBrackets & Privacy
fiveBrackets values your privacy. Below is our privacy values.
Last updated: January 14th, 2019
Overview
Our privacy policy is very simple: data we collect from you is none of our business. To the extent that our apps and websites can function efficiently without doing so, we prefer to avoid collecting data from you.
If and when we collect data from you, we briefly give reasons as to why we're collecting it, state to you how long we are going keep it, erase it when we no longer need it, and give you the capability to opt out whenever possible.
We use up-to-date standard security measures to protect data collected from you, and perimeter access to only employees of ours who have need of such access to perform their jobs. We may be legally obligatory to disclose collected data to law enforcement or government agencies should the need ever arise.
The content of FiveBrackets.com are the service offerings of FiveBrackets LLC, a limited liability company registered in the USA. By using the website and its services and features, you agree to be bound by this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please do not use the Site or its services and features.
Cookies and Third-Party Services
Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. It is a standard practice to use Cookies. More information about cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.
FiveBrackets LLC uses third parties to provide services to us, such as:
- Hosting our email server
- Hosting our Websites
- Analyzing the use of these services
- Serve Advertisements
- Provide offsite backups of critical infrastructure
These third-party services may also store their own cookies on your device, which cookies may collect information about you, including personal information, subject to the privacy practices of these third parties. For more information on third party cookies, please check with the relevant third party.
As soon as you interact with our servers using a web browser, or indirectly by network requests sent on your behalf by our apps, some metadata about the request is logged in Google Analytics.
We use the information from Google analytics based on our legitimate interest in improving our products and our services. We may look at the data in total to see broad statistics such as how many times our apps have been downloaded, or from which source an unusually high aggregate of network traffic is received.
In addition to Google Analytics we also use Google AdSense to serve ads on some pages on this site. Google AdSense also uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visit to this website and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the internet.
Users may opt out of personalized Google advertising by Visiting Google's Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt-out of third-party personalized advertising cookies use here.
To learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services click here.
To be clear, we do not track individual user behavior in our apps. You may remove cookies by following the instructions on your device governing the setting of your preference.
We keep offsite backups of critical systems so that a catastrophic data loss event does not put us out of business. Offsite backups do not store any user information.
- Web analytics services are provided by Google Analytics.
- Advertisements are served by Google Adsense.
- Email Hosting is provided by FastMail.
- Offsite backup services and hosting is provided by DigitalOcean.
Support Interactions
When handling support requests from you, we collect:
- Your name
- Your email address (or Twitter handle, if you contact us via Twitter)
- Some information you provide willingly (such as diagnostic info)
This information is collected to resolve your support inquiry. We retain support emails indeterminately in order to:
- Have background from previous interactions. This helps us answer your future questions more quickly.
- If you would like to get rid of support emails you have sent, contact support@fivebrackets.com.
Data Not Collected
Apart from the description above, and mandatory to perform the application's essential functionality at the user's request, our apps and website do not send out any private information. This includes:
- Contents of files you are working with
- Screen contents
- Information from device sensors
- Your keyboard input
- Websites that you visit
- Usernames
- Passwords
Minors
FiveBrackets LLC does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has shared any information with us, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@fivebrackets.com. If you are under the age of 18, please be sure to read this policy with your parents of legal guardians and ask questions about the things you do not understand.
Rights of EU Citizens under GDPR
Residents of the EU may implement their rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, such as the rights of access and removal, by contacting us with their request. We commend emailing the request to dpo@fivebrackets.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Our privacy policies might be modified for transparency over time. We reserve the right to periodically amend or revise the privacy policy. Up-to-date information will always be available from this page. The last revision date will be reflected at the top of the page.
Contacting Us
Please contact us if you have any questions about our data collection or privacy policies. We'll be pleased to discuss them with you. Please note that information that you submit through email may not be secure; so please do not include any sensitive information in your messages to us.
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