Last updated on Dec 28, 2019.

We are GroupThink Net Inc (“us”, “we”, or “our”), and we operate the www.groupthinq.com website through which we provide online business intelligence platform services (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).

This Policy outlines how we collect, use and disclose your personal information when you use our Service or visit our website. Personal information means information about an identifiable individual, that alone or in combination with other information, can be used to identify an individual.

The Service is intended to be used by businesses for managing certain aspects of their operations. If you use the Service to process personal information of your customers, employees, prospects and others, you are entirely responsible for ensuring that you do so in compliance with all applicable laws, including privacy and data protection laws. The policy is intended to primarily address our personal information management practices of personal information that we collect directly from you, our users and our website visitors. 

We use your personal information to provide the Service to you, in accordance with our Terms of Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service.

Confidentiality and Security of Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable security measures and follow generally accepted industry standards to protect personally identifiable information sent to our website or provided to our Service, both during transmission and afterwards. It is your responsibility to ensure that you do not disclose your password to anyone.

However, despite our efforts to maintain the confidentiality and security of your account, no method of transmission over the Internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. Although we make commercially reasonable and industry standard efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We collect, use and disclose personal information for the purposes outlined below. When you sign up for our Service or for a free-trial of the Service, we ask you for your name, email address, business name, country and a password. We may also ask for your phone number and business address, including postal code. We also collect other kinds of personal information in order to provide the Service to you, including usage and location information, as outlined below. 

We may also use your personal information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send.

Usage Information

We may collect information on how you access and use the Service (“Usage Information”). This Usage Information may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic information.

Location Information

We may use and store information about your location (specifically, your province) if you give us permission to do so. We use this information to provide features of our Service to you, as well as to improve and customize our Service. In particular, if we know the province you are operating in, we can tailor timesheets for your timezone.

You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time by way of your device settings.

Tracking & Cookies Information

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service. Cookies are computer files with a small amount of information which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Examples of cookies we use include:

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Information

We use personal information that we have collected for the following purposes:

• To provide you with and maintain our Service;
• To notify you about changes to our Service;
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so;
• To provide customer support;
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service;
• To monitor the usage of our Service;
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To maintain the security and integrity of our systems; and 
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

Retention of Information

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Information for internal analysis purposes, to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or if we are legally obligated to retain this information for a specific period of time.

Transfer of Information

Your information, including personal information, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your jurisdiction, where the information protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. 

If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal information, to Canada and process it in Canada. Your consent to this Privacy Policy and your submission of personal information to us represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your information and other personal information.

Disclosure of Information

We do not rent, trade, or share personal information with third parties, except to provide our Service, which you requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We use third parties for credit card processing, which parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.
• We may export information at your request to our third party integration partners.
• We may share your aggregate anonymous information with third parties in order to improve the Service or for marketing purposes.
• We may share your information with third party contractors such as developers, support administrators, designers, data analysts, and network technicians to maintain and improve the Service.
• We may share your information with our third party vendors, who help to manage and store information uploaded to the Groupthinq website, or to support and improve the Service.
• We may share your personal information if required by law and if we believe that the disclosure is required or necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial processing or legal process served on us or in relation to the Service.
• We may share personal information if we believe that it is required in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, a potential threat to the physical safety of a third party, or as otherwise required by law.
• We may transfer personal information to a third party entity in the event of an assignment of the Service for any reason, including a sale or all or a part of our business, or a merger with another business. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of personal information.
• We may share personal information with our legal, financial, and other professional advisors.
• We may share personal information with third parties upon receiving your consent as required by law.

Except as provided above, we will not share any of your information to any third party without permission.

Security of Information

The security of your information is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our Policy on “Do Not Track” Signals under the California Online Protection Act (CalOPPA)

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Access to your Personal Information

You can review, update, delete, or correct your personal information on file with us online or in person at any time. To access your personal information, we require a written request, unless you login and update your personal information yourself directly. Upon receipt of any written request, we will take commercially reasonable steps to provide you with the opportunity to access any such information. We may charge a reasonable fee in order to cover our costs in providing such access.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the information collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This information is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected information to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Payments

We use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors) when a purchase is part of the Service requested by you. We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

• Stripe

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Groupthinq is a business-to-business service intended to be used by businesses only, and not individuals who are under the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which they reside. We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. In furtherance of this commitment, we restrict the use of our website and Service to persons eighteen (18) years of age or older. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13).

CALIFORNIA USERS

If you are a California resident, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain categories of your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing uses. California law provides that you have the right to submit a request to us at our email address in order to receive information on the categories of customer information that we shared and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year. To obtain this information, please send an email message to support@groupthinq.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you in your email address in response.

Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you need further information regarding the access to your personal information, or how your personal information is used, please contact our privacy officer at support@groupthinq.com.