Principled Technologies and BenchmarkXPRT Development Community privacy policy

Last updated August 17, 2019

Introduction

Questions

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us.

For Principled Technologies, email us at info@principledtechnologies.com or mail to the following address:

Principled Technologies, Inc.
Attn: PT privacy policy
1007 Slater Road, Suite 300
Durham, NC 27703

For BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, email us at BenchmarkXPRTsupport@principledtechnologies.com or mail to the following address:

Principled Technologies, Inc.
Attn: BenchmarkXPRT Development Community privacy policy
1007 Slater Road, Suite 300
Durham, NC 27703

Scope

This privacy policy covers this website (principledtechnologies.com), including the BenchmarkXPRT web pages, but it does not apply to third-party websites to which it links or to applications that Principled Technologies, Inc. does not own or control.

The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

This privacy policy and all of Principled Technologies, Inc.’s data collection and stewardship practices are designed to comply with the standards of the EU GDPR. Under the terms of the GDPR, you have certain rights, including the following:

Information we collect

Personal information

When you contact us via a form or register with the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, you provide us with your first and last names, your corporate affiliation, and your email address.

Financial information

Full membership in the BenchmarkXPRT community requires you to pay a membership fee or, for qualifying companies, to provide your company work email address. At the time you join, to make that payment, you provide credit card information, including the name on the card, the card number, its expiration date, and its security code.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data element that our website can store in your system. We use cookies to save your preferences to provide you with a tailored user experience. We use only browser cookies, i.e., cookies we send to your Internet browser for storage. Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. To learn how to do this, check your browser’s online help documentation. Please note, however, that disabling cookies may restrict your use of the website or affect the way certain sections of the site operate.

How we use this information

Personal information

We use the information we collect from you only to (1) communicate with you if and when necessary in connection with your use of our website, respond to your questions, or send you material and information you request, (2) notify you when full BenchmarkXPRT Development Community membership registration opens, and/or (3) process your registration for full membership. If you register as a member of the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, your profile information will be visible to other members of the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community. If you do not want your profile information to be visible to other community members, we will make that information invisible at your request. To make your request, email BenchmarkXPRTsupport@principledtechnologies.com.

Principled Technologies, Inc. will not use any of your personal information for any purpose other than providing content to you or administering the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, and will not share your personal information or membership status with any third party.

For members of the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, Principled Technologies, Inc. will retain the personal information you provide for the duration of your community membership and no longer.

Financial transaction information

We use the financial information you provide at the time you join the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community for the sole purpose of processing your payment of the membership fee. We do not store this information on our servers; we only forward it to a third-party financial transaction processor through a secure connection that protects this information while it is in transit. We require that any third parties that process this information protect it and keep it confidential.

Information security, community notices, information removal, and membership cancellation

Security

We store all information we collect in our secure servers behind a firewall. We take the same measures to protect your information against unauthorized access or disclosure as we do to protect our own corporate information.

Communications

From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices. You may opt out of receiving these notices by notifying us at one of the addresses listed above or cancelling your membership in the community (see below).

Information removal and membership cancellation

Should you desire to do so, you can ask us to permanently remove all information you have provided and/or cancel your membership. To do so, contact us at one of the addresses above, and we will fulfill your request within 72 hours.

Sharing of information

Payments

When you join the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community and pay your membership fee, we will share any related financial transaction information with only those third parties necessary to complete the transaction.

Fraud investigations

We may share information with government agencies or companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation when (1) required by law, (2) protecting against or preventing actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions, or (3) investigating fraud that has already occurred.

Information removal and membership cancellation

Should you desire to do so, you can ask us to permanently remove all information you have provided and/or cancel your membership. To do so, contact us at one of the addresses above.

Changes to this privacy policy

Policy changes

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The terms in this policy will apply to later versions of it unless we state otherwise. In no case will we reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post all changes to this Privacy Policy on this Web page. We will archive previous versions and make them available for review upon request.