INTRODUCTION


KIVU respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide—for example, when you visit our website or contact us—and how we use, protect, and disclose that information.

This Privacy Statement does not apply to information collected on any third-party site or application (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from our websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or data collection, use and disclosure practices of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each site you visit.

Please read this Privacy Statement carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using our website or services, you agree to this Privacy Statement. This Statement may change from time to time, and these changes may affect how we use the information described below, so please check the Privacy Statement periodically for updates.


GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)


KIVU complies with all aspects of GDPR.


NOTICE ABOUT HOW WE USE AND PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION


We collect several types of information for our business operations, including but not limited to:

Information you provide to us. When you navigate our website or contact us, we may request or you may choose to provide us with certain information. This may include information by which you may be personally identified (“personal information”), such as name, employer, e-mail address or telephone number, and records and copies of your correspondence with us. For security purposes, we may also collect personal information from you if you visit our office.

Information collected from forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use portions of our website, posting material, or requesting further services. We may ask you for information when you report a problem with our website, products or services.

Usage details, IP addresses and cookies. As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns using common internet technologies, such as cookies and Web beacons. This may include details of your visits to our website, including information about your connectivity, such as your IP address and browser information, location data, logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the website. The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our website and to deliver better and more personalized content and services by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns and recognize you when you return to our website.

General business-related information. We may also receive other personal information from or about you in the ordinary course of our business.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information:

To present our website, products and services to you and continuously improve upon them.

To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.

To notify you about changes to our website, products or services (including new offerings) and promotions or events.

To maintain the integrity and security of our website, products, and services.

For our ordinary business operations, including human resources, recruiting, and business research and outreach.


DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION


We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties personally identifiable information about our website visitors or our customers or their authorised users.

If you are a customer or authorised user, we may share portions of your contact information and technical information with third party data provider partners, as required under the terms of our agreements with such providers.

KIVU may also disclose your personal information, the contents of your communications and/or your contact and financial information if required to do so by law, with your consent or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary:

To conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on KIVU
To protect and defend the rights or property of KIVU or others; or
To assist, under exigent circumstances, in the investigation of violations of applicable laws and regulations.
It is possible that as we continue to develop our business, KIVU might go under a change of control. In such a transaction, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.


DATA INTEGRITY AND PROPORTIONALITY


We only collect and retain as much personal information as needed for specific, identified purposes described in this Privacy Policy and we will not use it in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.


SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION


We take your security seriously and we have in place industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the personal information under our control, including through the use of physical, organisational, and technological measures and appropriate training of employees. However, the safety and security of your information also depends on you. it is possible that any information transmitted via the Internet may be intercepted by unknown third parties. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the websites. We therefore encourage you to carefully ensure security through virus screening software, browser settings, the setting of passwords that are known only to you and are difficult to guess, and other security measures available to individuals and/or companies.


CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT


We may amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically to read the current version of this Statement in effect.


CONTACT INFORMATION


If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Statement, please contact us by emailing us at privacy@kivu.com or by writing to us at:


KIVU Technologies GmbH
Mariahilferstrasse 133/8, 1150 Wien