Privacy Policy

What information do we collect and when do we collect it?

We may collect your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

• When you voluntarily provide it to us, such as when you register for an account with your email and password, or by using a social login ("Lynkle login credentials"), send us an email or post information or other content to our Site or Service;
• When you connect a Third Party Platform with your Lynkle account we will receive information from that service (such as your username, basic profile information) via the authorization procedures used by that service. Any additional information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available;
• If you purchase a subscription to the Service requiring billing or payment information, we require that you provide certain additional Personal Information, including your address, phone number, and credit card number ("Payment information"). This information is necessary to process your requests and to contact you; and
• When you accept another user's invitation to connect on the Service.

When you utilize the Service, we also receive certain other information about you or your use of the Service. Such other information may be collected using various technologies, including:

• Logs: We track the data you see in Lynkle and how you interact with it by automatically collecting certain information such as, the pages you visit or features you use within the Service, the date and time of your activities on the Service, the URLs from the websites you visit before and after navigating to the Service, your software and hardware attributes (including operating system type and version, App version, device type, and device identifiers, including IDFA and/or Advertising IDs), your browser type and version, and your general geographic location derived through your IP address (e.g., your city, state, or metropolitan region). To obtain such information, we may use web logs or applications that recognize your device and gather information about its online activity. We treat this information as confidential if we combine it with or link it to any of your personal information. We use tracking data about individuals to inform us about how Lynkle is being used to help us provide a better user experience.
• Cookies: Like almost all websites today, Lynkle uses cookies to determine whether you are logged in on your device and to recognize repeat visitors. We send cookies to your device in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our Service. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to your device's hard drive while you are viewing a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). If you wish to restrict or block the cookies that are set by Lynkle, or by any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. Please note, if you choose to disable cookies, some of our Service may not work properly or at all.
• Web beacons: The Service or the emails that you receive from us may use an application known as a "web beacon" (also known as a "clear gif" or "pixel tag"). A web beacon is an electronic file that usually consists of a single-pixel image. It can be embedded in a web page or in an email to transmit information. For example, it allows an email sender to determine whether a user has opened a particular email.
• Local storage: We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.

Lynkle keeps personal information contained in your cookies and obtained through the other tracking technologies confidential. We do not set any cookies outside of the lynkle.com or subdomains.

We also may partner with certain third parties to collect, analyze, and use some of the Personal and other information described in this section. For example, we may allow third parties to set cookies or use web beacons on the Service or in email communications from Lynkle.

What information do we share with third parties?

Lynkle is a software platform for digital brand and identity. Our business model is to provide a service our customers pay us for directly. We provide a limited version of our service for free. We do not rely on advertising and do not trade or sell your data. However, we share personal information as follows:

• Other users you connect with on the Service:  The core functionality of the Lynkle Service allows you to share your personal information with other users, and to receive the personal information of those other users.  When you invite another user to connect with you, either via the interface of the Service, or by sharing a QR code, link or other personal identifier generated by the Service, your personal information will be provided to people who view or access such code, link or identifier.  You can control which information you share via the settings provided within the Service.

• With your consent: We may share your personal information when you give us your consent to do so, including if we notify you on our Service that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information.
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• Service providers, agents and related third parties: We sometimes hire other companies to help us provide the Service to you. Examples include third-party payment processors, companies who send emails on our behalf, cloud-hosting providers and other service providers who work with us in connection with the operation of our Service. Such service providers are only provided with the information they need to perform their specific function, will only use your personal information to perform the services requested by us, and we make efforts to ensure they are subject to confidentiality restrictions consistent with this Privacy Policy.
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• Legal processes: We may also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so or that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to comply with the law or legal processes or respond to lawful requests or legal authorities, including responding to lawful subpoenas, warrants or court orders; when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or the rights, property or safety of others; to enforce or apply our Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service or our other policies or agreements.
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• Business transfers: We might sell or buy business assets. We may share your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition, or in any other situation where personal information may be disclosed or transferred as one of our business assets.
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• Analytics: We partner with certain third parties to collect the other information discussed above and to engage in analysis, auditing, research, and reporting. These third parties may use web logs or web beacons, and they may set and access cookies or use similar tracking technologies on your computer or other device.
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• Aggregated information: We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners. Such aggregated information does not identify individual users. We do not link this aggregate user data with personal information. Our Privacy Policy does not restrict or limit our collection and use of aggregate user data.
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• Google API usage: Lynkle Automated Email Signatures use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirement.

User communications

You may choose to provide us with another person's email address so that person may be invited to create an account on our Service. By providing us with another person's email address, you represent to us that you have obtained the consent of the person concerned as regards such disclosure to us of that email address. We may disclose such information if required to do so in order to comply with legal process, as described above.

Links to other sites

Our Service may contain Links to other sites. Any personal information you provide on the linked pages is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party's privacy policy. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of these sites or any other sites that are linked to from our Service.

What steps do we take to protect your information?

We use reasonable physical, technical, and administrative security measures to protect your personal information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

International data transfers

In some cases, where your personal information is transferred to third parties such as service providers, it is processed in countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).

Our third-party service providers and partners operate in the United States. This means that when we collect your personal information it will be processed in the United States. Where we transfer your personal information to countries and territories outside of the European Economic Area ("EU"), the United Kingdom ("UK") and Switzerland (collectively, "Europe"), we either rely on the relevant adequacy decisions with regards to countries that provide an adequate level of protection or we take appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. The safeguards we use to transfer personal information include the Data Privacy Frameworks (more on this below) or the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses as issued on 4 June 2021 under Article 46(2) and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the Standard Contractual Clauses.  

The Standard Contractual Clauses we've executed to transfer your personal information can be provided upon request. Please note that some sensitive commercial information may be redacted.

What choices do you have regarding the use of your information?

You may withdraw your consent to process your personal information at any time by providing written notice to us at hello@lynkle.com. If you do so, you will be unable to use the Service.

You may "opt-out" of receiving marketing or promotional communications from us by following the instructions in those communications or by emailing us at hello@lynkle.com. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your Lynkle account or our ongoing business relations.

Your rights: reviewing, changing or deleting your information

You may review, update, correct, or delete the personal information in your account from within the Service itself or by contacting us at hello@lynkle.com. You also authorize us, on your behalf, and in accordance with your account preferences to delete information when not reasonably needed for the Service. If you have shared your personal or other information with others and they have not deleted it, or it was copied or stored by other users, Lynkle will not be obligated to delete such information.

Retention of your information

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to deliver our Service to you or to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy. You may delete the personal information in your account as described above. Please note that, in limited circumstances, we may retain information for a longer period of time as required by law.

Lawful bases for processing

We will only collect and process personal information about you where we have lawful bases. Our lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, such as when you purchase a subscription to the Service) and our legitimate interests (such as to comply with applicable laws and enable or administer our business).

Information for California residents

If you are a California resident under 18 years of age and a registered user of our Service, you may request that we remove content and information that you publicly post on our Service. To obtain removal of such content and information, please send us an email at hello@lynkle.com with a short description of the content or information you would like to have removed. Please note that such a request does not necessarily ensure complete or comprehensive removal of content posted by you, since the content and information may remain in our databases, may remain visible in a manner that does not identify you, or may have been re-posted by another user.

Minors

Our Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information, he or she should contact us at hello@lynkle.com. If we become aware that a person under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information from our files.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Lynkle may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page with an "effective date" indicating when the changes will take effect. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. If you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: hello@lynkle.com.