Effective Date: March 28th, 2020
At Relevel we highly value your right to privacy. We believe that you should be fully informed when it comes to the information and data we may collect and how we're protecting it when you use our Site, content, Mobile App (Site, content and mobile app are collectively referred as "the Services") or when you subscribe to our Mobile App subscription. This document provides information on how we treat your personal data. Please read this Privacy Policy prior to using the Site and the Services. Privacy Policy applies to both use cases.
We would like to explain you the basic Privacy Policy principles as clearly as possible and according to binding data protection laws.
Each of the above principles may be further explained below. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy – please be advised that you can also contact us any time at hello@relevelapp.com.
When You use the Relevel Site and Service we may collect various information necessary to provide You the best experience and Relevel app features, such as:
2.1 Submitted Information. When registering for an account on Relevel, we will collect the following information: (i) your e-mail address and (ii) a unique password. We may also collect information regarding your name and surname or company name, your team size, your role in a team, and telephone number. You submit all the data voluntarily but some of them may be obligatory to use certain functionalities of the Site.
When paying to use the Site or Mobile App, we may collect further information from you including: evidential numbers (tax identity number, registration number in relevant court, administrative or commercial registers – in case of corporate entities), billing address and credit card information. If you submit payment information, we do not store credit card numbers you may use to make payments on the Site. Payment information is passed on to, and may be stored by, our third-party payment processors (listed here).
It is your responsibility to give us current, complete, truthful and accurate information, and to keep such information up to date. Relevel will not be responsible for any problems or liability related to inaccurate or incomplete personal information, whether due to your failure to update such personal information or otherwise.
Nevertheless please note that Relevel does not gather sensitive information (i.e., personal information specifying medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership or information specifying the sex life of the individual). Please refrain from supplying any of such information to Relevel in any communications.
2.2 Automatically Collected Information. When you use the Site, we gather certain non-personally identifiable information from you, and this information can be associated with your Site account. This includes, but is not limited to, usage information, such as information on when, how often and for how long you use the Site, records of the way you use the Site as well as server log data such as a computer’s IP address, browser type, device information or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Site.
“Cookies” are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are downloaded by your web browser when you visit a website. The use of cookies is very common. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies when you access and use the Site. Cookies are used to remember your Site account information and your preferences, to customize the interface of the Site for you and to assist us in measuring and analyzing Site traffic, usage and performance. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Site. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your browser’s documentation to learn the best way to modify your cookie settings.
Tracking and Third-Party Cookies. Like many websites, the Site does not respond to “do not track” browser headers. But you can take steps to limit tracking by erasing cookies from your computer’s hard drive and by setting your browser to block all cookies or warn you before a cookie is stored.
For more information about cookies – please see our Cookie Policy below.
3.1 Performance of services. We need the data you submit to supply you with the Relevel Service and fully enable you to take advantage of all the Site’s features hence the reason to process this information is to fulfil the contract and our legitimate interests such as performing our legal and contractual duties and commercial interest to provide you with a good service. We may also need this data to verify your identity to protect against fraud, comply with respective laws and to confirm your eligibility to use our products and services – minding in particular that Relevel Service is aimed solely for business purposes (as a B2B service).
3.2 Account Maintenance. We may use the collected information for the purposes for which you provided the information including, for example, to create and maintain a Site account for you or to respond to a question that you e-mail to us. The collected information may also be used, whenever necessary, to help us better understand your ways of using the Relevel products and behavior so that we may make decisions about how we manage your account, offer discounts and provide the features and functionality of the Site to you.
3.3 Updates and Troubleshooting. We may also use the collected information to contact you regarding updates or modifications to the Site, to help troubleshoot problems, for data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes or to alert you to changes in our policies or agreements that may affect your use of the Site.
3.4 Personalized Content and Enhancing Relevel Product. Based on personal characteristics or preferences, we may use the collected information to personalize the content that you and others see in order to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service at your personal convenience. We may also analyze collected information relating to your use of the Site in order to help us improve the Site and develop and improve Relevel's other products and services, i.e. to help market and provide new products and services that you might find interesting.
3.5 Promotional Offers and Other Design Related Communication. We may use the collected information to provide you with promotional materials, personalize advertisements and offers or information that we feel may be of interest to you, especially but not limited to design news, conferences, webinars, etc. or other projects that Relevel is engaged in.
However, we will give you the ability to opt out of receiving such e-mails in accordance with applicable law. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please notify us by e-mail at hello@Relevel.com and include sufficient information for us to identify your account, including your name, e-mail address and the specifics of your request, or you can use the “unsubscribe” or “change your email preferences” link at the bottom of an e-mail message. However, after you unsubscribe to cease receiving e-mails, depending on the chosen setting or continuation of your subscription to the Service, we may still contact you via e-mail for administrative or informational purposes, including messages regarding the administration of your account (if you have one). We never provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent, which shall be voluntary – the absence of such consent shall in no way limit your ability to use the Service.
3.6 Third-Party Web Analytics. Relevel may use third-party analytics providers and products to obtain, compile and analyze Information about how users are using and interacting with Relevel and/or the Services and about devices used. These analytics providers may use a variety of established or new tracking technologies or tools (including, without limitation, cookies, pixels, web beacons, HTTP cache, local shared objects and persistent identifiers) to recognize your computer or device and/or to collect or compile this information. We may use these information to improve your experience of using the Relevel Service and to improve the overall quality of our Service, as well for our own marketing purposes and practices such as to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you. We may also use this data to make suggestions and recommendations to you about Relevel services of features of Service or Site that may interest you as well as for other purposes described in sec. 3.1.-3.5. above. Relevel has no control over the technologies, tools or practices of the third parties that providing analytics products and services to Relevel.
Third-party web analytics service providers we engage, may use cookies in order to provide analytics services for the Site to us. You can find them listed here.
3.7 Legal grounds for data processing The legal grounds to process the information is mostly to provide you with the Services (fulfil the contract), enable you to use the Site and its features as well our legitimate commercial interests such as performing our legal and contractual duties (i.e. supplying you with Relevel services via the Site)and commercial interest to provide you with a good service and enable the marketing communication so that we can stay in touch.
Therefore your data may be processed on more than one legal ground such as your explicit consent, contract fulfillment or our legitimate interest. Please note that in some cases we don’t need explicit consent to process the other data than those you submit to supply you with our services via the Site. We may also process your data on the grounds of our legitimate interest like to conduct and manage Relevel, to ensure our systems security. When we don’t process your data upon your consent or to supply you services via the Site (to fulfil contract) before we process such data we always consider and balance any positive or negative potential impact on you and your rights before we process your personal data for such legitimate interests and if the negatives would prevail – we would never process such data (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted by law).
Therefore – please find the reasons and legal ground for processing your data listed below:
We share and disclose the information we collect about you as follows:
4.1 Third-Party Service Providers. We use contractors and third-party service providers who may collaborate with us on development or maintenance of the Site or Service and such third-party contractors or service providers may obtain access to the information you provide, including personally identifiable information. The third-party contractors or service providers are required to protect this information and must not use the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us, in a way described in their privacy policies.
As you can see we are really into transparency of data processing here at Relevel. Therefore, please find the categories of service providers we may share your data with:
The actual list of Third-Party Service Providers and their Privacy Policies is available here.
4.2 Business Arrangements. We may disclose non-personally identifiable information to third-party partners in furtherance of our business arrangements with them, including without limitation to jointly offer a product or service to you or create interoperability between our products and services and the products and services of such partners.
4.3 Legal or Contractual Requirement. We will use and disclose information where we, in good faith, believe that the law or legal process (such as a court order, search warrant, subpoena or other lawful requests by public authorities) requires us to do so, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We will use and disclose information in other circumstances where we believe it is necessary to protect the rights or property of Relevel, our customers and/or third parties.
We may also disclose the information enforce or apply the Terms of Service and/or any other agreements between you and us or to investigate potential breaches and to protect the rights, property or safety of Relevel, our customers or others.
4.4 Affiliates. Reorganization. We may disclose this information to our affiliates for use as described in this Policy nevertheless such affiliates never determine the purposes and means of the processing of personal data but may solely supply auxiliary services to Relevel Inc. In the event of a merger, sale of capital stock or assets, reorganization, consolidation or similar transaction involving Relevel, the information we possess, including personally identifiable information, shall be transferred as a corporate asset to the acquiring entity, provided that such entity will continue to handle such information in accordance with this Policy.
In any case, Relevel maintains contracts with the aforementioned affiliates and service providers, restricting their access, use and disclosure of personal data in compliance with our Privacy Shield obligations. Relevel may be liable if such parties fail to meet those obligations and we are responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.
5.1 Protection. You may be entitled to benefit from protection deriving from the applicable laws of State of California and the “GDPR” – The EU Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (General Data Protection Regulation). Therefore, notwithstanding the particular information pointed out particularly in the Overview above, please be advised as follows.
Please note once again that Relevel Inc. shall be the administrator of any personal data that you may share with us or Relevel gathers when you use the Site. Please be informed that if you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to supply you with our services via the Site. In this case, we may have to cancel your use of Relevel account but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We shall cease to process your personal data after your subscription to use the Services elapses or is terminated. After your subscription to use the Services elapses or is terminated, we may only process your personal data as required for: i) calculation of the Service and submitting any possible claims for payments for the Service that may be due to us; ii) determinations regarding any forbidden or unlawful use of the Service; iii) fulfill any particular obligations or entitlements deriving from applicable laws; iv) marketing, promotion and market or consumer preference research or for business or Service development – in this last example – with your separate consent (unless such consent is withdrawn) or until you explicitly opt out, which you are entitled to do at any time.
You can log into your account and view or amend your account information at any time. To the extent you decline to share certain information with us, we may not be able to provide some of the features and functionalities found on the Site. Please note that while changes to your profile information are reflected promptly in active customer databases, we may retain all of your information.
You are fully entitled to access, modify and even delete any personal data you have provided us with – in order to do so please communicate your request with an email sent to: hello@relevelapp.com or send us a letter to the business address of our Company indicated above.
When you want to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you or when you want to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected or wish to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it (object to processing) please contact us at hello@Relevel.com. Please note however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request. Please note that some legitimate interests such as full settlement of remuneration, Relevel security reasons or other legal retention requirements may supersede any right to erasure requests under data protection laws.
You have the right to request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it. If you wish to exercise this right please contact us at hello@Relevel.com.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. Please note however that it does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. You may exercise this right by using in-app functionalities, unsubscribe link or other similar features we provide you with and – as always – by contacting us at hello@Relevel.com.
Please note that when you withdraw consent, any requests in relation to the modification, deletion or restriction of the processing of your data means that we may not be able to fulfil the agreement to supply Service or other Sites functionalities. In such case we may have to cancel your use of the Relevel services but at the time we will notify you if this is the case.
You have the right to transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. If you wish to exercise the right we will provide to you your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, which you can then transfer to an applicable third party. Please consider that that this right only applies to automatically processed information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you. If you require this then please contact us at hello@Relevel.com.
Minding the above, at any time, you also have an opportunity to choose whether your personal information is (i) to be disclosed to a third party or (ii) to be used for a purpose that is materially different from the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you – using settings accessible to you via the Site or by contacting us by e-mail at hello@Relevel.com and including sufficient information for us to identify your account, including your name, email address and the specifics of your request.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
Sometimes we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We do our best to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In such case you will be notified and we will keep you updated.
You have the right to file a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data at hello@Relevel.com. When we receive formal complaints, we will contact the person who made the complaint to follow up. We may work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities or Privacy Shield dispute resolution panels, to resolve any complaints regarding the processing and transfer of personal data that we cannot resolve with our users directly. If you’re willing to file a Privacy Shield claim - please find your relevant data protection authority here - if you are a EU citizen or please contact the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
5.2 Security of information. The information we collect about you is stored in limited access servers. We will maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information. We have implemented and continue to ensure that any personal data that you may share with us is secured with Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”) encryption, which aim to prevent any unauthorized third party from obtaining or modifying any electronically transmitted personal data. We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorised access to systems. We restrict access to personal information to Relevel employees, affiliates, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations. They may be disciplined or their contract terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
However, no security measures are 100% effective and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal data or other personally identifiable information. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Any transmission is at your own risk. Therefore we must expressly disclaim any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, with respect to ensuring, guaranteeing or otherwise offering any definitive promise of security in connection with the transmissions made when you use the Site but once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to secure your data.
5.3 Transfer to the U.S. or Other Countries. Relevel uses facilities in the United States. Your information will be stored and processed in the United States or other countries where Relevel has facilities. When you use the Site, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country, even if your country has more rigorous data protection standards. In particular, Relevel may transfer and process such personal data to the U.S. or other countries in accordance with the Privacy Shield Principles, as stipulated in our EU-U.S. or Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework Policy.
5.4 Children Under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 and the Site is not directed at children under 18. If you are a parent and believe your child under the age of 13 has used the Site and provided personally identifiable information to us through the Site, please contact us at hello@relevelapp.com and we will work to delete that Site account.
5.5 Effective Date. Changes. Cookie Policy & Third-party Services Information. This Policy applies to all information collected by or provided to us on and after the Effective Date. When we make any material changes to this Policy, we will change the Effective Date and post any Privacy Policy changes on this page. If the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including in-app or e-mail notification of changes). We will treat your continued use of the Site and Relevel services following such change as your acceptance of the changes. However, we will seek your affirmative consent prior to applying any material change to this Policy on how we use or disclose personally identifiable information to information we collected or received prior to the date of the change.
Please note that the Cookie Policy and Third-party Services Information shown below constitute integral part of this Privacy Policy. Nevertheless please note that we may change third-party service providers so these information may change from time to time and this shall not be considered as a significant change to the Privacy Policy.
** 5.6 How to contact us.** If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at hello@Relevel.com or at the business address of our Company indicated above in the Overview part.
In compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, we strive to investigate and resolve any and all complaints about the privacy and the collection or use of customer information outlined in this Policy. We maintain security incident management policies and procedures. We shall notify Customer and appropriate data protection agencies, in accordance with applicable data protection laws of any breach relating to Personal Data of which we become aware and which may require a notification to be made.
If you have questions about our participation in the Privacy Shield or have a complaint, please contact our Privacy Team at privacy@relevelapp.com.
Relevel will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of personal information by reference to the principles contained in this Policy.
If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, that is in 45 days, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, any unresolved privacy complaint can be referred to an independent recourse mechanism.
Relevel has committed to cooperate with the EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) and the Swiss Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) as the Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRMs). Relevel will cooperate with the DPAs in the investigation and resolution of complaints brought under the Privacy Shield.
Relevel shall comply with any advice given by the DPAs where the DPAs take the view that the organization needs to take specific action to comply with the Privacy Shield Principles, including remedial or compensatory measures for the benefit of individuals affected by any non-compliance with the Principles, and will provide the DPAs with written confirmation that such action has been taken.
Relevel has agreed to participate in the dispute resolution procedures of the panel established by the EU data protection authorities to resolve disputes pursuant to the Principles. A resident of the European Union (EU) whose inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed may contact either the EU DPAs panel at ec-dppanel-secr@ec.europa.eu or individual EU DPAs using the information provided at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
Under certain conditions, and consistent with our IRM cooperation, you may also invoke a binding arbitration pursuant to the Privacy Shield’s Recourse, Enforcement and Liability Principle and Annex I of the Privacy Shield. For additional information relating to your right to invoke binding arbitration, please view the information available at the following link: https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=ANNEX-I-introduction.
7.1 What Are Cookies. As is common practice with almost all professional websites the Site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the Sites functionality. For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
7.2 How We Use Cookies. We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed in Privacy Policy above and further detailed below. Unfortunately is most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the Site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
7.3 Disabling Cookies. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the the Site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
7.4 The Cookies We Set. If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your Site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
The Site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
The Site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
In order to provide you with a great experience on the Site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how the Site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
7.5 Third Party Cookies. In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through the Site.
The Site uses third-party analytics services for helping us to understand how you use the Site and ways that we can improve your experience. The actual list of Third-Party Service Providers and their privacy policies is available here. These third-party cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the Site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content and we can better understand how we can improve the Site for you. From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the Site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the Site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our Site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
We also engage third-party advertising services providers who use cookies to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on the Site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media Sites including; Facebook, Twitter, will set cookies through our Site which may be used to enhance your profile on their Site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
7.6 More Information. Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our Site. However if you are still looking for more information, you can always contact us at: hello@relevelapp.com