Last updated: April 2023

• Introduction

We as USKA Labs give utmost importance to the privacy of our visitors and users during their use of our website with the domain namehttps://uskalabs.com(“Website”) regardless of point of access or your country of residency. 

• Purpose of Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is prepared with a privacy-prioritizing attitude in order to provide detailed information to visitors and users regarding the identity of USKA Labs as a data controller; data processing and its legal bases, reasons; rights of visitors, and users (collectively “Data Subject”), which can be exercised against USKA Labs.

• Scope of Privacy Policy

• In Terms of Legislation

Since USKA Labs has numerous visitors and users from different countries, it is hard to determine which legislation should be the Website lied to its activities and business. Therefore, USKA Labs intends to reflect its compliance with different legislations regarding privacy and data protection. For this reason, USKA Labs shows considerable effort to act in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and other applicable data protection regulations.

• In Terms of Related Person

This Privacy Policy includes different Data Subjects with various motives, such as somehow accessing, signing up, and signing into USKA Labs. Even though Data Subjects may be referred to as visitors or users according to their intention to use the USKA Labs, they will be covered in this Privacy Policy.

• Data Controller

For any and all data processing that occurs through accessing the USKA Labs,[Company Name] residing at[Company’s registered address] is a data controller (“Controller”). 

• Personal Information USKA Labs Collects

When you visit our Website or register for our products and services, USKA Labs collects Personal Information about you. We use this Personal Information for the business purpose of providing our products and services, as well as marketing our products and services to new and potential customers. This includes providing you with personalized recommendations and customized content on our Website.

• Personal Information You Provide to Us

The Personal Information listed hereunder may be collected when you;

• create an account,
• use our Website,
• provide us with your feedback,
• purchase and use our services,
• contact us,
• recommend the Website to your friends or,
• request technical support services.

The categories of personal information we collect from users of and visitors to our Website are: 

• Personal Information Collected by Us

The Personal Information listed hereunder may be collected automatically, including Cookies, server logs, and other technologies of equivalent nature, without limitation. In cases where a Third Party uses our Cookies, we may also receive Personal Information therefrom.

• How USKA Labs Uses Personal Information 

Your Personal Information, either given to or collected by us, shall only be processed, when necessary, to do so we may refer to reasons (“Processing Reason”) and a limited number of legal reasons (“Legal Basis”) associated therewith.

We use personal information collected through our products and services, both individually and combined together, for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or disclosed to you in connection with our products and services. Your Personal Information may be used;

• Create your account
• Provide and deliver services you request
• Send you service-related information updates, alerts, and support and administrative messages
• Send you marketing communications and personalized content, such us showing you articles and news
• Respond to your inquiries
• Carry out analytics and to improve the quality and relevance of our Website
• Serve and measure the effectiveness of advertising
• Protect the integrity of our products and services, including detecting and preventing fraud and unauthorized activities, securing our systems and the services, and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity

• Marketing and Promotions

As mentioned above, we rely on your explicit and informed consent to contact our Users regarding Promotions based on a number of data including without limitation, Technical Information, Usage Information and User Feedback. 

• Third-Party Marketing

In the event of your Personal Information becoming a subject for third-party marketing services, USKA Labs shall ask for our users’ explicit and informed consent to share the information therein with third-party marketing services.

• Opting Out

Withdrawing your consent to opt-in (“Opting-out”) to our Marketing and Promotions Services and third-party marketing services shall mean your exclusion from our personalized content tailored based on Personal Information and that of third-party marketing services.

• Changes to our Processing Reasons 

We shall only process your Personal Information according to Processing Reasons listed under §5.3, in the event a Processing Reason changes but remains compatible with the original reason listed thereunder, we may use the new Processing Reason for your Personal Information. If you want to learn more about the new Processing Reason, please do not hesitate in contacting us.

If it is necessary for us to process your Personal Information unrelated to the original Processing Reason listed thereunder, USKA Labs shall update §5.3 accordingly and notify you of the changes.

• Exemptions and Exclusions to Your Personal Information

Additional information may be used, collected and/or shared by USKA Labs as aggregated data including statistical data on the use of the Website. Even though the information hereunder may be derived from your personal information as given thereunder in §5.1 and §5.2 they can no longer be linked back to you, nor identify you thus can no longer be considered as Personal Information.

• Failure to Provide Personal Information

Your failure to provide Personal Information where,

• its necessity arises out of law and/or any secondary act of legislation related thereto, 
• the reasons need it stipulated thereunder to enter into a contract and/or provide you with our Website,

shall result with your access to the Website being ceased upon your notification.

• Personal Information USKA Labs Discloses

We also share Personal Information with third parties for the business purposes of providing our products and services and marketing our products. The categories of these third parties with whom we share personal information are:

• Hosting and infrastructure providers;
• IT services;
• Email service providers;
• Advertising partners;

We share all of the categories of personal information with these third parties when we need to do so in order to provide you with USKA Labs products and services.

We may also share personal information with the following:

• Competent law enforcement bodies, regulators, government agencies, courts or other third parties where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
• Actual or potential buyers (and their agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy;
• Other persons where you have given your consent.

• Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technology (collectively, “Cookies”) to collect and use personal information about you, including to serve interest-based advertising. You can find detailed information on the principles of processing your personal data by visiting our Cookie Policy.

• Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for those under the age of 13 (a “Minor”), as a result of this USKA Labs does not knowingly collect and/or is provided with Personal Information belonging to a Minor. 

If we learn that any Personal Information processed by us, belongs to a Minor we shall take the appropriate measures to delete such Personal Information.

• Information Security

We have enacted appropriate security measures to ensure the safety, protection, and the encryption of your Personal Information such that we may prevent accidental or unauthorized destruction, loss, theft or unauthorized use, alteration, and disclosure.

To do so, we limit the accessibility of your Personal Information to our employees, agents, contractors, affiliates, directors and other relevant third parties on aneed-to-know basis. Any legal or natural person processing your Personal Information shall be under the duty of confidentiality and shall act with fiduciary care. 

In addition, any case of personal information breach or reasonable suspicion of shall be handled according to our internal documents detailing how to act under such circumstances.

• California Privacy Information

If you are a California resident, the following information also applies to you and supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy.

• Information We Collect and Sources of Personal Information

We have collected the information described in §5.1 and §5.2 above, which also includes categories of sources from which we have collected that personal information.

• How We Use and Share Personal Information

We collect and use personal information for business and commercial purposes as described in the section §5.3above. USKA Labs does not share your personal information except as approved by you or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. 

We have disclosed the following categories of personal information describedthereunder in §5.1 and §5.2 for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

• California and Delaware “Do Not Track” Disclosures

As per California and Delaware State Laws, USKA Labs honors the “Limit Ad Tracking” settings in user devices that turn-off targeted advertising. However, there is no accepted standard for how a site should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal.

• California Residents’ Privacy Rights

Regarding to CalOPPA &CCPA and relevant state laws, our users and those who visit our Website residing in the State of the California have the right to contact us to be informed about their Personal Information, if any processed by us or shared by us with third parties. 

You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at info@uskalabs.com and providing us with your name, email address and address or by submitting a request to us through your EEVA Fund account. We may verify your identity by asking you to submit a request through your password protected EEVA Fund account and by providing us with your California zip code or other proof of California residency. In addition to this, you can submit a request by submitting a form here.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. 

• European Privacy Information

If you are a visitor to our Website from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and certain other territories in Europe, the following information also applies to you and supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy

Any and all references to Personal Information in this Privacy Policy shall be read as “Personal Data” under GDPR.

• Data Controller

[Company Name] is the data controller under the relevant provisions of GDPR as set forth in §4

• Principles

Your Personal Data listed under §5.4 shall be processed,

• lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the Data Subject (lawfulness, fairness, and transparency)
• accurately and where necessary, kept up to date (accuracy)
• for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes (purpose limitation),
• relevant, limited and proportionate to the purposes for which they are processed (data minimization), and
• in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the Personal Data and kept in a form which allows identification of Data Subjects for no longer than is necessary for the Processing Reasons.

• Legal Basis

Legal Basis for processing Personal Data listed thereunder §5.4 shall be understood as listed under GDPR Art. 6 as:

• Your Rights

The rights under the GDPR for our Users who are European Union Citizens are listed below,

Unless extenuating circumstances apply, we shall respond to your requests in one calendar month after your request has reached us, and we shall do so free of charge notwithstanding extraordinary efforts on our part.

*You may also delete your all data, including your processed Personal Data. Please visit “Delete All Data” button in the settings section of the Website.

In cases where we take longer due to the number of requests, we shall notify you and keep you updated of the process.

• Data Retention

We shall only keep your Personal Data in accordance with Principles under §11.2, specifically Data Minimization to the satisfaction of our relevant Legal Basis. We keep your Personal Data for different amounts of time and by exercising your right to access listed under §11.4. In determining your Personal Data retention, we consider the nature, amount, the potential risks associated with in case of Personal Data Breach, our Processing Reasons and whether or not such reasons can be achieved in a different manner.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. 

• International Data Transfer

Personal Information given to or collected by us may be sent out of the United States and/or the European Economic Area to be processed by us in our facilities or on the cloud services offered by our service providers.

Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, USKA Labs has taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. When we transfer your personal information to any other territories, we will take such measures as are appropriate to safeguard your information in accordance with applicable law. 

• Updates to this Privacy Policy

USKA Labs reserves the right to update the Privacy Policy and other related notices thereto, and the herein Privacy Policy shall be understood in a manner such that the Privacy Policy supplements and complements any and notices and overrides any past notices.

The date on which herein Privacy Policy becomes effective (“Effective Date”) is given on this page and any changes to thereto shall be understood as an update to the herein Privacy Policy.

• How to Contact Us

If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or if you want to exercise your rights, please contact us at info@uskalabs.com. We will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible and respond to requests within the time requiredunder applicable law.