Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 3/28/2024

We at Diaspora Networks, (together with our affiliates, "Diaspora Networks", "we", "our", or "us") respect your prviacy and are strongly committed to keeping secure any information we obtain from you or about you. This Privacy Policy describes our practices with respect to Personal Information we collect from or about you when you use our website, applications, and services (collectively, "Services"). By using our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

Personal Information: We collect personal information relating to you ("Personal Information") that you provide to us voluntarily such as your name, email address, social media information, and other contact details. This information is used to respond to your inquiries, provide you with updates about our services, and enhance your experience with Diaspora Networks. 

Other Information: We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when you participate in our events or surveys or provide us with information to establish your identity (collectively, “Other Information You Provide”).

Personal Information We Receive Automatically From Your Use of the Services: When you visit, use, or interact with the Services, we receive the following information about your visit, use, or interactions (“Technical Information”):

• Log Data: Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use our Services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with our Services.
• Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the Services, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, as well as your time zone, country, the dates and times of access, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, and your computer connection.
• Analytics: We may use a variety of online analytics products that use cookies to help us analyze how users use our Services and enhance your experience when you use the Services.

How we use personal information

We may use Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To provide, administer, maintain and/or analyze the Services;
• To improve our Services and conduct research;
• To communicate with you; including to send you information about our Services and events;
• To develop new programs and services;To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks;
• To carry out business transfers; and
• To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or other third parties.

Aggregated Information. We may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Services and share aggregated information like general user statistics with third parties, publish such aggregated information or make such aggregated information generally available. We may collect aggregated information through the Services, through cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy. 

Your rights. Depending on location, individuals may have certain statutory rights in relation to their Personal Information. For example, you may have the right to:

• Access your Personal Information and information relating to how it is processed.
• Delete your Personal Information from our records.
• Rectify or update your Personal Information.
• Transfer your Personal Information to a third party (right to data portability).
• Restrict how we process your Personal Information.
• Withdraw your consent—where we rely on consent as the legal basis for processing at any time. 
• Object to how we process your Personal Information.
• Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

You can exercise some of these rights through your browser cookies. If you are unable to exercise your rights through your account, please submit your request through [email protected]. 

To the extent provided for by local law and subject to applicable exceptions, individuals may have the following privacy rights in relation to their Personal Information:

• The right to know information about our processing of your Personal Information, including the specific pieces of Personal Information that we have collected from you;
• The right to request deletion of your Personal Information;
• The right to correct your Personal Information; and
• The right to be free from discrimination relating to the exercise of any of your privacy rights.

We don’t “sell” Personal Information or “share” Personal Information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising (as those terms are defined under applicable local law). We also don’t process sensitive Personal Information for the purposes of inferring characteristics about a consumer.

Exercising Your Rights. To the extent applicable under local law, you can exercise privacy rights described in this section by submitting a request to [email protected].

Children. Our Service is not directed to children under the age of 18. Diaspora Networks does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information to Diaspora Networks through the Service, please email us at [email protected]. We will investigate any notification and if appropriate, delete the Personal Information from our systems.

Links to other websites. The Service may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Diaspora Networks, including social media services (“Third Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.

Security and Retention. We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect Personal Information both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Service or email. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service, or third-party websites.We’ll retain your Personal Information for only as long as we need in order to provide our Service to you, or for other legitimate business purposes such as resolving disputes, safety and security reasons, or complying with our legal obligations. How long we retain Personal Information will depend on a number of factors, such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, our purpose for processing the information, and any legal requirements.

International users

By using our Service, you understand and acknowledge that your Personal Information will be processed and stored in our facilities and servers in the United States and may be disclosed to our service providers and affiliates in other jurisdictions. We do not make transactions for non United States consumers and do not maintain records for International users. 

Changes to the privacy policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by applicable law.

How to contact us

Please contact support if you have any questions or concerns not already addressed in this Privacy Policy.