Jan 15, 2024
ClapDB, Inc. (“ClapDB,” “we,” “our” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy. This privacy policy explains our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and security of certain information that we receive, with a focus on information that would be considered “personal data” within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). As used in this privacy policy, “personal data” refers information about an identified or identifiable individual, such as their name or email address.
ClapDB provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency software platform for quering data (as modified from time to time, the “ClapDB Software”).
We are a Delaware corporation registered in the United States with an office at ClapDB, Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave STE 3752, Dover, DE 19904 US.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (an “EEA Resident”), you may have additional rights under GDPR with respect to your personal data, as described further herein.
Please note that by accessing and using the ClapDB Software, visiting or using https://clapdb.com (the “Site”) and the various related services, features, functions, software, applications, websites and networks (together with the ClapDB Software and the Site, collectively, the “ClapDB Services”), you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy, subject to any rights or restrictions that might apply under the GDPR if you are an EEA Resident, including the rights described in the “European Privacy Rights for EEA Residents” section below. This privacy policy is incorporated by reference into the specific agreement that governs your use of the ClapDB Software and the other ClapDB Services (the “Terms”).
This policy describes the types of personal data and other information that we may collect from you or that you may provide when you access or use the ClapDB Software, the other ClapDB Services or any of the other features, functions, services, and products, including our Service Providers’ services and products, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to personal data and other information that we collect or may collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your only choice is not to use the ClapDB Software or any of the other ClapDB Services. By accessing or using the ClapDB Software or any of the other ClapDB Services, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the ClapDB Software and/or any of the other ClapDB Services, after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
None of the ClapDB Services are intended for minors under 18 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information on or through the ClapDB Software or the other ClapDB Services. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on or through any of the ClapDB Services, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the ClapDB Services or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name, username you may use or any pictures of you. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at clap@clapdb.com
We collect or may collect several types of information from and about users of the ClapDB Software and the other ClapDB Services, including:
We collect this information:
Certain transactions may also involve you calling us or our calling you. Please be aware that we may monitor, and in some cases, record such calls for staff training or quality assurance purposes.
We take every reasonable step to limit the volume of your personal data that we process to what is reasonably necessary.
If you do not provide the personal data, we may not be able to access to the ClapDB Software or to respond to your requests or provide the ClapDB Services.
Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies The ClapDB Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use the ClapDB Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve the ClapDB Services. Cookies are small pieces of data – usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access the ClapDB Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the ClapDB Services do not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time.
You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through the cookie consent banner made available on the ClapDB website or your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.
To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ if you are located in the European Union.
We may serve advertisements, and also allow third-party ad networks, including third-party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms, to serve advertisements through the ClapDB Services. These advertisements may be targeted to users who fit certain general profile categories or display certain preferences or behaviors (“Interest-Based Ads”). Information for Interest-Based Ads (including personal data) may be provided to us by you, or derived from the usage patterns of particular users on the ClapDB Services and/or services of third parties. Such information may be gathered through tracking users’ activities across time and unaffiliated properties, including when you leave the ClapDB Services. To accomplish this, we or our service providers may deliver Cookies, including a file (known as a “web beacon”) from an ad network to you through the ClapDB Services. Web beacons allow ad networks to provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for us and for advertisers. Web beacons also enable ad networks to serve targeted advertisements to you when you visit other websites. Web beacons allow ad networks to view, edit or set their own Cookies on your browser, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.
We comply with the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. Through the DAA and Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”), several media and marketing associations have developed an industry self-regulatory program to give consumers a better understanding of, and greater control over, ads that are customized based a consumer’s online behavior across different websites and properties. To make choices about Interest-Based Ads from participating third parties, including to opt-out of receiving behaviorally targeted advertisements from participating organizations, please visit the DAA’s or NAI’s consumer opt-out pages, which are located at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or www.aboutads.info/choices. Users in the European Union should visit the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s user information website http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
We may use or partner with other third-party companies, agents or contractors for various purposes in connection with our business and operations (“Service Providers”). These parties help us provide the ClapDB Services or perform business functions on our behalf, and we may disclose your personal data to these Service Providers. They include:
In the course of performing these responsibilities and providing such services, these other companies may have access to your information. We may also share information, including your information, with these Services Providers in order to enable them to perform these responsibilities and to provide these services. These Services Providers may have adopted their own privacy policies, which are not subject to control by ClapDB. You should always review the policies of these Service Providers to make sure that you are comfortable with the ways in which they collect, use, maintain, protect and disclose your information. We do not list our current Service Providers because they change from time to time. If you would like the names of any of our Service Providers, please email us at clap@clapdb.com.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data:
Some of the information that we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal data, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties or you provide to us. It helps us to improve the ClapDB Software and the other ClapDB Services, and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including enabling us to:
We will not use the personal data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
We may store any data or other information that we collect (personal or otherwise) ourselves or in databases and servers owned and maintained by us, our affiliates, agents or Service Providers. If you access or use the ClapDB Software or any of the other ClapDB Services outside of the United States, information that we collect about you may be transferred to servers inside the United States and maintained indefinitely, which may involve the transfer of information out of countries located in the European Economic Area and other parts of the world unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law or agreed by ClapDB and you. By allowing ClapDB to collect information about you, you consent to such transfer and processing of such information without restriction. We may also store some information locally on your computer or other devices. For example, we may store information as local cache so that you can open the ClapDB Software and view content faster.
Although users from all over the world may access the ClapDB Software and the other ClapDB Services, keep in mind that no matter where you live or where you happen to use the ClapDB Services, you consent to us processing and transferring information in and to the United States and other countries whose data-protection and privacy laws may offer fewer protections than those in your home country.
We may use and disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy, including:
We may also disclose your data information:
We may share information that is anonymized or in an aggregated form that does not directly identify you and we may use and share any such information for any purpose without restriction so long as it does not violate the terms of this privacy policy or any applicable law. We may use, disclose or sell that anonymized or aggregated information without restriction so long as we do not disclose any of your personal data or violate the terms of this privacy policy or any applicable law.
GDPR and the laws in some other jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal bases that they rely on to use or disclose your personal data. To the extent that those laws apply, we rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal data:
You may change, correct or delete any personal data that you have provided to us by emailing us at clap@clapdb.com.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your personal data) if we intend to use your personal data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your personal data to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your personal data. You can also exercise the right by contacting us directly.
If you are an EEA Resident and GDPR applies and we hold your personal data in our capacity as a controller, you may request that we:
We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period required by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your information for our legitimate interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may request you provide us with additional information to confirm your identity before responding to your request. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the authorities applicable to your situation, though we invite you to contact us with any concern, as we would be happy to try to resolve it directly.
If you are an EEA Resident in France, you also have the right to set guidelines for the retention and communication of your personal data after your death.
If you reside in a jurisdiction other than the European Economic Area, you may also have similar rights to the above. Please contact us at clap@clapdb.com if you would like to exercise one of these rights, and we will comply with any request to the extent required under applicable law.
In addition, where you believe that we have not complied with its obligation under this Privacy Policy or European law, you have the right to make a complaint to an EU Data Protection Authority, such as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Here is a list of local data protection authorities in EEA countries
You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at clap@clapdb.com or write to us at: ClapDB, Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave STE 3752, Dover, DE 19904 US.
We will only retain your personal data, in a form which permits us to identify you, for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. We will retain and use your personal data as necessary to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements, to resolve disputes or to enforce our agreements and rights. To dispose of personal data, we may anonymize it, delete it or take other appropriate steps. Data may persist in copies made for backup and business continuity purposes for additional time.
We understand that the security of your personal data is important. We provide reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security controls to protect your personal data. However, despite our efforts, no security controls are 100% effective. ClapDB cannot ensure or warrant the security of your personal data. Any transmission of personal information over public or third party networks is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on or through the ClapDB Software.
The safety and security of your data also depends on you. Where you have chosen (or we have given you) a password for access to and use the ClapDB Software, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of any of the ClapDB Software. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by ClapDB and anyone anonymously, including people who are not users of the ClapDB Software
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the home pages of the Site for at least 30 days and by email. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal data that are materially less protective than provided in this policy, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you by e-mail to the e-mail address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the home pages of the Site and to attempt to get your consent to the changes. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified above. You are responsible for ensuring that we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting the Site and this privacy policy to check for any changes. Like our Terms, of which this privacy policy is a part, your use, and/or continued use after our efforts to contact you, of the ClapDB Software means that you agree to be bound by such changes.
The policies indicated in this privacy policy will remain effective, even if the Terms and the other agreements between us are terminated and you are no longer using the ClapDB Software or any of the other ClapDB Services.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices or need to reach us for any other reason, you may contact us by e-mail at clap@clapdb.com or by mail at, 1111B S Governors Ave STE 3752, Dover, DE 19904 US.
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