INTRODUCTION

Pointel Inc. is committed to protecting our users privacy. This privacy policy governs the information we collect, use, disclose, and retain about you when you visit our website, www.pointel.com, as well as any other media format, media channel, software applications, mobile website, or mobile application that is linked to or connected to the Site (collectively, the “Site”). We have therefore put in place the policies outlined below so that our Users can understand how or when their information might be collected, used, or disclosed. Please take the time to read our Privacy Policy thoroughly.

We reserve the right to amend our Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be communicated to you by updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. Any changes or modifications will take effect immediately upon publishing on the Site. It is recommended that you review our Privacy Policy on a frequent basis to ensure that you are aware of any changes. By continuing to use the Site after the updated Privacy Policy is posted, you are deemed to have been informed of, bound by, and accepted the new Privacy Policy.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Customer Data” refers to the proprietary information and information about the customers (including Personal Data) that the customer and its agents send to Pointel. Customer Statistics excludes aggregate data and information on the Services performance, operation, and use. The term “Personal Data” refers to any information about an individual that is protected under relevant privacy laws.

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We collect information from you when you register on our site, request a demo, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, enter information on our site or provide us with feedback on our products or services. Your experience matters to us as you trust us with your information. You may choose not to fill out the personal details that we request, but by doing so there will be high chances of missing the answers for the queries that you requested.

Pointel facilitates customer engagements through a variety of media platforms. Pointel handles data relating to customer interactions (audio call recordings, call meta-data, chat messages, etc.). Additionally, a customer may contribute information to Pointel in a variety of ways, including as importing data from third-party websites, uploading files, screensharing, making video or audio conversations, or communicating via chat messaging.

Pointel will gather Customer Data only when a customer freely provides it to us.

We may collect the following categories of information on the Site:

Personal Data

You voluntarily provide us with personally identifiable information about yourself, such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, as well as demographic information about yourself, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, when you register with the Site or participate in various Site activities, such as online chat and message boards. While you are not obligated to provide us with personal information, your failure to do so may prevent you from accessing some features of the Site.

Derived Data

When you use the Site, our servers automatically collect information about you, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the websites you visited just before and just after accessing the Site.

Data from Social Networks

If you connect your account to social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, we will collect information about you from those platforms, including your name, social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, and profile image, as well as public contact information.

Data from Mobile Devices

If you use the Site via a mobile device, we may collect information about that device, including its unique identifier, model, and manufacturer, as well as its location.

Third-Party Information

Third-party data is received when you connect your account to a third-party service and provide the Site access to this data, such as personal information or network friends.

Competitions, giveaways, and surveys

You may supply us with personal and non-personal information when you enter competitions or giveaways or react to surveys.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We rely on accurate information about you to offer you with a seamless, efficient, and personalized experience. We may use the information we collect about you through the Site for the following purposes:

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may reveal information we have gathered about you in certain circumstances. Your information may be shared via the following techniques:

Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your information with third-party service providers that assist us with tasks such as data analysis, email delivery, website hosting, customer support, and marketing assistance.

Marketing Communications

To the extent permitted by law, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes with your consent or after providing you with an opportunity to withdraw consent.

Interactions with Users

If you interact with other Site users, they may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your Site activities, which may include inviting other users to the Site, talking with other users, like articles, and subscribing to blogs.

Affiliates

If we share your information with our affiliates, we will require them to conform to our Privacy Policy. Our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other businesses that we jointly control or manage are considered affiliates.

Business Partners

Your information may be shared with business partners in order to provide you with information about certain solutions, services, or promotions.

Internet advertisements

When you post comments, contributions, or other content to the Site, those items become accessible to all users and may be publicly distributed in perpetuity outside of the Site.

Third-Party Advertisers

When you visit the Site, we may display advertisements through the services of third-party advertising organizations. These firms may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that is stored in web cookies to serve you advertising for goods and services that may be of interest to you.

By Law or to Protect Rights

If we believe that disclosing information about you is necessary to comply with legal process, investigate or rectify suspected policy violations, or protect the rights, property, or safety of others, we will do so in compliance with applicable law, rule, or regulation. This necessitates data sharing with other businesses in order to combat fraud and mitigate credit risk.

Pointel assures that these third parties provide assurances that they will protect Personal Data in line with this Privacy Policy.

Among these assurances are the following:

• Requiring third parties to offer at least the same degree of protection as this Privacy Policy requires;
• The use of Standard Contractual Clauses to data transfers from the European Union to insufficiently regulated nations;
• Requiring the third party to adhere to applicable data protection rules, such as the EU Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of people with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR), or other applicable legislation.

However, we are not liable for the acts of third parties to whom you provide personally identifiable or sensitive data, and we lack the resources necessary to monitor or supervise third-party solicitations. You must contact the third party directly if you wish to unsubscribe from letters, emails, or other third-party communications.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Web Beacons and Cookies

On the Site, we may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies to improve your experience and customize it.

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process your demo requests and free download. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:

• Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little bit different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. Disabling cookies won’t affect the user experience in any way.

By accessing and using the Site, you agree to our Cookie Policy. You should be aware that when you acquire a new computer, install a new browser, update an old browser, or remove or otherwise modify your browser’s cookies files, some opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or preferences may be erased as well.

Internet advertising

Additionally, we may utilize third-party technologies to manage email marketing campaigns and other forms of interactive marketing on the Site. This third-party software may employ cookies and other tracking technologies in order to assist us in managing and optimizing your online experience with us. Please see the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool for further information on how to opt out of interest-based advertising.

Website Analytics

Additionally, we may collaborate with carefully selected third-party vendors to enable tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Site through the use of first-party cookies and third-party cookies in order to analyze and track users’ use of the Site, ascertain the popularity of particular content, and gain a better understanding of online activity. By using the Site, you consent to these third-party merchants collecting and using your information. It is suggested that you read their Privacy Policy and address any complaints directly to them. We do not provide these third-party firms with any personal information. If you desire to opt out of having your information collected and used by tracking technologies, please visit the third-party vendor’s or the tracking technology’s website Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and experience of the website.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

The Site may contain links to third-party websites and apps that you may find useful, such as advertisements and third-party services. After leaving the Site via these links, any information you provide to these third parties is not protected by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the security or privacy of your information. Prior to accessing or giving information to any third-party website, you should become aware with the third party’s privacy policies and practices (where applicable), and take all necessary actions to ensure the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for third-party content, privacy, or security practices or policies, which may include any other websites, services, or apps connected to or accessible through the Site. This Privacy Policy is applicable only for the Pointel website.

DATA RETAINING

We may retain your Personal Data for as long as you use the Service or have an account with us, or for as long as required to fulfill the objectives outlined in this Privacy Policy. After you deactivate your account and/or stop using the Service, we may retain your Personal Data if we believe that such retention is reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms and other agreements, and/or protect our legitimate interests. If your Personal Data is no longer required for these purposes, we will delete it.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We protect your personal information by administrative, technological, and physical security methods. Our website is scanned for security holes and known vulnerabilities on a regular basis in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We use Malware Scanning regularly. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

While we have taken reasonable precautions to safeguard the personal information you supply to us, please bear in mind that no security system is perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed to be free of interception or other sort of misuse. Any information given online is susceptible to being intercepted and used by third parties. As a result, we cannot guarantee that any personally identifying information you supply will remain completely secret.

HOW WILL WE GUARANTEE THAT THIS POLICY IS FOLLOWED?

Pointel performs privacy compliance audits to ensure that our privacy practices comply with our Privacy Policy. Any Pointel employee found to have violated this Privacy Policy will face disciplinary action, which may include termination of employment.

Any inquiries or complaints about Pointel’s collection, use, or disclosure of Personal Data should be sent to contact information provided below. Pointel will investigate and endeavor to settle any complaints or disputes about the use or disclosure of Personal Data in line with this Privacy Policy’s terms.

YOUR GDPR RIGHTS

According to current legislation, you have the following rights:

• Access to personal data: You have the right to request access to your personal data at any time. On request, we shall provide you with a copy of your personal data in a commonly used electronic format.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete personal data repaired or completed.
• The right to erasure: In some instances, you may request that we delete your User Data (including those involving processing based on your permission). Bear in mind, however, that this right is not absolute. As a result, an attempt to assert the right may result in our inaction.
• The right to object: to certain processing activities that we do with your personal data, including our use of your personal data for our legitimate purposes. Additionally, you have the right to object to the direct marketing use of your personal data.
• The right to data portability entitles you to get your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (or to have your personal data directly sent to another data controller).

Note to California Residents:

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 allows California residents to request information regarding disclosure of personal information to third parties for the third parties direct marketing purposes. To make a request, please contact contact@pointel.com.

POLICY FOR CHILDREN

Our website does not gather information on children under the age of 13 without their consent. This action was carried out in compliance with and in accordance with the COPPA statute (The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, implemented in 1998).

If you are under the age of 13, please do not use our website or services or give us with your personal information.

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

The majority of web browsers and certain mobile operating systems have a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) function or option via which you can express your privacy choices about the monitoring and collection of data about your online browsing activity. There is currently no industry standard for recognizing and processing DNT signals. As a result, we currently do not respond to Do Not Track browser signals or any other manner of communicating your desire to be untracked online. We will notify you via an updated version of this Privacy Policy if a future standard for online monitoring is adopted.

OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

Account Information

You may examine or edit the information in your account at any time, or you may terminate your account, by:

• Accessing and changing your account settings
• Using the contact information provided below, you may contact us.

We shall deactivate or remove your account and associated information from our active databases upon your request to cancel your account. However, we may store certain information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, help with investigations, enforce our Terms of Use, and/or comply with legal laws.

Emails and Communications

We may send you occasional newsletters and/or emails promoting the use of our Service or third-party goods and services. When you get newsletters or promotional messages from us, you may opt out by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the email or by visiting the Notifications choices on your Settings page. Regardless of your settings, we may send you educational emails about our transactional services on a recurring basis.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Pointel Inc.

1941 Oak Tree Rd. #104 Edison

NJ 08820, USA

Phone: 732 744 0440

Fax: 732 744 1410

Email: contact@pointel.com