Privacy Policy
Updated 09.10.2024

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how Sign Bluff (referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and stores personal information related to identifiable individuals (the “information”). Please read this Policy carefully. This Policy may be amended from time to time. Please visit the website https://www.signbluff.com/ for an up-to-date version of this Policy.

What information do we collect and for what purposes?

We collect and use the information for the following purposes:

• To contact you as our prospective or existing customer and offer you our services (categories of information: your name, surname, job title, name of the company you represent, your position, contact email address, contact telephone number, communication with you, and other information you provide us with);
• To conclude a data supply agreement with you (categories of information: your name, surname, signature, job title, name of the company you represent, your position, contact email address, contact telephone number, communication with you, agreements concluded with you, and other information you provide us with);
• To disclose your professional information that you have made public on professional social networks, start-up websites, business consulting websites to our clients who are interested in such information (categories of information: your name, surname, your public profile information, your public profile URL, job title, industry, work experience, number of recommendations received, awards, certifications, courses, languages, organizations, patents, projects, publications, test scores, volunteering experience, title of your online profile, country, groups, interests, websites, summary, number of connections, location you specified, and other information about you that you have made public);
• To handle your inquiry if you submit one (categories of information: your name, surname, contact email address, contact telephone number, project budget, bank account details, name of the company you represent, content and date of your inquiry, reply to your inquiry, and other communications with you, other information you provide us with);
• To fulfill accounting and legal requirements and, if necessary, engage in legal proceedings related to you or the company you represent (categories of information: all of the aforementioned information, invoices, payment information, services provided, accounting and legal case files, legal documents, and other information you provide us with). Please note that depending on circumstances which are impossible to define in advance, categories of information we collect may vary. You are required to provide us with the above-mentioned information that is necessary to conclude a data supply agreement with you and to fulfill accounting and legal requirements. If you do not provide us with the aforementioned information, we will not be able to provide our services to you;
• To enable you to create and manage your account, as well as access and use our Data API service (categories of information: your name, surname, phone number, email address, company name, industry, your account credentials (username, encrypted password), usage data (such as access logs, activity history, preferences)).

Why are we allowed to collect the information?

We collect the information only for the purposes described in this Policy above and where at least one of the following is present:

• You have given your consent (for example, to contact you as our prospective or existing customer and offer you our services or handle your inquiry if you submitted one);
• The information is required for the performance of a contract (for example, to conclude a data supply agreement with you if you wish to do so); to enable you to create an account and use our services via our platform if you wish to do so;
• We are required to use your information by law (for example, to fulfill accounting and legal requirements applicable to us);
• You have decided to make your professional information public (for example, to disclose such information to our clients who are interested in it); or
• We or third parties have a legitimate interest to use your information (for example, if the need arises to engage in legal proceedings related to you or the company you represent or to disclose your professional information that you have decided to make public to our clients who are interested in such information).

Where do we collect the information from?

We collect most of the information described under the section “What Information Do We Collect and for What Purposes?” directly from you. We collect your professional information that you have made public from publicly available professional social networks, start-up websites, and business consulting websites.

How long do we keep the information?

Your information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out above, considering criteria such as applicable rules on statute of limitations, legal requirements, and the duration of your use of our website and our services.

Do we collect information about minors?

We do not knowingly collect or sell the information of minors under 18 years of age. By using the website and/or our services, the user asserts they are not under 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not use our website and/or services and do not submit any information through our website or services without parental permission. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received information from minors under 18 years of age, we will delete such information from our records.

Do we share the information with third parties?

Only where permitted by applicable laws and for the purposes listed in this Policy do we share, to the extent necessary, the information with:

• Our business partners that provide IT, infrastructure, servers, marketing, customer support, accounting, legal, agency, payment processing service providers (applicable for paid services only via our platform) and other services to us;
• Our customers who are interested in your professional information that you have made public;
• Notaries, bailiffs, auditors, courts, law enforcement institutions, tax, regulatory, and other public authorities only in cases where we are required, by way of a statutory provision or a binding legal order, to provide the information to such authorities.

What rights do you have concerning your information?

Subject to conditions and limitations established by applicable law, you have the right:

• To receive confirmation as to whether we collect information related to you and to request access to that information;
• To correct inaccurate or incorrect information, or to supplement it when it is incomplete;
• To delete the information we have about you in cases where it is not compliant with applicable laws;
• To restrict the use of your information where you challenge the accuracy of the information, object to the use of the information, or need your information for legal purposes;
• To object to the use of the information;
• To opt out of the sale of your information;
• To request your information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format;
• Not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects on you;
• To revoke any consent given to us regarding the use of your information;
• To file a complaint with supervisory authorities; and
• Not to receive discriminatory treatment while exercising your rights.

What is your right to know about the information collected, disclosed, or sold?

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your information. Once we receive and verify your request, we will disclose to you the categories of personal information we collected about you, the categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you, our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling that personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you. We have disclosed or sold the information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose. Thus, you have the right to know also the categories of personal information that we sold about you and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold.

What is your right to request deletion of the information?

You have the right to request the deletion of your information collected and maintained by us if the information is not used in compliance with applicable laws. Once we receive and verify your request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your information from our records, unless applicable laws do not provide for deletion of the information in a particular case (for instance, retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you, detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities, comply with a legal obligation, make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it).

What is your right to opt-out of the sale of personal information?

You have the right to direct us to stop selling your information, and to refrain from doing so in the future. If you wish to do so, please submit your request to opt-out via channels described below by providing us with your name, surname, email address, and the URL of your publicly available profile. If you would like to exercise your rights described above, please submit a request to us at Sign Bluff via email at privacy@signbluff.com.

How will you verify my request?

Your request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person or an authorized representative of a person whose information we have collected (name, surname, your public profile URL, your email, other information we may request for verification purposes), describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us