pangolin.consulting

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Privacy Policy

pangolin.consulting (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://pangolin.consulting (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of any personal information we receive from you. We strictly adhere to the GDPR and CCPA guidelines for protecting personal information.

Information Collection and Use

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, phone number, and company name (“Personal Information”).

Examples of Collected Information

  • When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

  • If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

  • If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
  • If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
  • If/when you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
  • If/when you edit, post or publish content to the site, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

  • Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
  • These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Log Data

  • Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).
  • This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
  • In addition, we may use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor, and analyze this data.

We collect this information for the purpose of providing you with information about our services and for marketing purposes. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

Who we share your data with

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

At pangolin.consulting, we understand the importance of protecting your personal information. We do not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes. However, we may share your personal information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting our website, processing payments, or analyzing user data to improve our services. We require these service providers to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and use it only for the purposes for which we have engaged them. We may also disclose your personal information if required by law or to protect our legal rights, including cooperating with law enforcement agencies in connection with a criminal investigation.

How long we retain your data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. After which, we will securely dispose of or anonymize your personal data in a manner that is consistent with our data retention policies and practices.

About Your Rights

At pangolin.consulting, we take data privacy and protection seriously. We are committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well as all other applicable privacy laws and regulations.

As a user of our website and services, you have the following rights:

  1. The right to be informed: You have the right to know how we collect, process, and use your personal data. This is outlined in our Privacy Policy.
  2. The right of access: You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you.
  3. The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  4. The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
  5. The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
  6. The right to data portability: You have the right to request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  7. The right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for certain reasons, such as direct marketing.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in our Privacy Policy. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by law.

While we will make commercially reasonable efforts to accommodate users wishing to exercise their data subject rights, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to fulfill all requests. In some cases, it may not be feasible to comply with a particular request due to legal obligations, technical limitations, or other reasons. If we are unable to fulfill a request, we will provide an explanation for our decision and any options that may be available to you.

We take your privacy seriously and will never sell your personal data to third parties. Our data collection is solely for the purpose of marketing our services and providing you with relevant information.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing, or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this page and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@pangolin.consulting