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(GDPR) Privacy Policy

You consent to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy, which may change from time to time, as our Website and related online Services evolves.

You agree, represent and warrant that all account registration information provided by you is accurate and up-to-date. If any of your registration information changes, you must update it by using the appropriate update mechanism on the Website or Service. If you are unsure how to update your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

This privacy policy describes: (i) our collection of personal information; (ii) how that personal information may be used; and (iii) when and to whom that personal information may be disclosed.

1.1 Our Commitment

PelicanCorp (‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’) is committed to ensuring the security and protection of the personal information that we process, and to provide a compliant and consistent approach to data protection. We have always had a robust and effective data protection program in place which complies with existing law and abides by data protection principles. However, we recognize our obligations in updating and expanding this program to meet the demands of the GDPR.

PelicanCorp is dedicated to safeguarding the personal information under our control and developing data protection methods that are effective, fit for purpose and demonstrate an understanding of, and appreciation for the GDPR regulations.

1.2 Information Security & Technical and Organisational Measures

PelicanCorp takes the privacy and security of individuals and their personal information very seriously and take every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure the personal data that we process. We develop our systems in such manner that a minimum of personal data is required to allow a user a register his or her account which minimizes the amount of meta data we store and have to manage. PelicanCorp has robust information security policies and procedures in place to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures, including: SSL, access controls, password policy, encryption, pseudonymization, best practices, data restriction, and IT authentication.

1.3 Collection of Personal Information

We may collect your personal information, including but not limited to your:

  • Name;
  • Contact information;
  • IP address and location data;
  • Website statistics and analytics data regarding your use of the Website and Service;
  • Other types of raw data relating to how you interact with the Website and Service including, for example, your browser information and session duration;
  • Banking and/or credit card information;
  • Any other information requested from you upon signing up to become a subscriber or account holder on our Service; and
  • While we do not request it, there may be other instances where you elect to upload information to our Service that includes your, or a third party’s personal information.

1.4 Use of Cookies

Our Websites and Services may place a temporary or permanent "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information. However, the cookie may enable us to relate your use of our Website and Service to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. By changing the settings in your web browser, you can prevent cookies from being used. However, doing so may interrupt the proper use of the Websites and Services.

1.5 Data Logs

Part of our Service includes running processes on your data in either via a WFS feed to your hosted data, or to your data in our AWS account. When such processes are run, data logs are created by our software which record the names of the files, resources, objects, or items our Service processed.

To the extent the names of your resources include any personal information, such personal information may be stored and replicated in the logs our Service creates. While we have access to the file logs to provide customer and technical support, billing and audit trails, aside from running the processes requested on your data, we do not access any underlying resources your WFS feed data is provided by.

PROVIDING US WITH THIRD-PARTY PERSONAL INFORMATION

TO THE EXTENT YOU PROVIDE US OR OUR SERVICE WITH, OR ACCESS TO, OR UPLOAD DATA TO THE SERVICE THAT INCLUDES THE PERSONAL INFORMATION OF ANOTHER PERSON, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THEIR AUTHORIZATION AND INFORMED CONSENT TO PROVIDE US WITH THAT INFORMATION, AND TO USE THAT INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND THE ORDINARY FUNCTIONALITY OF THE SERVICE, AS UPDATED FROM TIME TO TIME. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU AGREE THAT INFORMED CONSENT INCLUDES ADVISING SUCH THIRD PARTIES THAT, WHERE APPLICABLE, THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS SHARED WITH PELICANCORP SOFTWARE INC.

With respect to any personal information supplied to us, we keep personal information only for as long as it is required for the purposes for which it was collected and compliance with laws and regulations. As a result, there is no single retention period applicable to all instances of personal information collected by us. Upon your request, we will redact or where appropriate, delete, any third party personal information stored in the data logs.

1.6 The Use of Your Personal Information

The collection of your personal information is used to:

  • Promote our Website and Service offerings to you;
  • Support and improve the Website and Service we offer;
  • Provide customer support;
  • Communicate with you, your agents, employees or representatives about your account;
  • Bill and collect money owed to us;
  • Pursue available legal remedies to us;
  • Meet legal requirements;
  • Enhance our Service offerings to you; and
  • Send you error and other notifications about the Service, the Terms, this Privacy Policy and your account.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. Nor do we sell the personal information of third parties that you provide to us.

We use third party payment processors ("Payment Processors") including for example PayPal and others. We do not keep or have access to all the information you provide to the Payment Processors including, for example, your full credit card number. However, we will have the ability to bill your payment method and access to certain personal information you provide the Payment Processors, such as the name on your credit card, the address associated with the card and the credit card expiration date. You agree that even though the Payment Processor’s electronic forms may be hosted on our Website or Service, your legal relationship with the Payment Processor is separate and that the Payment Processor may impose their own terms and have their own privacy policy in place for the collection and use of your information.

1.7 The Disclosure of Your Personal Information and Access to It

We may share your personal information with our employees who need to use that information in connection with one or more of the purposes for which that personal information was collected.

We may operate the Website and Service in conjunction with independent contractors and services providers. Our independent contractors may have access to your personal information and data logs. We may use a variety of service providers (including cloud hosting and data storage providers), partners or affiliates in locations both inside and outside of Europe, which may make your personal information, or personal information stored in your account, the subject of foreign laws and foreign legal proceedings.

As of the date of the last revision to this Privacy Policy, any data uploaded or stored on your account, is hosted via Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates (collectively "AWS"). In addition, the following entities may be in receipt of personal information as a result of using our Website and Service:

We cannot make any guarantees as to the location(s) of data stored on our behalf by the above entities.

SumoLogic, operating as SumoLogic, may also store logs created by the Service for a limited period of time. To the extent the logs have any personal information (as referenced above), you acknowledge that SumoLogic will be in possession of that information.

To better understand SumoLogic’s service, their data retention practices and their privacy policy, please see https://www.sumologic.com/privacy-statement/.

We may also access and/or disclose personal information if required or permitted to do so by law (for example, in order to comply with a legal process, including but not limited to one imposed by a warrant, subpoena, court order or like instrument served on us).

We may also disclose personal information to our successors (if our business, the Website or the Service is acquired by another legal entity), or any assignee of our assets relating to the Website and Service.

WHILE WE TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU AGREE THAT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE, OUR SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE LOSS OR THEFT OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION UPLOADED TO THE SERVICE (OR OTHERWISE PROVIDE TO US) OR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED AS A RESULT THEREOF.

1.8 Retention of Your Personal Information

When any personal information is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected, we may destroy the personal information in a manner that takes into account its sensitivity. Please contact us if you wish to inquire about deleting your own personal information.

1.9 European General Data Protection Regulation

Our privacy practices intend to meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union ("GDPR"). As a company that may process the personal information of persons who reside in or are citizens of the European Union (a "European person"), we have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to meet the GDPR’s requirements and protect European persons personal information. Our technical measures to protect personal information take into account current technology available and the costs of implementing that technology in addition to the nature, scope, context and purposes of the personal information collected and processed. If you have any questions about our technical and organizational measures to meet the GDPR requirements, please contact us.

If you collect personal information from European persons, you represent and warrant to us that your personal information collection and storage procedures comply, at all times, with the GDPR. To the extent you provide us with, or, have our Service process any personal information of a European person, you further represent that you have obtained informed consent to transfer their information, internationally, to us. If such consent is subsequently revoked, you agree to inform us immediately.

1.10 Inquiries

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

1.11 User Submissions

A. beforeUdig may now or in the future permit the submission of photographs, motion pictures, videos, other audio-visual works, literary works, and/or image files and/or other communications by you and other users ("User Submissions") and the hosting, sharing, and/or publishing of such User Submissions. You understand that whether or not such User Submissions are published, beforeUdig does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any submissions. You retain all rights to your work. By submitting your work here, you grant beforeUdig, Contest Sponsors and Partners the right to display and/or to provide exposure to your photograph and/or other works anywhere including, without limitation, when your photographs or other works are selected as winners of any contest, (i) to be displayed on beforeUdig Website, (ii) to be displayed and used in connection with marketing, promotion and/or advertising of beforeUdig on beforeUdig’s Website, any other website, in social media and/or in any other form of media including publications, periodicals, communications, still images, video and/or television. All used photographs and images are credited to whomever the photographer is as represented by User. Any use of the images will be solely used in the context of promoting the contests’ submissions, the beforeUdig Website, and Users in VIEWBUG’s sole discretion with no additional compensation owed to User, photographer and/or any other person or entity.

B. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and warrant that:

(i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize beforeUdig to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by beforeUdig on the beforeUdig Website and the Terms of Use; and (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Submission to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by beforeUdig on the beforeUdig Website and the Terms of Use. For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting the User Submissions to beforeUdig, you hereby affirm, represent and warrant that you have the power and authority to, and do, grant to beforeUdig an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to copy, store, display content to other users and visitors to the beforeUdig Website, and to use in any way the entire contents of the User Submission and all portions and components thereof. This license grant incudes, but is not limited to, the right of beforeUdig to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display all or any portion or component of the entire contents of the User Submission, including, but not limited to, for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific beforeUdig Website or file to which such Content was submitted or made available. "Publicly accessible" areas of the beforeUdig Website are those areas of the beforeUdig Website that are intended by beforeUdig to be available to the general public. By way of example, publicly accessible areas of the beforeUdig Website would include beforeUdig Message Boards and portions of beforeUdig Groups, Photos and sharing that are open to members, users and visitors. However, publicly accessible areas would not include portions of the beforeUdig Website that are limited to members, or World Wide Web sites that are accessible via hypertext or other links but are not hosted or served by beforeUdig.

YOU AGREE TO UPLOAD ONLY YOUR OWN WORK

C. In connection with User Submissions, you further agree, affirm, represent and warrant that you will not: (i) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party intellectual property, proprietary or other rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant beforeUdig all of the license rights granted herein; (ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage beforeUdig or any third party; (iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; (iv) post advertisements or solicitations of business; and/or (v) impersonate another person. beforeUdig does not endorse any User Submission or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and beforeUdig expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Submissions. beforeUdig does not permit copyright infringing activities and/or infringement of intellectual property rights on beforeUdig Website, and beforeUdig will remove all Content and User Submissions if properly notified that such Content or User Submission infringes on another's copyright and/or other intellectual property rights. beforeUdig reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to remove User Submissions and/or any other Content, and close accounts, without prior notice. beforeUdig will also terminate a User's access to beforeUdig Website, if they are determined by beforeUdig, in beforeUdig’s sole discretion, to be suspected of being, or actually being, an infringer and/or to have otherwise violated the intellectual property rights, rights of publicity and/or name and likeness and/or other rights of any other person or entity. beforeUdig also reserves the right to decide whether Content or a User Submission is appropriate and complies with the Terms of Use for violations other than copyright infringement and violations of intellectual property law, such as, but not limited to, pornography, obscene or defamatory material, or excessive length. beforeUdig may remove such User Submissions and/or terminate a User's access for uploading such material in violation of the Terms of Use at any time, without prior notice and in its sole discretion.

D. You understand that when using the beforeUdig Website, you will be exposed to User Submissions from a variety of sources, and that beforeUdig is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such User Submissions. You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to User Submissions that are inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable. and You agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against beforeUdig with respect to User Submissions. You agree to indemnify and hold beforeUdig, its Owners/Operators, affiliates, and/or licensors, harmless to the fullest extent allowed by law regarding all matters related to your User Submissions and Content, as well as your use of the beforeUdig Website.

E. beforeUdig may choose to provide resident or guest judging for specific contests, themes, challenges and other activities, the decisions of the Judges are final and binding on all matters relating to the selection of winners. The Finalists and any other winners will be judged on by the Judges' in their sole discretion. Voting and People's Choice results, the submission with the most votes will be deemed the winner from among the User Submissions. User Submissions with the same total votes will be re-judged using the same criteria. All User Submissions and votes will be retained until eligible winners are chosen for all prizes. Once a User Submission or a User is deemed ineligible, however, the User Submission will be deleted and not further considered.