This privacy policy sets out how uses and protects any information that you give ApiManager when you use this website, our services and application ApiManager. ApiManager is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website and application, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We will never share your information with third parties or use it in any way except as detailed below. We will never use your information for marketing purposes except with your permission.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We have undertaken commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized Internet access to visitor data retained in our servers, however, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, ApiManager cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or any information provided online, and you do so at your own risk. Users must accept all risks associated with any data transmission, including the risk that their Personal Information may be intercepted in transit. The Site and application encrypts your Personal Information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your PC and Mobile application to our servers.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
• Name
• Contact information including email address
• Details of hives, apiaries, inspections and any other records added by you.
• Any information provided by you including but not limited to details entered on your user profile.
• Information related to your use of the site automatically gathered by our servers, including IP addresses and cookies.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
• Identification and authentication.
• Customisation of ApiManager.
• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may very occasionally use your email address to send you important information about your account.
• According to your email preferences, we may periodically send promotional email about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. We will only do this if you have granted permission.
• We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
• You may alter or delete the details recorded on your profile. This will remove any outdated information from our system.
• Your account information is password-protected. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of this password. We do not store your password on our system, except in a hashed form.
• We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law. We will not sell or lease your personal information for any marketing purposes.
• If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please edit it on your profile, or contact us via the web form as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
If you are a registered user of our services, you may correct, amend or delete your personally identifying information that ApiManager stores, except where the burden or expense to ApiManager of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy or where the legitimate rights of persons other than you would be violated. Please access your service account to correct, amend or delete your personally identifying information. Additionally, if you wish for all of your personal information to be removed from ApiManager’s systems, you may submit a request for your account to be deleted. Upon deletion, all of your personal information will be permanently removed from our primary production servers and further access to your account will not be possible. However, portions of your information, consisting of aggregate data derived from your personal information, may remain on our servers indefinitely.
Cookies and IP addresses
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
IP addresses are automatically reported by your browser when you visit any web site. We may use this information to diagnose problems with our site, or to deliver geographically targeted content. We use cookies to identify you and to track your logged-in status, in order to allow you to access your secured content. We use traffic log cookies and IP address records to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site. This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you. From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most. As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price. The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ. In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you. We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Site, App, and Store Terms and Conditions
Use of this Site, App, and Services is governed by, and subject to, the legal notices contained in our Terms and Conditions. Your use, or access, of the Site, App, or Services constitutes your agreement to be bound by these provisions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE, THE APP, OR THE SERVICES.
Links
The Site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the collection or use of your Personal or Anonymous Information at any third party sites. Therefore, the Company disclaims any liability for any third party’s use of your Personal or Anonymous Information obtained through using a third party web site.
Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we may disclose it to anyone. Your continued use of the Site, App, and Services indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted. Please check this page periodically for changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make any change to this Privacy Policy that we in our sole discretion deem material, we will notify you in a manner we deem appropriate.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.
Email: info@apimanager.net