Privacy Policy

1. Personal Information We Collect

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as "Device Information."

When you sign up or use the Site, we may collect additional information from you such as:

• Your name, email address, and account credentials
• Your profile information if you choose to provide it
• Information related to the simulations you create, view, or interact with
• Communications you send to us

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

• Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.
• Log files track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the information that we collect to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, including for customer service, updates, and other information relating to the website
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

3. Sharing Your Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use analytics services like Google Analytics to help us understand how our users use the Site. We also use certain third-party services to help operate our services and the Site.

We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

We do not sell, rent, or lease your personal data to third parties. We may, however, share anonymized or aggregated data with partners or for research purposes.

4. User-Generated Content and Code Publishing

The simulations, code, and other content you create on Wikisand may be publicly accessible by other users of the platform, depending on your sharing settings. Please be aware of the following:

• When you publish code or simulations on Wikisand, they may be viewable by other users according to your chosen privacy settings.
• Published code remains your intellectual property, but by publishing it, you grant Wikisand a license to host, store, and display that content to other users.
• Be mindful of any personal information or sensitive data you might include in your code or comments.
• If you include third-party libraries or components in your published code, ensure you have the right to use and share them.
• You can control the visibility of your code through your account settings, including making content private or public.
• Other users may be able to view, fork, or otherwise interact with your published code according to the platform's features.

We recommend reviewing the Terms of Service for more details about intellectual property rights, licensing, and content sharing on the platform.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

6. Your Rights

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident, we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you, or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Please note that your information may be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Even if you are not a European resident, we aim to give you control over your data. You may request:

• Access to your personal data
• Correction of your personal data
• Deletion of your personal data
• Restriction of processing of your personal data
• Data portability

7. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Site home page or via email. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect.

10. Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@palysse.com