Privacy Policy
Protecting your personal data is important to us. Leanify provides trainings, workshops, coaching, mentoring in Agile context , shares own experience via blogs and conference attendance, provides own products, which support working in Agile world. To support information flow, we make use of personal data.
This data privacy policy shall help you understand what data we collect, how we collect it, why, and what we do with it.
Our website address is: http://leanify.com.
Use of Personal Data
We collect only the necessary information about you, such as name and email address (“personal data”) via contact and subscription forms on our site in order to be able to contact you by email.
We will not store or collect personal data unless you have provided it to us voluntarily.
When a user contacts Leanify, for instance by email or using a contact form, Leanify stores the necessary information, such as name and email address, in order to process the request, or for being able to answer follow-up questions.
We will not sell, rent or market your personal data to third parties without your permission to do so. The information you provide will not be shared with outside parties except as required by law.
Newsletter
Leanify sends newsletters that inform users about specific topic areas and about offers.
Users that want to receive newsletters must provide a valid email address and additional information. This information enables Leanify to validate that the user actually possesses the email address, and that the user agrees to receiving the newsletter. Leanify may enquire additional information that is exclusively used to tailor newsletter contents according to the user’s preferences. Examples include language preferences, regional preferences for event announcements, and topic areas of special interest. Leanify uses these data only for providing its newsletter service. Leanify does not share this information with other parties.
When a user registers for a newsletter, Leanify stores the user’s IP address and the registration date. This data shall enable Leanify to prove when a third party makes unauthorized use of the user’s email address and registers for the newsletter without the user’s knowledge.
The user can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using a link in the newsletter postings, via their profile pages, or by sending a message to Leanify contact address above.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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 you edit or publish an article, 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.
Access Data
Our web hosting service provider collects data for every access to the website (so-called server log files). This access data includes: Name of the called web page, file, date and time of the access, transferred data volume, notifications on successful invocation, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (i.e., the web page visited previously), IP address, and the requesting provider.
Leanify uses the logged data only for statistical analyses in order to operate and improve the website and its services. Leanify reserves the right to analyze the stored data, when there are specific indications of unlawful usage of the website.
Integration of Third-Party Services and Content
Leanify may integrate third-party services and content into its website and associated services. Examples are YouTube videos, Google Maps services, RSS feeds, or graphics from other websites. This integration always requires that the providers of these other services and content (third-party providers) recognize the IP address of the user because without IP address they could not send their content to the user’s browser. This means that the IP address is required for displaying these contents and for providing these services.
Leanify strives to integrate only those contents and services whose third-party providers use the user’s IP address solely for sending their services and contents. However, Leanify has no bearing on a third-party use of IP addresses. As far as Leanify is aware of such additional data uses by third-party providers, we inform the user.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Mail Chimp
For our newsletter we use the technical service provider MailChimp, which handles the processing of our data. MailChimp is a service of The Rocket Science Group, LLC d / b / a MailChimp, 512 Means St Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA (“MailChimp”). Data privacy information of of The Rocket Science Group can be looked up here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp is certified under the privacy shield agreement thereby offering a European data privacy standard (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active).
MailChimp may collect personal information, such as distribution lists, which contain email addresses, and other information relating to those email addresses.
For success measurement of newsletters MailChimp stores information about browser, system, IP address, time of opening the newsletter and time of accessing a link within the newsletter. This information can technically be associated with the receiver of the newsletter. However, it is not our goal to monitor individual receivers. Out interest is to understand reading behavior of our readers to improve the newsletter service.
Cancellation, Modification, Amendment, Update
The user is entitled to request at no cost from Leanify information about the personal data stored about her or him. The user has the right to request correction of inaccurate data, and to request blocking and cancellation of his or her personal data, provided the data does not have to be preserved for legal reasons.
Date of publication
Date of last modification: May 24, 2018.