Privacy Policy

Latest Update: Feb 4, 2024

Uthra Network is committed to protecting your personal data. We tried to write down this Privacy Policy in the most clear and plain language possible. Likewise, we tried to provide you with our privacy commitments in a transparent and easily accessible way. That said, we hope you will get all needed details to be assured your personal data is safe with us.

Before you give us your consent on the processing of your personal data or provide us with your personal data within any form on our website, we kindly ask you to read carefully this Privacy Policy, so we can be sure that you completely understand the conditions under which we would cooperate.

This Privacy Policy explains when, where, and why we process personal data about people who use Uthra Network, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, your rights in respect of your personal data, as well as how we keep it secure. As regards the use of Uthra Network Blog, this Policy is further specified through the Uthra Network Privacy Policy.

GENERAL

Anyone can access our Website without the necessity to register an account. Therefore, limited use of the Services is always possible without the provision of your personal details (for example, browse the Website, check how Uthra Network works, review the variety of services etc.). However, whenever you access the Website, we collect log information and put cookies on your device, by which we track your activity on the Website. You can always opt out from cookies except from those, without which the Website cannot work.

When you are a registered User (member) Uthra Network may collect from you and process Cookie identifiers and those data you specifically provide us with upon registration, including first name, last name, company name, birthdate, email, phone number, zoom ID, city and country you live in, gender, languages you are interested in or social network ID (if assigned through Facebook or Google+ or if accessing Google Calendar), time zone, interface language, IP address, and device type may also be processed by Uthra Network.

Registered Users may additionally provide us with added profile pictures.

You can find out more about the specific cases of data collection and the purposes of processing of such data in separate section of this Privacy Policy.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please check this page to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. We will post those changes on this page and update the Privacy Policy modification date at the top of this page. The additional notifications on any amendments will be sent to your email.

Any questions regarding this Policy and our services should be sent to sales@uthra.net.

1. What Personal Data Are and What Processing of Personal DataIs

Personal data is any information relating to you and that alone or in combination with other pieces of information gives the opportunity to a person that collects and processes such information to identify you as an individual.

Processing of the personal data means any operation with your personal data, whether or not by automated means, as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing; means you as a user of Uthra Network.

Consent of the data subject/user is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject/user’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

2. Uthra Network’s Lawful Bases for rocessing

Uthra Network processes your personal data only when we have lawful bases. Specifically, Uthra Network processes your personal data if:

• processing is based on the consent you have given. As such our newsletters, collection, analysis, and placement of different types of cookies is based on your consent.
• processing is necessary to provide our services and give information
• processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests. Those legitimate interests are:
• the assessment of Uthra Network ’s business efficiency by analyzing website traffic indicators.
• promotion of Uthra Network through social media networks, media outlets, and affiliates, such as bloggers or influencers if applicable.
• where necessary, compliance with applicable legislation (e.g., data subject request processing)
• in exceptional cases, to protect your vital interests or vital interests of another natural person; or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

In all cases, we will notify you about the applied legal basis for processing and other relevant details, before we start processing of your personal data on the specific legal basis, unless we are not able to do so in accordance with our obligations under any applicable legislation.

3. Data We Collect: Scope

Uthra Network collects from you only the following information and only for the stated below purposes:

1. Registered User / Membership Account(not active yet hence it is valid once activated)

Uthra Network collects, and processes personal data submitted by you upon registration and further editing of settings in your Account. For the registration purposes, you submit your login credentials (username and passwords), first name, last name and email. You may edit your Account with additional information at your sole discretion. Additional information may help you to get more from the Services.

1. Posting of Information

We process personal data freely submitted to you on Uthra Network. This may be survey you fill in on Uthra Network or feedback you provide us with. Irrespective of whether you are a registered user or not, this shall also cover situations when you post an article(s) or comment(s) on the Uthra Network Blog, as specified in the Uthra Network Blog Privacy Policy.

Uthra Network may also process information provided by you (including content and messages) that you post on/through our Website, including personally identifiable information. By so doing, you acknowledge that any information you share through the Services will be available to Uthra Network and to other users of the Services.

1. Service Use, Cookies and other Similar Technologies

When you use our Services, we monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of your behavior while using our Services. We may receive the information about your IP address, proxy server and operating system, the web browser or your mobile carrier and location based on phone settings. Please, specifically refer to our Cookies Policy for further details as to our use of cookies and similar technologies.

1. Sensitive data

Unless you expressly agree, Uthra Network does not process your sensitive data.

4. Data We Collect: Purposes

We may process your personal data you provided us voluntarily with for the purposes defined below. From our perspective, we process your personal data to personalize the use of Uthra Network to the fullest extent possible and to provide you with the high-quality Services under the Terms of Service.

1. Communications

We may contact you by email and other ways, including through publicly available notices, for service-related purposes (welcome letter, security and legal notices, announcements, Uthra Network updates, reminders, suggestions etc.). We may also use your data to enable you to communicate with other users through Uthra Network, including exchanging messages, conducting video calls, and/or leaving feedback about other users.

Your contact data (including email, phone number, whatsapp, zoom id etc.) may also be used for gathering feedback. We may contact you to participate in research to improve the user experience of our product. The research will be used for internal purposes only, including:

– Feature development and product updates,

– Marketing activities, including publishing them on Uthra Network on other information resources,

– Customer Support updates,

– Other service updates for improving your experience.

Having received the communications from us, you are always able to opt-out to such communications in each message, excluding legal notices, or change of user settings on Uthra Network.

1. Marketing and promotion of Uthra Network

We may process your first name, last name and email on our mailing list or for the newsletter and send you messages with some commercial or promotional information about our Services.

To promote Uthra Network platform through blog and influencer channels, we may allow individuals to participate in the affiliate program on our Website. When we receive the information to participate indefinite program, we process this information to register you as an affiliate and further track the progress of the promotion of our platform.

Also, please pay attention that we may use the information provided by you as feedback. Your written, voice or video commends that you send to us may be used by Uthra Network’s web site or social media accounts without any additional compensation to you.

1. Analytics and Development

In order to find the points of interest in our Services and for the purposes of analytics, we monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of your behavior within our Services. This enables us to provide services that are relevant to you and boost the quality of our Services. The data concerned within this activity are Cookies and Usage data, such as the parts of our Services you visit, the date and duration of your visit, and type of the device you used during your visit. All your data stated in this paragraph is collected and further processed in a manner that does not allow your identification. For these purposes, we use Google Analytics which ensures compliance with our privacy commitments.

We may also carry out polls and surveys through Uthra Network using external GDPR-compliant services. You are not obliged to respond to them, and you may opt-out of such polls and surveys through user settings. In order to inform, optimize and serve you relevant advertising based on your past use of our Services, we may process your Usage Data and Cookies. Please, follow our Cookies Policy for additional information.

1. “Tell-A-Friend”

For referral service purposes named “Tell-A-Friend”, we may generate a personalized referral link for you to share with your friends to sign them up.

1. Changes

If Uthra Network decides to change the purposes of processing specified above, we will inform you about such changes prior to the use of your personal data within the newly set purposes. The notification on such changes will be sent to your email and you will have to provide your consent for the amended purposes unless the additional purpose of processing is compatible with those listed above.

In case you do not want to provide us the requested personal data for the purposes specified above, you may not have access to certain functions of the Services.

5. How We Share Personal Data

In order to provide high-quality services, Uthra Network may enter into the agreements with independent contractors as well as cooperates with other services providers, companies and organizations strictly under data processing agreement (DPA). For those reasons, some of your personal data can be passed to the persons mentioned. Uthra Network may use local and global servers to keep its data. By ticking the respective box when providing us with your personal data you agree to such transfer and processing within the purposes set in this Privacy Policy.

6. How Long the Personal Data will be Processed and Stored by Uthra Network

Your personal data will be stored by Uthra Network no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed.

Generally, Uthra Network retains your personal data as long as your account is active. In case your account expires, or you decide to delete your account Uthra Network retains your personal data not longer than 90 days after the account is expired.

However, in case of conflict situations in progress Uthra Network may store personal data for 180 days period or more if the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject in case of an expired account or in case data subject requested to delete his personal data. Upon the expiry of this period or earlier, if a conflict situation is settled, all personal data gets deleted.

Personal Data collected when you registered on our mailing list or for the newsletter will be stored as long as you are interested in receiving our emails. We consider that you’re interested in this until you unsubscribe from the mailing list or from the newsletter by clicking the respective link contained in each of our emails.

After the expiration of the retention period, Uthra Network shall terminate the processing of your personal data, unless otherwise is set by the relevant legislation.

7. Your rights as Data Subject Regarding Your Personal Data Uthra Network Processes:
   1. right of confirmation -to obtain from Uthra Network the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed,
   2. right of access to your personal data processed by Uthra Network,
   3. right to rectification –ask Uthra Network to have incomplete personal data requiring corrections completed,
   4. right to erasure (right to be forgotten) –request Uthra Network to erase personal data. In most cases Uthra Network will erase it unless otherwise required by legislation,
   5. right to object to processing of your personal data by Uthra Network when the processing is related to the performance of our task carried in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us. The other case is if we process your data for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party and you believe that such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. If you make a request with objection to processing, we will no longer process the personal data unless we are able to demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing,
   6. right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us. After we at Uthra Network receive such withdrawal request from you, we will process it in a timely manner and we will no longer process your personal data, unless otherwise is set by law.

If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, please contact us, as instructed at the end of this Privacy Policy. We shall promptly ensure that the request is complied with immediately. These requests are free of charge.

If you believe that our use of your data violates your rights, you can lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

Please, note that when the processing of your personal data is carried for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to such processing without providing any justification and we will no longer process your data with such direct marketing purposes.

8. Other Privacy Commitments
9. Time for reply and reaction: Uthra Network will provide information on action taken on your request related to your rights specified above within one month of receipt of the request for the longest. That period may be extended by two further months if Uthra Network is overwhelmed by the number of requests or the request at issue is complicated and requires a lot of action. Uthra Network will inform you of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons of such delay.
10. Children’s privacy: The privacy of children is one of our concerns. Uthra Network Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 18without the express permission of their parent or legal guardian. If you are under the age of 18 you will need to get your parent’s/legal guardian’s permission before submitting any personal data to Uthra Network. We may process the personal data of children under the age of 18, provided that data has been consensually provided by parents/legal guardians for the express purpose of using Uthra Network Services. Uthra Network is acting in compliance with COPPA. It requires us to inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children and minors. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide information on our Website without their permission.
11. Breach notifications: If any personal data of yours would be under the breach, we would inform you and the respective data protection agencies as to the accidents without undue delay, if there are high risks of violation of your rights as data subject. We would also do our best to minimize any such risks.