Demi Systems Privacy Policy
Introduction
In this Privacy Policy, "users", "you", "your" and "yours" refers to the individual accessing the Sites and, where applicable, to the company or legal entity on whose behalf the individual is viewing this Privacy Policy. Demi Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries and corporate affiliates, are together referred to as "Demi Systems", "us", "we" and "our".
At Demi Systems, we recognize that you, our users place a high value on the privacy of your information, and we are committed to providing you a safe online environment in which to engage in supply chain finance and other activities. We at Demi Systems want you to understand the kinds of information collected on the various websites operated by us, including program microsites, rampsites, www.demisystems.co.ke, and websites of our strategic partners, including, but not limited to the websites constituting the Demi Systems website (collectively, the "Sites"), and how your personal, corporate and other information may be used and shared as you use the supply chain finance and other services (the "Services") available on the Sites. All of this is described in this Privacy Policy, along with various ways in which the Sites treat your information. This Privacy Policy includes the Terms of Use, which is incorporated herein. By clicking your acceptance, You agree to both this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any offline data collection or offline practices of Demi Systems.
General
As used in this Privacy Policy, "personal information" means information that may be used to identify a specific individual, or that is about an identifiable individual, including but not limited to name, email address, or phone number. "Corporate information" refers to information about your company, including but not limited to corporate name, location, address and job title of an individual. "Aggregate information" refers to combined demographic information, which has been derived from personal and/or corporate information but which cannot be reasonably used to identify any individual.
Information We Collect On the Sites and How We Use It
We collect and use personal and corporate information in the specific ways listed below:
User Accounts. If you are a user of any of Demi Systems's sites and have received log-in instructions from Demi Systems’s customer support or sales teams for use of the password-protected portion of the Sites, you may use those instructions to log in. Upon log-in, you may be asked to register, and following the prompts, supply your name, company name, title, office location, email address and phone number (hereafter, "Contact Information"). This Contact Information is used to communicate with you and to carry out actions you request on the Sites, such as requests for support, and to track the transactions that are performed on a Site. Demi Systems may also use your email address to send you promotional messages, product updates and other communications, unless you opt out of such emails. See below under "Choices and Opt-Out" to understand how you may control use of your Contact Information.
In connection with registration on a Site, Demi Systems collects other information, such as your IP address, which may be considered personal information in some jurisdictions. This information is used for purposes of validation, verification of a user account, tracking of transactions that you perform on a Site, security and other purposes.
Webinar Registration. Users may register directly on the Sites for Demi Systems webinars or other training services in order to receive specialized training in the functionality of the Demi Systems systems and Services, and education on related topics. Those registering for these webinars are required to provide their Contact Information, which is used to register for the webinars and to communicate with you about these and related offerings.
Information Requests and Feedback. The Sites contains various user interfaces to allow visitors to the Sites to request more information about our products and Services, to use the functionalities of the Sites, or to provide us feedback about them. Contact Information is requested in each case, along with information about your computing environment and/or industry, and details of your request or reported feedback. This information is used in order to allow us to respond to your requests, to assure that our software and Services work correctly with your computing environment, to better understand our users’ needs or your specific issue, and to communicate with you about your requests and feedback, and to execute on the actions that you request via the various functions on the Sites.
Surveys. Surveys may appear on the Sites, and in such case, we will collect Contact Information from the participants in the survey. This information will be used to administer the survey, to analyze its results and for other specific purposes, which are disclosed at the time of collection. Survey responses will be aggregated and depersonalized before survey results are shared with any third parties.
Email Communications. Submission of your email address on the Sites will result in your being added to our mailing list for purposes of product updates, promotional and marketing messages and other communications, until such time as you opt out. In some of our email messages, we use a "click-through URL" linked to certain websites administered by or on behalf of Demi Systems. Demi Systems may track click-through data to assist in determining interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of these communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click on text or graphic links in the email messages. See below under "Choices and Opt-Out" to understand how you may control use of your Contact Information.
Web Logs. Like most standard website servers, we may log IP addresses (a unique number assigned to every computer on the Internet) in order to improve security, analyze trends, administer the Sites, and perform the Services. We may track your movement within the Sites, the pages from which you were referred, access times and browser types. This information may include the browser you are using, the internet address from which you linked to our Sites, the unique IP address of the computer you used to access our Sites, your geographic location, and usage and browsing habits. We use this information in the aggregate to gauge the effectiveness of our Sites, analyze trends, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information. We may also use personal and corporate information we collect through web logs to send you targeted offers and other communications.
Cookies. As a security measure, and to help make sure you receive information that is relevant to you, our Sites uses data "cookies." Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer that identify a specific user the next time they access the Sites.
We use session cookies in order to control the routing of requests to our servers, as well as to make it easier for you to navigate our Sites. This is an anonymous cookie and no personal data is stored. A session cookie expires when you close your browser. We may use persistent cookies to differentiate visitors to our Sites from registered users, to customize the content of certain sections of the Sites, to change the way the Sites behave or look (such as your preferred language) and to enable us to track and enhance users’ experience on the Sites. In addition, we may use session or persistent log-in cookies to facilitate your use of protected areas of the Sites, and across multiple Sites. You will not be able to log on to one or more Sites if you set your system to turn off cookies. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s "help" file. Cookies help us learn which areas of our Sites are useful and which areas need improvement. We will not use cookies to collect any personal information about you. You may configure your browser to prevent cookies from being set on your computer. If you reject cookies, our security protocols may prevent you from accessing the Sites, and you may not be able to use certain features of the Sites.
Web Beacons. Our web pages and emails may contain "web beacons." Web beacons allow us to track receipt of an email, count users that have visited a web page or opened an email that contains a web beacon and collect other types of aggregate information. Using this information, we are able to measure the effectiveness of our content and how visitors use our Sites. This allows us to learn what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which parts of our Sites are the most interesting and what kind of offers our registered users like to see. Some of the web beacons that are in place on our Sites are used only by us, and other web beacons are from our service providers who use this data to assist us in analyzing how our Sites are used. Once you provide Contact Information to us after clicking on an email that contains a web beacon, your Contact Information may subsequently be cross-referenced to the source email and the relevant web beacon information.
General Uses. We use your information in ways consistent with the reason for which you provide it to us, and also internally to: (i) verify your identity, (ii) help us improve our products and services and develop and market new products and services, (iii) carry out the transaction, activity or request made by you on the Sites, (iv) investigate or settle inquiries or disputes, (v) comply with any applicable law, court order, other judicial process, or the requirements of a regulator, (vi) enforce our agreements with you, (vii) protect the rights, property or safety of us or third parties, including other users of the Sites, and (viii) as otherwise required or permitted by law. This section may be superseded or supplemented with regard to transactional data collected via use of the Services by the terms of any definitive agreement that your company has previously signed with Demi Systems governing your use of the Sites and the Services.
Choices and Opt-Out
Demi Systems communicates with its users by means of emails containing service-related messages and/or promotional and marketing information and materials. You can choose not to receive such promotional and marketing messages from Demi Systems in the future by either following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each marketing email, or by emailing us at Demi Systems at unsubscribe@demisystems.co.ke or sending postal mail to the following address:
Demi Systems, Inc.
1349 W. Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
USA
Please note, changes may not be effective immediately but will be made as provided under applicable law.
In addition, please note that an email address is a required field in order for your company to use our platforms, and opting out will result in your company’s inability to use the respective platform services. Should you desire to remove your email address from any platform, your company will need to provide another user email address to continue using the services of that platform.
Accessing Your Information
If you are a registered user of the Sites, you can update your information at any time. For security reasons, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or enabling you to make corrections. To access your personal and corporate information, return to the web page where you originally entered it and follow the instructions on that page. For security reasons, certain areas of the Sites may limit access to particular persons through the use of individual ID’s and passwords. You may also contact us for instructions on how to correct or modify the information you provide through the Sites. If for any reason you are concerned that the personal or corporate information you provided to us is not correct and you cannot change it by accessing your account, or should you wish to have your email address removed from our mailing list or contact information changed, please contact us at unsubscribe@demisystems.co.ke . We will be happy to review, update or remove information as appropriate. We may still retain your information in our files however, to resolve disputes, enforce this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, and due to technical and legal requirements and constraints related to the security, integrity and operation of our Sites.
How We Share Your Information
We do not share your personal information collected on the Sites with third parties without your permission, except as set forth herein, or as otherwise necessary or appropriate to (i) carry out the transaction, activity or request made by you on the Sites, (ii) comply with any applicable law, court order, other judicial process, or the requirements of a regulator, (iii) enforce our agreements with you, (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of us or third parties, including other users of the Sites, or (v) as otherwise required or permitted by law. This section may be superseded or supplemented with regard to transactional data collected via use of the Services by the terms of any definitive agreement that your company has previously signed with Demi Systems governing your use of the Sites and the Services.
We will share your personal and corporate information with our subsidiaries, affiliates and other related companies for purposes that are consistent with this Privacy Policy. Data collected online may also be combined with information that you provide when you register to use any of the Sites.
In the event of a corporate transaction such as a sale, merger or reorganization or of a bankruptcy or similar restructuring involving all or a portion of Demi Systems, we reserve the right to disclose or transfer your personal and corporate information to the non-affiliated third party acquiring company(ies) and other third parties. In the event of such a sale or transfer, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee(s) to use personal and corporate information you have provided through the Sites in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We may collect and share aggregate website statistical information (such as downloads, survey results, traffic patterns or related information) with third parties.
Finally, we may hire contractors to provide certain services on our behalf, including information processing and storage, site hosting, database maintenance, electronic marketing, data analysis, or other services. These contractors are required to maintain the confidentiality of information they receive from us and are restricted from using the information for any purposes other than those authorized by us.
Children’s Privacy
The Sites is not intended for or directed to persons less than 13 years of age. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children, and we do not knowingly market our services to children. If you are under 13 years of age, do not use the Sites.
Security
The Sites have reasonable security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. When you submit sensitive information via our Sites, such as support requests, that information is protected by physical, electronic and managerial procedures to secure the information that we collect via the Sites, including secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption technology. However, no data or email transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure or error free. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information during transmission, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe (including your account password), log out of your account after each use, and close your web browser.
Other Sites
The Sites may contain links and interactive functionality interacting with the websites of third parties. We are not responsible for and have no liability for the functionality, actions, inactions, privacy settings, privacy policies and content of any such website. Before enabling the sharing functions of the Sites to communicate with any such website, we strongly recommend that you review and understand the privacy policies, settings and information sharing functions of each such third party website. The links and interactive functionality for third party sites on the Sites in no way constitute an endorsement by Demi Systems of these third party websites.
Submissions
Suggestions, materials or other intellectual property sent or transmitted to us via our Sites, including all feedback regarding the Sites, are governed by the separate terms applicable to such materials identified at the time of submission (if any). If no such terms are identified, all right, title and interest to all such materials and information shall belong to Demi Systems. All such items shall be deemed to be non-confidential, and we shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such items and shall be free to use and distribute them to others without limitation, including, but not limited to developing and marketing products incorporating them.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy and Legal Terms
By using the Sites, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not submit any personal information to us through our Sites.
If you choose to visit the Sites, your visit and any dispute over privacy are subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages to the extent permitted by law, resolution of dispute procedures, and application of law. Choice of law may be superseded or supplemented by the terms of any definitive agreement that your company has previously signed with Demi Systems governing your use of the Sites and the Services.
Contacting Us
If you have any concerns about the privacy practices of the Sites, please contact us at following address with a detailed description, and we will try to resolve it:
Tsavo Garden House, Ground floor
Tsavo Road,
Nairobi, Kenya
info@demisystems.co.ke
Changes to Privacy Policy
Please check this Privacy Policy periodically to inform yourself of any changes. Business needs and information technology are constantly changing. Demi Systems may, from time to time, makes changes to the way we handle information. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post such revised policy on our Sites and notify you via notices posted on the Sites, by email or otherwise as permitted by law. This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated below. Your continued use of the Sites after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
Effective Date: May 1, 2015
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