Your privacy is important to us. It is Dutch Uncles’ policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, dutchuncles.in and other sites we own and operate.

This policy is effective as of DD-MM- YY and was last updated on DD-MM- YY.

What Types of User Information Does Dutch Uncles Obtain?

You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. But if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to enable us to provide the Services, you may not be able to use all or part of those Services.

The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Dutch Uncles, the choices you make (including your privacy settings), and the Services you use.

Dutch Uncles may obtain the following types of information from you or concerning your computer or device (“Information”), which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below (“Personally Identifiable Information”):

• Name
• Email Address
• Mailing Address
• Telephone Number(s)
• Blog or Website URL
• Photo
• Demographic Information (e.g., age, gender, interests, and preferences)
• Professional Title
• Company
• Industry
• Activities or Content Viewed on Dutch Uncles

In some cases, we may ask you to provide additional information above for certain products or services (such as signing up for a Dutch Uncles event or signing in to download an article/blog from Dutch Uncles) You may choose not to provide the information we request. However, if you choose not to share information, you can still use Dutch Uncles but you may not be able to access certain features or services.

Information Collected Automatically

Dutch Uncles may automatically receive and log certain types of information when you visit or interact with our websites, services, mobile applications or other products, including:

• Browser Information
• Operating System Information
• Mobile Device Information (e.g., device identifier, mobile operating system, etc.)
• IP Address
• Internet Service Provider
• Content Viewed
• Geographic Location
• Connection Speed
• Time of Visit
• Referring Site, Application, or Service
• Registration Time

You may choose to view or delete your information collected automatically by Dutch Uncles by raising a request through [email protected]

How Do We Use This Information?

We use the information we receive from you or about you or your computer or device to provide Dutch Uncles products and services, to fulfill your requests, to improve our products and services, to customize and personalize your Dutch Uncles, use our business, and understand users’ interaction with Dutch Uncles 

We use the information to provide and improve the services we provide, and to perform important business functions. These include running the Service, maintaining and improving service performance, innovation, research, and periodically providing information or notifications related to our products and services to the email address associated with your account. Examples of such uses include the following:

Promotions: We may use your data to administer contests, promotions, surveys, or other site features.

Improving Advertising Campaigns: We may use your data to improve our advertising campaigns, primarily in an effort to prevent targeting of impressions via third-party channels when they are not relevant to you.

Sending Emails and Newsletters: We may use your data to send you periodic emails and newsletters. Depending on the marketing preferences you select while subscribing for our emails, we may send you occasional marketing emails and newsletters about our products and services, which you can unsubscribe any time using the link provided in the message.

In General: We use data to respond to your inquiries and requests relating to our Services, to create and administer your accounts, and to provide us with information and access to resources that you have requested from us. We also use data for general business purposes, including, among other things, to improve customer service, to help us improve the content and functionality of our Services, to better understand our users, to protect against wrongdoing or plagiarism.

Dutch Uncles’ Use of Cookies

Dutch Uncles may install “cookies” on your computer or device that may contain anonymous information associated with you. Cookies are small text files used by a website to identify users, and are placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain text that can be read by a web server in the domain (here, Dutch Uncles) who issued the cookie or that, in some cases, may be read by a third party.

Our cookies may record information about your use of the Dutch Uncles so that we can provide you with an ongoing and personalized experience, including one or more of the following purposes: to help identify visitors; explore usage patterns; indicate preferences; control the display of ads; identify problems with our servers; collecting personal information; analyze styles and patterns of use; do research; deliver editing content; registration record and personal information; and otherwise regulate the products and services of the Dutch Uncles.

If you do not wish to have Dutch Uncles and use cookies on your computer, you should set your browser preferences to refuse cookies before accessing Dutch Uncles. Dutch Uncles is not responsible for any of your failures or your browser to use correctly or to your preferred communication or your browser settings.

Dutch Uncles does not control and is not responsible for the use of cookies by its third party partners or advertisers.

Keeping Your Data Confidential, & Resilient

We use a variety of methods to ensure that our processing systems remain confidential, robust and accessible. Specifically, we have implemented assistive processes to ensure maximum availability, business continuity, and accelerate disaster recovery. We are committed to maintaining strong physical and mental control.

Every segment of Services uses well-provided servers.  We deploy servers as part of standard maintenance, without affecting availability.

We maintain backup of encrypted data every hour in most regions. Although unexpected, in the event of a loss of productivity data (e.g., loss of primary data), we will retrieve organization data from these backups.

Recovery: In the event of a region-wide outage, we will bring up a duplicate environment in a different region. Our operations team has extensive experience performing full region migrations.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

Dutch Uncles may disclose your personal data with your consent, or as necessary to provide the Services to you.

By visiting, accessing, attending or using Dutch Uncles products, services or events, you consent to the disclosure of your Information to certain categories of third parties in the manner described below. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the policies or practices of any of these third parties.

Service Providers

Dutch Uncles relies on third party vendors and service providers to provide support and assistance for its products, services, and events (“Service Providers”), and we may disclose your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) to these Service Providers to the extent necessary to support our products, services or events, or as otherwise set forth below.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

Dutch Uncles reserves the right to amend or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. The use and disclosure of the information we receive is subject to the following: (1) The Privacy Policy which is in force at the time this information is collected or (2) any subsequent Privacy Policy that you have disclosed. If we make significant changes in the way we collect, use or disclose Personal Identity Information, we will notify you of any express or implied disclosure to the Dutch Uncles or through direct communication. Your continued use or use of the Dutch Uncles after notice of a material change in this Privacy Policy will be the approval of any amendments and / or amendments. Your use of Dutch Uncles  is completely voluntary, and you may stop using Dutch Uncles at any time.

How to Contact Us

Dutch Uncles welcomes any questions or comments you may have regarding this Privacy Policy or its implementation. Any such questions or comments should be submitted via email to [email protected] or directed to the address below. We will undertake reasonable efforts to resolve or address your concern.