We are pleased to announce that following our acquisition by Zendesk, BIME Analytics has updated its Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. For our customers, we think this is great news and will improve your experience.
Effective January 8, 2016, we’ll be implementing updates to our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. We take our responsibilities to our customers seriously and value transparency in our interactions, so we’ve put together this summary of the more significant changes. We understand it can be tempting not to bother reading these, but it really is important. Please note that this is also just a summary of the changes. I urge you to review the updated Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy carefully to fully understand them.
Here are some key highlights of the changes we have made:
Terms of Service
Explanation of and Permitted Uses of the Service
We’ve made changes to our Terms of Service to detail how our subscriber can use our service and the governing law that applies to your use of the service. Within the sections entitled, “General Conditions; Access To And Use Of The Service” and “Export Compliance And Use Restrictions” we set forth the permitted and unpermitted uses of the service including general prohibitions that service to protect us, you and our other users.
Data Privacy and Security
We’ve added new descriptions about how we protect and secure your Service Data in the updated Terms of Service. Namely, we describe how we maintain commercially reasonable administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of Service Data. These safeguards include encryption of Service Data in transmission (using TLS or similar technologies), except for certain Other Services (as the term is defined in the Terms of Service) that do not support encryption, which you may use through the service at your election.
Billing and Payment
There is a section in the updated Terms of Service entitled, “Billing, Plan Modifications And Payments” which details how we charge for the service and how you hereinafter pay for the service.
Service Subscription Term
The updated Terms of Service now contain a section entitled, “Cancellation and Termination” which provides you with an explanation about how your subscription term is renewed and can be cancelled. Specifically, you may elect to terminate your account and subscription to the service as of the end of your then current subscription term by providing us notice on or prior to the date thirty days preceding the end of the subscription term. If you do not elect to cancel, and we hope that you do not, your account and subscription to the service will just renew for a subsequent subscription term equal in length to your expiring subscription term.
Privacy Policy
Personal Information That You Provide to Us or That We Collect
Our updated Privacy Policy provides additional detail on the types of information we collect and the purposes for which we collect such information. We’ve also added more specific information about how we and our third-party service providers use certain information to improve your experience on our website and in our service. We provide an opt-out procedure for you and provide you with information on the effect that opting-out will have on your use of our websites.
Sharing Personal Information
We’ve added more detail to our Privacy Policy on how we share your information, including personal information, with our third-party service providers and the protections that we enforce when sharing this information.
Data Hosting, Processing, and Protection
Our Privacy Policy has been updated to provide more detailed information on the purposes of our data processing, location of data processing, and storage to provide greater clarity as to how the Privacy Policy impacts your Service Data and Users that use the service.
Country-Specific Information
Our updated Privacy Policy now includes specific information for users in Japan, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. We encourage you to read this section if you visit our websites or use our service in any of these jurisdictions.
Cookie Policy
Separate Cookie Policy
We’ve developed a separate Cookie Policy to provide even more detail on the specific cookies we utilize on our websites and in our service.
How We Use Cookies
Our updated Cookie Policy explains where we set cookies and how our marketing partners and we use cookies to collect information of visitors to our website and users of our service.
Cookies Used on our Website
We provide a list of cookies used on our websites, which describes the purpose and duration of each cookie.
Cookies Used in our Service
We provide a list of cookies used in our service, which describes the purpose and duration of each cookie.
Disabling Cookies
Our updated Cookie Policy provides greater detail on how you can disable certain cookies used on our websites and in our service, respectively.
Thank you for taking the time to read through the summary of these changes to our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. We are excited to now offer our customers a beautifully simple way of contracting with us. If you have questions or concerns or ways in which you think we can improve, please let me know at privacy@zendesk.com.
