The Discern Security Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices of Discern Security's apps and websites. Discern Security Technologies, Inc (Referred to as Discern Security) is registered in Delaware and the laws of Delaware and the United States apply.
Discern Security as a firm is deeply conscious about preserving the privacy of individuals and enterprises and strives to collect only the minimum amount of personal data that is needed for our service to be useful to our customers.
This privacy policy describes how Discern Security (also referred to as "we," "us" or "our") will make use of your information in the context of:
Please also see the Discern Security Terms of Use and any additional Terms of Use or Product License Agreements that may apply to the app or website you are using.
Google User Data
Additional Limits on Use of Your Google User Data: Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Policy, consumer Gmail account information obtained via Google APIs is subject to these additional restrictions:
Discern Security registration, and customer support
When you register to use a Discern Security app or website, create a Discern Security ID, or contact us for support or other offerings, Discern Security collects information that identifies you. This includes:
Discern Security apps and websites
We collect information about how you use our apps and websites, including when you use a desktop app feature that takes you online (such as a photo syncing feature). Depending on the app or website, this information may be anonymous or it may be associated with you. It includes:
Discern Security app activation and automatic updates
When you activate your Discern Security app or when you install updates to the app, we collect information about:
Discern Security emails
Emails we send you may include a technology (called a Web Beacon) that tells Discern Security whether you have received or opened the email, or clicked a link in the email. If you do not want us to collect this information, you can opt out of Discern Security marketing emails.
Discern Security online advertising
Discern Security advertises online in a variety of ways, including displaying Discern Security ads to you on other companies' websites and apps and on social media platforms, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Discern Security websites use cookies that allow us to gather additional information to measure and improve the effectiveness of our advertising. We collect information such as:
Buttons, tools, and content from other companies
Discern Security apps and websites may include buttons, tools, or content that link to other companies' services (for example, a Facebook "Like" button). We may collect information about your use of these feature, such as content "liked" and address information in Google Maps. In addition, when you see or interact with these buttons, tools, or content, or view a Discern Security web page or app containing them, some information from your browser may automatically be sent to the other company. Please read that company's privacy policy for more information.
Discern Security integration with other products
You can sign in to some Discern Security apps or websites using other vendor's products such as Slack. Where you give appropriate permissions, we will receive information about you from that product, such as name, email address and your activities on that product.
Overall, Discern Security uses the information we collect about you for the following purposes:
Sharing with other Data Controllers
We will share your personal information within Discern Security for the purposes identified above. The types of third parties your information may be shared with include, our resellers and other sales and advertising partners, retailers, research organizations, advertisers, ad agencies, advertising networks and platforms, information service providers, publishers, and non-profit organizations (with your consent, if required).
We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Discern Security if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, as well as to protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Discern Security, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
Sharing with Data Processors
We will also share your personal information with companies that help us to run our business by processing personal information on behalf of Discern Security for the purposes identified above. Such companies include providers of customer support services, payment processing services, fraud monitoring and prevention, email, social media, and other marketing platforms and service providers, and hosting services.
Other Information Sharing
Discern Security may also share your personal information:
We may share or publish aggregate information that doesn't specifically identify you, such as statistical information about visitors to our websites or statistical information about how customers use our product.
Your personal information and files are stored on Discern Security's servers and the servers of companies we hire to provide services to us.
We may transfer your personal information across national borders to other countries in compliance with applicable laws.
In some countries, you may have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal information; to correct, delete or restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal information; and to obtain the personal information you provide to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this information to another controller.
In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal information in some circumstances (in particular, where we don't have to process the information to meet a contractual or other legal requirement, or where we are using the information for direct marketing).
These rights may be limited, for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal personal information about another person, or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping (such as fraud prevention purposes).
To exercise any of these rights (including deleting your personal data and "asking to be forgotten"), you can get in touch with us – or our data protection officer at DPO@DiscernSecurity.com
If you have unresolved concerns, you have the right to report them to an EU or other data protection authority where you live, work or where you believe a potential violation may have occurred.
To register with Discern Security, to create a Discern Security ID, and to use some Discern Security websites, apps, products or services, the provision of some information is mandatory: if relevant information is not provided, then we will not be able to administer a Discern Security account to you, or provide you with the websites, apps, products or services requested. All other provision of your information is optional. Providing optional information will help us offer you a better experience, such as more personalized or tailored content or offerings.
Discern Security and companies we hire to help us market our websites and apps on our behalf may use your information to provide you with information and offers related to Discern Security.
Wherever we rely on your consent, you will always be able to withdraw that consent, although we may have other legal grounds for processing your information for other purposes, such as those set out above. In some cases, we are able to send you direct marketing without your consent, where we rely on our legitimate interests. You have an absolute right to opt-out of direct marketing, or profiling we carry out for direct marketing, at any time by:
When you register at Discern Security, we process and keep most personal information we have about you for as long as you are an active user of our products, services, or apps. When your company closes your account, after 60 days we begin deleting certain personal information that we no longer have a business reason to retain. However, we typically retain personal information related to our contract and business transactions with you for seven years after your last interaction with us.
Where we process personal information for marketing purposes or with your consent, we process the information until you ask us to stop and for a short period after this (to allow us to implement your requests). We also keep a permanent record of the fact that you have asked us not to send you direct marketing or to process your information so that we can respect your request in future.
Occasionally, we may change this privacy policy (or other documents in the Discern Security Privacy Center) to allow Discern Security to use or share your personal information in a different way. If we do, the links to the policy on our websites (which are generally found in the footer of the website) will indicate that the policy has been changed.
You can get in touch with Discern Security's data protection officer at DPO@DiscernSecurity.com
Cookies are small text files that websites place in the device that you use to access our website. We too make use of cookies. This is done to recognize your device during a session or in your future visits to our website, primarily in order to provide better user experience.
Session cookie: Session cookies remain only as long as a browsing session is active, and are intended to avoid user inconvenience during browsing. These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session and expire at the end of the browsing session. Session cookies also assist the user in navigating the website, and allow the user to access secure parts of the webpage when logged in.
Persistent cookie: Persistent cookies are stored on a user's device even after termination of a browsing session. It helps in recalling the preferences or actions of the user. Persistent cookies are used for a variety of purposes such as retaining the visitor's language and regional preference(s) at the end of each browsing session. We use services of third-party analytics service provider to analyze cookies to carry out a behavioral analysis in order to enhance user experience and convenience, and also to provide targeted and relevant content to visitors. Depending on the type and settings of your browser, cookies may be accepted by default. You may change the settings of your browser to delete existing cookies or prevent future cookies from being automatically accepted. If you disable cookies, certain parts and functions of our website may not be available.
We use cookies from third party companies to provide us with insights about our sites, help us run targeting advertising campaigns, measure effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and to make the advertisements more relevant to you. These companies use cookies to collect information about your browsing activities on our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click, assets you download and how long you are on our sites. Based on your browsing of our website you may see our advertisements while browsing through our advertisement partner websites and/or their network websites. In order to opt out from receiving such advertisements, you have to set your preferences on our partner websites. Alternatively, you may also visit Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance websites to opt-out.
