Effective Date: November 28, 2023

KnowIllegal (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://www.knowillegal.com website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

Definitions

  • Personal Data: Data that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, but not limited to, name, address, email address, subscriptions, comments, and traffic data.
  • Usage Data: Data collected automatically from the Service about how you access and use it.
  • Cookies: Small files stored on your device.

What we collect

We collect different information based on how you use our website:

  • Account Registration: When you register for an account, we may collect your email address, name, company, title, and account login credentials.
  • Subscriptions: Voluntarily provide your email address when you sign up for our newsletter.
  • Comments: When you submit a comment on an article, you may provide a name, email, and the comment content.
  • Communications: When you contact us directly via email, messaging, or calls, we may retain correspondence records to assist you.
  • Usage Data: We may collect device information, log data, location data, and tracking technologies like cookies to analyze site traffic, browser usage, and improve site functionality.

How we use your data

Collected data is used to:

  • Send emails related to comment notifications, newsletters, or inquiries
  • Display your name, company, and title publicly with comments
  • Respond to direct communications and provide support
  • Understand site usage and improve our Service
  • Customize site content and recommend relevant topics
  • Prevent malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity

Legal bases for processing data

We collect and process Personal Data about you only when we have legal bases for doing so under applicable EU and UK data protection laws. The legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your information only when:

  • We need it to provide you the Service, including to operate the Service, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Service;
  • It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as research and development, to market and promote the Service and to protect our legal rights and interests;
  • We need to comply with a legal obligation; or
  • You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose.

If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your information because we or a third party (e.g. your employer) have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer using the Service.

Your rights over data

As a user you have the right to:

  • Request access, correction, updates or deletion of personal data
  • Object to processing of personal data, restrict processing or request portability
  • Opt-out of receiving marketing communications
  • Complain to a data protection authority

To exercise these rights, please contact us via the contact details in this policy.

How we secure your data

We follow generally accepted security standards to store and protect the personal data submitted to us, both during transmission and after receipt. No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure though. Therefore absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

International Transfers

If you are located outside the United States, your personal data will be transferred to and stored in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. Data protection laws may be different and less protective in the U.S. than required in other parts of the world.

Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy unless otherwise required by law. We will then dispose of personal data securely and delete or anonymize electronic records.

Changes

Our Privacy Policy may change as we continue to develop our website and offerings. We will notify you of any material changes to how we process personal data.

Questions

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this policy, please contact us at: Email: [email protected]