We are Braudit Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (under company number 14369531). Through our web app, we offer you a program that provides personalised, on-demand career insights and recommendations. Below, we explain in detail the types of personal data we may collect when you interact with us, how we use it and it also explains how we store and keep it safe.

This policy applies to Braudit Limited (also known as Braudit) and you. It covers (1) any of our websites or apps including https://www.braudit.app and any forums and social network or similar accounts that we operate; and (2) any of our products or services (including support services and any other features, apps, technologies, software, products, or services offered by us, on any platforms or which may be accessible via a web application, third party platform or social network. Most of the information we collect will be provided by you. This information could include but is not limited to contact details such as your name, address, email address and phone numbers as well as career focused information like your work experience. You might also provide information to help us market our services.

We collect information, which identifies your computer and tracks your visits to our website. This information does not individually identify people and as such your name and other personal identifications are anonymous.

Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to Braudit’s Sites, Apps, and other services collectively as “Services”.

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside Service partners. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

We collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

Your Career Entries

Your career entries are kept private and are used to provide you with the services we offer. This means that when you use Braudit to document your career journey, none of your moment entries are made publicly viewable on the Internet, however, to deliver services like personalised recommendations and an analysis of a career entry, your entries will be accessed privately by our service. We've put in place and mechanisms to ensure your career entries stay private and are only used as described in our “Terms of Service”. Your career entries are not accessible to other Braudit users.

Account Information

If you register and open an “Account” with us in order to use our services you provide us basic account information including your names, email address and a password. In creating your account, you would also need to provide information to set up your profile on Braudit. To set up your account you’ll be asked to provide us information relating to your career including but not limited to your career goals, challenges, skills, work experience and educational background.

Transactional Information

When you purchase Services, we may collect information to complete and record the transaction. For example, if you subscribe to a Braudit plan we’ll collect information, like your name and credit/debit card information, to process payments. We also keep a record of the purchases you’ve made.

Communications with Us

You may also provide us with information when you provide us feedback or communicate with our team about a support question. When you communicate with us via form, email, phone, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications (including any call recordings as permitted by applicable law).

We also collect some information automatically:

Log information

Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services — for example, when you log into your account or publish a moment entry.

Location Information

We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to understand where our users are located so we can identify what features might be meaningful to them.

Information from Cookies & Other Technologies

Like many online services, we use cookies to collect information. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. Braudit uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness. For example, we use Google Analytics to help analyse how users use our Site. We do not combine the information generated through the use of Google Analytics with your personal information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Site is governed by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

Third Party Account Information

When you connect an account from another service we typically get some basic information about your account with them. For example, when you connect Braudit to your Google account in order to sign up or log in, we may access certain user data such as your name, user ID, email, etc. to provide our Services.

We do not share your data other than with approved service partners such as our email broadcast service providers.

We use your personal information to:

• Provide you with Services and customer support;
• Market our Services to you and send you news and information that we believe interests you;
• Respond to your requests, resolve disputes, and/or troubleshoot problems;
• Improve our Services and personalise your experience;
• Communicate with you about our Services;
• Monitor and analyse trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services;
• Detect, investigate, and help prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and help protect rights and property of ours and others; and
• Comply with our legal and financial obligations.

We will communicate with you primarily in the form of emails. You can manage the frequency and/or opt out of receiving these communications by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each marketing email. Please note that even if you unsubscribe or opt-out of our emails, we may still send you Services related communications (e.g., emails related to your account or the App).

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards to protect your privacy. These are spelled out below:

Third Party Vendors

We may share information about you with third party vendors, consultants, and advisors who help us provide our Services or who otherwise perform services for us. This includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers, data storage providers, SMS messaging providers, Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure providers and support service providers that help us communicate with you), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (like sending emails to our marketing list), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers), those that make tools to help us run our operations (like programs that help us with task management, scheduling, word processing, email and other communications, and collaboration among our teams), those in connection with events organised by Braudit and other third-party tools that help us manage operations. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them so trust that your information remains safe and private;

Subsidiaries

We may disclose information about you to a current or future parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy;

Business Transfers

In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy;

Legal, Regulatory, & Other Obligations

We may disclose information about you if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce our Terms of Service; (b) comply with relevant laws, or warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and other enforceable legal process; or (c) protect the property or rights belonging to Braudit, you, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose the least amount of information as possible to address the emergency without delay; and

With Your Consent

We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.

We reserve the right to disclose anonymous information or other information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you publicly without restriction.

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on “How We Use the Information We Collect” — and we’re not legally required to keep it.

For example, we keep web server logs for a few months. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyse traffic, and investigate issues if something goes wrong.

In assessing the suitable duration for retaining personal data, we take into account various factors including the quantity, type, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risks associated with unauthorised access or disclosure, the purposes for which we utilise the data, the feasibility of achieving these purposes through alternative methods, and the relevant legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other obligations.

Under certain conditions, we may anonymize your personal data, rendering it unidentifiable to you, for research or statistical analysis. In such instances, we reserve the right to utilise this anonymized information indefinitely without providing additional notification.

We take the security of your information seriously. We employ industry-standard security measures to protect your information from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Here's how we ensure the security of your data:

Encryption at Rest

Your data is encrypted on disk using Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) encryption technology. This means that even if someone gains physical access to our servers, they won't be able to access your data without the decryption key.

Encryption in Transit

We encrypt all data transmitted between your device and our servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. This ensures that your data remains secure while it's being transmitted over the internet, protecting it from interception by unauthorised parties.

Access Control

We implement strict access controls to limit access to your data only to authorised personnel who require it for legitimate technical purposes. This includes using strong authentication mechanisms and regularly reviewing and updating access permissions.

Regular Security Audits

We conduct regular security audits and assessments to identify and address any potential vulnerabilities in our systems and processes. This helps us stay proactive in mitigating security risks and ensuring the ongoing security of your data.

Data Backups and Disaster Recovery

We maintain regular backups of your data and have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in place to ensure the integrity and availability of your information in the event of unforeseen incidents or emergencies.

While we take every precaution to protect your data, it's essential to remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Update the Information You Provide

You can review, change, and/or delete parts of your provided personal information by logging into the Braudit web app and accessing your account.

Opt out of marketing communications

You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us. Just follow the instructions in those communications or navigate to "emails" in your profile settings page or reach out to us. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you other communications, like those about your account and legal notices.

Set your browser to reject cookies

You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our Sites, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights are to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at hello@braudit.app.

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

• The use is necessary in order to fulfil our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our service on your device or to charge you for a paid plan; or
• The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
• The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
• We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalise your experience; or
• You have given us your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyse them later on.

If you are located in the EEA, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland and you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below:

For individuals in the EEA: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en

For individuals in the UK: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us

For individuals in Switzerland: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html

No fee usually required

There will be no charge for accessing your personal data or exercising any other rights. However, if your request is evidently unfounded, repetitive, or excessive, we reserve the right to impose a reasonable fee or decline to fulfil your request.

What we may need from you

We will aim to respond to all legitimate requests as soon as we reasonably can and in any event within 60 days. If we think that it will take us longer than 60 days, we’ll let you know why and keep you updated. To safeguard your personal data and uphold your rights, we might require specific details from you to verify your identity before granting access to your personal data or facilitating other requested actions. This precautionary step helps prevent unauthorised disclosure of personal data to individuals without proper authorization. Additionally, we may reach out to you for additional information to expedite our response to your request.

Third Party Software and Services

This Privacy Policy addresses only our use and disclosure of information we collect from and/or about you on our Services. If you’d like to use third party software and services, any information you disclose to that third party is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

Our Sites may contain content or links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. We have no control over the privacy policies or content displayed on websites run by third parties.

Child Usage Restrictions

Our Services are not directed to children, and children are not eligible to use our Services. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. We do not collect or maintain personal information from people we actually know are under 13 years of age, and no part of our Services is designed to attract people under 13 years of age. If we later learn that a user is under 13 years of age, we will take steps to remove that user’s personal information from our databases and to prevent the user from utilising the Services.

Transferring Information

Because our Services are offered worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us, other members of our group of companies, or third-party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the “How We Use the Information We Collect” section above.

When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with entities based in countries outside the EEA.

You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Braudit may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors and users to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. We will post any revised version of the Privacy Policy on this page, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (like adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through email or the app). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

If you have any questions or concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy or our information collection or processing practices, or if you want to report any security violations to us, please send an email to us at hello@braudit.app.