Tirrel Privacy Policy

Last Modified: 10/4/2021

1. Introduction. Tirrel (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.tirrel.io (our “Website”), or interact with ~tirrel and its software packages on the Urbit network (our “Platform”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
On our Platform.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website, and/or our Platform.
Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website and/or Platform, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website and/or Platform.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website and/or our Platform.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website and/or Platform. By accessing or using this Website and/or Platform, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website and/or Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

2. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It. We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and/or Platform, including information:

by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
that is about you but individually does not identify you; and
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and/or Platform and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.

3. Information You Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through our Website and/or Platform may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website and/or Platform or Platform. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website and/or Platform, subscribing to our emails, including newsletters and updates, posting material, or submitting requests. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website and/or Platform.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and/or Platform and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website and/or Platform.
Your search queries on the Website and/or Platform.

4. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our Website and/or Platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website and/or Platform and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website and/or Platform.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and/or Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website and/or Platform according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website and/or Platform.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website and/or Platform. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website and/or Platform.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website and/or Platform may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website and/or Platform. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and/or Platform, and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Scrys (Platform data requests). Our Urbit platform may request information from your Urbit. ^[a]

5. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website and/or Platform are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies to collect information about you when you use our Website and/or Platform. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

6. How We Use Your Information. We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and/or Platform and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To provide you with notices about your account and fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website and/or Platform or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see Section 8 of this privacy policy for choices about how we use and disclose your information.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

7. Disclosure of Your Information. We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website and/or Platform or email, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Tirrel, our customers, or others.

8. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website and/or Platform. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

9. Accessing and Correcting Your Information. You may also send us an email at support@tirrel.io. to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website and/or Platform home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website and/or Platform home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and/or Platform and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this policy and our privacy practices contact us at: support@tirrel.io.