Privacy Policy effective April 9, 2012
We have written this policy to explain how Cloud Speed Ltd trading as f6s ("we", "us" or "f6s") uses the data you give us through our site(s), including but not limited to f6s.com.
By providing personal information you are deemed to consent to your personal information being shared outside f6s in the following circumstances:
- where f6s needs to share your information to provide the service you have requested.
- where f6s needs to send the information to third parties who work on behalf of f6s to provide a service to you. We will only provide the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
- where f6s wants to keep you up to date on the latest service announcements, updates or other f6s information
- where you have given us permission to share your information with third parties
- f6s will also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our website.
f6s offers social networking features so you can interact with our partners and with other people using f6s. The default setting for your profile will be to share your name, profile photo, affiliations, key events, profile descriptions, public information from an external service you have provided and key contacts publicly. Content on any private discussion board will only be available to leaders, members and mentors of that group, unless you indicate otherwise. Additionally, if you choose to make anonymized information regarding you available to a third party by expressly indicating your preference on the site, we will make such information available. You can revoke access to your profile or remove the ability to message you (as applicable) at any time by using the relevant features to leave a specific group, leave a specific company, hide your profile or retract a mentor/similar relationship. Regardless of the default setting, we will provide you with a setting to disable your profile on f6s. Please note that your information may still be accessible on search engines for a number of days after you have disabled your profile on f6s. Additionally, it is important to remember the people you share with can always share your information with others and if you do actions on f6s like making an application, getting a deal or using Instant Apply, the data you provide may be shared with third parties as required to fulfil your request. Also consider that if you choose to enable f6s to publish on your behalf to a third party, anything published will be subject to that third party's privacy policy. We require third parties to respect your privacy, and your agreement with a third party will control how your information is used, stored, and transferred by the third party.
There are two types of information in general on f6s.
One type is the basic information displayed on your company/team/program/individual profile on f6s,
such as name, company, sector, descriptions, mentors, team members and that you have applied to a
program, which is generally visible, may be search indexed and displayed on external sites by authorized
program and/or company members.
You may block such use of your basic information at any time by making your profile hidden. Information you provide directly on an application to a program on f6s is not basic information. f6s only makes non- basic information that you provide on your application available to the program administrators and their designated evaluators and any programs you choose to transfer your application to using Instant Apply. This policy applies each time you submit data to the site(s). Your use of the site(s) means that you agree that we may use that data in accordance with this policy. Our privacy policy will change from time to time. The up to date privacy policy will always be shown on this page.
Your data
When you sign up for the site(s), you provide us with data directly or through the use of an external
authentication, such as Facebook or Linkedin, that may include your name, email, password, entities or
companies you are associated with and any other data provided by your chosen setting, or authorized
to be provided, by you. Our current registration page is at www.f6s.com
and additional pages throughout the Site.
You can provide additional data, change and/or the data you provided when you registered, as available on f6s.
We retain the data, in accordance with this policy, from all of your activities on the site(s) that includes your Content, such as posting, a reply to other users, requesting services, making a customer service request and any other means of generating content on the site(s). Further examples are posting an update of what your company is doing, creating a program page and sharing a link about what you're doing.
We will offer you tools to enter addresses and upload addresses so you can find your contacts and invite others to the site(s). You are responsible for any e-mail addresses or invites you provide.
We will not store any passwords you provide us in order to upload these addresses after using it for the initial upload.
We may access your data as follows: to provide you with information about services and other items that be of interest, provided that such use is consistent with this policy.
- to notify you of changes in the services we provide.
- to administer your account with us to allow you to use the site(s).
- to provide you with promotional material, but only in accordance with the terms.
- to use your data to customise the services we provide to you.
- to enable us to provide you with advertisements.
Other users of the site(s) may access your data if they have the rights to do so, or, if you have given them the right to access or see your data. An example is that the designated evaluators of a program may access your application to that program.
Your data will be available to us and to anyone you send it to for all non-public communication, such as messages. We may store data as required when you have authorized us to enable log-in using external authentication and access a third-party.
Any use that another user of the site(s) makes of your data is beyond our control. Any data you provide to us and the site(s) must comply with the terms.
In the event that f6s is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in the privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.
Deactivating your account
You may deactivate your account at any time by messaging support at support@f6s.com. After you deactivate your account, we may retain information that we are required to keep and any information that has been shared on the site(s). Any data or information we retain about you will continue to be treated under the terms.
When you deactivate an account, it is permanently deleted from f6s. It take us up to ninety days to deactivate an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to six months. You should only deactivate your account if you are sure you never want to reactivate it.
Information we collect when you use the site(s)
Statistical information, which does not reveal your personal or organizational identity such as:
- Details of visits to our site(s) and items accessed.
- Information such as your browser type, phone type, location, and/or IP address.
We use cookies and similar means as follows:
- to deliver a more personalised service through mean like storing your preferences, helping you find things more quickly, to serve advertisements and to let you log-in more quickly.
- "persistent cookies" are used so when you visit our site(s) we recognise you as an existing user.
- We also use "session" cookies, which identify particular visits to the site(s). These session cookies expire after a limited period of time.
You may refuse to accept these cookies by changing your browser setting to refuse cookies. By refusing cookies you may be unable to use all or some of our site(s).
We may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect f6s's rights or property.
Contacting you
We will contact you by email, SMS, phone and other ways only if you give us the information required to do so and do not indicate that you do not want to be contacted in these ways. You may indicate that you do not want to be contacted by e-mail using the settings functionality on f6s and can tell us at any time that you do not want to be contacted by any other means by emailing support@f6s.com.