Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 26, 2018

BanterX Inc ("BanterX", us", "we", or "our") is an advertising technology platform headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. We are providing this privacy policy to inform you about how our ad optimization technology, including our self-serve technology Platform for online advertisers (collectively, the “Service") processes information on behalf of online advertisers, chatbot owners, online content publishers, data providers and other businesses that use our technology and services.

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.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from www.banterx.com

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve the quality of advertising content and the overall user experience.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

BanterX does not have access to, nor do we collect any personally identifiable information such as name, email id, telephone number etc. from users interacting with chatbots on the BanterX publisher network. Access to user location is available only if it is provided by the user to the chatbot in response to an explicit request for location access.

Conversational Data

While interacting with chat bots registered on the BanterX publisher network, they may send to BanterX, keywords and/or snippets from the end user's conversation. BanterX does not take ownership, nor has control, of what data is sent to it. The data received in this manner will be used by the BanterX system to identify relevant advertising content to be delivered. Users who wish to not have their conversational data shared with BanterX may directly contact the developer of the chatbot regarding opt-out methods.

Other Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"), provided it is shared to us by the chatbot developer. This Usage Data may include information such as browser type, browser version, the time and date of your conversation, the duration of the conversation, number of messages sent/received, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Cookies

BanterX does not drop or collect cookies to capture or store any information, personally identifiable or otherwise, about users on 3rd party sites that engage and interact with the content generated using our platform.

We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

The World Privacy Forum has published an article on cookie opt-out. If you would like to read more about this, please visit this link: http://www.worldprivacyforum.org/cookieoptout.html. You may follow the procedure laid out in the said website to opt out of Cookies.

Use of Data

BanterX Inc uses the collected data for various purposes:

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

BanterX Inc will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

We do not sell, trade, permit usage or rent your personal information to any third party unless we have been expressly authorized by you either in writing or electronically to do so. We may at times provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third parties, however this information when disclosed will be in an aggregate form and does not contain any of your personally identifiable information. We conduct internal audits to ensure that we are complying with the policies in place to protect you.

We expressly forbid our clients from sending us any of your personal information. To the best of our ability, we have taken all the precautions possible to avoid receiving personal information from our clients. If, despite these measures, we do receive some personal information from a client, we shall take all measures to remove such personal information from our servers and records.

Legal Requirements

BanterX Inc may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at support@banterx.com. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at support@banterx.com