Stormfish Scientific CorporationStormfish Scientific Corporation supports your right to safe and anonymous Internet browsing. To that end we make no efforts to collect or store any information about our website visitors beyond that data required to provide a modern and reliable web experience and to prevent malicious activity.
What information do we collect?
There are few basic items that we may collect and store when you visit our site. These include:
- IP address
- Access date and time
- Basic information provided by your web browser
- Information collected by Google Analytics
- Referring site
- Other data that your browser shares in a standard web request
If you contact us by email, phone call, fax, carrier pigeon, or some other preferred means of communication, we may collect and store the information that you provide to us. This may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- The color of the pigeon’s eyes and how soft its feathers feel when we pet it gently
- The body of your correspondence
- Any metadata included in the communication (email headers, the pigeon’s favorite snacks and beverages, etc)
Why do we need to collect this information?
There are a lot of entities out there with nefarious objectives. We would prefer that our website and systems not be compromised and/or exploited by such individuals and used to harm you, us, carrier pigeons, or otherwise negatively impact our shared objective of exchanging cool and useful information and services with you, our customers and collaborators. We use the information that we collect to monitor and manage activity on our site in order to protect it from compromise and misuse.
Aside from that, we use the information to provide you with our products and services. If you call and talk to us you probably want us to call you by your preferred name and title and not “fellow human” or the more gauche option of “hey you.”
By what means is the information collected?
The information is collected by our web servers and by the Google Analytics service. For details about how Google may use the information it collects in the course of our use of the Google Analytics service, please see the following, especially section “7. Privacy”:
https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/
How will we use your information and who will have access to it?
We will use your information to provide you with our products and services and to monitor, manage, and protect our website and computer systems from malicious activity.
Only our employees and subcontractors who have signed a non-disclosure agreement and who have a legitimate need to access and use the information we collect from you. Google’s privacy policies are controlling for their use of any information that they collect through the Google Analytics service.
We will not sell your information or share it with any parties other than those described above.
How will we inform you if our privacy policies change?
We will post a notice on our website if there are any changes to our privacy policy.
How can you contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy?
If you have questions about our privacy policy or any related issues, please email us at info@stormfish.io.
How is your information protected?
We utilize various information assurance technologies and methodologies to protect our systems and any information about you that we store on them. These include data-at-rest encryption, data-in-transit encryption, separation and isolation of systems, and even some cool machine learning and data analytics technologies to help us protect your information and our systems.
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Last Updated: 03 December, 2020