Ting is into Research and development of scalable communication VoIP products and also cloud-communication based products and solutions and sell its products, solutions, services via its websites "www.ting.im” to Telecom operators, VoIP Providers, Mobile virtual network operator,Corporate users, Enterprises & Digital adopters at www.ting.im (here in after together referred to as the “Website”) to enable it users to utilize its services or utilize its platform to provide their VoIP services to their end customers.

This policy applies to use of the Website and how Ting may access and process personal data shared with Ting – either by you, the customer, or your end-users.

We, at Ting , are committed to lawful collection and processing of personal data. We respect and protect the privacy of the personal information we obtain from you through our Website and Cloud services. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about how we collect, use and share your personal information, and our privacy practices in general.

We are always ready to address your questions and concerns regarding this policy and our privacy practices. If you would like to contact Ting for more information about this policy, or our practices in general, please email us at [email protected].

We continually strive to find new ways to enhance your experience with the Website and may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to communicate changes in our privacy practices. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of notice on the Website as authorized by you.

Ting is also committed to providing services functionality that allows our developers to provide platforms that respect data protection and compliance efforts. To that objective, you may also wish to review the particular functionalities defined within our technical documentation to further equip yourself with platform options to help achieve compliant controls associated to downstream end-user personal data management.

Types and Uses of Accessed Information:

Ting collects or processes two fundamental categories of data: data related to you (as a customer), and data related to your customers (as end-users). Data protection laws vary by jurisdiction, but some (i.e., EEA) differentiate between the concepts of “control” or “processing” of data depending upon the role of the data accessor. Depending upon the circumstance as described further herein, Ting may be acting as a processor or controller of data, which may include personal data or personally identifiable information (as included within the definition of personal data). Customer’s Personal Data. Personal data means any information that is or can be used to identify an individual (a “data subject”), and includes: a First and last Name, Home or other Physical address, Email address, Phone number, location data, online identifiers or other contact information. When you engage in certain activities on this Website, including but not limited to creating an account, sending feedback, making calls, or otherwise participating in the Website (collectively, “Identification Activities”), we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself as a customer of Ting . As a customer, when you enroll in the Website, we may also ask you to provide us with additional contact information, such as credit card information. Depending on the Identification Activity, some of the information we ask you to provide may be identified as mandatory and some identified as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory information for a particular Identification Activity that requires it (subject to your consent), you will not be permitted to engage in that Identification Activity. Depending on the Identification Activity, Tingmay not ask you again for personal information if it is already stored with us under the Website except as required by law.

We may use personal data, including call history, to provide products and/or services to you, enhance the operation of the Website, analyze Services use, improve the Website and to tailor your experience with third parties as provided below in this Privacy Policy. If you use our Website to send information to another person, we may store your personal information. We may also use personal information to troubleshoot, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements with you, including our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.

End User Personal Data:

Ting is committed to proper utilization of personal data. In respect of customer solutions, Ting provides configuration options to allow adequate control of personal data, and our customers are primarily responsible for establishing the configuration requirements associated with control over end-user personal data in regard to such customer solutions. Ting may store end user personal information on Website as authorized hereunder, and in accordance with our technical documentation to be made available on specific request by end user via https://www.Ting.im. Additional backup, security, access and deletion policies and processes are as further described in our Technical Documentation.

Depending upon configuration, we may keep a cached copy of the content served as a part of your use of the Website, which can include phone numbers, media files, XML files, text content or telephone identifiers. If your web server does not specify that we can cache your content, we will not keep a cached copy of any text or audio data transmitted through the Website during calls, but we may still maintain copies in your notification log. If data privacy is a concern, you should make sure your server does not allow us to cache such content, and contact us so that we may assist you to turn off other application logging around requests to and responses from your application. Ting ’s use and policies regarding management and deletion of call log, notification log, billing/ payment, and other log data is further documented in the Technical Documentation. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that does not identify a specific person. This type of information may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website you visited before coming to our Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving our Website, the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, or general and/or aggregated location data that does constitute personally identifiable information, and cannot be used as an identifier to discern you as a data subject. We may automatically collect this information when you visit our Website through the use of electronic tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags, provided that, if considered personal data subject to data regulation, we have received your explicit consent to use. Release of Personally Identifiable Information. We will not sell your personal data. Nor will we share your personally identifiable information with other parties except with your explicit consent and solely as provided herein.

Authorized Third Party Service Providers:

Ting may provide services and products through third parties. You also may elect to use one or more third party applications that integrate with the Website. These “Third Party Service Providers” perform functions on our or your behalf. You or We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with such Third Party Service Providers to operate the Website, troubleshoot, and improve overall customer experience. Ting Customer Acknowledgement. Tingencourages our customers to adopt and post privacy policies associated to their end users data management. Customer acknowledges that they are acting as a controller of end user data in connection with end user use of customer’s solutions.

Acquisition:

As with any other company, we could merge with, or be acquired by another company. If this occurs, the successor company would acquire the information we maintain, including Personally Identifiable Information. However, Personally Identifiable Information would remain subject to this Privacy Policy.

As required by law:

We reserve the right to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information and any other content stored by Ting when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website; enforce or apply this Privacy Policy, Terms of Service or other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of the Website, users of the Website, employers, or others.

Release of Non-Personally Identifiable Information:

We may disclose or share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with Affiliates and Third Party Service Providers, and Third Party Advertisers. For example, we may share aggregated demographic information (which does not include any Personally Identifiable Information) with “Third Party Advertisers” or “Third Party Advertising Companies”. We may use Third Party Advertising Companies to serve ads when you visit our Website or participate in the Website. These companies may use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your visits to this Website, your use of the Website, and visits to other websites or locations in order to provide, through the use of network tags, advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. We also use Third Party Service Providers to track and analyze Non-Personally Identifiable usage and volume statistical information from our users to administer our Website and the Website, in order to constantly improve their quality. We may also publish this information for promotional purposes or as a representative audience for Third Party Advertisers. Such data is collected on our behalf, and is owned and used by Ting .

Updating Information:

If you are enrolled in the Website, you may change any of your Personally Identifiable Information by logging into your account and accessing the “Account Profile” page. We encourage you to promptly update your personal data if it changes, as out-of-date personal data may negatively affect the quality of your Website use and experience. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past transactions, you cannot delete information associated with past transactions on the Website or through the Website. Additionally, it may be impossible for us to completely delete all of your information because we periodically backup information.

Choices on Collection/Use of Information:

You can always choose not to provide certain information, although a certain level of information is required to engage in activities on the Website and to use the Website. You cannot opt-out of Administrative Emails. “Administrative Emails” relate to your activity on the Website and include but are not limited to emails regarding your account, requests or inquiries, and purchases of products and services. If you do not want to receive promotional emails from us, you may elect to opt-out of receiving promotional emails at any time after registering by hitting the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any of our emails.

Security of Information:

You can access your personal data on our Website with your email and password. This password is encrypted. We advise against sharing your password with anyone. In addition, your personal data resides on a secure server that only selected personnel and contractors have access to. We may encrypt certain sensitive information using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure that your personal data is safe as it is transmitted to us. However, no data transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we employ commercially reasonable security measures to protect data and seek to partner with companies that do the same, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Website or via the Website, and are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information. Ting ’s developer support team has access to your contact details and other information you share during the course of the communication over support tickets. Please note that Ting ’s developer support team will be able to access the call and SMS detail records, debug logs, audio recordings and authorization keys to your account for debugging purposes.

Data Tracking Cookies:

To facilitate and customize user experience with the Website, we may store cookies on your computer or other similar device through which you access the Website. We use cookies to save our customer’s time while accessing or using the Website and for ease of access the Website only. To the extent that any cookies are utilized by Ting in connection with our monitoring or improvement of the Services, and to the extent such cookies would be considered personal data under the applicable law, Ting will secure our customer’s affirmative consent to use such cookies in connection with the defined circumstances of use.

Privacy Policies of Third Party Websites:

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you on www.Ting.im and, as applicable, via the Website. Other websites or services that may be accessible through our Website may have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. If you use, link or visit any such third party website, we urge you review such website’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties, they shall be solely responsible for any breach happening at their end.

Privacy Settings:

As a customer, you have access to privacy settings. These settings help our customers configure their solutions in a customized fashion for our customer’s end-users to optimize their solution and address data protection considerations if required. This may allow our customers to configure a solution that may hide information an end-user may not wish to share with other users and/or the public. It is up to you, our customers, to select the appropriate privacy settings as controllers of data associated to their particularized solution.

Public Areas:

We may provide areas on our Website, This information may be accessible by other non-users, users, and companies and may appear on other websites or web searches, and therefore this information could be read, collected, and used by others. We have no control over who reads your postings or what other users may do with the information you voluntarily post, so please use caution when posting any content or providing anything that could be deemed personal information.

We do not knowingly engage with, collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for Ting  Services or send any personal information about yourself to us. If we know that we have collected personal information from a child under age 16, we will take steps to remove such information and terminate the applicable account as soon as possible.

Onward Transfers of Personal Data: 

Except as described herein, Ting  discloses personal data only to third parties that contractually agree to abide by or provide the same level of protections as set forth in the Privacy Shield Principles. Ting  may provide personal data to third parties that act as service providers, consultants, and contractors to perform tasks on behalf of and under our written instructions (“Third Party Agents”). Third Party Agents must agree to use such personal data only for the purpose for which it is provided by us and they must contractually agree to provide adequate protections for the personal data that are no less protective than those required by the Privacy Shield Principles.