PRIVACY POLICY
It was updated on October 3, 2022
SOC Prime, Inc. (“SOC Prime,” “we,” “our,” or “us”)
recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy
of your personal information. We have prepared this
Privacy Policy to provide you with information about
our privacy practices - how we collect, use, and
disclose the information you provide or which we
otherwise collect in providing products or services
(“Services") to you. Please read this Privacy Policy
carefully before using our Services.
By continuing to interact with our Services in any
manner, you expressly consent to us processing your
personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
“You,” “User” means the entity you represent in accepting
this Privacy Policy or, if that does not apply, you individually.
If you are accepting on behalf of your employer or another entity,
you represent and warrant that: (i) you have the full legal authority
to bind your employer or such entity to this Privacy Policy; (ii)
you have read and understood this Privacy Policy; and (iii) you agree
to this Privacy Policy on behalf of the party that you represent.
“Site” collectively means SOC Prime websites located at:
https://tdm.socprime.com/,
https://socprime.com/,
https://my.socprime.com/.
Background to the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’)
The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council (“GDPR”) replaces the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 and supersedes the laws of individual Member States that were developed in compliance with the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Its purpose is to protect the “rights and freedoms” of natural persons (i.e., living individuals), ensure that personal data is not processed without their knowledge, and, wherever possible, that it is processed with their consent.All data subjects whose personal data is collected are in line with the requirements of the GDPR.
Privacy notice
Information We Collect
SOC Prime may collect personally-identifying information provided through voluntary registration at: https://tdm.socprime.com/signup/ and profile account:
- Email address, Full Name, Country, Phone number, Company, Industry, Professional Role, your SIEM, EDR, and NSM Platforms.
- Email addresses and names of your team.
- Other information that you provide to us to receive technical or further service-related assistance during customer service interactions.
Non-service-related information: If you interact with us at
events, webinars, or from other marketing activities and you
give us your contact details or as to be contacted in one way
or another, we will process that Information for this purpose.
Information we collect automatically when you use the Services:
We keep track an activity logs which means recorded logs of how
you spent time interacting with our Services, including browsing
our site, downloading the content, and taking other actions
within the Services.
Information from other sources: We may obtain information,
including your personal data, from our Site or Services and combine
or associate it with the information from third parties and sources
(our partners, advertisers, and integrated services), and we will
treat the combined information as personal data in accordance with
this Privacy Policy.
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users
whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification
information may include the browser name, the type of computer, and
technical information about Users' means of connection to our Site,
such as the operating system and the Internet service providers
utilized and other similar information.
We will endeavor to keep your information accurate and up to date
and not keep it for longer than is necessary. We do not collect your
sensitive personal data.
Why does SOC Prime need to collect, process, and store personal data?
We collect your personal data to provide the Services, personalize and improve your experience using the Services we provide. This may include authenticating you when you log in, processing transactions with you, providing customer support, and managing, maintaining, and improving the Services. In any case, we strive to ensure that the information we collect and use is suitable for this purpose and does not constitute an invasion of your privacy.
The personal data we collect includes the following purposes:
- Providing customer support and help with our Services when you contact us.
- Contacting you about your account, changes to this Privacy policy, Cookie policy, or other documents.
- Details of your company and industry to get the most targeted content matching your company’s threat profile.
- For troubleshooting and testing of our Services to ensure that it is secure, reliable, and of a high standard and to prohibit the illegal activity of using our Services.
- Maintaining and improving our Services.
- Communicate about Services, offers, and events, and provide news and information.
- To subscribe to a newsletter, send product updates or technical alerts.
- To send notifications tailored to a specific search profile, content list, Lucene query, and Services updates, usually once a week, with a summary according to your region, industry, etc. (you can set up email notifications frequency and define what is relevant to you in your account cabinet).
- Analyze activity logs and other analytic data to improve productivity, customer experience, and trends and statistics.
- To send marketing communications relating to Services, sales, or promotions via email. You can opt out of these at any time.
Our legal basis for collecting and processing personal data
We will only collect and process your personal data where we have lawful
bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract
(where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you
(e.g., to deliver our Services), and “legitimate interests.”
By signing up for an account, you gave us consent, which expresses consent
to us processing your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
SOC Prime does not collect personal information classified under the GDPR
as ‘special categories’.
If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit
our Site, but you may be unable to login into your account or access specific
options, offers, downloads, and Services.
Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right
to withdraw or decline your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate
interests, you have the right to object. Please contact our Data Protection
Officer if you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect
and use your personal data.
Legitimate interests. The legitimate interests of processing mean that such processing is performed for a task carried out in the public interest or the exercise of official authority vested in the controller or on grounds of the legitimate interests of a controller or a third party. SOC Prime may process your personal data for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of third parties, provided that such processing shall not outweigh your rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal data to:
- Protect you, us, or others from threats (such as security threats or fraud);
- Comply with laws that apply to us;
- Enable or administer our business, such as for quality control, consolidated reporting, and customer service;
- Understand and improve our business or customer relationships generally.
Consent
By consenting to this Privacy Policy, you are permitting us to process your
personal data specifically for the purposes identified. Specifically, you
expressly consent to us processing your personal data as described in this
Privacy Policy, which provides transparency to our Users as to how their data
is collected and used and serves as a Privacy Policy as required by GDPR.
You may withdraw consent at any time on your profile page.
You are not eligible to register and provide us with personal information
if you are 16 and under without your parent/guardian's permission.
Organizations with which you engage
If you have registered for the Services with your company's domain name
("Organization"), i.e. @yourcompany.com, or if the Services are provided
to you through an Organization, you expressly agree that we might provide
your Organization with your activity logs on the Services upon prior written
request from the Organization owner.
As a result of improving our platform for customers, your personal information
provided during registration, such as your names and email addresses, as well as
information about when and how you clicked on specific content, will be visible to
all members of your company team. This information is confidential and not to be
disclosed outside of your company. If you work as a contractor, you must have a
non-disclosure agreement that contains liability for any leakage of personal
information obtained in this way.
How Can You Opt Out of Use and Disclosure of Your Information?
SOC Prime will only use your personal data for the purposes described in
this Privacy Policy or as subsequently authorized by you. You can avoid
having your personal data disclosed in the following ways: a) do not provide
us with your personal data; b) do not access or request Services, or c)
email us at support@socprime.com
to request that we deactivate your account and delete your personal information.
Following the registration process, we also allow Users the option to opt out of receiving
emails from SOC Prime. Users who opt-in may also remove themselves from emailing lists
at any time through the edit profile pages or by following the instructions at the end
of any email they received from SOC Prime.
Data Processors
We may use the services of various service providers and partners contracted
to SOC Prime (Data Processors) in order to process your data more effectively.
When they no longer need your data to fulfill Services, they will dispose of the
details in line with SOC Prime’s procedures.
SOC Prime selects only suppliers that can provide technical, physical, and
organizational security that meet our requirements in terms of all the personal
data they will process on SOC Prime’s behalf. We will ensure that all security
arrangements are outlined in the contract with the external processor.
Suppliers from outside the EU will only be selected under the following conditions,
in addition to the requirements noted elsewhere in this procedure:
- if the supplier or the state in which it resides has been positively identified in an adequacy decision by the EU Commission; or
- where there are organizational and technical safeguards established between SOC Prime and the supplier to secure the rights and freedoms of data subjects at least equal to those afforded within the EU; or
- where the arrangement has been approved by the supervisory authority.
Personal Information Collected from Third Parties
We use Hotjar to understand our Users’ needs better and optimize the Services and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our Users’ experience (e.g., how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.), and this enables us to build and maintain our Services with User feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our Users’ behavior and devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our Site. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized User profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any data collected on our behalf.For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.
Use of Intercom Services: We apply third-party analytics services to help understand your usage of our Services. In particular, we provide a limited amount of information you have submitted (such as sign-up data and some personal information like your email address) to Intercom, Inc. (“Intercom”) and utilize Intercom to collect data for analytics purposes when you visit our website or use our product. As a data processor acting on our behalf, Intercom analyzes your use of our website and/or product and tracks our relationship using cookies and similar technologies so that we can deliver an improved service for you. For more information on Intercom's use of cookies, please visit https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#cookie-policy. We may also use Intercom as a medium for communications, either through email or through messages within our product(s). The Intercom Messenger Apps and Apps in Inbox products may also provide you with access to other third-party applications such as Stripe. You should consult these third parties' privacy notices for further information on their use of your personal data. As part of our service agreement, Intercom collects your publicly available contact and social information, such as your email address, gender, company, job title, photos, website URLs, social network handles, and physical addresses, to enhance your user experience. For more information on the privacy practices of Intercom, please visit https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#privacy. Intercom’s services are governed by Intercom’s Terms of Service, which can be found at https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#terms. If you would like to opt-out of having this information collected by or submitted to Intercom, please contact us at support@socprime.com.
SOC Prime obtains personal data from third parties, for example, from public sources or data brokers, for example, LinkedIn (Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy), ZoomInfo (Privacy Policy: https://www.zoominfo.com/about-zoominfo/privacy-policy) to the extent the local regulations allow. Personal information collected through such sources may include your name, email address, mailing address, business phone, and job title. We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via Site or other sources.
We also use ZoomInfo’s WebSights tool that reveals the identities of organizations that visit our Site and provides visualized analytics. It is powered by ZoomInfo’s proprietary IP matching algorithm. WebSights snippet is installed at the homepage of a Site and tracks company behavior on every web page that shares the same header. Then, ZoomInfo displays us a detailed profile for each company and a complete list of potential contacts employed there. To find more, please read https://university.zoominfo.com/learn/article/viewing-websights-activity”.
ZoomInfo’s FormComplete script. We use a ZoomInfo tool called FormComplete to populate form data. Once you enter an email address, ZoomInfo will fill in the rest of the required data. How does it work? When you provide an email address, ZoomInfo supplies data for the other form fields (if a match is found). This script monitors keystrokes in the required email field and sends a query with the supplied email to ZoomInfo once a sufficient portion of the email has been entered. If a match is found, the other fields in the form are populated with data, helping you to submit a complete form faster. If no match is found, no data is returned. https://engineering.zoominfo.com/zoominfo-form-data
Your account, retention, and deletion of the personal data
We may provide you with tools and preference settings that allow you to access, correct, delete, withdraw and modify information associated with your personal data.SOC Prime will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to carry out the Services to you and will store the personal data for five years from the moment the account is terminated or not used. Then all your personal data collected through the platform will be deleted, as required by applicable law. Alternatively, you at any time may request that we no longer use your information; then please contact us at: support@socprime.com
In some cases, we choose to retain certain information in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
We also may retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate interest purposes as set above after you delete your account.
Children's Online Privacy Protection
Children are not eligible to use SOC Prime Services. Minors should not submit personal information to SOC Prime if they are 18 and under without parent/guardians' permission. SOC Prime does not knowingly collect personal information from persons who are under 18 years of age. If you learn that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information without consent, please contact our Data Protection Officer email: dpo@socprime.com.
Your rights as a data subject
At any point while we are in possession of or processing your personal data, you, the data subject, have the following rights:- Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstances, you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
- Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing.
- Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organization.
- Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
- Right to judicial review: if SOC Prime refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason. You have the right to complain as outlined below.
It will ensure that you receive the answer to your request from our DPO. DPO provides you with the requested information in electronic format within one month from the date of receipt.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Their purpose is to let us know when you visit our Site and save the preferences you set. Your browser can be set to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. To control third-party cookies, you can also adjust your browser settings.The information we collect and analyze is used to improve our Services to you. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the Site to work. We want to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally, and the pattern data is entirely under our control.
To find out more about cookies, visit our Cookie Policy.
Do Not Track (DNT)
Do Not Track is a browser setting that sends a ‘Do not track’ request to websites when a user visits the website. It is a way the browser communicates to a website that the user has opted out of tracking. When a user enables this feature, the browser sends a signal to websites that the user visits, not to store cookies on their device. However, we do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals, as there are no consistent industry standards and solutions for compliance.
The right to complain to a supervisory authority
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by SOC Prime (or third parties) or how your complaint has been handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint directly with SOC Prime’s Data Protection Officer or with the supervisory authority in the Member State where you live, work, or where the infringement took place.
Links to Third Party Sites
We may place links on our Site. When you click on a link to a third party website from our Site, your activity and use on the linked website are governed by that website’s policies, not by those of SOC Prime. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third parties before connecting to or using their websites to learn more about their privacy and information handling practices.
Third Party Apps
You may may choose to add new functionality or change the behavior of the Services by installing third party apps within the Services (“Third Party App”). Third Party Apps are completely optional and are chosen and installed at your sole discretion. Third Party Apps are owned and operated by third parties, and you may have to agree to additional terms and conditions from the owner or provider of the Third Party App in order to use Third Party App. SOC Prime is not responsible or liable for any aspect of the Third Party Apps and does not endorse any Third Party App.
Data Protection Officer
The Data Protection Officer is responsible for ensuring that this Privacy policy is made available to data subjects prior to SOC Prime collecting/processing their personal data.Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted directly here:
Email: dpo@socprime.com
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Policy at any time by updating this page and encourage you to review our Privacy Policy to stay informed. If we plan to change the purpose of collection and processing of personal data, we may provide additional notice before starting any new processing. If you do not provide us with consent to these changes, SOC Prime has a right to close your account and discontinue the use of our Services and Site. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy.
Contacting us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at: legal@socprime.com
Definitions (drawn from the GDPR)
Data controller – the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.Data processor - a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller
Personal data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Special categories of personal data – Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade-union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation.
Data subject – any living individual who is the subject of personal data held by an organization.
Processing – any operation or set of operations that are performed on personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Profiling – is any form of automated processing of personal data intended to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, or to analyze or predict that person’s performance at work, economic situation, location, health, personal preferences, reliability, or behavior. This definition is linked to the right of the data subject to object to profiling and a right to be informed about the existence of profiling, measures based on profiling, and the envisaged effects of profiling on the individual.
Data subject consent - means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by explicit affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
Child – the GDPR defines a child as anyone under the age of 16 years old, although this may be lowered to 13 by Member State law. The processing of the personal data of a child is only lawful if parental, or custodian consent has been obtained. The controller shall make reasonable efforts to verify in such cases that consent is given or authorized by the holder of parental responsibility over the child (Article 8, 1 – first paragraph GDPR).
Third-party – a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or body other than the data subject, controller, processor, and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.