Privacy Policy

Thanks for entrusting QuoDeck Technologies PLC (“QuoDeck”, “we”, "us" or "our") with your content, knowledge, information, and your personal data. This Privacy Statement explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your data, including any personal data we collect and process in connection with our website and any applications, software, products, and services provided by QuoDeck, including any Beta Previews (collectively, the “Service(s)”).

All capitalized terms have their definition in QuoDeck’s Terms of Service, unless otherwise noted here.

TLDR: We use your personal information as this Privacy Statement describes. No matter where you are, where you live, or what your citizenship is, you have the same high standard of privacy protection when using QuoDeck’s products as all our users around the world, regardless of their country of origin or location.

Who is responsible for the processing of your information?

The data controller of your personal data is QuoDeck Technologies PLC.

This privacy statement does not apply to personal data we process as a service provider or data processor on behalf of our enterprise customers. Our data processing activities as service provider or data processor is governed by our Data Protection Agreement. If you are an end-user of one of those organizations, such as an employee or student, you should read that organization’s privacy statement and direct any privacy inquiries to that organization.

QuoDeck acting on your behalf

In some cases, QuoDeck is acting only on your behalf for the personal data we collect and process in connection with our Service (for example, for the personal data added to a Training Platform by invited team members to such a Training Platform). In such cases, QuoDeck will only process the data in order to provide, protect, and improve Service.

What information QuoDeck collects

The personal data we collect depends on how you interact with us, the services you use, and the choices you make. We collect information about you from different sources and in various ways when you use our Service, including information you provide directly, information collected automatically, third-party data sources, and data we infer or generate from other data.

Information users provide directly to QuoDeck

We collect personal data you provide to us. For example:

Registration Information

We collect information such as your name and contact data, including username and email address, and credentials such as your password, during account creation.

Demographic Information

In some cases, we request that you provide age, gender, and similar demographic details.

Payment and Billing Information

If you make a purchase or other financial transaction, we collect credit card numbers, financial account information, and other payment details.

Content and Files

We collect any code, text, photographs, documents, or other files, including videos or recordings, you upload to our Service; and if you send us email messages or other communications, we collect and retain those communications. For example, you may choose to give us more information for your Account profile, such as your full name, an avatar which may include a photograph, your biography, your location, your company, and a URL to a third-party website. Please note that your profile information may be visible to other Users of our Service.

Feedback and Ratings

We collect any feedback or ratings you provide, including through written communications and via surveys.

Information QuoDeck automatically collects

When you visit or use our Service, we collect some information automatically. For example:

Transaction Information, Subscription and Licensing Data

If you have a paid Account or subscription with us, or make a purchase or sale using our Service, we automatically collect certain information about your transactions on the Service, such as your full name, address, region, state, country, zip code, the date, time, and amount charged.

Usage Information and Interactions

If you're accessing or using our Service, we may automatically collect information about how you use and how your device interacts with the Service, such as the pages you view, the referring site, your IP address and information about your device, session information, the date and time of each request, device type and ID, operation system and application version, information contained in or relating to your contributions to individual repositories, and telemetry data (i.e., information about how a specific feature or service is performing) regarding your use of other features and functionality of the Service. As further described below, we automatically collect usage information and interaction data using cookies (which may use a cookie ID), depending on your settings or preferences, in connection with our Service.

Geolocation Information

In connection with certain features and depending on the functionality of the Service, we collect geolocation information such as through IP addresses or the location information you choose to provide in your Account profile.

Information we create or generate

We infer new information from other data we collect, including using automated means to generate information about your likely preferences or other characteristics (“inferences”). For example, we infer your general geographic location (such as city, state, and country) based on your IP address.

Information we collect from Third Parties

Other companies with whom you choose to engage - QuoDeck may collect personal data about you from third parties. For example, this may happen if you sign up for training or to receive information about QuoDeck from one of our vendors, partners, or affiliates. QuoDeck does not purchase personal data from third-party data brokers.

Service Providers - We may also receive information from processors or service providers who process the data on our behalf, such as our payment processor who process payment and billing information in connection with our Service.

Content you post on our Service - Information you store in, or contribute to, a public repository, provide for use in connection with a Community Feature or make otherwise publicly available through the Service will be collected by GitHub as described in this Privacy Statement. Such information may also be available to the GitHub user community as well as the general public. For more information, please review details regarding public repositories and community features here.

Co-branding/marketing partners - We may receive information from partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities.

Publicly available sources - We may also obtain information from publicly available sources.

When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. And you may use web browser or operating system controls to prevent certain types of automatic data collection. But if you choose not to provide or allow information that is necessary for certain services or features, those services or features may not be available or fully functional.

How GitHub uses your information

We may use your information to provide, administer, analyze, manage, and operate our Service. For example, we use your information for the following purposes:

Provide our products and deliver our services including troubleshooting, improving, and personalizing the features on the Service.
Business operations such as billing, accounting, improving our internal operations, securing our systems, detecting fraudulent or illegal activity, and meeting our legal obligations.
Improve and develop our products and services including to develop new services or features, and conduct research.
Personalization of our Service by understanding you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using our Service.
Provide customer support and respond to your questions.
Deliver promotional communications with you about new services, features, offers, promotions, and other information about our Service.
Personalize and measure the effectiveness of enterprise business ads, including those you see off of the Services, promotional communications or marketing you receive related to the Enterprise Marketing Pages.
Send you information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages.

We combine data we collect from different sources for these purposes and to give you a more seamless, consistent, and personalized experience.

How we share the information we collect

We share personal data as described below, including with your consent, or as necessary to complete your transactions, or provide the services you have requested or authorized. In addition, we may share each of the categories of your personal data described above with the types of third parties described below for the following business purposes:

Third-Party Applications

We share your personal data with third party applications when you tell us to do so. For example, if you purchase an application listed on our Marketplace, we share your username to allow the application developer to provide you with services. You can enable or add third-party applications, known as "Developer Products," to your Account. These Developer Products are not necessary for your use of QuoDeck. We will share your personal data with such third-party applications when you ask us to; however, you are responsible for your use of the third-party Developer Products and for the amount of personal data you choose to share with it. You can check our API documentation to see what information is provided when you authenticate into a Developer Product using your QuoDeck profile.

Organizations with which you Engage

You may indicate, through your actions on QuoDeck, that you are willing to share your personal data with Organizations, as defined in QuoDeck’s Terms of Service, who also use the Services. If you are invited to be a member of a Training Platform, then its Account owner may receive your personal data, for example by having the ability to view your activity in the Training Platform’s access log.

When you accept an invitation to a Training Platform, you may contact the Account owners for more information about how they might process your personal data in their Training Platform and the ways for you to access, update, alter, or delete your personal data stored in the Account.

Service Providers

We share your personal data with service providers who process the information on our behalf to provide or improve our Service. For example, our service providers may perform payment processing, customer support ticketing, network data transmission, web analytics, marketing operations, security, online advertising, and other similar services. Our service providers may process data in your region, in the United States, or in any other country where they operate facilities.

Such processing by service providers and any related cross-border data transfers will be in compliance with applicable law.

Affiliates

We enable access to personal data across our subsidiaries, affiliates, and related companies, for example, where we share common data systems, when affiliates provide services on our behalf, or where access is needed to operate and provide the Service.

For Security Purposes

We will disclose personal data if we believe it is necessary to:

protect our customers and others, for example to prevent spam or attempts to commit fraud, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;
operate and maintain the security of the Service, including to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or networks; or
protect the rights or property or ourselves or others, including enforcing our agreements, terms, and policies.

For Legal Disclosure

QuoDeck may disclose personal data or other information we collect about you to law enforcement or other governmental agencies if required in response to a valid legal process.

Change in Control or Sale

We may share your personal data if we are involved in a merger, sale, or acquisition of corporate entities or business units as described in this Privacy Statement.

Please note that some of the features on our Service include integrations, references, or links to services provided by third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you provide personal data to any of those third parties, or allow us to share personal data with them, that data is governed by their privacy statements.

Finally, we may share de-identified information in accordance with applicable law.

Your choices regarding our processing of your personal data

We provide choices about the personal data we collect about you. The choices you make will not apply to any personal data associated with a Training Platform under your Account.

Access, Correction, and Deletion.

If you're a QuoDeck user, you may access, update, alter, or delete your basic user profile information by editing your user profile or contacting QuoDeck Support or QuoDeck Premium Support. You can control the information we collect about you by limiting what information is in your profile, by keeping your information current, by changing your cookie preferences, or by contacting QuoDeck Support.

We retain and use your information as described in this Privacy Statement, but barring legal requirements, we will delete your full profile within 90 days of your request. After an account has been deleted, certain data such as your data on Training Platforms that you are invited to, comments in others' Training Platforms, will remain. That said, the email address you have provided to QuoDeck will always be associated with your retained data in QuoDeck.

If QuoDeck processes personal data other than your profile information, such as information about you QuoDeck receives from third parties, then you may, subject to applicable law, access, update, alter, delete, object to or restrict the processing of your personal data by contacting QuoDeck Support.

Data Portability

As a QuoDeck User, you can always take your data with you. You can download data and reports from your Training Platforms to your desktop, for example.

Communication Preferences

We use your email address to communicate with you, if you've said that's okay, and only for the reasons you’ve said that’s okay. For example, if you contact our Support team with a request, we respond to you via email.

By design, the QuoDeck control system associates many actions with a user's email address, such as invites, to other Users.

Depending on your email settings, QuoDeck may occasionally send notification emails, for example, about changes in a repository you’re watching, new features, requests for feedback, important policy changes, or to offer customer support. We may also send marketing emails, based on your choices and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. There's an “unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of each of the marketing emails we send you.

Please note that you cannot opt out of receiving important communications from us, such as emails from our Support team or system emails.