Privacy Policy

This page explains the privacy policy for the Snipline and how we will use and protect any information about you that you give us when you visit this website. This privacy statement only covers this website https://snipline.io and it does not cover any sites that you can link to from this site so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement on that site. This privacy policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

Anonymous data we collect

At Snipline, we gather and record non-personally-identifying information to better understand how Snipline's visitors use its website and applications. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate. For instance, we may reveal how many sign-ups we get over a certain period, or say which features are most popular, however, this will be stated as anonymous aggregated statistics. This data includes.

  • Browser:
  • Type
  • Version
  • Language setting
  • Device:
  • Model
  • Operating system
  • Location:
  • Country
  • City
  • Engagement:
  • Source of where you came from
  • Page arrived on
  • Pages visited
  • Duration spent on pages
  • Last page visited
  • If you signed up for a trial

Personalised data we collect

We collect personalised data, mostly for account creation, billing and support queries this includes.

  • Email address
  • Name
  • Password
  • Billing information
  • IP address

Except for billing information, the personalised data you share with Snipline is stored in the Snipline app and held in our database, we do not share this with third parties.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

For the purpose of payment processing, we will need to share your details with a payment gateway provider Stripe. This information will include name, card details, billing address. For more information on how your data is stored, you can check Stripe’s privacy policy.

We also use Freshdesk for our support and ticketing system. When you email us via hello@snipline.io, your email and name will be stored in the Freshdesk system. For more information on how your data is stored, you can check out the Freshdesk privacy policy.

If you have an account on Snipline, your name and email will be synced with Freshchat, the live chat system we use on the website. For more information on how your data is stored, you can check out the Freshdesk privacy policy.

How long we retain your data

IP addresses are collected in our server log files for the purpose of detecting and preventing fraud and unauthorized system access and ensuring the security of your systems. These are cleared and deleted every 14 days.

We retain your personalised data for as long as you have an active account with us, if you cancel your account we retain your data for up to 6 months after. This is to allow you to restart your subscription in the future, after this it is permanently removed from our systems.

Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have a right to access your information we process, to check whether it is accurate and up to date. Should you wish to access or amend information held about you, or if you have any other queries on Snipline’s privacy policy or site security please email hello@snipline.io

You have the following data protection rights:

  • You can request access, correction, updates or deletion of your personal information.
  • You can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.
  • If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
  • If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law you can notify to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Snipline discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to its employees and affiliated organisations that

  • need to know that information in order to process it on Snipline's behalf or to provide services available at Snipline's websites or applications, and
  • that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country;

Other than to its employees and affiliated organisations, as described above, Snipline discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Snipline, third parties, or the public at large.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Snipline takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information, this includes hashing passwords, having a secure firewall in place and encrypting data backups.

Cookies

The cookie (or message) asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive in a small text format. If you agree to this the message or file is then added to your hard drive. It can help to analyse web traffic, to identify a user or retain login information when you are revisiting a website. Cookies, therefore, can be very useful, they can respond to previously used web applications. Enabling the web application to mould its operations to your needs, likes or dislikes by tracking the information about your preferences.

‘Traffic log cookies’ can identify which web pages are being used. A good tool for analysing web page traffic data which ultimately improves our website because it moulds it to customer needs. This information is only used to gather information for statistical analysis after which the data is removed from the system.

In the main, cookies do help to provide a better website. We can monitor pages customers find useful and those which they do not. However, be assured that the cookie does not allow any access to your computer or divulge any personally identifiable data information about you.

You do have a choice. It is perfectly acceptable to accept or decline cookie use. You can amend your browser setting to decline, but bear in mind that this may stop you from getting the most out of the website.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies (First Party Cookies) are sometimes called “strictly necessary” as without them we cannot provide many services that you need on the Website. For example, essential cookies help remember your preferences as you move around the Website.

Cookies used: Essential

Analytics

These cookies track information about visits to the Sites so that we can make improvements and report our performance. For example: analyze visitor and user behavior so as to provide more relevant content or suggest certain activities. They collect information about how visitors use the Sites, which site the user came from, the number of each user’s visits and how long a user stays on the Sites.

Cookies used: Google Analytics

You can update your preferences to which kind of cookies are used, by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, an updated version of it will be placed on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information is collected by Snipline, how it is used and under what circumstances, if any, it will be shared with other parties. (Clearly, should the policy change, information already collected will remain subject to the terms and conditions that applied at the time of collection).