Lightbase Privacy Policy

Lightbase, respects the privacy of its customers, business partners, event attendees, job applicants and Website (as defined below) visitors.

PRIVACY STATEMENT. Our Privacy Statement covers our privacy practices with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of information obtained: (i) through the Lightbase websites that link to this Privacy Statement (our "Website"); and (ii) events hosted by Lightbase or our business partners and sponsors where we collect information from attendees (“Events”).

Purpose

Lightbase, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "Lightbase," "we," or "us") respects the privacy of its Website (as defined below) and Events (as defined below) registrants and attendees.

This Privacy Statement (the "Privacy Statement") describes who we are, the information that we collect about you, how we obtain your personal information, and how we may use or disclose that information in connection with the Website and Events. This Privacy Statement also describes the measures we take to protect the security of your personal information and how you can contact us about our privacy practices, including to exercise your privacy rights.

About Us

Lightbase is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) company that provides Supercharged, Fully Managed, Zero Downtime, Ready-to-go Cloud Hosted (No)SQL Database.

For more information about Lightbase, please see the About Us section of our Website.

Scope

This Privacy Statement only covers our privacy practices with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of information obtained: (i) through the Lightbase websites that link to this Privacy Statement ("Website"); and (ii) event registration or attendance information for events hosted by us or our business partners where we collect information from registrants and attendees (“Events”).

How We Obtain Information As further described below, we collect several types of information from and about you that broadly falls into the following categories:

  1. Information you voluntarily provide to us: When filling out forms on our Website (including without limitation, name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number). When you post material to our Website, participate in bulletin boards, chat rooms, blogs, comment threads, forums, or other interactive features of our Website, register, or request further information or services from us. When you register to use a demo or developer instance of our cloud service. When you enter a contest or promotion we sponsor. When you report a problem with our Website. When you contact us. When you complete our surveys. When you register for or attend an Event. Other information you may submit to us related to your use of our Website or attendance to an Event, including without limitation, billing information.
  2. Information from third parties. From time to time, we may collect and use information we receive about you from third parties in connection with your use of the Website or attendance to an Event. For instance, we may receive information about you from our business partners related to your registration information for Events. We also use third parties for reporting and analytics to measure the effectiveness of our Website and marketing efforts, and to identify areas for improvement. We may combine information we collect from third parties with information you provide us to update, expand or provide you with tailored information regarding our products, services and Events.
  3. Information we collect as you navigate through the Website. As you navigate through the Website, we may also automatically collect details about your visits Website, including your IP address, usage patterns, traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access, as well as information about your computer and internet connection, including your operating system and browser type. We also collect some of this information using cookies and similar tracking technologies. For detailed information, please see our Cookies Policy.
  4. How We Use Information Collected

    We may use information that we collect about you for the following purposes:
    • To operate, maintain and improve Website.
    • To register you for Events you sign up for with us and populate profiles for you in our records.
    • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
    • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including without limitation, our Website Terms of Use.
    • To notify you about changes to our Website or obtain any required consent.
    • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website, when you choose to do so.
    • For industry analysis, benchmarking, analytics, marketing, and other business purposes.
    • To track your browsing behavior, such as the pages you visited over time, for analytics and advertising purposes.
    • To communicate with you about Events.
    • To contact you for marketing purposes, in accordance with your marketing preferences (for example, we may use your information to contact you to further discuss your interests in our services and products or other Events).
    • If you ask us to contact you about goods and services, we may use your personal information or permit selected third parties to use your personal information to contact you about such goods and services. You can withdraw consent at a later time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located in the emails we send you. For more information, see the section on “Your Privacy Rights” below.
    • Additional information about our privacy practices with respect to our collection and use of information from Events may be found in additional privacy statements on the registration sites for Events hosted by us.

      How We Share Information Collected

      We may disclose personal information that you provide to us to the following categories of recipients:

      To our subsidiaries and affiliates (including those located outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland) who will use it only for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement. To our contractors, business partners and service providers we use to support our business or who provide services on our behalf. For clarity, Lightbase does not share Event attendee data with business partners or sponsors unless you opt in to such sharing via an Event registration form or you attend an Event hosted by Lightbase and allow our business partners or sponsors to scan your attendee badge. If you do not wish for your information to be shared with our business partners or sponsors, you may choose not to opt in via the event registration forms and elect not to have your badge scanned by a partner at an Event. If you choose to share your information with business partners or sponsors, your information will be subject to the respective business partner or sponsor’s privacy statement. To a potential buyer (and its agents and advisors) in connection with any proposed merger, acquisition, or any form of sale or transfer of some or all of our assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or liquidation), in which case personal information held by us about you will be among the assets transferred to the buyer or acquirer.

      To any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party to: (i) comply with any court order, a request from any competent law enforcement agency, or any other legal obligation; (ii) enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use or terms of any other agreement; (iii) and protect the rights, property, or safety of Lightbase or others. To any other person with your consent to the disclosure. We do not sell, rent or trade information collected through the Website with third parties for their promotional purposes.

      Security and Confidentiality

      Lightbase maintains appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information obtained through the Website and in connection with Events from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure and access. Lightbase personnel and service providers with access to personal information collected through our Websites or from Event attendees are required to keep such information confidential and secure.

      Retention We will retain your personal information if we have a business need to do so or for as long as is needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement, unless a longer retention period is required by law (for example, to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).

      When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. Your Privacy Rights We provide you with certain choices regarding the information you provide to us. In particular:

      If you wish to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information, you can send us an e‑mail at privacy@Lightbase.com. Event registrants and attendees may update their user profiles for Events we host by logging into the applicable event website or registration page.

      General

      1. Do Not Track: While Lightbase attempts to honor do not track (“DNT”) instructions we receive from a Visitor’s browser, we cannot guarantee that Lightbase will always respond to such signals, in part, because of the lack of common industry standard for DNT technology. We continue to monitor developments in DNT technology and stay apprised of DNT industry standards as they evolve.
      2. Third Party Websites and Applications This Website may link to websites that are not owned or controlled by Lightbase. As such, this Privacy Statement does not apply to information collected on any third‑party site or by any third‑party application that may link to or be accessible from the Website. This Privacy Statement does not apply to information collected by customers, our business partners, and other third parties or third‑party applications or services, even if this information is collected using our Website or at Events.
      3. Public Forums and Blogs Please note that any information you post or disclose in public forums will become public information, and may be available to users and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information in our public forums. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including contributions to our public forums, is governed by our Website Terms of Use and known or suspected violations should be reported to our Privacy team via e‑mail at privacy@Lightbase.com.
      4. Children We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to fill out our forms or send any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 16, we will delete that information promptly.
      5. Changes to Our Privacy Statement Lightbase reserves the right to update or change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Statement, we will notify you through an appropriate online notice or other means (which may include, if we have your contact details, notification by e‑mail) and obtain your consent if and where required by applicable law. We ask that you review the Privacy Statement periodically to stay informed about any updates or changes that we may have made.
      6. You can see when this Privacy Statement was last updated by checking the “effective as of” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Statement.

      Contact Information

      To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Statement and our privacy practices or if you need to update, change or remove your information or exercise any other rights, contact us at: privacy@Lightbase.com.

      Or

      Lightbase, Inc. Attn: Privacy Address: 7683 SE 27th Street / Mercer Island / Washington

      All other feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications relating to the Website should be directed to: marketing@Lightbase.com.