Welcome to Methodic. ("Methodic", "we", "us", or "our"). Methodic provides an integrated task management and calendaring service built for its users to increase their output and efficiency.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, disclose and otherwise process Personal Data (defined below) when you use our website (the "Site") and all related services provided by Methodic (collectively, the "Service"), and your choices concerning our data practices.
"You" or "your", as used in this Privacy Policy, refers to the individual to whom Personal Data relates.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and forms part of our Terms of Service. Please read this Privacy Policy before using our Service or submitting any Personal Data to Methodic and contact us if you have any questions.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you contact us or interact with our Service we collect information that alone or in combination with other information could be used to identify you ("Personal Data") as follows:
Personal Data You Provide:
We may collect your name, email address, phone number, and payment information when you register for our Service, sign up for our mailing list, or otherwise communicate with us. We may also collect any communications between you and Methodic and any other information you provide to the Methodic.
We also have pages on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter ("Social Media Pages"). When you interact with our Social Media Pages, we may collect Personal Data that you elect to provide to us through your settings on the Social Media Site, such as your contact details. In addition, the companies that host our Social Media Pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics regarding the use of our Social Media Pages.
Personal Data Collected Automatically:
Methodic Content. We collect information from Methodic product features, including the content of tasks you create in the Service and calendar groups.
Authentication Tokens. When you sign in to the Service, we collect and store encrypted Google authentication tokens.
Use of the Site and App: When you visit, use and interact with the Site, we may receive certain information about your visit, use or interactions. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit our Site, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited on our Site, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access and visit our Site (e.g., Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), broad geographical information, and Site-navigation pattern. In particular, the following information is created and automatically logged in our systems:
• Log data: Information that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Site ("log data"). Log data includes your Internet Protocol ("IP") address (so we understand which country you are connecting from when you visit the Site), browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Site.
• Cookies: Please see the "Cookies" section below to learn more about how we use cookies on the Site.
• Device information: Includes the operating system and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
• Usage Information: We collect information about how you use our Site, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.
We do not process or send any information to a database or server owned by Methodic except for calendar names, level of access to each calendar name, and tasks you input into the Service. All processing of calendar events Methodic creates or retrieves occurs locally on your computer or on Google’s servers. When you authenticate with the Service using your Google account, we use that account to fetch the calendar events you see in the Service and to create the calendar events and tasks you may schedule within the Service.
Personal Data We Process on Behalf of Business Customers: If one of our business customers (such as your employer) provides you with access to the Service, we process your information pursuant to our Terms of Service and other agreements with the applicable business customer. If you are such an individual and would no longer like your data to be used by one of our business customers that use our Services or you would like to access, correct or request deletion of your data, please contact the business customer that you interact with directly.
2. HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA
We use Personal Data to provide the Service and improve your calendar and task management experience. This processing is necessary to perform our contract with you.
We also use Personal Data as necessary for the following legitimate business interests:
• To display information in the Service (such as emails and profile photos) about other individuals with whom you communicate through the Service;
• To respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback or questions and provide onboarding support;
• To solicit referrals for new users from current users and to contact such referrals and other potential users;
• To manage our relationship with you, which includes sending administrative information to you relating to our Service and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and sending account verification or technical/security notices;
• To analyze how you interact with our Service and provide, maintain, and improve the content and functionality of the Service and our customer relationships and experiences, develop our business, and inform our marketing strategy;
• To administer and protect our business and the Site, prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Site, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks (including troubleshooting, testing, system maintenance, support and hosting of data); and
• To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or other third parties, and recover debts due to us.
Aggregated Information. We may aggregate Personal Data and use the aggregated information to analyze the effectiveness of our Service, to improve and add features to our Service, and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Services. We may collect aggregated information through the Service, through cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy.
Marketing. We may contact you to provide information we believe will be of interest to you. For instance, if you elect to provide your email address, we may use that information to send you promotional information about our products and services. If we do, where required by law, we will only send you such emails if you consent to us doing so at the time you provide us with your Personal Data. You may opt out of receiving emails by following the instructions contained in each promotional email we send you or by contacting us. If you unsubscribe from our marketing lists, you will no longer receive marketing communications, but we will continue to contact you regarding our Site and Services and to respond to your requests.
3. HOW WE SHARE AND DISCLOSE PERSONAL DATA
In certain circumstances we may share your Personal Data with third parties without further notice to you, unless required by the law, as set forth below:
Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Data with service providers, including web hosting, debugging services, email and productivity services, survey providers, database and sales/customer relationship management services, customer service providers, payment processors; web and app analytics services, and data brokers. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties to us.
Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of service to another provider, your Personal Data and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counter-parties and others assisting with the transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that transaction along with other assets.
Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with legal or regulatory obligations, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) prevent fraud, (iv) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability.
4. DATA RETENTION
We keep Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer.
If you have elected to receive marketing communications from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences until you opt out of receiving these communications and in accordance with our policies.
To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
5. UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
If you need to change or correct your Personal Data, or wish to have it deleted from our systems, you may contact us. We will address your request as required by applicable law.
6. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS DISCLOSURES
Online Tracking and Do Not Track Signals : We may allow third party service providers to use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Site. Our Site currently does not respond to "Do Not Track" ("DNT") signals and operates as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received. If we do respond to DNT signals in the future, we will describe how we do so in this Privacy Policy.
7. CHILDREN
Our Service is not directed to children who are under the age of 13. Methodic does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to Methodic through the Service please contact us and we will work to delete that information from our databases.
8. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The Site may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Methodic, including social media services, conference call providers, or other productivity services ("Third Party Sites"). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.
11. COOKIES
A "cookie" is a piece of information sent to your browser by a website you visit. By choosing to use the Site after having been notified of our use of cookies and other technologies in the ways described in this Privacy Policy, and, in applicable jurisdictions, through notice and unambiguous acknowledgement of your consent, you agree to such use.
Cookies can be stored on your computer for different periods of time. Some cookies expire after a certain amount of time, or upon logging out (session cookies), others survive after your browser is closed until a defined expiration date set in the cookie (as determined by the third party placing it) and help recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again (persistent cookies). Our Site uses cookies from the third parties described below. For more details on cookies please visit All About Cookies.
Type of Cookies Used:
The following chart sets out how we use different categories of cookies and similar technologies, as well as information on your options for managing the settings for the data collection by these technologies:
Strictly necessary:
Strictly necessary cookies are used to provide users with services available through the Site and to use some of its features, such as the ability to log-in and access secure areas. These cookies are essential for using and navigating the Site. For example, we use Google cookies and tokens to log you in and authenticate you to deliver the Service. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Service, users cannot refuse them.
Analytics/Performance:
Analytics and performance cookies are used to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. The collected data provides us only with anonymous traffic statistics (like number of page views, number of visitors, source, and time spent on each page).
For example, we use Google Analytics (provided by Google, Inc.). The information generated by Google Analytics about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google, Inc. in the United States (pursuant to Google's Privacy Shield certification).
Heap Analytics (provided by Heap, Inc.). The information generated by Heap Analytics about your use of the Site will be transmitted to and stored by Heap, Inc. and its third parties pursuant to its privacy policy. You can read their privacy policy at https://heap.io/privacy.
To opt out of Heap Analytics tracking, contact us at privacy@usemethodic.com and we will direct your request to Heap.
Your Choices. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative's online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org and follow the opt-out instructions there.
If you access the Site on your mobile device, you may not be able to control tracking technologies through the settings.
12. SECURITY
You use the Service at your own risk. We comply with industry standards to protect Personal Data both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Service or e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to Methodic via the Internet. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service, or third party websites.
13. YOUR CHOICES
Whether or not you provide Personal Data to us is completely up to you, but if you choose not to provide information that is needed to use some features of our Site, you may be unable to use those features. You can also contact us to request access to your data or to ask us to update, correct, or delete your Personal Data.
14. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
The Service, and our business, may change from time to time. As a result we may change this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by the applicable law. By continuing to use our Service or providing us with Personal Data after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, or notified you if applicable, you consent to the revised Privacy Policy and practices described in it.
15. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the information practices of the Site, please feel free to contact us at privacy@usemethodic.com.