This Data Protection Addendum ("DPA") forms part of the Terms of Service of BizConnect app, a product of ATMAS SOFTWARES PVT LTD, available at https://bizconnectus.com/terms.html and https://bizconnectus.com/privacy.html, or, if applicable, any other separate written agreement, by and between BizConnect and the Customer named in the agreement. This DPA reflects the parties’ agreement with respect to the processing of certain personal data provided or made available by Customer, or collected or otherwise obtained by BizConnect, in the course of providing services to Customer by us on behalf of you. The term of this DPA will follow the term of the Agreement. Terms not otherwise defined in this DPA will have the meaning as set forth in the Agreement.
"California Personal Information" means Personal Data that is subject to the protection of the CCPA. "CCPA" means California Civil Code Sec. 1798.100 et seq. (also known as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018). "Consumer", "Business", "Sell" and "Service Provider" will have the meanings given to them in the CCPA.
"Controller" means 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.
"Data Protection Laws" means all applicable worldwide legislation relating to data protection and privacy which applies to the respective party in the role of Processing Personal Data in question under the Agreement, including without limitation European Data Protection Laws, the CCPA and the data protection and privacy laws of Australia and Singapore; in each case as amended, repealed, consolidated or replaced from time to time.
"Data Subject" means the individual to whom Personal Data relates.
"Europe" means the European Union, the European Economic Area and/or their member states, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
"European Data" means Personal Data that is subject to the protection of European Data Protection Laws.
"European Data Protection Laws" means data protection laws applicable in Europe, including: (i) Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) ("GDPR"); (ii) Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector; and (iii) applicable national implementations of (i) and (ii); or (iii) GDPR as it forms parts of the United Kingdom domestic law by virtue of Section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("UK GDPR"); and (iv) Swiss Federal Data Protection Act on 19 June 1992 and its Ordinance ("Swiss DPA"); in each case, as may be amended, superseded or replaced.
"Instructions" means the written, documented instructions issued by a Controller to a Processor, and directing the same to perform a specific or general action with regard to Personal Data (including, but not limited to, depersonalizing, blocking, deletion, making available).
"Permitted Affiliates" means any of your Affiliates that (i) are permitted to use the Subscription Services pursuant to the Agreement, but have not signed their own separate agreement with us and are not a "Customer" as defined under the Agreement, (ii) qualify as a Controller of Personal Data Processed by us, and (iii) are subject to European Data Protection Laws.
"Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual where such information is contained within Customer Data and is protected similarly as personal data, personal information or personally identifiable information under applicable Data Protection Laws.
"Personal Data Breach" means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, Personal Data transmitted, stored or otherwise Processed by us and/or our Subprocessors in connection with the provision of the Subscription Services. "Personal Data Breach" will not include unsuccessful attempts or activities that do not compromise the security of Personal Data, including unsuccessful log-in attempts, pings, port scans, denial of service attacks, and other network attacks on firewalls or networked systems.
"Privacy Shield " means the EU-U.S. and Swiss-US Privacy Shield self-certification program operated by the U.S. Department of Commerce and approved by the European Commission pursuant to its Decision of July, 12 2016 and by the Swiss Federal Council on January 11, 2017 respectively; as may be amended, superseded or replaced.
"Privacy Shield Principles" means the Privacy Shield Principles (as supplemented by the Supplemental Principles) contained in Annex II to the European Commission Decision of July, 12 2016; as may be amended, superseded or replaced.
"Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data, encompassing the collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction or erasure of Personal Data. The terms "Process", "Processes" and "Processed" will be construed accordingly.
"Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which Processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.
"Standard Contractual Clauses" means the standard contractual clauses for Processors annexed to the European Commission’s Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021, in the form set out at Annex 4; as may be amended, superseded or replaced.
Subprocessor" means any Processor engaged by us or our Affiliates to assist in fulfilling our obligations with respect to the provision of the Subscription Services under the Agreement. Subprocessors may include third parties or our Affiliates but will exclude any BizConnect employee or consultant.
The parties agree that, as between the parties, Customer is a data controller and that BizConnect is a processor in relation to personal data that BizConnect processes on behalf of Customer in the course of providing the services . The subject-matter of the data processing, the types of personal data processed, and the categories of data subjects will be defined by, and/or limited to that necessary to carry out the Services. The processing will be carried out until the date BizConnect ceases to provide the Services to Customer
This section contains an overview of BizConnect’s Technical and Operational Security Measures.
Outsourced processing: We host our Service with outsourced cloud infrastructure providers. We rely on contractual agreements, privacy policies, and vendor compliance programs in order to protect data processed or stored by these vendors.
Physical and environmental security: We host our product infrastructure with multi-tenant, outsourced infrastructure providers. The physical and environmental security controls are audited for SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3, ISO 27001 for technical measures, ISO 27017 for cloud security, ISO 27018 for cloud privacy, among other certifications.
Authentication: We implement a uniform password policy for our customer products. Customers who interact with the products via the user interface must authenticate before accessing non-public customer data.
Authorization: Customer Data is stored in multi-tenant storage systems accessible to Customers via only application user interfaces and application programming interfaces. Customers are not allowed direct access to the underlying application infrastructure. The authorization model in each of our products is designed to ensure that only the appropriately assigned individuals can access relevant features, views, and customization options. Authorization to data sets is performed through validating the user’s permissions against the attributes associated with each data set.
Application Programming Interface (API) access: Public product APIs may be accessed using an API key or through Oauth authorization.
We implement industry standard access controls and detection capabilities for the internal networks that support its products.
Access controls: Network access control mechanisms are designed to prevent network traffic using unauthorized protocols from reaching the product infrastructure. The technical measures implemented differ between infrastructure providers and include Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) implementations, security group assignment, and traditional firewall rules.
Intrusion detection and prevention: We implement firewalls to protect hosted customer websites and other internet-accessible applications.
Product access: A subset of our employees have access to the products and to customer data via controlled interfaces. The intent of providing access to a subset of employees is to provide effective customer support, to troubleshoot potential problems, to detect and respond to security incidents and implement data security. All access requests are logged.
In-transit: We use HTTPS encryption (also referred to as SSL or TLS). Our HTTPS implementation uses industry standard algorithms and certificates.
At-rest: We use dual encryption for passwords. The passwords are hashed on the client device before being sent to us, which is then hashed again before storage. We store user passwords following policies that follow industry standard practices for security. We have implemented technologies to ensure that stored data is encrypted at rest.
Detection: We designed our infrastructure to log extensive information about the system behavior, traffic received, system authentication, and other application requests. Internal systems aggregated log data and alert appropriate employees of malicious, unintended, or anomalous activities. Our personnel, including security, operations, and support personnel, are responsive to known incidents.
Response and tracking: We maintain a record of known security incidents that includes description, dates and times of relevant activities, and incident disposition. Suspected and confirmed security incidents are investigated by security, operations, or support personnel; and appropriate resolution steps are identified and documented. For any confirmed incidents, we will take appropriate steps to minimize product and Customer damage or unauthorized disclosure. Notification to you will be in accordance with the terms of the Agreement.
Infrastructure availability: The infrastructure providers use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure a minimum of 99.95% uptime.
Fault tolerance: Backup and replication strategies are designed to ensure redundancy and fail-over protections during a significant processing failure. Customer data is backed up to multiple durable data stores and replicated across multiple availability zones.
Online replicas and backups: Where feasible, production databases are designed to replicate data between no less than 1 primary and 2 secondary databases. All databases are backed up and maintained using at least industry standard methods.
Our products are designed to ensure redundancy and seamless failover. The server instances that support the products are also architected with a goal to prevent single points of failure. This design assists our operations in maintaining and updating the product applications and backend while limiting downtime.
We generally retain your Personal Data for as long as is necessary for the performance of the Services to you and our other Users and to comply with our legal obligations. This includes information that you have made available to the BizConnect Database for the purposes of improving the Services for both you and other Users of our Services.
You may request that we delete your Personal Data and close your BizConnect Account or you can delete your End User Contact Data and close your Account on your own. Please note that if you request the deletion of your Personal Data or if you delete your Personal Data:
• We may retain some of your information as necessary for fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend a BizConnect Account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain certain information from that Account to prevent that user from opening a new BizConnect Account in the future.
• We may retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For example, we may keep some of your information for tax, legal reporting, and auditing obligations.
• Information you have shared with other systems (e.g., Google) may continue to exist in those systems, and in some cases be publicly visible.
• Some copies of your information (e.g., log records) may remain in the BizConnect Database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
• Because we maintain backup to protect our Services from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your information will be included in backups and may not be removed from our backup systems.
Personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
We ensure the integrity and security of personal data by implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures, which include:
• Measures to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of personal data.
• Ensuring that personal data is accurate and kept up to date, and taking all reasonable steps to erase or rectify data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Implementing security measures such as encryption, pseudonymization, and regular security assessments to safeguard personal data.
• Maintaining the ability to restore the availability and access to personal data promptly in the event of a physical or technical incident.
You agree that we may engage Subprocessors to Process Personal Data on your behalf.
A subprocessor is a third party data processor engaged By BizConnect who has or potentially will have access to or process Customer Information (which may contain Personal Data).
Where we engage subprocessors, we will impose data protection terms on the Subprocessors that provide at least the same level of protection for Personal Data as those in this DPA (including, where appropriate, the Standard Contractual Clauses), to the extent applicable to the nature of the services provided by such Subprocessors. We will remain responsible for each Subprocessor’s compliance with the obligations of this DPA and for any acts or omissions of such Subprocessor that cause us to breach any of its obligations under this DPA.
BizConnect engages Subprocessors to perform various functions as explained below.
| Entity Name | Subprocessing activities | Entity Country |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Cloud Services, Email | United States |
| Google Cloud | Cloud services, Analytics | United States |
| Microsoft Azure | Cognitive services | United States |
| Slack | Internal Communication | United States |
| Mailgun | Email Service | United States |
| PayPal | Payment Processor | United States |
| BugSnag | Error Tracking | United States |
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