PRIVACY POLICY

We last updated our Privacy Policy on May 09, 2020.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information and your data. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us.

By using stemino.tech (further referred to as the “Site”, “Website”, “Company”, “STEMiNO”), you are consenting to the policies listed on this page. Our Privacy Policy describes the types of personal identifying information we may collect from you when you visit this Website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, disclosing and transferring that information.
By using our Website, which is owned by Phyo Htet Hein ( “us”, “we” or “our”), you explicitly accept, without limitation or qualification, our practices surrounding the collection, use, and sharing of personal information provided by you in the manner described on this Policy Page. If you do not agree with the terms on this Policy Page, please do not access, browse, or use this Site.
Additionally, any information available through STEMiNO’s website and social media platforms, and any other forms of digital content published by STEMiNO shall not be construed as truth, but as personal opinions and experiences of individuals from STEMiNO and those invited by STEMiNO to share their experiences. It is solely your responsibility to verify and fact-check all information by yourself for your education, career, technical, and business decisions.

CONTACT DETAILS

Please contact us at contact@stemino.tech for any questions you have related to this Privacy Policy.
It is particularly important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at contact@stemino.tech.

PRIVACY POLICY

PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN

Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. Our Website is not directed at children under 13, and we will not knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide us any personally identifying information; if you are under 13, please don’t provide any information about yourself on this Website. If we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The information that STEMiNO collects about visitors while they are using the Website falls into two general categories:

  1. Automatically Collected Information: When you visit our Website, STEMiNO does not automatically collect personal information from you or about you (such as your name or mailing address). However, the Website does place small files called “cookies” on your computer to automatically collect and store certain types of data (i.e., information that is not Personal Information because it cannot be used by itself to identify you) from the computer that you use to access the Website. This information includes but is not limited to the following: browser and platform type (e.g., Internet Explorer browser on a PC platform); the Internet Service Provider, or “ISP” (e.g., AT&T); the Internet Protocol (IP) address unique to the computer; the number and length of visits; the pages visited; and the referral source (e.g., Google) and search terms that led to the Website page. STEMiNO uses this computer information to assess interest in the Website and its pages, and for other internal business purposes.
    The use of cookies is common. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. However, if you prefer, you can set your browser to either notify you when you receive a cookie or to refuse to accept cookies. It is possible, however, that some areas of the Website will not function properly if you decline or disable Internet cookies while visiting or otherwise using the Website.
    This information, which may be used internally or for marketing purposes generally, allows us, among other things, to improve the delivery of our Website to you, to analyze usage, and to measure traffic on our Website.
  2. Information You Submit Voluntarily: We may collect and store information that you are volunteering to provide such information, including but not limited to, your name, email, telephone number or fax number, and mailing address (“Personal Information”), when you download forms, sign in for events or contact us with requests, questions or any other queries via the Website. If you decline to supply or provide us with certain information while using the Website, you may not be able to use or participate in some or all the features offered through the Website.
    If you do not want to receive non-business related e-mail communications from us in the future, please let us know by sending us an e-mail at contact@stemino.tech.
    If you supply us with your postal address online, you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online will only receive telephone contact from us with information relating to their particular request.

We also collect, use, store and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for our or third-party use for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your use of this Website data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature or particular content. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy. Notice or any other privacy notice we may have sent or provided you access to at the time or soon after its collection.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION AND USE COOKIES

Our Website uses “Cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit the Website to store certain preferences and information. Your browser includes instructions to allow you to establish certain settings on your computer to warn you before a Cookie is stored, block all Cookies or erase Cookies from your hard drive, if you wish to do so. If you do decide to disable cookies, you may not be able to access some areas of our website. By continuing to use our Website without changing your settings, you consent to our use of cookies as described above.
The Website uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. The use of cookies in these ways is to improve the functionality of our Website and your experience when using it. Session cookies enable you to move from page to page within our website and any information you enter to be remembered. A session cookie is deleted when you close your browser or after a short time. Persistent cookies allow our Website to remember your preferences and settings when you visit our Website in the future. Persistent cookies expire after a set period of time. Cookies are used in the following ways on our Website:

  • Contact Forms – we use a session cookie in our contact forms to allow you to contact us via our Website.
  • Content Management System – we use persistent cookies and session cookies in our content management system to enable the Website to work effectively and to remember your preferences and settings.
  • Google Analytics – we use Google Analytics to provide us with information about how you use our Website. We use this information to compile statistics and to help us to improve our website and the services we offer. Google uses cookies as part of this process to collect anonymous information, including the number of visitors to the Website, where they have come to the Website from, the pages they visit and the length of time they have spent on the Website.
  • E-mail Subscriptions Service – session cookies are used in our e-mail subscriptions service to track recipients’ interaction with our e-mail updates and to facilitate our online subscriptions manager Website.
  • LinkedIn – session cookies are used to track basic demographic information of LinkedIn visitors to our Website.
  • Video Content – we use an online video software provider to host and play our video content. That provider uses session cookies to collect certain information about you when you view our videos, including your IP address and other non-personally identifiable information such as browser type, Internet Service Provider and operating system. They also collect information relating to how videos are played, including when and for long, and whether they are played in full screen mode. This information helps them to monitor how their software is being used and us to monitor how our videos are being viewed.
    Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may use the information collected

  • The information we collect from you may be used to improve the content of our Website, to fulfill your requests for information, provide services and marketing information to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants and otherwise communicate with you, and to serve the appropriate region data to you. We may also keep your personal data and use it to contact you in the future.
  • Data submitted on the Website will be used for the purposes specified in the relevant part of the Website and, where relevant, for other purposes for which you give your consent.
  • We review our users’ preferences, interests, demographics, traffic patterns, and other information so that we can better understand our audience and what they want. Tracking user preferences also helps us serve you more relevant advertising. By using the Website, you authorize us, and our vendors, to use the information collected for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement. We do not, and will not, ever sell your information to others.

DISCLOUSURE POLICY

STEMiNO does not sell or license personal information to third parties. We may disclose the information collected with third-party service companies which may process your data on our behalf and under our instruction. These third-party service providers may include, but not limited to MailChimp, WooCommerce, The Events Calendar, Zoom, LinkedIn, Yoast SEO, Google, Bookly, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and related WordPress plug-ins that help us in maintaining our Website, analyzing our Website traffic, and in providing services and information to users of our Website. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with applicable law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

With respect to Ad Servers: we do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

Our Website reserves the right to disclose your information where required by law or to comply with valid legal or regulatory processes to protect STEMiNO’s rights.

In addition, we may also disclose your personal data to third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets, or alternatively, if we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners, or combined group, may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Notice, otherwise you will be notified of any change by an updated privacy notice on this Website.

International Transfer: If you are user of our Website your Personal Information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and you have chosen to provide your Personal Information to us via our Website, we may transfer your Personal Information to the United States and process it there.

The information collected may also be shared within STEMiNO on a global basis and globally with third parties who may be providing services to STEMiNO. Those countries may not provide an adequate level of protection in relation to the processing of personal data, but in connection with the processing of personal data to which GDPR, LGPD, or PDPA applies where required by law, we have put in place legal mechanisms designed to ensure adequate data protection. Such mechanisms include, but may not be limited to, the EU Model Clauses and the use of European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield contracts. For transfers within STEMiNO, we ensure each office or individual complies with our internal policies on personal data.

By your use of this Website, you agree to the transfer and hosting of your personal information anywhere in the world.

Please contact us if you want further information on transferring your personal data.

Customer Service: If you contact us for information requests, we will also use your Personal Information. Please note that any comments or materials sent to us, including feedback data, such as questions, comments, suggestions, and any other responses are deemed to be non-confidential and we may use, reproduce, distribute, and publicly display such comments and materials without reference to you personally. We may also use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in such responses for any purpose whatsoever.

Information Disclosed in Public Areas: You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personal Information online in a public area of our Website, such as on blog comments, it can be seen, collected, and used by others besides STEMiNO. We are not responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of information that you disclose in a public area on the Website.

Links and Features Offered in Conjunction with Other Providers: This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected by STEMiNO. Our Website includes links to other websites and provides access to products and services offered by third parties. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

When you access another website or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions, from third party websites linked to our Website, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the website you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.

Other Disclosures: We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with the law, to enforce our user agreement, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of visitors to our Website, our customers, the public, or STEMiNO. In the unlikely event that STEMiNO or substantially all of its assets are acquired by another company, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.

Email Communication to our Users: Emails may be sent by STEMiNO, but only to users that request or agree to receive email messages, such as e-newsletters and marketing messages. The email address provided by you at blog sign up, newsletter sign up, event registration, contact form, information request, content download, or as updated, may also be used by STEMiNO to contact you for any reason, including: (1) notification of the availability of new content or features of the Website, (2) participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on the Website and (3) notifying you of existing or prospective products and services offered by us or our advertisers and partners.

Social Network: Our Website may allow you to sign into and associate your social network accounts, with STEMiNO. This includes, but is not limited to, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, and our own networking platforms. Our Website may also allow you to log in to a STEMiNO account using your social network credentials. By doing this, you consent to us accessing the personal data that you have made publicly available on the social media platform, which could include, but is not limited to, your email address, your profile name and picture and location. We will process this information in accordance with this Privacy Notice, but we are not responsible in any way for the terms of use of the social network, their privacy notice or how they process your data. To manage the information that is shared through your account with STEMiNO and other third-party applications, or to disconnect a social media account from us, please refer to the privacy notice of your social network account.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

Maintaining the security of your personal information is of utmost concern to STEMiNO. STEMiNO has put in place reasonable and appropriate security, technical and administrative measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. However, no system can be absolutely secure. Despite these precautions, STEMiNO cannot guarantee the security of the information collected from third parties or transmitted through our Website or guarantee the security of emails. Therefore, we assume no liability for any disclosure of information collected arising from the acts of third parties or other events, acts or omissions outside of our control, including, but not limited to, interruption of service or any issues related to the use of the internet. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

DATA RETENTION

STEMiNO will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including, where applicable, for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we 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 process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means and the applicable legal requirements.

Details of retention periods applied to your personal data can be requested by contacting us.

We may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under local data protection laws, you may have rights in relation to your personal data. In the processing of your personal data, certain of your rights are protected by applicable local laws, such as GDPR, LGPD, PDPA, or CCPA, where applicable, these rights will include the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request” or “data portability request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
  • Request erasure or deletion of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing, where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
  • Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
  • Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine- readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

If you are protected by an applicable law such as GDPR, LGPD, PDPA, or CCPA and wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us. However, there are circumstances in which those rights may not be available to you and we may not satisfy your request.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other rights, where these rights apply in our processing of your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We will respond to a legitimate request in the timeframe allotted under applicable law.

In addition, where granted by local law, you may also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach any authority so please contact us in the first instance.