Riska,io is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and share data, and what choices you have with respect to your data. We have updated this version of our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in data protection law.
This Privacy Policy applies to all websites that we own and operate, our applications and/or APIs, and online services (our “Site“), as well as the Risk Ops platform (“Platform“), and other services, offerings, and other interactions (e.g., customer service inquiries, or your participation in user conferences, community events, etc.) you may have with us that are subject to this Privacy Policy (together with our Site, collectively referred to as our “Services“). If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use our Services.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third party applications or software that integrate with the Services through our Site (“Third Party Services“), or any other third party products, services or businesses.
Information We Collect and Receive
We collect and receive information that relates to identified or identifiable individuals (“personal information“) as follows:
Identity Data: Information such as your name; address; email address; telephone number; gender; date of birth, age and/or age range; photo/avatar; account login details (e.g., username and password); and information such as unique IDs and online identifiers.
Contact Data: Identity Data that includes personal and business contact information, such as postal address, email address, telephone number, or other identifiers used for communication.
Content: Unstructured or free-form content that you post on our Site or Platform that may include personal data (e.g., text, images, photographs, messages, comments, feedback and correspondence), such as information you provide in your responses to surveys, when you participate in market research activities, report a problem with our Site, receive customer support or otherwise correspond with us.
Financial Data: Information such as bank account details, payment card information, and information from credit reference agencies, including similar data defined in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e).
Commercial Data: Information from transactions and purchases you make through the Site, registrations through our Site, and billing details.
Device/Network Data: Information regarding your interaction with a website, application, or advertisement (e.g., IP Address, MAC Address, SSIDs, etc.), online user ID, device characteristics (such as browser/OS version), web server logs, application logs, cookie data, web beacons, and information about how you use our Site and interact with us.
Inference Data: Data such as your preferences for receiving marketing communications and details about how you engage with them, as well as information relating to your demographics and interests.
Audio/Visual Data: Recordings such as audio files and records (e.g., voice mails, call recordings, and the like).
Protected Class Data: Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (e.g., race, national origin, religion, gender, and sexual orientation).
Special Category Data: Personal data subject to GDPR and similar laws revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
How We Collect Personal Information
Information You Give Us
You may give us personal information when you register for the Platform or otherwise submit information to use through the Services or other communications with us. For example:
We may collect Identity Data, Professional/Biographical Data, and Content when you create a profile on our Site (“Profile Data”).
We may collect Commercial Data, Identity Data, and Financial Data when you enter into a commercial transaction or register for an event (“Transaction Data”).
We may collect Identity Data, Professional/Biographical Data, Content, Government ID, Protected Class Data, or Special Category Data when you submit an application to one of our programs (“Application Data”).
Event Recordings
As part of our Services, we host, coordinate, and operate community public or private events (“Events“) where you may engage with founders, teams, sponsors, investors, and other Riska community members. We may create audio or visual recordings of these events, take photographs, conduct interviews or surveys, or conduct similar activities at these Events (“Event Recordings“), and we will collect and process Audio/Visual Data incorporated into these Event Recordings. You may object to the processing of your personal information in connection with Event Recordings during the Event by speaking with organizers of the Event, or afterwards, by contacting us using the information below. Please note, the processing of personal information in connection with Event Recordings may be subject to additional terms and conditions to which you are a party (e.g. a release or consent) that will supersede the nature of processing or individual rights described in this Privacy Policy to the extent in conflict.
Information from Social Networking Sites
Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each a “SNS“). If you connect to a SNS through our Site you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on that SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
Information Automatically Collected
We may automatically collect personal information such as Device/Network Data when you access and use our Site. For example, we may log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies. Please refer to the Cookies and Similar Technologies section below for more details.
Changes to Your Personal Information
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please let us know if your personal information changes during your relationship with us by emailing us at contact@riska.ai.
How We Use Your Personal Information
To Provide the Services You Request
If you use our Site, sign up for, or request to participate in a particular Service, we will process your personal information you give us or that we receive from relevant parties as necessary or appropriate for us to provide that Service. For example:
We process Device/Network Data to operate, maintain, administer and improve our Site;
We process Profile Data, Transaction Data, and Application Data to create, manage, and communicate with you regarding an account you may have on our Services, including by sending you service announcements, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
We process Profile Data, Transaction Data, and Application Data, Inference Data and other personal information to better understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Services; and
We process personal information related to support and maintenance for our Services that you may request.
In Connection with Marketing Communications
If you request information from us, register on our Site, or participate in our surveys, promotions or events, where allowed by law, we or our third party partners may use your personal information, such as Identity Data and Contact Data, as well as Inference Data or Profile Data, to send you updates, newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials, including communications that may be targeted to you based on your personal information, as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt out of such communications.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
What are cookies and similar technologies?
We may collect personal information using “cookies“.
We use two broad categories of cookies:
First party cookies: served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which we use to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and
Third party cookies: served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites or online services.
For Online Advertising
We may use Device/Network Data and Inference Data we collect from cookies and similar technologies in order to market certain products and services to you, such as Events you may be interested in. For example, if you attend an Event, we may use your personal data in connection with online advertising campaigns on Google, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. We, or our third party advertising partners, may combine this information in order to create profiles that are used to make more relevant profiles. You can control how these third parties use your data, and the ads you see on these platforms, using the tools described in the "Your Rights and Choices" section below.
With Your Consent
We may use or share your personal information with your consent, such as when you: consent to participate in additional surveys on gender and race/ethnicity (where legally permissible), let us post your testimonials or endorsements on our Sites, instruct us to take a specific action with respect to your personal information, or opt into third party marketing communications.
Please note, in certain cases (such as in connection with our Diversity & Inclusion efforts), we may collect and share with parties you authorize, information about race, ethnic origin, religious beliefs, physical/mental health, sexual orientation, or other personal information that is classified as a “special category” of personal data under applicable law. You may revoke your consent to this processing at any time. Additional information regarding these programs, how your personal information will be shared, and the parties that may receive it, are available within program descriptions we provided at the time you agreed to participate in the program.
For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; (b) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
To Create Aggregated or De-identified Information
We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, subject to limits under applicable law. For example, we may share aggregated or de-identified information with prospects, partners, or sponsors for business or research purposes, such as when we analyze and report on demographic trends to measure our objective of having healthy diversity ratios across our programs.
Miscellaneous Processing
If we process personal information in connection with our Services in a way not described in this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will still apply generally (e.g. with respect to your rights and choices) unless otherwise stated when you provide it.
Data Sale
Generally, we do not sell, rent, release, disclose, disseminate, make available, transfer, or otherwise communicate in any way your personal information to third parties in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration. Note, however, we may make any disclosure or otherwise process personal information in connection with our provision of the Services to you or at your request, and we make any of the disclosures described in the Data Sharing section below.
How We Share Your Information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not share the personal information that you provide to us with other organizations. We generally disclose personal information to third parties for the following purposes:
Partners, Mentors and User Groups: We may disclose your personal information to our partners, mentors, and other groups with whom we have contracted to sponsor and deliver industry-focused Programs, and to other users of our Services, for the purpose of providing our products and services, including sharing with other members of the groups for which you are registered.
Affiliates: We may disclose your personal information to our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other corporate affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Professional Advisors: We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement; Protection and Safety: We may disclose information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as required by law, and disclose and use such information as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) comply with applicable laws and lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Services; (c) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (d) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
Business Transfers: We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, which may include your personal information, in connection with a business deal (or potential business deal) such as a merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy, in which case we will make reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy Policy.
Service Providers & Business Purposes: We may employ third party companies and individuals to administer and provide the Services on our behalf (such as account creation, quality assurance testing, technical support, hosting, email delivery and database management services). We may also disclose your data in connection with certain other business and operational purposes, such as data security monitoring, service analytics, internal research, quality control, etc. We generally share your personal data as you request, or in accordance with certain business purposes.
