ATS Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last modified on May 25, 2018.

ATS ("us", "we", or "our") operates http://www.ATSGeoSuite.net/ (the "Site"),  http://www.atsps.net/ (the "Server") and the ATS GeoSuite Application (the "Application"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site and Application.

We use your Personal Information only for providing Application, Site and Server services to the user and improving the Site, Server or Application services. By using the Site, Server or Application, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at http://www.ATSGeoSuite.net/.

Information Collection and Use

While using our Site, Server or Application, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your name, company name, country of Application registration, location and email address ("Personal Information"). This data will never be sold to third-party vendors. By explicitly accepting the "I agree to and accept the Terms of Use" option on the ATS GeoSuite App "Device Setup" menu, you are providing consent to ATS to store your private information on our server and allowing ATS to send you service announcements, administrative messages, and other information in connection with your use of our Services. When you the the user, agree to subscribe to the ATS newsletter by explicitly accepting the "Subscribe to ATS newsletter" option on the ATS GeoSuite App "Device Setup" menu, you are providing consent to ATS to send you email based newsletters regarding ATS products and services. When you the the user, agree to allow app error and usage tracking by explicitly accepting the "Allow app error and usage tracking" option on the ATS GeoSuite App "Device Setup" menu, you are providing consent to ATS to track and log on our servers, any and all user usage of the app including, but not limited to, any and all functions used within the app itself and logging of all errors and error messages produced by the app itself. When a user invites a participant to a project or assignment, ATS will only use that email address as directed by the user (i.e., to invite a participant to join a project); however, invitees may choose to register with ATS themselves. All personal information is stored on secure servers located in South Africa.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site, Server or Application ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. We use this information to provide, monitor, and improve our services.

Device Data

ATS may collect data from the device you use to access and provide our Services through the Site, Server or Application, including IP address, GPS location and browser type. Based on IP addresses and GPS co-ordinates, we will collect geographic location of users, when and only for the purpose of providing the user with services through the Application and Server when the user chooses to process collected Application data or register or login to user accounts. We use this information to provide, monitor, and improve our services and to monitor and enforce the terms of use relating to the area of operation within which the user is licensed to operate our application, site or server.

Any app error and usage tracking data logged by the app will only be uploaded to the ATS server or sent to the ATS technical staff if the user explicitly provides the app with the permission to do so. These permissions are directly accessible to the user using the app permissions settings functions. These permissions can be changed within the app at any time by the user. Any and all Personal Information regarding the user who collected the data, which will remain subject to the privacy terms of this agreement at all times. 

Referral Data

ATS records information on how you arrived at our Site, if you linked to it from an external source, such as an email or website. We use this information to provide, monitor, and improve our marketing.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Like many sites, we use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Data Collection by User

When you or your respondents upload data to the ATS website or servers, you give ATS and the companies we work with, a worldwide license to host, store, and process your data. All geographical, geophysical, personal and time of collection data that you collect using the Application, Server or Websites “Paid for” Services is wholly owned by you the client. All data that you process using the “paid for” ATS services is processed and transmitted back to the user device securely by ATS on our servers and will not be used, modified, stored or sold to third parties. ATS will not, under any circumstance, use or store any of the data, you the user have “paid for” to process, using the Application or Server, for our own purposes. All personal information collected using the Application is stored on servers located in South Africa.

If and when the User makes use of any of the “free”, that is “not paid for” or specifically the “Processing server access level 1” or the “5 millisecond processing server” data processing Services provided on our Application or Server, to process data collected at any given location at any given time, ATS reserves the right to use, copy, sell and distribute the geographical location of the collected data, all geophysical data collected and time of collection data, collected by the user at the given location, at our discretion. This term explicitly excludes any Personal Information regarding the user who collected the data, which will remain subject to the privacy terms of this agreement at all times. This term is only subject to the use of our free “not paid for” services, provided by the Application or Server, and does not apply to any data collected and processed when the user has “paid for” the collection and processing of the data.

Effectively this means that any user data processed by the user for free “not paid for” using our services belongs to ATS and the client jointly.

Re marketing with Google Analytics

The ATS website, Server and Application is advertised by third-party vendors, including Google, on websites across the Internet. These vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s past visits to our website. ATS uses Re marketing with Google Analytics to advertise on third party sites to individuals who have previously visited our Site and similar audiences. Users can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings at http://www.google.net/settings/ads

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but the user accepts that no method of data transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic data storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable and approved means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You may open an ATS account in order to use the Application and Server, however, it is the users responsibility to keep the password to this account confidential and not to use it on third party accounts.

ATS makes use of secure SSL TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 encryption certificates using 128 bit keys and TLS1.2, provided by GeoTrust Inc. to encrypt all communication between the Application and Server. Our website also uses secure connections, where available, when the user interacts with the website.

The user personal data is also stored on the user personal mobile phone device within encrypted files. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure and maintain the security of the personal information and data stored on the user mobile device on which our Application is installed or operated.

In no event will ATS, nor its employees, agents, affiliates, directors, investors, suppliers, contractors, licensors, distributors or other ATS clients be liable to you for any lost profits, lost savings, lost revenue, lost data, any other financial losses or incidental, indirect, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, arising from loss of personal information due to security breaches, on or relating to, the user mobile device on which our Application is installed or operated, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Links To Other Sites

Our Site, Server or Application may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

ATS has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Compliance with Laws

ATS will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law. ATS reserves the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of our Legal Terms and to take any action we deem appropriate, including but not limited to cancelling your Member account, reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to your profile, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information, as allowed under our Privacy Policy.

NewsLetter

ATS uses a third party newsletter mail service, mailchimp.com, to store and manage our mailing lists. By subscribing to our newsletter, via our website or app, you are explisitly giving ATS permission to store your personal contact information on the mailchimp.com servers. This personal information will be used to provide you with information regarding the ATSGeoSuite app and services, via email. Your personal information provided by subscribing to our newsletter will only used for the purpose of delivering the news letter to your email address. At any time, you may unsubscribe from our newsletter by using the unsubscribe option provided within the newsletter. ATS is not permitted, by mailchimp.com, to unsubscribe your subscription. on your behalf.

GDPR Compliance

In accordance with GDPR compliance, we will clarify that we are asking for your consent when obtaining personal information, we commit to a notification of a data breach event within 72 hours, and we will provide you with the "right to be forgotten" by Aquatronic Solutions.

To completely clarify the exact personal information that is held on our servers, ATS provides the following list of Personal information and user processed data sets we store on our servers:

  • The users email address
  • The users account password
  • The latitude and longitude coordinate of any user survey point data, processed through our servers.
  • If the user account is a free account, we store the Electro-Seismic data for any survey point collected by the user that is processed though our servers.
  • If the user account is a free account, we store the Electro-Telluric data for any survey point collected by the user that is processed though our servers.
  • If the user account is a free account, we store the Magneto-Telluric data for any survey point collected by the user that is processed though our servers.
  • If the user account is a free account, we store the Resistivity data for any survey point collected by the user that is processed though our servers.
  • If the user account is a free account, we store the Magnetic data for any survey point collected by the user that is processed though our servers.
  • We store the Date and time of processing for any survey point processed though our servers.
  • We store ATSGeoSuite usage tracking and Error Logging data on our servers if the user has given ATS permission to do so.
  • We store financial transaction data on our servers if the user has purchased services or products from us.

This information is stored in order to provide the user with the ability to track the users own use of the app server processing facilities on their account and to evaluate and improve our services.

The users personal email or user account password will never be shared with any third party vendor, under any circumstances. If the the user account is a paid account, then the users survey point coordinates, Time of processing, Electro-Seismic, Electro-Telluric, Magneto-Telluric, Magnetic and resistivity data will never be provided to any third party vendor under any circumstance. If the user account is a free account then the users email address, password will never be provided to any third party vendor, however, as per the terms of this agreement, ATS reserves the right to use and distribute the users survey point coordinates, Time of processing, Electro-Seismic, Electro-Telluric, Magneto-Telluric, Magnetic and resistivity data to any entity of our choosing.

Should the user, on a paid account, want to completely delete their account, and all the information relating to that account. We will do so if instructed by the user in writing on a signed document addressed to info@aquatronic.net. The user may also directly delete their account and account information through the "Account Management" features provided on the ATS GeoSuite App. Should the user, on a free account, want to delete their account, we will delete all the users information relating to the users account including the users email and password. We will do so if instructed by the user in writing on a signed document addressed to info@aquatronic.net. The user may also directly delete their account and account information through the "Account Management" features provided on the ATS GeoSuite App. However, if the user processed data through our servers using a free account, as per the terms of this agreement, Aquatronic Solutions ('ATS') reserves the right to use and distribute the users survey point coordinates, Time of processing, Electro-Seismic, Electro-Telluric, Magneto-Telluric, Magnetic and resistivity data to any entity of our choosing. All user personal information connected to these data sets will be removed from our data base. There will be no personal information connecting the user to the stored geophysical data once an account is deleted on a free account.

If you are operating the ATSGeoSuite app within a country that does not permit the transfer of data outside of that country or if said country does not allow for data to be stored on servers outside of said country, you are not permitted to use the ATSGeoSuite app within that country. By contravening this term of use, you agree in full, to bear full responsibility both legally and financially for any legal action against you as a result of the contravention of this term of use, by any party. In no event will ATS, nor its employees, agents, affiliates, directors, investors, suppliers, contractors, licensors, distributors or other ATS clients be liable to you for any lost profits, lost savings, lost revenue, lost data, any other financial losses or incidental, indirect, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, relating to, your illegal use of our software or services.

If the user does explicitly agree with these privacy policy terms by explicitly accepting the "I agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policies" option on the ATS GeoSuite App "Device Setup" menu, you are not permitted to use the app, servers and services provided by ATS under any circumstances and must immediately delete the app from any devices you may currently be using the app on. If you already have an account with ATS, you must contact ATS, at info@aquatronic.net, immediately after choosing to opt out of this agreement, so that we may immediately remove your personal information from our database.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

ATS GeoSuite may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@aquatronic.net.