Your Privacy Matters to Us
Elevator 8, LLC, U.S.A is a social network and online platform for innovators, startups, investors, and businesses or professionals who support the growth of other businesses. Our registered users (“Members”) share their professional identities and experiences, engage with their connections and others, exchange knowledge and professional insights, post and view relevant content, launch polls to gain insight about topics of their interest, host online events, pose questions in forums, list their services, businesses, products, and requests, and learn and help others build their skills. Most importantly, they pitch their businesses and share funding opportunities. While Elevator 8 is a private network, some of the content and data is viewable to non-members (“Visitors”). Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor to our Services.
Elevator 8 LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) owns and operates this website (the “Service”). A visitor or end user of our Services shall be referred to as “you”, “your(s)”, “yourself”, “member(s) or “user (s)”.
This Privacy Policy applies when you use our Services (described below). We offer our users choices about the data we collect, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy (also containing Cookie Policy), Settings and our Support Center.
Key Terms
Choices You make choices for your own profile settings, or you request from our support team to adjust settings for mandatory information. You may also choose to adjust some cookies settings from your browsers.
Designated Countries are countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.
Services is the https://www.elevator8.com, and https://www.elevator8.com websites or online platform operated by Elevator 8 LLC and third-party services we use.
Data Controllers and Third Parties If you are in or outside of the “Designated Countries”, Elevator 8 LLC will be the controller of your personal data provided to us, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services. As a User of our Service, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates.
Data Processor is any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers to process your data more effectively.
Personal Data as described in various privacy laws and information security standards, means data about an individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession), either on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.
Usage Data is data collected automatically or generated by use of the Service (for example, the duration of a page visit is usage data).
Consent Where we process data based on consent, we will ask for your explicit permission to have it or share it. You may withdraw your consent at any time, but that will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal.
Terms shall mean our Terms and Conditions of Use.
Changes any changes to our Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.”
Elevator 8 (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy as required, and if we make substantial amendments to it, we will provide notice through our website or by other means and provide you with the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may choose to delete your account.
By continued use of our website (s) you acknowledge that when we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy, collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.
1. Data We Collect
A. Data You Provide to Us
Signing-Up Data
To create an account, you are required to provide data including your name and last name, business email address, organization name, title/role, country, phone number and a password. If you lack a business email you are required to share social media links and other additional information. If you register for a Premium Service, you will need to provide payment (e.g., credit card) and billing information. If you request to receive an identity and/or a business verification badge, you are required to provide personally identifiable information (such as a digital image of a valid government issued identification card).
Profile Data
You have choices about the information you share with other members on your profile, such as your education, organization, business, what you are seeking on the platform, photo, city or, area and phone number. Some Members may choose to complete a separate business listing form that would require some details about their businesses. Providing additional information on your profile is not mandatory; however, more information helps you to get more connections and achieve your goals fasters. It’s your choice whether to include sensitive information on your profile and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.
Posting and Uploading
We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our website such as when you fill out a form, (e.g., with demographic data), respond to a poll or survey, start a meeting, submit a Verification Request or provide information about events, e.g. times, places, attendees and contacts.
B. Data from Others
Content
You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, photos, videos) on our website. We also may collect public information about you, such as professional-related news and accomplishments.
Contact Information
We receive contact information about you when others send invitation messages to you to use our Services. We also receive information about you from Third Parties (service providers) when you choose to verify your Identity or verify your business on Elevator 8, or when an organization signs you up for using our service.
C. Service Use
We log usage data when you visit our website such as when you view or click on content or community Ads on Listings, when you perform a search, start a group or forum topic, share articles or a livestream or comment on posts. We use logins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
D. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are used to recognize you when you visit our Site. Cookies are also used for:
We use Google Analytics and other cookies to track the activity on our site and hold certain information to help us operate, improve, analyze, and protect our Service. Information on how Google collects and uses this data can be found at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt-out of all Google supported analytics within the Services by going to the following webpage: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
E. Your Device and Location
When you visit our website, we receive information about your network (e.g., IP address) and information that identifies your device but not your identity. We do not use tools to identify your precise location, unless you list a service, request or business using our listings/advertising tool.
F. Messages and Interactions
We collect information about you when you send or receive messages on our website. For example, if you receive or accept an Elevator 8 connection request, or when you comment to a post or reply to one or when you are tagged by others, start a group or forum discussion, blog, start an event or poll, or start an in-group zoom meeting. We also use technologies to scan posts to protect our site. For example, we use such technology to manage or block content that violates our Terms and Conditions of Use.
G. Other Social Networks
We receive information about your shares from Elevator 8 with services provided by others and vice-versa.
H. Your Data When New Features Are Added
We will often introduce new features which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or if we change how we collect, use, or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.
2. How We Use Your Data
How we use your personal data will depend on which options you choose to use and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide to improve our services. We do not sell your data to third parties. Data shared with verification agents is shared only with your prior consent and upon your request to use the verification service. Data will be shared with law enforcement bodies if requested for criminal or fraud investigations.
A. Services
Our Services allow you to connect and stay in touch and up to date with partners, clients, and other professionals. Our services also allow others to assess the degree to which it is safe to connect and do business with you. We use data about you to enable a safe and relevant networking environment for you and other members. We will also use your activity and other data, including your name and photo, to provide notices to your network and other community members. For example, subject to your settings, we may notify others that you have updated your profile, posted new content, took a social action, advertised on listings, started a blog, forum topic, opened a group, started a poll, created an event, or made new connections.
According to your own posting options, registered users may choose to save your posts or share them to other social services, in which case such shares would be subject to such networks’ Privacy Policies.
All users have control on who views their personal information and posts. Public posts, public blogs, and public forum discussions, however, are indexed by search engines.
B. Premium Membership
Our Premium Membership Services provide our subscribers with tools including directing messaging, advertising, blogging, live streaming, creation of groups and forums, appearance of posts across community activity feeds should a premium member wish to use this option. Except for public posts, and some essential information such as Name, Organization, Country and in some cases social media links, you will be able to control the privacy of personal information and to block users you do not wish to receive communication from.
Users who choose to verify their Identities and Businesses will consent to share identification and other documents or information with ourselves and our verification service provider. Verification Badges will display generic information such as that identity and/or business as well as adverse media have been checked and verified and that the results are positive. Where the results of checks are not in favor of the service requestor, this member will not receive their badge and where evidence of compromised reputation exists, their activities on Elevator 8 will be restricted. Elevator 8 will not share any negative information for restricted members on its websites or elsewhere, unless information is formally requested by law enforcement agencies, or where it is necessary to report users engagement in questionable/suspicious illicit activities.
C. Communications
We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our website, or through messages sent to your Elevator 8 inbox. We will send you messages about the availability or down time of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. Opting out of receiving our messages is not an option.
D. Advertising/Listing
We use a third-party tool for community advertising. This tool will collect information about:
The service provider would collect technical information about the tool’s performance.
We do not share your personal data with ad networks. We respect self-regulatory principles for advertising and will ensure that community members using our listings tool will not flood community feeds with their Ads, since members have the option to report and block users who violate our community’s code of conduct with regards to Advertising.
Clicking on external Ad links shared by other community members from their profiles will give information about you to the external Ad creators. We have no control over your private information when you click on external links. We have no control on your information when you share from Elevator 8 to other networks either.
Ads/Listings Creators
When you use the Listings tool all members will see your listed service, business, or funding, mentoring, service, or partnership requests in the Listings Directory and in their newsfeeds.
Unless you work for an organization and will advertise its services or opportunities, Ads on behalf of non-community members and pay per click Ads are prohibited on Elevator 8. Members who violate this rule will have their accounts restricted.
E. Marketing
We may occasionally do unpaid promotions of promising innovations, ideas, startups, services or public posts and events of members or non-members. In this case, information that you provided as a member (such as contact information), will be shared with other community members or organizations who are not your connections.
F. Research
We use data, including your feedback, to conduct research to develop our Services for your benefit. We might also use your non identifiable data (aggregated) with organizations interested in research for development.
We seek to create economic opportunity for all those who aspire to start businesses, grow them, or improve their services. We also aim to provide those who seek to guide others to success with a mentoring platform that rises to their expectations. In this context, we occasionally conduct polls and surveys.
Polls and Surveys
Polls and surveys are conducted by us and other community members. Members are not obliged to participate in such activities. Aggregated data from polls and surveys that do not identify members may be shared with others.
G. Security and Fraud Investigations
We might use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other unlawful violations or criminal offenses.
3. Information Shared on Elevator 8
A. Information Others Can See
Your basic profile information is visible to all members, subject to your settings. If your posts are public, it can also be visible to others off our website (search engines). Your settings, degree of connection with the viewing member, the subscriptions they may have, their access permissions and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile information and whether members can view certain fields in your profile.
Posts, Videos, Photos, Blogs, Live Streams, Documents, Likes, Follows, Events, Comments, Discussions, Groups, Replies
Enterprise Accounts
Organizations may sign-up some of their employees to use our Services. In this case the designated employer may review your accounts.
B. Third-Party Service Providers
We use third-party services to help us provide our service (e.g., maintenance, analysis, payments, verifications, fraud detection, live-streaming, and security). Such parties will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and like ourselves, are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes. Should they disclose such information to other parties, it is not the responsibility of Elevator 8.
C. Legal Disclosures
It is possible that we might need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we fairly believe that disclosure is necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government law enforcement agencies; (2) exercise or protect the rights, safety and integrity of Elevator 8, our members or staff; (3) defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) enforce our agreements with you. We shall notify members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe that the requests are vague or lack proper authority.
Law Enforcement Agencies
Except in emergency situations, law enforcement agents requesting information about members must submit requests made through formal U.S. legal procedures (subpoenas, court orders, and search warrants). Please note that certain types of member data, including messages, invitations, and connections, can only be disclosed pursuant to a valid search warrant from an entity with proper jurisdiction.
Data requests from outside of the United States and the EU must be made through an official Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty or, letter rogatory.
All requests must include the agent’s Badge/ID number, formal contact information and must specify the investigated member account by providing either, (1) the full name of the member; (2) Email address associated with the account or (3) Mobile phone number. Data requests may be delivered by email to info.legal@elevator8.com.
D. Change in Control or Sale of Elevator 8
Your information or personal data is subject to sharing as part of a sale, merger or change in Elevator 8 management or control. Any other entity which buys us or becomes part of our business will have the right to access or continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
4. Data Retention
We retain your personal data if you keep your account open or as needed. This includes data you or others provided to us, and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services.
5. Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data
Controlling and managing your personal data:
Delete Data You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data.
Change or Correct Data You can edit some of your personal data through your account or you can ask us to change, update or fix your data if it’s inaccurate.
Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate).
Right to Access and Save Data: You can download a copy of your personal data.
Requests to change or delete or restrict Use of Data can be sent to support@elevator8.com
Residents in the Designated Countries may have additional rights under their laws.
6. Closing Accounts
If you close your Elevator 8 account, your personal data will not be visible to others within 24 hours of closure. Information of closed accounts is retained for 30 days except whereas noted below.
Compliance with legal obligations. Meeting regulatory requirements, resolving disputes, maintaining security, preventing fraud and abuse
Account Restriction. We have restricted your account for breach of our Terms and Conditions of Use,
Active Subscription to Communications from. When you closed your account, you did not “unsubscribe” from receiving further messages from us.
Information you have shared with others. Information you shared with others through updates or group posts, forums, or messages, will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or inbox. Your profile may continue to be displayed in search engine results.
7. Security
We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, and regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or other safeguards.
8. Data Transfers
We process data both inside and outside of the United States and use mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different from, and not as protective as the laws of your own country.
9. Lawful Basis for Processing
We only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful basis. Lawful basis include your consent, contract (to deliver the Elevator 8 Service you have requested) and legitimate interests.
You have the right to withdraw or decline your consent to use your personal data at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact info.legal@elevator8.com.
10. Privacy Protection Rights in Designated Countries and California
A. Residents/Nationals of Designated Countries
B. What we will ask for with regards to such Privacy Requests
We may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
Your privacy request must include the following information: (i) your full name, address and/or e-mail address; (ii) attached documents establishing your identity; and (iii) a clear and concise description of the Personal Data you seek to enforce any of your privacy rights. If you request rectification, please indicate amendments to be made and attach documentation to back up your request.
Upon receipt of your request, and after review, we may then edit, deactivate and/or delete your Personal Data from our Services for the maximum term allowed by the GDPR on each applicable case. In case where deletion is impossible, we will make such information permanently inaccessible.
To learn more about privacy rights in Designated Countries please visit the following links:
C. Residents of California
Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), Elevator 8 is obligated to provide the following Privacy Policy notice regarding the categories of Personal Data that we may collect or disclose about California residents. CCPA provides Californians with the following rights:
Overall, we may collect the following categories of Personal Data from our users, as necessary to fulfill our legal obligations and operational business purposes: (i) Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as contact and payment information; (ii) Identifiers, such as online identifier, IP address and name; (iii) Business information, such history and funding particulars; (iv) Browsing history and interactions on our website; (v) Geo-localization data, such as location you provide us with, and IP address; (vi) Multimedia content created in connection with our community activities; (vii) Payment information; (viii) Inferences drawn from any of the Personal Data listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.
11. Cookies
Cookies are small files of information stored by web browsers (such as username and password) for a specific period, or for the length of a user’s session on a website. Cookies help inform websites about the user activity on a website, enabling websites to personalize the user experience.
A. Cookies we use and their purpose
Authentication Cookies. Authentication cookies help manage user sessions. They are generated when a user logs into an account via their browser. They ensure that sensitive information is delivered to the correct user sessions by associating user account information with a cookie identifier string. If you’re signed into Elevator 8, cookies help us show you the right information and personalize your experience in line with your settings.
Session Cookies. Session cookies allow users to be recognized as they navigate the website so that any item or page changes they make, are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire once a user logs out.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of our Services, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions.
Functional Cookies. These cookies enable the Website to remember a user’s choices. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post or watch videos on the and do other activities. Plugins necessary to provide our service use such cookies. If you interact with a plugin, the plugin will use cookies to identify you and initiate your request. Plug-ins are on our site and are not downloaded to your devices.
Efficiency Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you use Elevator 8 (for example which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors). This helps us to improve the way our Services work and understand the interests of our users. Some of our efficiency cookies are managed for us by third parties, and these cookies do not collect information that could identify you.
Persistent Cookies. These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences. We may also collect and use the data contained in log files, which may include your IP address, the time you visited our platform, and which pages you visited.
When you access our platform via a mobile device, you are asked to install a Progressive Web App on your device’s Home Screen for Elevator 8. The Icon for Elevator 8 that is on your device’s Home Screen will provide you with a functionality that is identical to that of a Mobile App without making an app download or using much storage space on your device. Unlike mobile apps, PWAs do not require installations of updates made to a site. In this case we and the PWA service provider, may use your mobile device ID (that is. the unique identifier assigned to a mobile device by the manufacturer) and/or Advertising ID (for Apple iOS) instead of cookies to recognize you and track displayed web pages for Elevator 8, along with their performance. For the latest versions of Apple iOS, your device would request one or more times, your consent for advertising tracking. Since we do not advertise ourselves, tracking for advertising is of no concern to Elevator 8, but the information will be collected by operators of web browsers.
B. What third parties use cookies for, in connection with our Services?
Third parties may use cookies to help us provide our Services and improve their own.
C. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Where required, we enable you to reject the use of certain cookies for purposes such as advertising and analytics and research by revisiting your cookie settings, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal. You can change your preferences at any time by visiting the following websites:
* Before changing your settings, please note that disabling navigational or functional cookies may affect the operation of the website for you.
Please find your browser’s instructions:
To turn off analytical cookies and disable collection of data about your navigation, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
12. Do Not Track (DNT)
DNT is a concept that has been promoted by regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing Internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites by using browser settings. Elevator 8 does not generally respond to “do not track” signals. We do not deliberately share data that personally identify you with third parties without your consent.
Contact Information
If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first contact Elevator 8 online either through our community page, support link, or by email to support@elevator8.com .
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