Privacy Policy
Last updated: Tuesday, July 4 2024Introduction
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") applies to all visitors and customers of the Chiron.com hosted services and websites (collectively, the "Website" or "Websites") and self-managed installations, which are offered by Chiron LLP and/or any of its affiliates ("Chiron" or "we" or "us") and describes how we process your personal information in connection with those Websites or self managed installations, customer events and demos, and how we collect information through the use of cookies and related technologies. It also tells you how you can access and update your personal information and describes the data protection rights that may be available under your country’s or state's laws, including (in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), and UK), a right to object to some processing that we carry out or, where we rely on consent, how to withdraw that consent. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using any part of the Websites or self-managed installations, you acknowledge you have been informed of and consent to our practices with regard to your personal information and data.
Chiron is an open source project and collaborative community, as well as a company. This means that many portions of our Websites, including information you voluntarily provide, will be public-facing for the open sharing of innovative developments, ideas, and information that makes our collaborative community so great. While we are committed to open sharing, we strive to respect the privacy of individual community members and will minimize the information we collect and share. If you do not want to share your information, including personally identifiable information, with other community members and the public, please be thoughtful as to how you interact with our Websites and what information you provide through the Websites (for example, through creating a public profile, project contributions, comments, and blog posts).
Unless otherwise stated, we act as the data controller for the data processing operations described in this Privacy Policy.
We may provide additional information about our privacy practices in other places - for example, when we ask you to provide personal information in connection with a particular service or when you apply for a job with us.
What it means
This policy describes how we use your personal information when you use the Chiron app or visit our website. It includes:
- Use of cookies
- How you can access your personal info
- Your data protection rights under your country’s or state’s law
We suggest you read the privacy policy carefully as by using our website you are agreeing to it.
Chiron is an open-source project, so some of the information you voluntarily provide will be public facing for sharing ideas – it’s what makes us such a great collaborative community.
However, we are committed to minimizing the info we collect and share, and in particular any personal info.
Chiron is the Data Controller for what is described in this Privacy Policy.
We also might provide more information about other privacy related matters if you give us personal info, like if you apply for a job with us.
What information Chiron collects and why
Information from website visitors
Like most website operators, Chiron automatically collects (i) technical information about your device including your device's internet protocol (IP) address; and (ii) information about your visit to our Websites (the referral URL, the content viewed and the content interacted with).
Some of this information is collected using cookies and related technologies. See below for further information on these technologies. We collect this information to better understand how visitors use our Websites, to improve our Websites and experience for visitors, and to monitor the security of the Websites.
For logged-in customers to Chiron deployments, Chiron also collects this information on our application using our own software, to help us understand how to make the deployments more useful for different categories of customer.
What it means
We collect things like:
- IP address
- Information about your device
- Pages you have viewed
- Content you have viewed
We use cookies to do this and they help us understand how we can improve a user’s experience.
FYI, we don’t use any third-party cookies at all. This means we don’t run any retargeting ad campaigns, or use any other invasive tracking techniques that follow you around the internet.
Information Chiron does not collect
Chiron does not intentionally collect sensitive or special category personal information, such as genetic data, biometric data for the purposes of uniquely identifying a natural person, health information, or religious information.
Chiron does not knowingly collect information from or direct any of our Website or content specifically to children under the age of 18. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a customer is under the age of 18, we will close that account.
What it means
We don’t collect any seriously sensitive information, like genetic or biometric data, and definitely no data on children under 18.
If we suspect you’re under 18, we will close your account.
Chiron communications with you
If you are a registered user of the Websites and have supplied your email address, Chiron may occasionally send you an email to tell you about security, system information, new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Chiron and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. There's an unsubscribe link located at the bottom of each of the marketing emails we send you so you can stop receiving such emails at any time.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish your request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other customers. We will not publish your personal information in connection with your request.
What it means
Chiron will contact you, mainly over email, from time to time. We promise we won’t spam you, but you can unsubscribe whenever you like.
Cookies, tracking technologies and Do Not Track
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Chiron uses cookies to help Chiron identify and track visitors, their usage of the Websites, and their Website access preferences. Chiron visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers may set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Websites. Disabling browser cookies may cause certain features of Chiron's websites to not function properly.
Tracking technologies
We do not use third-party tracking services to collect information about you.
Do Not Track
“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference you can set in your browser if you do not want online services to collect and share certain kinds of information about your online activity from third party tracking services. Chiron does not track your online browsing activity on other online services over time and we do not permit third-party services to track your activity on our site. Because we do not share this kind of data with third party services or permit this kind of third party data collection for any of our users, and we do not track our users on third-party websites ourselves, we do not need to respond differently to an individual browser's Do Not Track setting.
What it means
To remember you, our system will give you a cookie. It's safe. We’re very careful to only have first-party cookies on our site, including when we embed content from other websites, such as YouTube.
Because Chiron doesn’t use third-party tracking services, we don’t need to do anything different when it comes to ‘Do Not Track’ settings on an individual's browser.
Job applications
This section sets out how we collect, store, and process personal information as part of our recruitment process. It only applies to users of our website who submit an application for one of our open roles and is supplemental to the above Privacy Policy.
We use Ashby , an online application provided by Ashby Inc., to assist with our recruitment process. We use Ashby to process personal information as a data processor on our behalf. Ashby is only entitled to process your personal data in accordance with our instructions.
Where you apply for a job opening posted by us, these provisions will apply to our processing of your personal information. When you apply for a job opening via the application function on a job site like LinkedIn or similar online service provider (referred to below as a “Partner”), you should note that the relevant Partner may retain your personal data and may also collect data from us in respect of the progress of your application. Any use by the Partner of your data will be in accordance with the Partner’s privacy policy.
Information we collect from applicants
Information we collect from you
We collect and process some or all of the following types of information from you:
- Information you provide when you apply for a role, including contact details such as name, email address, physical address, telephone number
- Information relating to your employment history such as resumé/CV, employment history, qualifications and skills
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence
- A record of your progress through any hiring process that we may conduct
- Details of your visits to Ashby’s Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, the site that referred you to Ashby’s Website and the resources that you access.
Information we collect from other sources
- Ashby provides Chiron with the ability to link the data you provide to us, with other publicly available information about you that you have published online, such as on LinkedIn, GitHub or other public social media profiles.
- Ashby allows Chiron to search various databases which may include your personal data (including your CV or résumé), to find possible candidates to fill our job openings. Where we find you in this way, we will obtain your personal data from these sources.
- We may receive your personal data from a third party who recommends you as a candidate for a specific job opening or for our business more generally.
What it means
When you apply for a job with us, we collect and process your personal information using Ashby, our applicant tracking system. We may also get information from public sources like LinkedIn.
How we use applicant information
- To communicate with you about the role you have applied for and to manage the recruitment process
- To consider your application for potential future job opportunities
We will never use a candidate's personal information for marketing purposes.
What it means
We use your data to manage the hiring process and for future job opportunities, but never for marketing.
Contacting Chiron about your privacy
The relevant data controller for any personal information processed in connection with our Websites or self-managed installations is Chiron Inc, 2261 Market Street #4008, San Francisco, CA 94114. If you apply for a job with us, the relevant data controller is the country-specific Chiron entity which will be your employer.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy and security practices or you wish to make a complaint about our compliance with applicable privacy laws, please feel free to contact us at privacy@chiron.one.
If your query is in connection with a job application, please email us at careers@chiron.one.
If you have questions or concerns about the way we are handling your personal information, or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please email us with the subject line "Privacy Concern" at privacy@chiron.one.
In most cases, we will respond within 30 days of receiving your message but please note for promptest response, we recommend emailing us.
What it means
If you have questions or concerns about your privacy or want to file a complaint, email us at privacy@chiron.one.
For job applications, email careers@chiron.one.
Privacy policy changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Chiron may change its privacy policy from time to time, and in Chiron's sole discretion.
We may also provide notification to customers who have provided us email addresses of material changes to this Privacy Policy through our Website. Chiron encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any minor changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
What it means
We might change our privacy policy, so check our website often. Your use of our site means you accept any changes.