Privacy Policy

Last Updated

1st November 2020

Introduction

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

Our websites (including: checksheet.app), later referred to as “Websites”
Our Google Sheets Add On “Check Sheet”, later referred to as “Add On”.

At times in this Privacy Policy we will refer to both our Websites and Add On collectively as our “Services”.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our Services, if you do not agree with any parts of it do not use our Website and/or Service. By accessing our Services you agree to this Privacy Policy.

Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better. We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources.

Information You Provide to Us

Email Notifications: When you set up an email notification in our Add On out of necessity we collect the email address that you provide to us so that we can send emails to it.
Communications with us: If you contact us directly, for example to ask for support or provide feedback we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

Information We Collect Automatically

Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.
Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that you perform on our services — in other words, who did what and when (e.g. [User 5] installed our Add On at [time/date]). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better, and understand and make predictions about user retention.
Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
Information from cookies & other technologies: 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. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. Check Sheet uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also get information about you from other sources. When you use our Add On we are provided with the email address linked to your Google account. We use this to identify you within our Services but we do not store it directly.

In addition to this the payments platform for our paid subscriptions is provided by “Paddle.com Market Limited” who act as the Merchant of Record for all transactions. Information relating to payments including: name, location, contact details, and billing information that are provided by you may be stored and processed by “Paddle.com Market Limited”. All such information is subject to the privacy policy of “Paddle.com Market Limited”.

“Paddle.com Market Limited” and us have a legitimate interest to use provided data for product fulfilment, order processing, fraud prevention, and product support.

Required Permissions

Your use of our Services does not give us access to any Personal Data stored in your Google account account such as name, physical address, or credit card details.

When you run our Add On for the first time, you will see a consent screen with the permissions it requires to work:

See, edit, create and delete your spreadsheets in Google Drive

In order for our Add On to work it needs access to read the contents of the spreadsheets you have installed it in so it can determine what changes have been made. All processing of your spreadsheet data happens within Google’s servers and we do not store any data from your spreadsheets.

Send email as you

To send you email notifications we may use Google’s service that allows us to send them from your account.

Connect to an external service

If you need to send a large number of email notifications we send these via third party vendors: “Elastic Email Inc”. We connect to these third party vendors securely using HTTPS and only share with them the minimum information required to send you an email.

Allow this application to run when you are not present

Our Add On runs in the background after you or anyone with access to your spreadsheet makes changes to it.

Display and run third-party web content in prompts and sidebars inside Google applications

To provide you with a good user experience we use some third party content such as the Bootstrap CSS framework and Vue.js JavaScript framework that is hosted on an external CDN (Content Delivery Network).

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

To provide our Services: For example, to set up and maintain your account, send you notifications from our Add On, provide customer service, and verify user information.
To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Services: For example, by providing automatic upgrades and new versions of our Services. Or, for example, by monitoring and analysing how users interact with our Services so we can create new features that we think our users will enjoy or make our Services easier to use.
To fix problems with our Services: For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.
To communicate with you: For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our products, or keep you up to date on Check Sheet; or calling you to share offers and promotions that we think will be of interest to you. If you don’t want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time. If you opt out, we’ll still send you important updates relating to your account.

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy.

Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us. This includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like “Elastic Email Inc”, which sends our email notifications, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you and cloud compute and storage services); those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers); those that make tools to help us run our operations (like programs that help us with task management, scheduling, word processing, email and other communications, and collaboration among our teams); other third-party tools that help us manage operations. These analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognise your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyse and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Check Sheet and does not cover the collection of information by any third-party advertisers or analytics providers
Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
With your consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties when you authorise us to do so.
Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.
Published support requests: If you send us a request for assistance (for example, via a support email or one of our other feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to clarify or respond to your request, or to help us support other users.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that: (1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or (2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or (3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or (4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalise your experience; or (5) You have given us your consent.

Transferring Information

Because our Services are offered worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us, other members of our group of companies, or third-party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the How and Why We Use Information section above. When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include:

In the case of US based entities, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them, or ensuring they have signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield; or
In the case of entities based in other countries outside the EEA, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we’re not legally required to keep it. For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of our Websites, like the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyse traffic to our Websites and investigate issues if something goes wrong on one of our websites. After the thirty days are up, the deleted content may remain on our backups and caches until purged.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorised access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

Opt out of marketing communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us. Just follow the instructions in those communications or let us know. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you other communications, like those about your account and legal notices.
Set your browser to reject cookies: At this time, we do not respond to “do not track” signals across all of our Services. However, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our Services, with the drawback that certain features of our Services may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

Request access to your personal data;
Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. The CCPA also requires us to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information we collect, as that term is defined in the law, so, here it is. In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:

Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and device and online identifiers);
Commercial information (your billing information and purchase history, for example);
Characteristics protected by law (for example, you might provide your gender as part of a research survey for us);
Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of our Services, like the actions you take as an administrator of a WordPress.com site);
Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);
Audio, electronic, visual or similar information (such as your profile picture, if you uploaded one);
Professional or employment-related information (for example, your company and team information if you are a Happy Tools user, or information you provide in a job application); and
Inferences we make (such as likelihood of retention or attrition).

You can find more information about what we collect in the Information We Collect section above. We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the How and Why We Use Information section. And we share this information with the categories of third parties described in the Sharing Information section. If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:

Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you;
Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;
Opt out of any sale of personal information; and
Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

Contacting Us About These Rights

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to or you’d like to contact us about one of the other rights, scroll down to “How to Reach Us” to, well, find out how to reach us. When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything. For example, if you are a user, we will need you to contact us from the email address associated with your account. You can also designate an authorised agent to make a request on your behalf by giving us written authorisation. We may still require you to verify your identity with us.

Controllers

Check Sheet is the data controller of your Personal Dat and may be contacted in any manner set forth in the How to Reach Us section of this Privacy Policy.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us through our email at contact@checksheet.app.

Credit and Licensing

Adapted from Automattic’s Privacy Policy that they have kindly made available under the Creative Commons Sharealike license. As such this Privacy Policy is also made available under the same license.