Privacy Policy of Typhoon Forge
Typhoon Forge is committed to developing and deploying cutting-edge meteorological technology solutions. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process, and protect your personal data when you interact with our online platform, services, or solutions. We are dedicated to ensuring the privacy and security of your information in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant acts.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our advanced weather modeling, climate risk assessment, meteorological data analytics, custom weather forecasting tools, storm prediction systems, and environmental monitoring solutions.
- Personal Data You Provide: This includes information you provide when you register for an account, subscribe to our services, contact our support team, or engage with our platform. Such data may include your name, organization name, address, payment information, and contact details.
- Usage Data: We automatically collect information on how our services are accessed and used. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, access times, and other statistical data related to your interactions with our platform.
- Meteorological and Environmental Data: While much of the data we process is non-personal, in certain contexts, environmental monitoring solutions or custom tools may involve data that could, when combined with other information, be linked to identifiable individuals or locations. We ensure such processing adheres to strict privacy and data minimization principles.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information to enhance your experience and the functionality of our offerings.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data for various purposes, primarily:
- To provide, operate, and maintain our advanced meteorological services.
- To improve, personalize, and expand our cutting-edge solutions.
- To understand and analyze how you use our platform.
- To develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
- To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the service, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
- To process your transactions and manage your orders for our solutions.
- To find and prevent fraud and ensure the security of our systems.
- For compliance with legal obligations and to protect our legal rights.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (GDPR)
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Typhoon Forge processes personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Performance of a Contract: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract (e.g., providing subscribed services).
- Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided those interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms (e.g., improving our services, preventing fraud).
- Consent: We have obtained your explicit consent for specific processing activities (e.g., for certain marketing communications). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legal Obligation: The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Typhoon Forge is subject.
4. Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal data with third parties in the following situations:
- Service Providers: We may engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services (e.g., payment processing, data hosting, analytics). These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal data for any other purpose with your explicit consent.
5. Data Security
The security of your personal data is paramount to us. We implement robust technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, accidental loss, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
6. Data Retention
Typhoon Forge will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including for fulfilling any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When we no longer need your personal data, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, and subject to certain limitations, you have the following data protection rights:
- The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
8. International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. Typhoon Forge takes all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
Typhoon Forge
1 Fusionopolis Way,
#17-01 Sandcrawler,
Singapore, Singapore,
138632
Singapore