Privacy Policy

PitchWall takes your privacy seriously, that’s why we have updated our platform to meet GDPR standards, and we will continue to invest in industry-leading data privacy initiatives. We believe GDPR is not just a regulation; respecting the privacy rights of users (regardless of origin) is the right thing to do.

Our Privacy Policy is intended to describe you how and what data we collect, and how and why we use your personal data. It also describes options we provide for you to access, update or otherwise take control of your personal data that we process.

What information do we collect?

Personal data

When you sign up directly through PitchWall we receive your Name and Email id, we also provide login through some popular sites mentioned below:

Twitter
Google
Github

If you provide PitchWall with API access to any of the above-mentioned account, then we receive following information through API

Name
Email Id
Unique Id
Profile picture

This is very basic information which we store in order to create your PitchWall account, and we create your identity on PitchWall through this personal information only.

Product submission: When a user submits a product on PitchWall, he fills up relevant information related to that product which is already publicly available like Name, brief description, URL and Images, and videos of product.

Cookies:

These are small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser
We use cookies to manage sessions and to redirect user to the correct url. We collect only URL through cookies , apart from this there are other cookies by third parties.

We might partner with third party ad networks to show ads on our website or manage our ads on other websites. Our partners use cookies and web beacons to collect info about you and show you targeted advertising. This info can’t identify you personally. We may partner with third party data providers to match IP addresses with company and contact names. Our partners may also do the same. You can deactivate or block these cookies.

Optout / Erase cookies

Payment related information: When you pay on the PitchWall, we only store two things, amount and product (for which payment is made) all other information is collected, stored and processed by Paypal and Stripe.

Third-Party Tools/Analytics on the Website

The Website utilizes third-party tracking tools and a few more other tools to facilitate our operations from third-party service providers, which may enable these third parties to analyze our Website data and traffic for various purposes. Some of these third-party service providers may collect information from this Website for retargeting and interest-based advertising purposes. All of these tools are hosted by the third parties who provide them, and your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of the third parties providing them. These tools include, but are not limited to, those below

Google Analytics: We may use Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to collect information regarding visitor behavior and visitor demographics on our Website and to develop website content. This analytics data is not tied to any Personal Data.

For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ . You can opt-out of Google’s collection and processing of data generated by your use of the Services by visiting http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Typeform: We use Typeform to collect users’ feedback which consists of their suggestions to improve platform, rating and Email id (which is optional). For more information about Typeform, please visit www.typeform.com/help/gdpr-compliance/

MailChimp: We use MailChimp to send newsletters to our subscribers. For more information about Mailchimp’s services, visit https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Medium: Our blog blog.pitchwall.co is hosted on Medium. For more information about Medium’s services, please visit medium.com/policy/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9

PayPal: We collect our payment through PayPal, and while processing payments we store only two values provided by the user, amount and product (for which payment is made), the rest is taken care of by PayPal. For more information about PayPal’s services, please visit paypal.com

Sentry : We use sentry for the purpose of bug reports. For more information on Sentry, please visit: sentry.io

MixPanel : Apart from Google Analytics we also use MixPanel as an analytics tool. For related privacy policy please visit: mixpanel.com

How we utilize information.

We collect minimum data and use it only for important things such as Delivering, improving, updating and enhancing the Services we provide to you.

We utilize this information:

To Create your identity/account on PitchWall.

To provide, maintain, optimize, research and improve the Website;

To fulfill your and prospective Clients’ requests for the Services;

To improve and optimize the operation and performance of our Services:

To understand and analyze how you use our Services and what is most relevant to you;

To send Newsletter emails, information about the Services including confirmations, invoices, payment processing, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;

To manage your information and account, to improve and administer our Website,

To process payments

For Serving advertisements.

OPT OUT

From website cookies/Web beacons

• Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
• Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
• Android: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en-GB&oco=1
• Windows Phone: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/block-enable-or-allow-cookies
• Blackberry: https://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Web-and-WebWorks-Development/How-to-Enable-browser-cookies-for-a-blackberry-browser/td-p/211133

From Newsletter emails : You can opt-out from newsletter emails by unsubscribing from our email list. The Unsubscribe option can be found at the bottom of the newsletter email.

We Secure the Information We Collect

Securing the information provided by our Clients and collected through our Website is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, including utilization of encryption where appropriate. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your own passwords. If you have reason to believe that your passwords or Personal Data are no longer secure, please promptly notify us at [email protected]

How you can access, update or delete your data.

To easily access, view, update, delete or port your personal data (where available), please sign into your Account and visit “Edit Profile > Account” (https://pitchwall.co/profile/account) Or you can email us at [email protected] for additional information and guidance for accessing, updating or deleting data.

Please note you can directly delete your account (which consists of your personal information), startups/products submitted by you, posts and your comments from your account, visit “ Edit Profile > Account”.

You can easily modify almost all the data you submitted from “privacy & settings” except for your email id. If you want any help regarding alteration of email id then please send an email to us at [email protected]

Contact us.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, our practices or our Services, you may contact us by sending an email at [email protected] or fillup the form pitchwall.co/pages/contact