Privacy Policy

Introduction

The present Privacy Policy extends to LinkLight SASU (herein “Mantiks” the business name of the company).

Mantiks is a global provider of actionable and accurate B2B databases, for account-based marketing purposes.

Mantiks’s proprietary technology (the “Platform” – marketed under the name “Mantiks”), provides tools and services that enable salespeople and marketers to target qualified leads. Using powerful artificial intelligence algorithms to scan the web, including job postings, and identify highly targeted prospects. Salespeople and Marketers are empowered to find new customers based on their recruitment needs, technologies, industry, number of employees and much more.

Purpose of the Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Policy”) covers:

Mantiks Tools use are primarily directed to digital professionals (BtoB). However, they are two categories of users of Mantiks Tools:

  • Digital professional such SaaS company and other partners (“Partner(s)”)
  • End-users, who are visitors, prospects or users of our Website and/or Social Networks, individual users of mobile, tablet applications or individual visitors of a mobile website or app (herein “User(s)” or “You”)

The purpose of this Policy is to set out:

  • How Mantiks processes information collected via its Platform, Website and Social Networks
  • How Mantiks protects the collected information as well
  • Inform You how Mantiks collects and processes information about You, and the way to exercise Your rights in respect with data protection

By visiting or using Mantiks Tools, You are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Territorial scope

This Privacy Policy applies for all territories where Mantiks trades. However, the definition of personal data and applicable data protection regulation may be different depending on the country. Mantiks will ensure to comply with relevant regulations, especially undertakes to respect the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, known as “GDPR”.

For more information, please contact us at contact@mantiks.io

Mantiks - Data Processing Purpose of data processing

When using the site, some personal data that can be connected to an individual person may be collected and processed. The legal basis for processing personal data is Mantiks’s legitimate interest and/or consent provided by an individual, when providing his/her personal data in connection with a subscription of blog posts, newsletters or other materials at our website or by other identifiable means. Data subject has the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time in an easy way, for example by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email that is sent to data subjects and following the simple instructions at the unsubscription page.

Processing of personal data will be limited to what is justifiable to provide our website users with improved experience when browsing at our website, and to what is deemed necessary for Mantiks in carrying out its business and improving its services, provided that these interests are not outweighed by the data subjects rights and interests.

Personal data of the Contact register may be processed for following purposes:

  • sending monthly newsletters and daily blog notifications,
  • registration to the events of Mantiks and provide information regarding the events,
  • direct marketing, if the Participant has given consent;
  • operational management, administration, analysis, categorization and development of the participant data,
  • improve and develop Mantiks’s services and products,
  • statistical analyses,
  • development and reporting related to the business operations, and
  • fulfil the obligations based on law and orders of the authorities

Type of data processed

Privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting personal information that is processed in our database product and service (hereinafter referred to as “Service”).

If a data subject has provided personal data with his/her consent, they are referred to in this statement as a “Participant”. Participant means a person, who fills in forms of Mantiks or otherwise registers to any of the seminars or events. With Participant is also meant any other person, who submits his/hers information for contact purposes to Mantiks for example through Mantiks's website, online chat, by e-mail or any other way.

Participants

Mantiks collects personal data primarily from the Participants, from Mantiks’s customer database and through cookies

If the Participant decides to provide Mantiks his/her personal information, Mantiks collects the information the Participant provides by filling in forms or contacting us. This includes information needed to fulfil the necessary actions regarding newsletter subscriptions, content downloads, registration to events and webinars, informing participants and marketing objectives. To improve services Mantiks may ask Participant to provide us with additional information about Participant such as professional interests, experiences with Mantiks as well as more detailed contact preferences. When you provide Mantiks with any personal information you consent to us collecting and using that information according to this policy.

The Register may contain the following personal data:

  • Basic information (name, title, position, profession, country),
  • Contact information (phone, e-mail address),
  • The Company/Organisation represented and its technology stack,
  • Chat discussions, and
  • Participant’s activity (submission of reviews, information on received/opened emails from Mantiks)

Companies’ representatives

Most of the data processed in the Service consists of information about legal entities, such as Companies key figures, the area of business and general contact details. However, a limited amount of data is collected and processed which may be linked to the name of natural persons based on their public role in the Company’s business, which has been publicly disclosed in their role as the Company’s representative or is otherwise available and freely accessible in the public domain.

Sensitive data

Mantiks do neither collect nor process any sensitive data such as personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation, where the domestic regulation prohibits the processing of a such data, like under GDPR regulation.

Use of cookies and related technology

With the cookies Mantiks can collect information about Participant’s usage of internet and online service in general. With this information we can improve our website and the services to meet the needs of Participant such as offer services targeted more accurately to Participant’s liking, e.g. by saving your favorites and by identifying you every time you return to our site. Cookies may be disabled from Participant’s browser. Please note that by disabling cookies can prevent you from using some content/services on our website.

Mantiks may use other technologies or third party analytical software to collect and use certain non-personal data that does not enable Mantiks to identify the person. Mantiks may use such non-personal data for purposes of analysing usage of the websites and services, and managing, providing and further developing the websites and services.

Non-personal data may include general, aggregated or demographic information. It will not be linked to any personal information, through cookies or other means, without a person's consent. This type of anonymous, aggregated profiling and session data may include information that the person has provided to Mantiks through the use of the websites, services or products, or taking a part in surveys, polls, etc. However, it will not be tied to any personal information, without the person’s consent.

To comply with applicable law, Mantiks deletes by default the Cookie processed through the Website within 13 months. At the end of this period, Mantiks shall ask again for your consent through the Cookie banner as explained above.

Role of Mantiks as a Controller or Processor

If you are located in one of the countries of the European Economic Area, Mantiks may act as a “controller” as defined under applicable law when processing your personal data. Mantiks may also act as a “processor” as defined under applicable law to the extent that it processes your personal data on behalf of and at the instruction of another party, for example one of our Customers.

We are a data controller when we receive personal information:

  • from our website. This is because we use this data for product improvement.

We are a data processor for any other processing activities as we will follow our Customers instructions. Please note that if you wish to exercise any of your rights with any of our Customers, you must make your request directly to those Customers, based on information and procedures that they supply. Mantiks Customers own the Platform data that they maintain in the Platform. Mantiks does not control how those Customers use Platform data.

When acting as a data controller, Mantiks always relies on your consent to process personal information. We also rely on our legitimate interest when we process aggregated data to improve our products.

How data is collected

The Service is a software-based database, using intelligent data collection technology and machine learning algorithms. The software searches open and public data on a constant basis, extracts, and indexes the data and populates the fields companies with the help of named-entity recognition. The collected data consists of data in the public domain, such as public officials, Patent and Registration offices, company websites, press releases and other source material made available to the public by the Company or its representatives. The Service may also provide links to external websites, where Company related information is published.

How personal data is processed

Mantiks processes only publicly available personal data that is directly related to the person’s role in the Company. Our Service is designed not to collect or process any personal data in the Service in excess of what is directly relative to the Company information. Processing is limited to have a minimal privacy impact and the processing of personal data is not extended beyond what the data subjects could reasonably expect (names and contact details of Company representatives, as available in the original public source). Our intelligent data collection technology constantly re-searches and updates the information we collect and process, which provides that no inaccurate or obsolete personal data related to Companies is stored in the Service beyond a reasonable time. If the original source is updated or removed, the personal data in the Service will also be updated or removed after a short period of time.

Retention

Personal data will be stored in the database only as long as and only to the extent that is necessary to provide timely and accurate information on Company decision-makers as part of providing information on Companies included in the Mantiks database, as designed in the Service. When such requirements no longer exist, personal data will be deleted. The requirement is deemed to exist during the period that the data subject is in the position of the legal entity, which has been recorded in the original source. The retention periods for personal data in Mantiks have been designed to reflect the retention period of the original data source. The database is automatically updated on a regular basis, and personal data will not be stored beyond a reasonable time after it has been removed from the original source.

Data transfer

Mantiks is a company with its offices in Europe. To this end, Mantiks’s Platform and services are supported by a technology that enables Mantiks to perform its services worldwide. Depending on the service used, the Platform is hosted in Frankfort. Hence, the information that we collect from You and about You may be transferred to and stored in a country other than Your country of residence. However, Mantiks ensures compliance with relevant regulation and takes appropriate measures to keep your personal data protected. Especially, Mantiks ensures compliance with GDPR requirements regarding lawful transfer mechanisms.

The Platform is hosted by Google Cloud Platform, that complies with the principles of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield. This framework protects the fundamental rights of anyone in the EU whose personal data is transferred to the United States for commercial purposes. More information about EU-US Privacy Shield on the Official European Commission site.

Security

Mantiks takes all reasonable measures to protect the security of Your personal data during transmission. We also take reasonable measures to safeguard personal data and to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of such information through our data collection, storage and security practices. However, no transmission of data over the Internet is guaranteed to be completely secure.

You should take further precautions to protect your personal data, such as safeguarding your User name and password or limiting the use of shared computers.

How do we ensure the legitimacy of our personal data processing?

The processing of the limited Company related personal data in our Service is based on our legitimate interest to freely conduct business and maintain our Service in accordance with European Union law and national laws. We limit the processing to persons holding a role in public life such as business-people, members of regulated professions and personal data available in the public domain.

You should take further precautions to protect your personal data, such as safeguarding your User name and password or limiting the use of shared computers.

Who owns the information?

Mantiks operates an intelligent database reflecting information available in public sources and the internet. While we index and store data, we control what data is gathered and how we process it. Our processing is uniquely filtering data that is already available, and we do not use it for any other purpose than making it further available to our customers.

When we make the data accessible to our customer, the customer may use our tool to browse through the data we have indexed, and they may choose to import the data into their systems. In doing so, our customers assume control over the data and process personal data in accordance with their privacy policies. We require our customers to commit to the lawful use of the data provided by us.

USER RIGHTS Your rights

As per the applicable law, especially GDPR, you can exercise the following rights by contacting Mantiks at this email: contact@mantiks.io

  • The right to be informed
  • The right of access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to restrict processing

Before treating the request Mantiks should ensure the identity of the person making the request to avoid sharing data to an unauthorised person.

To deliver its services, Mantiks mainly uses the email to identify the User and the request can only be treated once this information is collected. We would ask you to share this information if not provided in your request.

How to disable cookies

The “Help” section of the browser indicates how to set and disable cookies. Your browser may be: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Chrome.

  • The right to be informed
  • The right of access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to restrict processing

Before treating the request Mantiks should ensure the identity of the person making the request to avoid sharing data to an unauthorised person.

To deliver its services, Mantiks mainly uses the email to identify the User and the request can only be treated once this information is collected. We would ask you to share this information if not provided in your request.

GENERAL PROVISION CCPA

CCPA rights. If you are a California consumer as defined by the CCPA, you may have the right to:

  • request access to your personal information and request additional details about our information practices,
  • request deletion of your personal information,
  • opt out of the “sale” of your personal information (as that term is defined by the CCPA), and (iv) to not be discriminated against for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.

Right to Know About Personal Information Collected and Disclosed. The CCPA requires us to disclose to California consumers the categories of personal information (as defined in the CCPA) we collect, our business and commercial purposes for collecting, using, or selling such personal information, the categories of sources from which we collect personal information, the categories of personal information we have disclosed or sold for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months, and the categories third parties with whom we share personal information. We have provided these disclosures above in this privacy policy.

Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information. The CCPA requires us to allow California consumers to request the deletion of their personal information.

Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights. At Mantiks, we ensure that any consumer (not just Californian consumers) does not receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA or any other local regulation.

Right to Opt-Out of ‘Sales’ of Personal Information. Mantiks is a third-party business to which personal information is not sold and, more importantly, who does not sell your personal information. In certain circumstances, we will act as publishers’ service provider in handling data processed. In such a case, we will restrict the purposes for which personal information is being processed.

If you have any query regarding our privacy policy and practices or to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at contact@mantiks.io

Contact

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at contact@mantiks.io You may also write to us at :

LinkLight SASU

24 Boulevard de Taza,

13007 Marseille

Governing law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of France without giving effect to applicable conflict of laws provisions. Each Party hereby agrees to the jurisdiction of the courts of Marseille (France).