Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to IoT Simulator. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. The Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
• Contact Data: Includes email address and billing address.
• Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
• Simulation Data: Includes the circuits, code, and project metadata you create and save within our platform.
• Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To register you as a new customer and manage your account.
• To provide the IoT simulation environment and save your progress.
• To improve our website, services, and user experience through analytics.
• To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
• To enable you to partake in features like sharing projects or participating in exercises.

4. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.

For your simulation data, we use industry-standard encryption both at rest and in transit (SSL/TLS) to help ensure your projects remain yours.

5. Data Sharing & Disclosure

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your personal data with the parties set out below:

• Service Providers: Cloud hosting (AWS/Google Cloud), payment processors (Stripe), and analytics providers.
• Legal Authorities: Where we are legally required to do so to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process.
• Public Link: If you explicitly choose to share a project link, the project details will be visible to anyone with that link.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

7. Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy manager at: