Light Stage is commited to your privacy. Read our policy for a clearer explanation of how we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your information.
The privacy of our users and website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal data. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit.
The following types of personal data may be collected, stored, and used:
(a) data about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system; (b) data about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths; (c) data, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website; (d) data that you enter when you create a profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details; (e) data, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters; (f) data that you enter while using the services on our website; (g) data that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it; (h) data relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, location, telephone number, email address, and credit card details; (i) data that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts; (j) data contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata; (k) any other personal data that you send to us. Before you disclose to us the personal data of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal data in accordance with this policy.
3.1 Personal data submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
3.2 We may use your personal data for the following: administering our website and business; personalizing our website for you; enabling your use of the services available on our website; supplying services purchased through our website; sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you; sending you non-marketing commercial communications; sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested; sending you our email newsletter (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter); sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications); providing third parties with statistical data about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that data); dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website; keeping our website secure and prevent fraud; verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (such as but not limited to monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service).
3.2 If you submit personal data for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that data in accordance with the license you grant to us.
3.3 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your data on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
3.4 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal data to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.2 We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. We may disclose your personal data:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law; (b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; (c) in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing data to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); (d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; (e) and to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal data.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.
5.1 Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the data in accordance with this policy.
5.2 Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
5.3 Personal data that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such data by others.
5.4 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal data described in this section.
This section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
6.1 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.2 Without prejudice to article 6.1, we will usually delete personal data after a period of 36 months following the latest date we had business contact with you.
6.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data to the extent that we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing data to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
7.1 We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data. We will store all the personal data you provide on secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers, and all electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
7.2 You acknowledge that the transmission of data over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through a message on our website.
9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal data we hold about you; provision of such data will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose, and will usually accept a certified photocopy of your passport and an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address, and provided that the rights and freedoms of others are not affected. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
9.2 We may withhold personal data that you request to the extent permitted by law. You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.
9.3 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. These include when the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed or you withdraw consent to consent-based processing. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and data; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
9.4 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. These include when you contest the accuracy of the personal data or we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
9.5 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us by email.
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
12.1 Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
12.2 Cookies do not typically contain any data that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the data stored in and obtained from cookies. We may use both session cookies and session cookies on our website.
12.3 We use cookies for authentication purposes; to improve the website’s usability; analyze the use and performance of the website and our services; administer the website; prevent fraud and improve the security of the website; to help us determine if you are logged into our website; to personalize the website for each user; and for cookie consent to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
12.4 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
12.5 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so can vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.
13.1 Light Stage is owned and operated by the company Object/A AB, registration no. 559084-2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
13.2 You can contact us either by using the contact form on our website or by email as published on our website from time to time.