Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 28, 2020 (UTC)

Your privacy is important to us. We have developed this Policy to help you understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose personal information.

The Gist

Moonbear Ventures will collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you as you use our sites and apps. We store the reminder text you send to the bot along with relevant meta information. For reminders set on messages, we store the name of the person who sent the message so that it can be displayed in the reminder list. This data is only stored for reminder purposes. We do not send the data anywhere, other than back to Teams. We will never sell or rent your data to third parties. We only share your data if (1) we are required to do so by law or (2) sharing is required to provide a service on our site like payments processing (see below).

We might also occasionally ask you to provide personal information, but you’ll always be able to opt out. If you give us personal information, we won’t do anything evil with it.

Our sites use cookies, but you can choose not to store these.

That’s the basic idea, but you must read through the entire Privacy Policy below and agree with all the details before you use any of our sites.

Reuse

This document is based upon the Automattic Privacy Policy and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License 2.5. Basically, this means you can use it verbatim or edited, but you must release new versions under the same license and you have to credit Automattic somewhere (like this!). Automattic is not connected with and does not sponsor or endorse Moonbear Ventures or its use of the work.

Moonbear Ventures makes available services include our web sites (https://teamsreminder.app (the “Site”)), our Remind bot, our blog, our API, and any other software, sites, and services offered by Moonbear Ventures in connection to any of those (taken together, the “Service”). It is Moonbear Ventures’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our Site.

Questions

If you have question about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Moonbear Ventures collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Moonbear Ventures’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Moonbear Ventures’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Moonbear Ventures may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. Moonbear Ventures also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Moonbear Ventures does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below. We may also collect and use IP addresses to block users who violated our Terms of Service.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

All information that is collected is encrypted in transit and at rest. Overview of collected information and whether or not it is stored:

In our app:

Summary: Only if you decide to go for a subscription some of your data is shared with our payments processor (Stripe) to facilitate the payment.

(1) Data that is collected by the app and stored and not sent to any third parties

When you set a reminder

• The reminder text that you set
• Date and time information for when the reminder should occur
• Your name (your name is transmitted by Teams and the app stores it as part of your user identity. The name is used when reminders are listed, for example “User A set a reminder for this group chat”, “User A set a reminder for user B”, etc.)
• When you set a reminder for someone else by @ mentioning them, the app tries to get the name for this user so that it can be displayed in the list of reminders.
• If you set the reminder in a channel, the names of the team and channel are stored to show them in your list of reminders.

When you set a reminder on a message by hovering over it and clicking the ellipsis (⋯)

• The name of the user that sent the message (displayed in your list of reminders, for example “A message from user B”. This only works if the bot is part of the group chat or channel where the original message was sent).
• Part of the message, so that it can be displayed as a preview.

(2) Data that is collected by the app and not stored and not sent to third parties

The “Reminders” tab has an admin option, where the Microsoft admin of an organization can browse all public reminders in the organisation (and delete them, if necessary). This option accesses the employee records of the organization so that the admin can search for users and requires admin permission. This data is not stored or cached and is accessed for every search request. Usage of this feature is entirely optional.

(3) Data that is collected by the app and not stored but sent to third parties

If you decide to subscribe the app will ask you for the following information and share it with our payments processor (stripe.com) to facilitate the payment:

• Your email address so that you can receive a receipt
• Your name
• Your credit card details The app does not see your credit card details, the form is provided by the credit card processor stripe.com, which provides the PCI compatible handling of card data. They will also store your name and email address and send you your receipt. The invoice you can download after you have subscribed comes from their server as well.

On our websites:

Certain visitors to Moonbear Ventures’ websites choose to interact with Moonbear Ventures in ways that require Moonbear Ventures to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Moonbear Ventures gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Moonbear Ventures collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Moonbear Ventures. Moonbear Ventures does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Service-related activities. Additionally, some interactions, such as posting a comment, may ask for optional personal information. For instance, when posting a comment, may provide a website that will be displayed along with a user’s name when the comment is displayed. Supplying such personal information is completely optional and is only displayed for the benefit and the convenience of the user.

Aggregated Statistics

Moonbear Ventures may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to and users of the Service. For instance, Moonbear Ventures may monitor the most popular parts of the Remind Site. Moonbear Ventures may display this information in the aggregate publicly or provide it to others. Moonbear Ventures does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

All information that is collected is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Moonbear Ventures discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Moonbear Ventures’ behalf or to provide services available at Moonbear Ventures’ Site websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using the Service, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Moonbear Ventures will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Moonbear Ventures discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Moonbear Ventures believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Moonbear Ventures, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Service and have supplied your email address, Moonbear Ventures may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Moonbear Ventures and our products. We primarily use our website and blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. Moonbear Ventures takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the Service each time the visitor returns. Moonbear Ventures uses cookies to help Moonbear Ventures identify and track visitors, their usage of Remind Service, and their Service access preferences. Remind visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Remind’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Remind’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Moonbear Ventures, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Moonbear Ventures goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Moonbear Ventures may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Data Storage

Moonbear Ventures uses third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run the Service. You understand that although you retain full rights to your data, it may be stored on third party storage and transmitted through third party networks.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Moonbear Ventures may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Moonbear Ventures’ sole discretion. Moonbear Ventures encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: [email protected]