Privacy Policy

TDNet Discover is a brand name of TDNet ("TDNet", "we", "our" or "us")  a company registered in the state of Delaware with offices at 755 West Lancaster Avenue #1009, Bryn Mawr, PA USA.
At TDNet, we take your personal information seriously, and this privacy policy explains how use, collect, disclose, sell, and store Personal Data we collect or receive from or about you (“you”) . If you have any question about this privacy notice or about your personal information, please email support@tdnet.com.

Our overall policy is to collect the minimum personal data that we need to provide you with our services. We keep personal data for as a short period as possible, do NOT sell to any third parties and take good measures to protect it.
We’re always happy for you to check the data we have about you and we’ll delete it if you want us to – unless this would mean we wouldn’t be able to provide your organization with the TDNet Discover service.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, so you can understand our practices and your rights in relation to personal data. “Personal Data” or “Personal Information” means any information that can be used, alone or together with other data, to uniquely identify any living human being and any information deemed as Personally Identifiable Information by privacy laws.

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1. How have we got your information
  1. You may have given us your personal data yourself. For example, you may have signed up to TDNet Discover, given us your business card at an event, emailed us requesting information, or filled in an online form so that you could download a report, document or some other information.
  2. The organization you work for may have given us your personal data or asked you to give it to us because your role is key to the TDNet Discover service or because you need to be a(n) TDNet Discover user.
  3. If you visit our websites, we might use cookies and analytical tools to collect anonymous information about your visit. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log and visitor behavior information. Tracking and analyzing visitor activity enables us to improve the website. For further information visit aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above-mentioned websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However this might disable some of the key website features.

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2. What information we collect, why we collect it, and how it is used 

2.1. When you browse or visit our website

a. Personal Information we collect: We use analytics tools, cookies and log files on our website which collect Personal Information such as IP address, pages clicked and visited, clicks on links from the website, search and browser history, and device information, session durations, user pattern of your use of the website, the frequency and scope of your use of the website and information about your computer and internet connection, including the operating system you use and browser type. For more information about our use of cookies, please read our cookie policy.  

b. For what purposes: We use such information to analyze use trends of the website, maintain and improve the functionality of the website and marketing and promotional efforts. For more information, please refer to our cookie policy. 

c. Legal basis (GDPR only, if applicable): Legitimate interest (e.g., essential cookies required for the operation of the website) or consent (e.g., non-essential cookies, to the extent required under applicable law).

d. Consequences of not providing the Personal Information: Certain website features may not be available.

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2.2. When you create an account (e.g., via TDNet Discover)

a. Personal Information we collect: Full name, email address and password. 

If your account was created through Single Sign-On, your organization might have chosen to send other data besides your name and email address. Your organization might use this extra information to personalize your TDNet Discover experience, prefill certain forms, or enrich usage statistics.
This TDNet Discover Privacy Notice can’t address that situation, you need to contact your organization’s TDNet Discover administrator if you have any questions.

b. For what purposes: To help you create an account in order to be able to access our services. To send you alerts and enable other personalization features available in TDNet Discover. Your name and email address may be used also to populate forms you make use of. To administrators we may send marketing communications, product updates and/or newsletters.

In case of SSO, any extra information your organization might send us (for example your department), might be used by your organization to personalize content based on these attributes, and to create statistics.

c. Legal basis (GDPR only, if applicable): Performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party (our terms of use) or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract and/or legitimate interest (including, soft-opt-in, where applicable).

d. Consequences of not providing the Personal Information: We cannot help you create an account and/or access our services, we will not be able to send you emails, alerts and updates.

2.3. When you make use of your account/ when you request a document:

a. Full name and email address. For all our registered accounts we store also the data that you create when interacting with TDNet Discover. For example, the saved searches you create, or the publications that you bookmark. In addition, we store usage data, such as usage of the OpenURL resolver service, in order to create usage statistics. 

b. For what purposes: In order to allow you to make use of the services, to personalize your use of our services, in order to allow you to interact with TDNet Discover (e.g., support purposes).

c. Legal basis (GDPR only, if applicable): Performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract and/or legitimate interest (e.g., to answer your questions).

d. Consequences of not providing the Personal Information: Cannot personalize your use of the services, cannot allow you to interact with TDNet Discover. 

Finally, please note that some of the abovementioned Personal Information will be used for detecting, taking steps to prevent, and prosecution of fraud or other illegal activity, to identify and repair errors, to conduct audits, and for security purposes (including, to conduct security investigations and risk assessments), as well as prevent or take action against activities that are, or may be, in breach of our terms of service or applicable law. Personal Information may also be used to comply with applicable laws, with investigations performed by the relevant authorities, law enforcement purposes, and/or to exercise or defend legal claims. In certain cases, we may anonymize or de-identify your Personal Information. “Anonymous Information” means information which does not enable identification of an individual user, such as aggregated information about the use of our Services. We may use Anonymous Information and/or disclose it to third parties for our business purposes and further use such anonymized data for internal business purposes, including, without limitation, to improve our Services and for research and development purposes.

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3. How we share your information
    1. In order to perform our contractual and other legal responsibilities or purposes, we share, from time to time, your Personal Information with selected third parties. 
    2. We will share your Personal Information with our affiliates, subsidiaries or any third party service providers and individuals to facilitate our Services or any portion thereof, such as marketing, data management or storage services, email distribution and monitoring, authentication, logging and monitoring, data enrichment, sales engagement, and automation, analytics and business intelligence, cookies and other targeting and re-targeting vendors, data and cyber security services, billing and payment processing services, fraud detection and prevention services, risk management, session recording and remote access services, sales and support engagement, and our legal and financial advisors and document management. 
    3. Part of the above mentioned third parties may be located in countries other than your own. We and third-party service providers that store or process Personal Information on our behalf are contractually committed to ensure that Personal Information receives an adequate level of protection. If you are located in the EEA where we transfer your Personal Information outside of the EEA (for example, to third party service providers for the purposes listed above), we will generally rely on either: (i) Adequacy Decisions adopted by the European Commission under Article 45 of the GDPR; or (ii) the Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the European Commission (or applicable mechanism adopted by the relevant supervisory and/or competent authority).  
    4. Should we or any of our affiliates undergo any change of control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all of its assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or a comparable event, your Personal Information (to the minimum extent required) may be shared with the parties involved in such event.
    5. Personal Information can also be disclosed in order to comply with any legal obligation or inquiry or process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. 
    6. We may also disclose some categories of Personal Information in special cases, such as if you use the Services to perform an unlawful act or omission or take any act or omission that may damage us, our property and/or goodwill, or if there is an attempted breach of the security of the Services or a physical or property threat to you or others. 
    7. Law enforcement, legal requests and duties. To the extent necessary and subject to applicable law, we may disclose or otherwise allow access to any categories of Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy, with or without notice to you, to regulators, courts, or competent authorities, pursuant to valid legal requests (such as a subpoenas, legal proceedings, search warrants or court orders), to comply with applicable laws, regulations and rules (including, without limitation, federal, state or local laws), and requests of law enforcement, regulatory and other governmental agencies or if required to do so by court order

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4. How we protect your information

We invest significantly to protect the company and clients from malicious activity. We deploy industry standard measures to ensure the security, confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Personal Information we process. We maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards, and test and update these periodically. We endeavor to restrict access to Personal Information on a ‘need to know’ basis for the provision of Services to you. This includes (but is not limited to) hardening operating systems according to industry practices, we keep your Personal Information behind firewalls to prevent unauthorized access, employ in-transit encryption, and perform penetration tests to verify the security of our systems. No such measures are perfect or impenetrable. In the event of a security breach, we will take all reasonable action to minimize any harm. Although we will do our best to protect Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our Services and transmission is at the users own risk. TDNet Discover uses Amazon Web Services. AWS adopts leading security measures and is certified to leading ISO standards.

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5. How long do we keep your information

We store your Personal Information for as long as such Personal Information is necessary in accordance with the purpose for which we collected it, and as long as necessary to fulfill your requests or inquiries or provide services or until we proactively delete it or you send a valid deletion request. In certain circumstances we may store your Personal Information for longer periods of time, for example (i) where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax or accounting requirements, or (ii) for us to have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or (iii) if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your Personal Information or dealings. We also delete your account and information connected to it after 365 days of account inactivity, or in other words, if you didn't log in to your account during the last year, we will remove your personal data from our databases. In such cases, we will send out a notice before we remove your account.

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6. Your rights

6.1. In some jurisdictions, in particular, those located within the European Union (the "EU") or within the European Economic Area (the "EEA") or the United Kingdom ("UK"), you may be afforded specific rights regarding your Personal Information. Subject to such eligibility, you may have the following rights to:

  1. access Personal Information held about you. Your right of access may normally be exercised free of charge, however we reserve the right to charge an appropriate administrative fee where permitted by applicable law;
  2. request a rectification of your Personal Information where the information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading;
  3. request the erasure of your Personal Information in certain circumstances, such as where processing is no longer necessary for the purpose it was originally collected for, and there is no compelling reason for us to continue to process or store it. Please note that there may be circumstances in which we are required to retain your Personal Information, for example for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
  4. object to, or request restriction, of the processing of your Personal Information;
  5. object an automated decision-making (including profiling) in certain circumstances.
  6. withdraw your consent at any time. Please note that there may be circumstances in which we are entitled to continue processing your Personal Information, if the processing is required to meet our legal and regulatory obligations. Also, please note that the withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
  7. receive your Personal Information, or ask us to transfer it to another organization that you have provided to us (data portability);
  8. request certain details of the basis on which your Personal Information is transferred outside the EEA, but data transfer agreements and/or other details may need to be partially redacted for reasons of commercial confidentiality; 
  9. file a complaint to the relevant supervisory authority regarding any claim that may arise due to our data protection and privacy practices. We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us before you contact your local supervisory authority and/or relevant institution; and/or
  10. if you may have certain additional rights under local privacy laws applicable in your jurisdiction. To the extent such privacy laws apply to you, we will respect your rights and comply with such laws.

6.2. Generally, with regard to information listed in section 2 of this Privacy Policy we are a "Data Controller". Therefore, if you wish to exercise the above-mentioned rights, you can find the  information we have about you at any time, under "My Profile". In addition, you can find options to download your information, export your information to a machine-readable format, or to delete your account.

6.3. If there are further rights that you wish to exercise, please contact us at support@tdnet.com, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to fulfill your request. Subject to legal and other permissible considerations, we will make every reasonable effort to honor your request promptly in accordance with applicable law or inform you if we require further information in order to fulfil your request. When processing your request, we may ask you for additional information to confirm or verify your identity and for security purposes before processing and/or honoring your request. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. In the event that your request would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others (for example, would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others) or if we are legally entitled to deal with your request in a different way than initially requested, we will address your request to the maximum extent possible, all-in accordance with applicable law.

6.4. If, at any time, you would like to stop receiving marketing emails, you can do so by writing us to support@tdnet.com or unsubscribing at the bottom of each marketing email, and we will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt.

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7. Children's privacy

The service is not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not, knowingly or intentionally, collect information about children who are under 18 years of age. If you become aware that a child data is in our systems, please send an email to support@tdnet.com.

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8. Specific Provisions Applicable Under California Privacy Law

8.1. California Privacy Rights: California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to support@tdnet.com. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year.

8.2. Our California Do Not Track Notice (Shine the Light): Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers.  Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers

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9. Changes to our information security practices

We review our information security practices frequently, so this privacy notice will be updated periodically, therefore we suggest you check it from time to time. 

Last time updated: June 2024.