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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 10, 2023.

This privacy policy for Skil ("we", "us" or "our"), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"), such as when you:

  • Visit our Website ("Website") at https://www.skilbot.xyz

  • Interact with our Discord Bot ("Bot")

  • Engage with us in other related ways, including events, or social media accounts.

  • Use the "Sign In" functionality that the Website offers.

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at the contact information provided below.

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Table Of Contents

Personal Data (or "Data")

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through our Website (or third-party services employed in this Website), which includes, but is not limited to:

  • The IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who utilize this Website in any way,

  • The URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier),

  • The time of the request,

  • The method utilized to submit the request to the server,

  • The size of the file received in response,

  • The numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.),

  • The country of origin,

  • The features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User,

  • The various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and

  • Other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

Information collected automatically through our Bot includes but is not limited to:

  • The User ID of a Discord Account ("Account"),

  • The Name and/or Username of an Account,

  • The Avatar or Profile Picture of an Account,

  • Any interactions with the Bot:

    • The Time of interaction,

    • The Content of interaction,

User

The individual using this Website or Bot who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

Data Subject

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or "Data Supervisor")

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or "Owner")

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Website, Service, and Bot.

Our Bot (or "Application")

How the Personal Data of the User is collected through the platform Discord.

Our Website

How the Personal Data of the User is collected.

Types of Collected Data

Among the types of Personal Data that this Website collects, by itself or through third parties, this includes but is not limited to Cookies and Usage Data.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed before the Data collection.

Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in the case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using any of our Service(s).

Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by our Service(s) is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for us to provide our Service(s). In cases where we specifically state that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.

Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact us.

Any use of Cookies - or other tracking tools — by any of our Service(s) or by the owners of third-party services used by our Service(s) serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published, or shared through our Service(s) and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Modes of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Owner and us take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.

The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT-enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated.

In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of our Service(s) (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner.

The list of these parties may be updated at any time without prior notice to Users of our Service(s) by the Owner and the list can be requested from us at any time.

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

  • Users have given their explicit consent for one or more specific purposes, as required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

  • The processing of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

  • The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject.

  • The processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner.

  • The processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party, taking into consideration the rights and freedoms of the data subjects.

In any case, we will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular, whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Place

Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.

If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or inquiring with us using the information provided in the contact section.

Retention time

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for. Therefore:

  • Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been entirely performed.

  • Personal Data collected for the Owner's legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.

We may retain Personal Data for a more extended period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, we are obliged to retain Personal Data for a more extended period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.

The Purposes of Processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, including but not limited to Analytics, Traffic optimization, and distribution, Displaying content from external platforms, Infrastructure monitoring, Handling payments, Social features, Hosting and backend infrastructure and Registration and authentication.

For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section "Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data".

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Analytics

The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

Cloudflare Web Analytics (Cloudflare Inc)

Cloudflare Web Analytics is an analytics service provided by Cloudflare Inc ("CLOUDFLARE"). CLOUDFLARE utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities, and to share them with other Cloudflare services.

Personal Data processed: Cookies, User data.

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Traffic optimization and distribution

The services contained in this section allow the Owner to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance.

Cloudflare (CLOUDFLARE)

Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by CLOUDFLARE. The way CLOUDFLARE is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through our Website, i.e., communication between our Website and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from this Website to be collected.

Personal Data processed: Cookies, various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

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Infrastructure monitoring

This type of service allows this Website to monitor the use and behavior of its components so its performance, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting can be improved.

Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, whose function is to filter the activities of this Website.

Cloudflare Logs (CLOUDFLARE)

Cloudflare Logs is an infrastructure monitoring service provided by CLOUDFLARE.

Personal Data processed: Cookies; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

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Handling payments

Payment processing services enable this Website to process payments by credit card, bank transfer, or other means. To ensure greater security, this Website shares only the information necessary to execute the transaction with the financial intermediaries handling the transaction.

Github Sponsors (Github Inc. of Microsoft Corporation)

Github Sponsors is a sponsoring service provided by GitHub.

Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

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Social features

To allow Users to interact with social networks and other external platforms directly from the pages of this Website.

The interaction and information obtained through this Website are always subject to the User's privacy settings for each social network.

Public profile (this Website)

Users may have public profiles that other Users can display. In addition to the Personal Data provided, this profile may contain Users' interactions with this Website.

Personal Data processed: username; picture.

Discord (Discord Inc)

Discord is a platform allowing its users to connect by chatting online.

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Hosting and backend infrastructure

This type of service has the purpose of hosting Data and files that enable this Website to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of this Website.

Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.

Cloudflare Pages (CLOUDFLARE)

Cloudflare Pages is a hosting and backend service provided by CLOUDFLARE.

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Microsoft Azure (Microsoft Corporation)

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing, hosting, and backend service provided by Microsoft Corporation.

Personal Data processed: Cookies; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

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Registration and authentication

By registering or authenticating, Users allow this Website to identify them and give them access to dedicated services.

Discord (Discord Inc)

Discord is a platform allowing its users to connect by chatting online.

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The Rights of Users

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by us or the Owner.

In particular, Users have the right to do the following, to the extent permitted by law:

  • Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Data.

  • Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.

  • Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.

  • Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.

  • Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.

  • Have their Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.

  • Receive their Data and have it transferred to another Controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of, or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.

  • Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner, or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within 28 working days.

Additional Information About Data Collection And Processing

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Website or the related Services.

The User declares to be aware we may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Website may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Website (System logs) and use other Personal Data (such as IP Addresses) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

How "Do Not Track" requests are handled

This Website does not support "Do Not Track" requests.

To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the "Do Not Track" requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page at least 28 working days before any changes (unless specified otherwise) and possibly within our Service(s)/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed based on the User's consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.