Our commitment to your privacy

We are seriously committed to protect your privacy while you are using the vSwarm software or servers. In this document we outline our privacy policy and explain in detail which data we collect, why we collect data and how and why we use it. Moreover we want to show you how we protect your data against abuse.

Why do we store personal data

First of all, you are free to register to the vSwarm Website. Some areas can be accessed without supplying personal data. But to fully be part of the vSwarm community it is necessary to create an account and supply personal data.

Why we need your personal data

Without some personal information we cannot identify you. That fact would make interacting and communicating with you impossible. Finally leading to the result that we cannot operate the vSwarm Service for you. Thus revealing some of your personal data is vital for a fruitful cooperation. And for us this means: we have to prevent abuse of your data, to justify the trust you put in us.

Use of your personal data

We use your personal data (email, name) for communication with you. In a later stage we might use your data to transfer money to you earned by sharing your computer.

We do not sell or market your personal data.

Use of anonymized data

As already outlined we use your personal data to operate the vSwarm Services. We might as well use anonymized usage data of our website and the vSwarm Services to improve our services. In this case no direct connection between the usage data of our service and your personal data exists.

Additional purposes

The following list names additional purposes we might use or have to use your data for.

1. In case we are forced by law or other governmental institutions to meet legal requirements we might disclose your personal data.

2. In case we have to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as wilful attacks against the vSwarm systems, users connected to vSwarm or other websites and servers, originating from your account, IP a. s. o. we will use your personal data as well.

These personal or non-personal data are stored by us

Data stored by using the vSwarm Client

• A unique ID to identify the client

• System information

  • CPU

  • RAM

  • available RAM

  • HDD size

  • available HDD space

  • Operating System and version

  • vSwarm Benchmark result

• Connection data

  • Login time

  • Log out time

  • IP address

• Job data

  • Status of job

  • CPU time the job consumed

  • Start and end time of job

Website

When you create your vSwarm account we collect the following personal data:

• first name, last name

• address (Street, zip code, city, state, country)

• company (if applicable)

• e-mail-address

• Account type

• date and time of registration

• and all other details you fill in our registration form

Non-Personal data

We collect non-personal data as well. This data is used to analyse the usage of our vSwarm Website and it is mainly created by technical necessity. Every time you visit the vSwarm Website we will log information about the visit. The data collected contains amongst others information data about your browser, your operating system, the page you came from, the pages visited/requested, the time spent on the vSwarm Website, the internet protocol address.

It would be possible to connect this data to your personal account data, but if not necessary we won't combine this information. See "Additional purposes" why we might combine this data.

Connection data

When you access the vSwarm Website or use the vSwarm Client, we automatically store communication data (e. g. your IP, the pages you visited, the time you spent on-line). This could be connected to your personal data.

If there is no necessity to use this data we will not make use of the combined data. The main but not the only reason to not comply with this policy is the abuse of your account for any illegal activities or actions interfering with our software, other vSwarm users and/or our or other servers or computer systems. In this case we might use the combined data to prevent further abuse and protect us and other users.

Cookies

While you are browsing our website we use cookies to identify your browser. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer. The cookie enables us to adjust our website to your personal settings or to store session information during your visit to our website. The cookie will automatically be deployed to your PC.

If you want to clear or prohibit cookies please refer to your browsers security settings. Please note that cookies must be enabled in order to use the vSwarm Website.

Communication with us

If you send emails or other message to us we will store these messages to answer your request and archive this communication.

Bug reporting, Forum and Wiki

You can participate in our community projects: the vSwarm Wiki, the vSwarm Forum and the vSwarm Ticket System. In all cases the information supplied to forms will be stored on our servers. In some cases information you supply will be publicly accessible (e. g. a post in the forum). Always make sure that the data you submit to these public areas is thought to be public and accessible by all users on the internet.

We cannot be hold responsible if you choose to submit private data to public message boards or other public website areas and this data hereafter is abused.

Submitting jobs to vSwarm

When submitting jobs to vSwarm you upload files to the vSwarm server. These files as well as the resulting files are stored on our servers and on the client processing your job. We cannot guarantee for the security and integrity of the data on these clients.

For more details regarding this topic visit our page about the way jobs are handled in vSwarm.

After your job is finished you can download the results and delete the source and result files. As we backup the data it might take several days before all copies of your files are deleted from our system. We will not keep copies of your source files or resulting files after you deleted these files and the backup cycle is completed.

Links to other Websites

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites we link to. Please check the privacy policy on the website you go to, to be informed about the way your personal data is protected on other websites.

Questions or comments are welcome

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy policy, your stored data or other relating issues we are happy to hear from you.

Changes and updates of our privacy policy

As our website and product evolves we will update the vSwarm privacy policy if necessary. To stay up-to-date visit this page to get informed about changes to our privacy policy.

In case of major changes to our privacy policy we will inform you via a prominent link on our website or via e-mail.