Last Revised: July 8, 2022
Your privacy is important to Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. (“Slingshot,” “we,” “our,” and “us”). This Slingshot Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Slingshot may collect, use, store, disclose, and process your personal information, through your access to or use of Slingshot products and services, including those at https://www.slingshotaerospace.com, related websites, mobile software applications, forums, blogs and other online or offline offerings (collectively, the “Services”). By using these Services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services. Slingshot may change this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting changes at this URL and may send notification emails. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of such changes will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Slingshot encourages you to read this Privacy Policy in its entirety, but here are a few key points of our privacy practices:
Privacy Policy Applicability
This Privacy Policy applies when you access the Services or share information with Slingshot, and may be revised at any time. More
Information We Collect from You
We collect all information that you provide including information you provide via the Services, your devices (e.g., computers, smartphones, and tablets), telephone and email, as well as information we receive from partners and through the use of cookies and other such technologies. More
How We Use Your Information
We process your personal information with your consent or as needed to provide you Services. We may also use your personal information to comply with legal obligations, operate our business, protect the vital interests of you, our customers, or the public, or for other legitimate interests of Slingshot as further described below. More
How We Share Your Information
We share your information with our partners, service providers, contractors, agents and third party vendors as they need it to fulfill Services or orders, or for other requests you make of Slingshot. We may also share your information to comply with law or for other legitimate interests. More
How We Store and Secure Your Information
Slingshot may store your information in any country where Slingshot or its affiliates, partners, or providers operate facilities, and will retain your information as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Slingshot takes technological and organizational measures to protect your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, disclosure or modification. More
Accessing and Updating Your Information
You can access, get copies of, delete, change or correct your personal information, or request changes to our use of your personal information by using the contact information below. More
Additional Privacy Information
Slingshot’s databases are located in the United States and you consent to the transfer or your personal information from your location to the United States. The Services is not for use by children under the age of 13 years old. You may have additional rights under applicable law. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us via the information below. More
Privacy Policy Applicability
This Privacy Policy applies when you access the Services or share information with Slingshot, as indicated below. By using the Services, you consent to this Privacy Policy, which may be updated by us at any time. If you do not consent to this Privacy Policy for any reason, please do not use the Services or share your information with us. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to the Services, and not to any other third party website linked to or from it, or any third party website in which Slingshot content or functionality is embedded. We do not control the privacy policies or practices of others.
Information We Collect from You
In general, we receive and collect all information you provide via the Services, including through website input fields (including advertisements), respond to a survey, phone, email (including email campaigns), web chat, or in other such ways. This includes personal information that can identify or relates to you, including but not limited to your first and last name, telephone number, IP, postal, and email addresses. You have the choice on what information to share and the services you want to engage. You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general some information about you is required in order for you to access certain functionality of the Services, such as those mentioned above or for tracking your preferences, subscribing to a newsletter, or initiating other such actions.
We also may periodically obtain information about you from affiliated entities, partners and other independent third-party sources and will add it to our database of information. For example, we may receive information about your interaction with advertisements on third party websites, including updated postal addresses and demographic information.
We may use cookies, log files, web beacons, device identifiers, advertising identifiers and similar tracking technologies, including those from third-party service providers like Google Analytics, LinkedIn Ads, HubSpot, and other cloud-based tools, to automatically collect your preferences, performance data, and information about your web usage when you visit the Services. For example, we may collect your IP address, cookie identifiers, mobile carrier, mobile advertising identifiers, MAC address, IMEI, Advertiser ID, other device and Internet service provider information that are automatically assigned to your computer or device when you access the Internet, Web browser details and the address of any referring website. This may include collecting geolocation signals from your IP address or device settings to determine your location so that we may operate and personalize the Services for you, including to provide more relevant ads and search results. We may also collect information about your online activity, such as pages viewed and interactions with other users. The Services are not designed to recognize or respond to “do not track” signals received from browsers. You can control the information collected by such tracking technologies or be alerted when cookies are sent by adjusting the settings on your Internet browser or devices, but such adjustments may affect or disable certain functionality of the Services. You can learn more about Google Analytics and your options for opting out of interest-based Google ads at https://adssettings.google.com. You can learn more about your options for opting out of internet-based LinkedIn ads at https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/62649/opt-out-of-sponsored-messaging?lang=en. You can learn more about targeted ads and your ability to opt out of receiving interest-based ads at optout.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
How We Use Your Information
We process your personal information with your consent or as needed to provide you Services. We may also use your personal information to comply with legal obligations, operate our business, protect the vital interests of you, our customers, or the public, or for other legitimate interests of Slingshot as described in this Privacy Policy.
More specifically, we may use your personal information to:
Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
How We Share Your Information
We share your information with our partners, service providers, contractors, agents and third party vendors as needed to fulfill Services or with your permission. Please note that our partners may contact you as necessary to obtain additional information about you, facilitate any use of the Services, fulfill orders, or respond to a request you submit. We do not sell, trade, or rent personal information to others for their own use. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal information with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers.
Third-party vendors who provide product, services or functions on our behalf may include business analytics companies, customer service vendors, communications service vendors, marketing vendors, delivery, and security vendors. We may also authorize third-party vendors to collect information on our behalf, including as necessary to operate features of the Services, facilitate the delivery of orders, or provide online advertising tailored to your interests. Third-party vendors have access to and may collect personal information only as needed to perform their functions, may only use personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and are not permitted to share or use the information for any other purpose.
We also may share your information:
Other than as set out above, we will attempt to notify you when your personal information will be shared with third parties.
Personal Information You Post in Public Areas. When you post a message in a Slingshot forum, chat room, review, or customer feedback, the information you post may be accessible to other users of the Services and the public. If you post personal information anywhere on the Services that is accessible to other users or the public, you are advised that such personal information can be read, collected, used, or disseminated by others and could be used to send you unsolicited information or for other purposes. Accordingly, you assume full responsibility for posting such information and agree that Slingshot is not responsible in any way for personal information you choose to post in these public areas.
Aggregated Information. We may publish, share, distribute, or disclose personal information that has been aggregated with information from other users or otherwise de-identified in a manner that does not allow such data about you to be separated from the aggregate data and identified as originating from you, to third parties, including Slingshot partners, sponsors, and advertisers. Such information may help Slingshot identify and analyze training, demographic, and psychographic trends and information, and report to third parties how many people saw, visited, or clicked on certain content, areas of the Services, ads, or other materials. We may also use such data for research purposes.
How We Store and Secure Your Information
Personal information collected by Slingshot may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States, and in any other country where Slingshot or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers operate facilities. Slingshot will retain your information as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy and for a commercially reasonable time thereafter for backup, archival, fraud prevention or detection or audit purposes, or as otherwise required by law.
Slingshot takes technological and organizational measures to protect your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, disclosure or modification. For example:
We rely on HubSpot’s and AWS’ security programs to protect personal information while stored in their respective controlled facilities. In addition, our website is hosted on Squarespace. For more information on AWS’ security practices and processes, please see https://aws.amazon.com/security/. For more information on Hubspot’s security practices and processes, please see https://legal.hubspot.com/security. For more information on Squarespace’s security practices and processes, please see https://www.squarespace.com/measures.
Slingshot complies with applicable data protection laws, including applicable security breach notification requirements.
Accessing and Updating Your Information
To the extent provided by the law of your jurisdiction, you may (i) have the right to access certain personal information we maintain about you and request details about how we process it, (ii) request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, (iii) request that we update or correct inaccuracies in that information, (iv) object to our use of your personal information, (v) ask us to block or delete your personal information from our database, and (vi) request to download the information you have shared on the Services. You may make these requests and any other inquiries about this Privacy Policy by emailing privacy@slingshotaerospace.com or calling us at (844) 496-2200. Any such requests are subject to the protection of other individuals’ rights and applicable law. Additionally, to help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, a charge may apply before we provide you with a copy of any of your personal information that we maintain.
YOUR STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS
Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, and Utah may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.
Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:
Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:
To exercise any of these rights please email privacy@slingshotaerospace.com or call us at (844) 496-2200.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request by calling us at (844) 496-2200 or writing us at Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., Attn: Privacy Dept., SXSW Center, 1400 Lavaca St., Ste. 700, Austin, TX 78701. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.
Additional Privacy Information
Data Transfer. Our databases are currently located in the United States. Your personal information may be collected, transferred to and store by us and the third parties disclosed in the How We Share Your Information section above that may be based in other countries. Slingshot makes no claim that its Services are appropriate or lawful for use or access outside the United States. If you access the Services from outside the United States, you are consenting to the transfer of your personal information from your location to the United States. Therefore, your personal information may be processed outside your location, and in countries that are not subject to adequacy decisions by the European Commission or your local legislature or regulator, and that may not provide the same level of data protection as your jurisdiction, such as the EEA. We ensure that the recipient of your personal information offers an adequate level of protection and security, for instance by entering into appropriate back-to-back agreements and, if required, standard contractual clauses or an alternative mechanism for the transfer of data as approved by the European Commission (Art. 26 GDPR) or other applicable regulator. You are solely responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations regarding online conduct and access to the Services. By sending us your information, you further consent to its storage and processing within the United States.
Collection of Data from Children. The Services are not directed to children, and you may not use the Services or provide any personal information to Slingshot if you are under the age of 13 or if you are not old enough to consent to the processing of your personal information in your country. California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information
Your 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 e-mail us or write to us at the addresses below.
How to Contact Us. You can call us at (844) 496-2200, e-mail us at privacy@slingshotaerospace.com or write to us at Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., Attn: Privacy Dept., SXSW Center, 1400 Lavaca St., Ste. 700, Austin, TX 78701. Depending on where you are located, you may also have a right to complain to your local data protection regulator.