Peeringhub is a cloud communications platform that provides service providers with
building software to manage phone numbers and offer phone numbers as well as other
telecommunication services to customers. We understand that when you use Peeringhub’s
platform you are placing your trust in us to handle your data appropriately, including
the personal information of you and your end users. That is why we take a serious
approach to data protection. Part of our approach is to make sure that you, the service
provider, have information about how we process personal information in connection with
your use of our products and services, including our website. We want to enable you to
make informed decisions about your personal information when building your software
applications on Peeringhub’s platform. We also want to provide you with relevant
information to help your end users make informed decisions about their personal
information when they use your software applications built on Peeringhub’s platform. If
you have more questions or concerns about how we’re processing personal information, or
you would like to know more about how to exercise your rights. You can contact our
Privacy Team in the Office of the Data Protection Officer by emailing us at
privacy@peeringhub.io
Peeringhub processes two broad categories of personal information when you use our
products and services: Your business information as a customer (or potential customer)
of Peeringhub’s services — information that we refer to as Customer Account Data, and
The information of your end users who use or interact with you via Peeringhub’s
platform, like the people you communicate by way of that application — this category
contains both your Customer Usage Data (e.g., communications metadata) and your Customer
Content (e.g., the contents of communications). Peeringhub processes these categories of
personal information differently because the direct relationship we have with you, our
customer, is different than the indirect relationship we have with your end users.
Data protection laws and privacy laws in certain jurisdictions, like the European
Economic Area (EEA), differentiate between “controllers” and “processors” of personal
information. A controller decides why and how to process personal information. A
processor processes personal information on behalf of a controller based on the
controller’s instructions. When Peeringhub processes your Customer Account Data, the
Peeringhub entity with whom you are contracting is acting as a controller. Broadly
speaking, we use Customer Account Data to further our legitimate interests to:
understand who our customers and potential customers are and their interests in
Peeringhub’s product and services, manage our relationship with you and other customers,
carry out core business operations such as accounting, filing taxes, and fulfilling
regulatory obligations and help detect, prevent, or investigate security incidents,
fraud and other abuse and/or misuse of our products and services.
While we’re on the subject of Customer Account Data and Customer Usage Data, we’d like
to give you a brief summary of the categories of personal information that might be
found in the Customer Account Data and Customer Usage Data that we collect from our
customers and their end users, so you can know at a glance what we’re talking about. We
collect and process your personal information: When you visit a Peeringhub public-facing
website like Peeringhub.com, Peeringhub.io, or make a request to receive information
about Peeringhub or our products, like a Peeringhub whitepaper or blog; When you contact
our Sales Team or Customer Support Team; and When you sign up for a Peeringhub account
and use our products and services. We call this personal information Customer Account
Data. We also collect Customer Usage Data from you when you send or receive
communications through your use of our services. This data might take different forms,
and we might use it for different purposes — read on for more information.
When you visit our website, sign up for a Peeringhub event or request more information
about Peeringhub, we collect information automatically using tracking technologies, like
cookies, and through web forms where you type in your information. We collect this
information to provide you with what you request through the web form, to about who is
interested in our products and services, and to improve navigation experience on our
pages. You may share personal information, like your contact information, with a member
of our Sales or Customer Support Team when you communicate with them. We keep a record
of this interaction. When you sign up for an account with us, we ask for certain
information like your contact details and billing information so we can communicate with
you and so you can pay for our products and services. We also collect some information
automatically, like your IP address, when you log in to your account or when your
software application built on Peeringhub makes requests to our APIs. We use this to
understand who is using our services and how, and to detect, prevent and investigate
fraud, abuse, or security incidents. We may collect information about you, as our
customer, from publicly-available sources so we can understand our customer base better.
Peeringhub will store your Customer Account Data as long as needed to provide you with
our services and to operate our business. If you ask Peeringhub to delete specific
personal information from your Customer Account Data (see ‘How To Make Choices About
Your Customer Account Data’ below), we will honor this request unless deleting that
information prevents us from carrying out necessary business functions, like billing for
our services, calculating taxes, or conducting required audits.
You can make various choices about your Customer Account Data through the account
portal, such as accessing it, correcting it, deleting it, or updating your choices about
how it is used, when you log into your Peeringhub account or through the marketing
preferences center. Any other requests about your data you cannot make through these
self-service tools, you can request by emailing privacy@Peeringhub.com or contacting
Customer Support.
For those customers that would like more information about our use of Customer Account
Data or Customer Usage Data, you have the ability to request: that we provide details
about the categories of personal information that we collect about you, including how we
collect and share it; that we provide you access to the personal information we collect
about you; and that we delete the personal information we have about you. Please be
aware that when you ask us for these things, we will take steps to verify that you are
authorized to make the request. Your end users’ personal information typically shows up
on Peeringhub’s platform in a few different ways: Communications-related personal
information about your end users, like your end users’ phone numbers for number-based
communications, your end users’ email addresses for email communications, IP addresses
for IP-based communications, device status (indicating whether a device is available for
messaging), or device tokens for push notifications, show up in our systems when you use
or intend to use this information to contact your end user through use of our products
and services. Your end users’ personal information may show up in “friendly names,”
which are strings you provide, if you choose to include your end users’ personal
information as part of a string. Your end users’ personal information may also be
contained in the content of communications you (or your end users) send or receive using
Peeringhub’s products and services. We call the information in the first two bullets
above Customer Usage Data. The information in the third bullet is what we refer to as
Customer Content. As noted above, data protection law (including privacy law) in certain
jurisdictions, like the EEA, differentiate between “controllers” and “processors” of
personal information. When Peeringhub processes Customer Content, we generally act as a
processor. When we process Customer Usage Data, we act as a processor in many respects,
but we may act as a controller in others. For example, we may need to use certain
Customer Usage Data for the legitimate interests of billing, reconciling invoices with
telecommunications carriers, and in the context of troubleshooting and detecting
problems with the network.
We use Customer Usage Data and Customer Content to provide services to you and to carry
out necessary functions of our business as a communications service provider. We do not
sell your end users’ personal information and we do not share your end users’
information with third parties for those third parties’ own business interests.
Details regarding how long your end user personal information may be stored on
Peeringhub systems and how to delete, access, or exercise other choices about end user
data will depend on which Peeringhub products and services you are using and how you are
using them.
We do not sell or allow your Customer Account Data to be used by third parties for their
own marketing purposes, unless you ask us to do this or give us your consent to do this.
Further, we do not sell your end users’ personal information. We also do not share it
with third parties for their own marketing or other purposes, unless you instruct us to
do so.
When you use our account portal, or our other products and services, personal
information of you and your end users processed by Peeringhub may be transferred to the
United States, where our primary processing facilities are located, and possibly to
other countries where we or our service providers operate. These transfers will often be
made in connection with routing your communications in the most efficient way.
Peeringhub employs appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers of personal data,
as required by applicable local law, including Binding Corporate Rules and Standard
Contractual Clauses.
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the security of your
personal information both online and offline. These measures vary based on the
sensitivity of the personal information we collect, process and store and the current
state of technology. We also take measures to ensure service providers that process
personal data on our behalf also have appropriate security controls in place.