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.