Privacy Policy

Boston Dynamics AI Institute, LLC d/b/a Robotics and AI Institute (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information that you (“you” or “user”) may provide to us through your use of our website located at https://www.rai-inst.com/ our social media pages, and any other websites that we link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, our “Website”).

If you have entered into a separate agreement with us, that separate agreement shall control, and only those terms within this Privacy Policy that do not conflict with such separate agreement shall apply. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@rai-inst.com.

By accessing the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website. Each time you use the Website, the current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, when you use the Website, you should check the date of this Privacy Policy (which appears at the top) and review any changes since you last reviewed the Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

We collect two types of information from users of our Website: “Personal Information,” which is information that you provide that can be used to identify you (such as your name or your email address), and “Aggregate Information,” which is information that cannot be used to identify you (such as frequency of visits to the Website and your browser type).

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us when you use our Website. For example, you may provide us with your contact information such as your email address, first and last name, the content of your communication, or other Personal Information when you choose to submit such information to us through email, an online form, or other method. If you interact with us on social media, we may collect your social media profile information, your communications with us, and your communications and posts on our social media pages.

INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT

When you use our Website, we automatically receive and collect information from your device. This information may include the following:

  • Information about your device, such as the operating system, hardware, system version, Internet Protocol (IP) address, device ID, and device language.
  • The specific actions that you take when you use our Website, including but not limited to the pages and screens that you view or visit, search terms that you enter, and how you interact with our Website.
  • The time, frequency, connection type, and duration of your use of our Website.
  • Information regarding your interaction with email messages, for example, whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded the email message.
  • Identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser (as further described below).
  • Your general geographic location (based on your IP address).
  • Pages you visited before or after navigating to our Website.

EMPLOYMENT

If we have collected your Personal Information through our “Careers” page in response to a job opening, you are giving us permission to use and retain your Personal Information for the purpose of evaluating your application for employment consideration for the specific position that you applied to, as well as other roles at the Robotics and AI Institute. This Personal Information may be processed and stored by a third-party talent tracking solution provider as well as with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work relating to the recruitment process on our behalf.

AGGREGATE INFORMATION COLLECTED

Aggregate Information is information that does not identify you. Aggregate Information may be collected when you use our Website, independent of any information you voluntarily enter. Additionally, we may use one or more processes to de-identify information that contains Personal Information, such that only Aggregate Information remains. We may collect, use, store, and transfer Aggregate Information without restriction.

COOKIES AND ANALYTICS

Like most websites, our Website may use “cookies.” Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to help us identify you when you come to our Website.

Our Website collects cookies and may use cookies for reasons including, but not limited to:

  • Analyze our web traffic using an analytics package.
  • Identify if you are signed in to the Website.
  • Test content on the Website.
  • Store information about your preferences.
  • Recognize when you return to the Website.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website experience by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or device, or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This setting may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.

We may use third parties, such as Google Analytics or other analytics providers, to analyze traffic to our Website. Google Analytics does not create individual profiles for visitors and only collects aggregate data. To disable Google Analytics, please download the browser add-on for the deactivation of Google Analytics provided by Google at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. To learn more about privacy and Google Analytics, please consult the Google Analytics overview provided by Google at http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our visitors, we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals from your browser.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

In general, we collect information and Personal Information from you so that we can provide our Website, operate our organization, and provide information that you request from us. This includes but is not limited to the following:

  • Provide, operate, improve, maintain, and protect our Website.
  • Facilitate your access to our webinars, events, and other activities that you sign up for or may be interested in.
  • Provide you with technical and other support.
  • Send you updates, marketing communications, and other information about the Robotics and AI Institute, our research, development, products, services, and our Website.
  • Send you notices and alerts.
  • Conduct research, analytics, and monitor and analyze trends and usage.
  • Contact you and respond to your inquiries.
  • Enhance or improve user experience, our organization, and our Website, including the safety and security thereof.
  • Personalize our Website to you.
  • As necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, subpoena, legal process, or governmental request.
  • Enforce contracts, including investigation of potential violations thereof.
  • Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
  • Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of the Robotics and AI Institute, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

How we share your information

We do not rent or sell your Personal Information.

Like most companies, we share information, including Personal Information, in certain circumstances with third parties through operation of our Website and our organization. Below we explain when that happens.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may transfer Personal Information to third parties for the purpose of providing the Website or operating our organization. For example, we may transfer your Personal Information to third-party service providers to assist with providing the Website, and to communicate with you about our research, our services, or our organization.

REQUIRED TRANSFERS

We may also transfer your Personal Information to third parties under the following circumstances: (i) to comply with a legal requirement, law, subpoena, judicial proceeding, court order, governmental request, or legal process; (ii) to investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; (iii) in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, asset sale, financing, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution of the Robotics and AI Institute, including the evaluation thereof; (iv) when we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Robotics and AI Institute or other persons, or (v) as otherwise required or permitted by law, including any contractual obligations of the Robotics and AI Institute.

AS DIRECTED BY YOU AND WITH YOUR CONSENT

Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we share Personal Information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of the Robotics and AI Institute only at your direction or when we have your consent to do so.

International Transfer

Our Website is hosted in and operated from the United States. If you use our Website from other countries with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from United States law, then please note that by sending an email or other communication containing Personal Information or by providing Personal Information through our Website, you are voluntarily transferring your Personal Information outside of those regions to the United States.

Residents of the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the United Kingdom

Residents of the EEA, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have additional privacy rights. Information on these rights is provided in our supplemental European Economic Area, Switzerland and United Kingdom Resident Privacy Notice below.

This European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland Resident Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies to residents of the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK) and Switzerland. It contains additional information required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the UK and Swiss equivalents. These provisions, which should be read together with the statements in the main Privacy Policy, explain our practices with regard to data privacy in the EEA, UK and Switzerland.

 

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