Cookie Policy

How do we use cookies on this board?
We use files known as cookies on DSA Dark Matter to improve its performance and to enhance your user experience. By using DSA Dark Matter you agree that we can place these types of files on your device.

What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website may put on your computer, or mobile device, when you first visit that site or one of its pages.

There are many functions that a cookie can serve. For example, a cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit it. DSA Dark Matter uses the term "cookies" in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click on "remember me" when logging on, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies will not collect information that identifies you, but will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use DSA Dark Matter, or a user’s general location.

What sort of cookies does DSA Dark Matter use?
Cookies can perform several different functions:
1. Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are essential for the operation of DSA Dark Matter. These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for.

2. Performance Cookies
These cookies may collect anonymous information on the pages visited. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.

3. Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.

DSA Dark Matter may also allow third parties to serve cookies that fall into any of the categories above. For example, like many sites, we may use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic.

Can a board user block cookies?
To find out how to manage which cookies you allow, see your browser’s help section or your mobile device manual - or you can visit one of the sites below, which have detailed information on how to manage, control or delete cookies.

www.aboutcookies.org
www.allaboutcookies.org

Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of DSA Dark Matter do not work properly.

Cookies on DSA Dark Matter from social networking sites
DSA Dark Matter may have links to social networking websites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter or YouTube). These websites may also place cookies on your device and DSA Dark Matter does not control how they use their cookies, therefore DSA Dark Matter suggests you check their website(s) to see how they are using cookies.
Privacy Notice

Data Protection & Security

Sky-Skan, Inc takes Data Protection & Security very seriously and complies with all applicable legislation
Recently the General Data Protection Regulations came into force in Europe, and Sky-Skan recognizes its customers from all over the world, including Europe

Sky-Skan, Inc is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This document explains the personal data we capture and store, for the purposes for which we use it, the lawful bases for processing data, where we transfer data to, how long we keep your data, and your rights regarding these data.

This privacy notice is written in the context of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) implemented in Europe on 25 May, 2018.
If there are changes made to this notice we will notify you at the time the changes are made.

Who are we?

Sky-Skan is a world leading manufacturer of digital planetarium systems and products. The Company is incorporated in the State of New York. The registered address is 51 Lake St, Nashua, NH, 03060, USA.
The Vice-President of Sky-Skan, Virginia Savage, is the lead for data protection within the company.

The purpose of processing

We capture basic information to manage your purchases from us, and to share information between other customers via our DigitalSky Academy Forums.
The personal data we capture may include your name, address, your institution, telephone number, email address, IP address, date of birth, and other non-identifying information. We do not capture any additional sensitive personal data.
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
1. To administer purchases you make
2. To provide efficient customer support for you
3. To provide secure services on our DSA Forum websites
4. To enable you to share information with other Sky-Skan customers
If you have opted-in to our electronic communications we will send electronic communications from time to time, which may include marketing information.

The lawful bases for the processing

There are three lawful bases for the processing of your information
1. Contract: You have a contract (your institutional purchases) with Sky-Skan, Inc for us to provide services, publications or merchandise
2. Legal Obligation: As an incorporated company we are obligated to maintain a register of our customers.
3. Consent: you can optionally consent to join our electronic forum with regular emailing. Note that even if such consent is not given, we may still send you emails necessary to provide you with the services and publications that relate to your contract.

Transfers of personal data

We do not sell or provide personal data to third parties for purposes which are outside the purposes above.

Retention Period

Your personal data will be held by Sky-Skan, Inc while you are a customer. If you leave the institution or become a non-Sky-Skan customer, we will remove your personal registration from the DSA Forum, but we will retain basic data in our past customer list, and retain your posts to the DSA forums.

Your rights

You have the right to access your personal data record for checking and have the right to have the record corrected if in error. Data will be provided electronically unless otherwise requested. You can withdraw consent to receive messages from our electronic communications lists at any time.

To exercise these rights please contact the Sky-Skan head office – details above. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the person responsible for data protection within the company, noted above.

General Data Protection Regulation - 2018 (GDPR)

To comply with the GDPR you need to be made aware that your DSA Dark Matter account will, at a bare minimum, contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid email address (hereinafter “your email”). Your information for your account at DSA Dark Matter is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your email address required by DSA Dark Matter during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of DSA Dark Matter. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated emails.

Furthermore we will store all of the IP address that you use to post with. Depending on your preferences DSA Dark Matter may send you emails to the email address that DSA Dark Matter holds in your account which will either be that you used when you registered or one that you have subsequently changed, but you are able to change these preferences from your User Control Panel (UCP) at any time should you wish to stop receiving them.

The personal details that you gave us when you signed up, or added later, will be used solely for the purposes of DSA Dark Matter board functionality. They will not be used for anything else and neither will they be passed on to any third party without your explicit consent. You can check, at any time, the personal details DSA Dark Matter is holding about you from the Profile section of your UCP.

The only other information about you is that which you decide to post in the fora, whereupon it is considered to be “publicly available” as it will have been indexed by search engines as well as on-line archive sites.