Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. Therefore, we use your personal data strictly within the legal limits of the applicable data protection laws.

With this privacy policy, we inform you of the personal data we collect when you use our services.

MMT S.r.l. collects and uses your personal data exclusively in compliance with the requirements in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council of April 27, 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter GDPR) and Italian data protection law. In the following, we inform you about the type, scope, and purposes of the collection and use of personal data. You can access this information at any time on our website, www.modernmt.com.

1. Data controller/Contact

The data controller responsible for data processing within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection laws in force in the Member States of the European Union, and other provisions of a data protection nature is:

MMT S.r.l.
Via Sommarive 18
38123 Trento
Italy

Please feel free to address any questions or concerns regarding data protection or privacy to info@modernmt.com.

2. Scope of data protection

Data protection concerns personal data as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, i.e. all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Identifiable is any natural person who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more special characteristics. Usage data is data required to use our website; this data includes the start, end, and extent of the user’s website use.

3. Automatic data collection via website access

When you access our website, your device automatically transmits certain data for technical reasons. The following data is stored separately from any other data you may transmit to us:

Date and time of access
Browser type and version
Operating system
URL of the website visited prior to ours
Amount of data sent
Requesting domain
Notification of successful data retrieval
Search term when using a web browser
Shortened/anonymized IP

This data is stored for purely technical reasons and is never associated with any particular individual. The data about website access is used for error analysis, ensuring the security of the systems.

4. Texts and translations

When using either of our services (Professional, Batch, Reatime, Human-in-the-loop or our free web application at https://www.modernmt.com/translate) the texts you submit and their translations are stored only insofar as it is necessary to create the translation and to improve your own private engine. When using one of these paid services, we don't use your texts to improve the quality of the baseline engine, or other clients’ engines.

Moreover submitted text can be stored on our systems for logging purposes and in order to guarantee adequate user support for not more than 30 days. In addition, when the user asks for deletion of translated text used to improve the custom private engine, the content is permanently erased after 30 days from the delete operation.

5. Performance of contract - ModernMT Professional / Batch / Enterprise and HITL

When using either of our paid services (Professional, Batch, Enterprise and HITL), via API or Plugin, the following personal information is stored and processed for purposes of billing and contract fulfillment:

Email address
First name, last name, and/or company name
Address
Tax numbers
Payment details
any additional information you may provide during the registration process

In order to process payments, we pass on the necessary payment data to the banking and payment service provider commissioned by us:

Stripe Payments Europe Ltd
Block 4, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Road
Dublin 2
Ireland

and

Stripe Payments UK Ltd
7th Floor
The Bower Warehouse
211 Old Street
London
EC1V 9NR
UNITED KINGDOM

Stripe Payments UK Ltd is registered as an Authorised Electronic Money Institution with the FCA. Stripe may transfer, process, and store personal data/credit card data outside the EU, but is subject to the Privacy Shield.

6. Cookies

We use “cookies” to provide you with a wide range of functionalities and enhance your user experience. Cookies are tiny files stored on your computer through your browser. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may deactivate cookie storage on your computer by changing your browser settings accordingly. Please note that the proper functioning of the website may be impaired and the range of functionalities may be limited if you deactivate cookies.

In particular, we are using the following cookies:

Cookies to store your preferred languages and custom settings Cookies to store your ModernMT login information (if you have subscribed to ModernMT Professional/Batch/Enterprise/HITL) Cookies with an individual identifier to re-identify your browser (please refer to the "Google Analytics" sections for further details)

7. Google Analytics (with anonymization function)

We use Google Analytics (with anonymization function), a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies which permit an analysis of your use of the website. The information about your website use generated by the cookie (including your truncated IP address) is transmitted to a server controlled by Google in the USA and is stored there. Google uses this information to analyze your use of the website, to generate reports about website activities for website operators, and to provide further services related to website and internet use. Google may also share such information with third parties to the extent it is legally required to do so and/or to the extent third parties process data on behalf of Google.

You can find detailed information about how Google uses your data in Google’s privacy policy.

We use Google Analytics with the anonymization function. By means of this addition, Google shortens and anonymizes the IP address of the Internet connection of the person concerned, if our Internet pages are accessed from a member state of the European Union or from another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

You may deactivate Google Analytics with the help of a browser add-on if you do not want this website analysis. This add-on can be downloaded here.

User-based event data at Google Analytics is deleted after 38 months.

8. Applications

We offer you the possibility to apply for open positions via our career page, the integrated career portal, or via email. By using this form of digital application, your personal and application data are electronically collected for the processing of your application. We use the personal data you provide solely to process your application. Your personal data will only be forwarded or otherwise transferred to persons involved in our recruiting activities as part of the application process.

If an employment contract is concluded after the application process, we store your personal data in your personnel file for standard organisational and administrative purposes. This is naturally in compliance with further legal obligations.

In the event of a cancellation on our part, we will automatically delete the data transmitted to us three months after notification of the rejection. However, this deletion will not take place if the data must be stored for a longer period of up to four months or until the conclusion of legal proceedings due to legal provisions.

If you expressly consent to your data being stored for a longer period, e.g. for inclusion in our internal applicant pool, the data will be processed further with your consent. However, you can of course revoke your consent at any time with future effect.

9. Your rights

You have the following rights under European Union law. If you wish to exercise any of the rights below, simply write to us at the above address.

Right to confirmation and right to information - we will be happy to confirm whether we process your personal data, what data it is and for what purpose it is processed.

Right to rectification - if the data we store is incorrect, we will of course be happy to correct it.

Right of erasure - if you want your personal data to be deleted, we will, as far as legally possible, comply with your request. If data must be kept for legal reasons, it will be blocked. The data is then no longer available for further use.

Right to restriction of processing - should you wish to restrict use, we will, as far as legally possible, comply with your request.

Right to object - if you wish to object to any consents already given, we will pursue your request accordingly.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data.

10. Changes to privacy policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy. The current version of the privacy policy is always accessible here.

Last updated: November 2019