Privacy
Effective day 20 July 2017
If you are a visitor to an Intercom Website or a customer of an Intercom Service, then except as expressly set forth below, this Privacy Policy applies to your use of such Website or Service.
If you are a visitor to or user of a third-party website or service (“Third-Party Property”) that utilizes any Intercom communication or messaging products (such as the Intercom chat widget), then any information you submit to such Third-Party Property (including via the Intercom product) is collected under the privacy policy of the owner of such Third-Party Property, and you should contact such owner with any related requests or inquiries you may have. If you have any inquiries specifically directed towards Intercom, please email us at team@intercom.com.
At Intercom, we respect the privacy rights of our users and recognize the importance of protecting the personal information we collect about you. Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand what information we collect and how we use and share that information. This Privacy Policy applies to our Websites and Services.
As used in this Privacy Policy, “Intercom,” “us” and “we” refers to Intercom, Inc. and its affiliates, including without limitation Intercom R&D Unlimited Company. The “Websites” means Intercom's websites (including without limitation www.intercom.com, www.intercom.io, app.intercom.com, app.intercom.io and any successor URLS, mobile or localized versions and related domains and subdomains), and the “Services” means Intercom’s communications and messaging products, applications and services, in each case in whatever format they may be offered now or in the future. The Websites and Services are collectively referred to herein as the “Offerings.”
Information we collect
A. Information Related to Your Interaction with Intercom and the Offerings.
Registration and Contact Information. We collect information about you when you (a) register to use the Services and (b) otherwise provide contact information to us via email, mail, or through our Offerings. This information you provide may include your username, first and last name, email address, mailing address or phone number.
Payment Information. When you purchase the Services, we will also collect transaction information, which may include your credit card information, billing and mailing address, and other payment-related information (“ Payment Information”). We describe how Payment Information may be collected and processed in Section 4.
Technical, Usage and Location Information. We automatically collect information on how you interact with the Offerings, such as the IP address from which you access the Offerings, date and time, information about your browser, operating system and computer or device, pages viewed and items clicked. We may also collect location information, including location information automatically provided by your computer or device. We use cookies and similar technologies to collect some of this information. For more information, please see Intercom's Cookie Policy.
Third Party Platforms. We may collect information when you interact with our advertisements and other content on third-party sites or platforms, such as social networking sites. This may include information such as “Likes”, profile information gathered from social networking sites or the fact that you viewed or interacted with our content.
Other Information.We may collect other information from you that is not specifically listed here. We may use any such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise permitted by you.
B. Customer Data.
You may submit various types of information and data into the Services for hosting and processing purposes (“Customer Data”). Customer Data may include, without limitation, (a) personal information such as names, email addresses and phone numbers of your end user customers, potential customers and other users of and visitors to your websites, apps and other properties (“People”), which information may be input into the Services by you or collected by the Services using Intercom tags, scripts and other code implemented on such properties, and (b) information contained in communications between you and People using the messaging features of the Services.
We will only use, disclose and otherwise process Customer Data for the purposes set forth in your agreement with us for the provisioning of the Services (“Customer Agreement”). The Services use third-party services provided by FullContact, Inc. (“FullContact”) to enable you to retrieve publicly-available information about People including without limitation social media information, profile information, gender, company, job titles, photos, physical addresses, and website URLs based on People’s email addresses input into the Services. FullContact uses People’s email addresses as described in its privacy policy, available at https://www.fullcontact.com/privacy/.
How we use the information we collect
We use your information in the following ways:
To provide, maintain and improve the Offerings and our other products and services, including to operate certain features and functionality of the Offerings (for example, by remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during this or subsequent visits);
To process your inquiries and otherwise deliver customer service;
To process your payments, we share and use Payment Information as described in Section 4 (Payment Information);
To control unauthorized use or abuse of the Offerings and our other products and services, or otherwise detect, investigate or prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;
To analyze trends, administer or optimize the Offerings, monitor usage or traffic patterns (including to track users’ movements around the Offerings) and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole;
To communicate directly with you, including by sending you newsletters, promotions and special offers or information about new products and services. Your opt-out options for promotional communications are described in Section 6 (Your Controls and Choices);
To deliver you advertising, including by serving and managing ads on the Offerings or on third party sites and to tailor ads based on your interests and browsing history. Please see Section 6 (Your Controls and Choices) for additional information on how to manage the ads you see; and
In the manner described to you at the time of collection or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
We do not sell, trade, share or transfer your personal information to third parties except in the following limited circumstances: