Privacy Policy

DataLane is the go-to-market platform that helps businesses find and acquire new customers. We gather information to create profiles of businesses and professional profiles of their representatives. We make this information available to our customers – companies looking to reach businesses to offer business-to-business products and services.

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how we collect, use and share information about businesses and their representatives, and explains the privacy choices we offer. Individuals whose information we maintain in our database can direct us to delete their information by emailing admin@datalane.com.

How We Collect Information

We collect information about businesses and their representatives through multiple channels, including:

• Publicly available sources
• First-hand research
• Third-party data vendors
• Directly and indirectly from activity or submissions on DataLane’s website
• Directly and indirectly from our customers or their representatives
• Directly from vendors and other contractual counterparties
• Through communications with prospective customers and other businesses and their representatives

We may also collect information by automated means – such as cookies, beacons, pixels and other technologies provided by third parties – when users visit our website. This information includes details about users’ interactions with our site, and data about the device and network such as the computer’s or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), mobile network, IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.

How We Use Information

We use the information we collect to:  

• Provide, maintain, and improve our site and services
• Verify, cleanse, update, and maintain information about businesses and their representatives
• Respond to comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer support
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud and other illegal activities
• Protect the rights and property of DataLane, our customers, and others
• Personalize and improve the site and services, including by training LLMs or other Artificial Intelligence models
• Create aggregated statistical data, inferred non-personal data, or anonymized or pseudonymized data
• Comply with our contractual and legal obligations, resolve disputes with users, and enforce our agreements

How We Disclose Information

Customers.

We disclose information to our business customers for our customers’ own purposes.

Service providers.

We disclose information to vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to the information in order to perform services for us, such as companies and individuals that assist us with web hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery and website analytics services, marketing, and payment processing.

Authorities and others.

We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Corporate transactions.

We may disclose information in connection with, or during negotiations for, a corporate transaction – such as a merger, acquisition, reorganization, divestiture, consolidation, financing (including the sale or transfer of equity interests), or the sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets. We may also disclose information in the event of bankruptcy or a similar proceeding.‍

Advertising partners.

We may disclose information to third-party advertising companies, including for interest-based advertising purposes.

For compliance, fraud prevention and safety.

We may disclose information for compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes described above.

‍Privacy Choices

Individuals may submit a request for us to delete their personal information from our database by emailing admin@datalane.com.  

‍Information Security

We maintain safeguards designed to protect the information we maintain against unauthorized disclosure. However, no method of Internet transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by DataLane. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When individuals leave our site, we encourage them to be aware of and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal information.

Do Not Track Signals

Browsers or devices may include Do Not Track functionality. Our information collection and disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide to visitors, will continue to operate as described in this Policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.

‍Additional Information for California Residents

The information included in this section and the privacy rights it describes apply only to California residents.

In the last twelve (12) months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers, such as name, IP address, device or other ID, email address, job title and department, phone numbers, business-related postal address, and social networking URLs.
• Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records Statute, such as name, business address, telephone numbers, education, employment, employment history, and credit or debit card number.
• Commercial information, such as products or services purchased.
• Internet or other similar network activity, such as IP address and information on a user’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
• Geolocation data, such as information about physical location collected from geolocation features on a user’s device, including the IP address.
• Professional or employment-related information, such as email address, telephone numbers, business-related physical address, current or past job history, and title.
• Inferences, which may be drawn from the information identified above to make predictions about users’ preferences and interests.

We sell the personal information maintained in our database to our customers. This database may contain information about individuals’ business personas, including name, employer, job title and department, email address, phone number, office address, social media or professional profile link, and work or educational history. We sell this information to our business customers for the purpose of business-to-business sales and marketing.

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‍California residents have the following privacy rights in relation to the personal information we collect:

• The right to know what personal information we have collected and how we have used and disclosed that personal information
• The right to request deletion of their personal information
• The right to opt out of our sale of their information.
• The right to be free from discrimination relating to the exercise of any of their privacy rights.

California residents can exercise the above privacy rights by emailing admin@datalane.com. To help protect personal information from unauthorized access or deletion, we may require users to verify their login credentials before submitting a request to know or delete personal information. Individuals may submit a request to know or a request to delete their personal information through an authorized agent. The agent must present signed written permission to act on the individual’s behalf and the individual may also be required to independently verify their identity with us.

California residents may request information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes under California’s “Shine the Light” law. To make such a request, please email us at admin@datalane.com.

Additional Information for Texas Residents

The entity maintaining this website is a data broker under Texas law. To conduct business in Texas, a data broker must register with the Texas Secretary of State (Texas SOS). Information about data broker registrants is available on the Texas SOS website.

Changes to this Policy

We maintain the right to modify this Policy from time to time, so please review it regularly. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify individuals here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

Contact Us

For questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at admin@datalane.com.