RAT
Aerospace
Technologiesis transparent, by design.
Preface.
RAT Aerospace Technologies believes that privacy is a human right. Nothing we do will intentionally infringe on this.
If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please feel free to reach out to us at hey at rataero dot space.
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Definitions.
'We', ‘the Organization’, and ‘RAT’ will be used interchangeably with RAT Aerospace Technologies and may represent the organization as a whole and/or a single member.
'You’, ‘Users’, and ‘Visitors’ represent anyone using or viewing a work by RAT Aerospace Technologies.
‘Work’ and 'Works' represent a piece of art, writing, or other form of creative expression.
‘Services’ and ‘Service’ represent any organization providing a tool, software, or other assistance to RAT Aerospace Technologies.
‘Form’ and ‘Forms’ are a way for us to collect information from our Users with their explicit consent.
Information We Collect.
RAT Aerospace Technologies makes an effort to protect your identity and anonymity.
The information we collect through a number of Services are as follows:
Page Views and Sessions
Goal: To view how many times certain pages within our website(s) are viewed. This information may be used in conjunction with other non-personally–identifying information to make changes within our Works.
Specifically: Total page views over all pages, distinct pages viewed and their personal view-counts, the first page viewed in a session, number of sessions, and bounce rate.
Language
Goal: To ensure that our Works are accessible to everyone, guiding us to make translations available when possible.
Specifically: The language You have set in your browser or system.
Usage Information
Goal: To better understand how You move through our website(s) and make changes based on that data to make the website more accessible, and to tailor our Work to our audience as a whole.
Specifically: Screen size (in the categories of ‘Phone’, ‘Small Laptop’, ‘Large Laptop’, and ‘Desktop’), Time spent on any page (broadly, not broken down by specific page, and in the categories of <5s, <15s, <30s, <1m, <5m, and >5m), Browser and Operating System, and Referrer.
Personally Identifying Information (PII) given directly from you, with your consent.
Goal: To respond to any inquiries or contact requests sent to us through a Form.
Specifically: Total page views over all pages, distinct pages viewed and their personal view-counts, the first page viewed in a session, number of sessions, and bounce rate.
Services
Insights
Insights is a privacy-focused analytics provider, used to analyze how our website(s) and works are used and by who. Insights briefly stores hashed versions of your IP address(es) for fraud prevention. This information is promptly deleted, and neither We nor Insights have access to it. Insights does not collect any Personally Identifying Information (PII) and do not transfer or sell information to third parties except for when required by law.
Information about Insights and the data Insights collects can be found at their What Data We Collect page. Insights’s privacy policy, while more generally intended for direct users of their platform, (e.g. RAT Aerospace Technologies,) can be found here.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is our web-hosting platform. The information Cloudflare collects include (but is not limited to) your connection information, system configuration, and 'other information'.
We utilize Cloudflare’s Workers feature for Forms, allowing RAT Aerospace Technologies to collect Personally Identifying Information (PII) from You. This information is sent to Us directly.
Cloudflare's Privacy Policy can be found here, with information pertaining to You at the header 'End Users'.
Playbook
Playbook is our asset organization and cloud storage service. Unless you’re a client of RAT or one of our members, the only time you’ll run into Playbook is through the Branding link in the footer of our website.
Data we receive from Playbook include view counts for specific assets and pages and the number of times an asset has been downloaded.
Information about the types of information Playbook collects from You can be found here.
Playbook’s privacy policy, while more generally intended for direct users of their platform, (eg. RAT Aerospace Technologies,) can be found here.
Synology
Synology, Inc. is a manufacturer and developer of digital storage equipment. We utilize the DSM (DiskStation Manager) software to organize, distribute, and archive our files.
Often, only members or clients of RAT Aerospace Technologies will interact with a Synology product — either in the distribution of tiles or when used as an internal CDN. When a file is downloaded via 'splat', it is coming from our internal system.
Information Synology, Inc. collect from You can be found here. Whenever possible, RAT Aerospace Technologies has opted-out of tracking or telemetry features, and have chosen to utilize a direct link rather than Synology's provided 'QuickConnect' service for increased privacy.
Synology’s privacy policy, while more generally intended for direct users of their platform, (eg. RAT Aerospace Technologies,) can be found here.
Internally Hosted Software
Whenever possible, RAT Aerospace Technologies utilizes open-source and self-hosted software to ensure the highest level of security and privacy of Your information.
In regards to our use of self-hosted software, these processes are regularly changing, which does not allow a definitive list of usage and privacy information. We will opt-out of optional telemetry and analytics features when the software will be utilized by You. If these features are not optional, when possible, we will make an effort to manually remove them from the code of the software.