RAT
Aerospace
Technologies
is 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 rataerospace dot com.

This policy was last updated December 29, 2021.

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.

Netlify

Netlify is our web-hosting platform. The information Netlify collects include your IP address deleted after 30 days.

We utilize Netlify’s Forms feature, allowing RAT Aerospace Technologies to collect Personally Identifying Information (PII) from You. This information is sent to Us directly, and shared by Netlify with Akismet for spam prevention. More information about this can be found here.

Netlify's Privacy Policy can be found here.

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.