1. Definitions
In this Addendum, the following terms shall have the meanings set out below and cognate terms shall be construed accordingly:
- Affiliate
- means an entity that owns or controls, is owned or controlled by or is or under common control or ownership with either Customer or Neucron (as the context allows), where control is defined as the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
- Customer Personal Data
- means any Personal Data provided by or made available by Customer to Neucron or collected by Neucron on behalf of Customer which is Processed by Neucron to perform the Services;
- Controller to Processor SCCs
- means the standard contractual clauses for cross-border transfers published by the European Commission on June 4, 2021 governing the transfer of European Area Personal Data to Third Countries as adopted by the European Commission, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner ("Swiss FDPIC") relating to data transfers to Third Countries (collectively "EU SCCs"); (ii) the international data transfer addendum ("UK Transfer Addendum") adopted by the UK Information Commissioner's Office ("UK ICO") for data transfers from the UK to Third Countries; or (iii) any similar such clauses adopted by a data protection regulator relating to Personal Data transfers to Third Countries, including without limitation any successor clauses thereto;
- Data Protection Laws
- means any local, state, or national law regarding the processing of Personal Data applicable to Neucron in the jurisdictions in which the Services are provided to Customer, including, without limitation, privacy, security, and data protection law;
- EU Area
- means the European Union, European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland;
- EU Area Law
- means (i) Directive 95/46/EC and, from May 25, 2018, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("EU GDPR") together with applicable legislation implementing or supplementing the same or otherwise relating to the processing of Personal Data of natural persons; (ii) the Data Protection Act 1998 of the United Kingdom and the EU GDPR as saved into United Kingdom Law by virtue of section 3 of the United Kingdom's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the "UK GDPR"); (iii) the swiss Federal Data Protection Act of 19 June 1992 and its Ordinance ("Swiss DPA"); (iv) any other law relating to the data protection, security, or privacy of individuals that applies in the EU Area; or (v) any successor or amendments thereto (including, without limitation, implementation of the EU GDPR by Member States into their national law);
- Security Incident
- means any breach of security that leads to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, Customer Personal Data being Processed by Neucron;
- Services
- means the services to be supplied by Neucron to Customer or Customer's Affiliates pursuant to the Agreement; and
- Third Country
- means countries that, where required by applicable Data Protection Laws, have not received an adequacy decision from an applicable authority relating to cross-border data transfers of Personal Data, including regulators such as the European Commission, UK ICO, or Swiss FDPIC.
The terms "Business", "Business Purpose", "Commercial Purpose", "Contractor", "Controller", "Data Subject", "Personal Data", "Personal Data Breach", "Process", "Processor", "Sell", "Service Provider", "Share", "Subprocessor", "Supervisory Authority", and "Third Party" have the same meanings as described in applicable Data Protection Laws and cognate terms shall be construed accordingly.
Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Addendum shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement.
2. Scope of Addendum
This Addendum applies to Neucron Processing of Customer Personal Data under the Agreement to the extent such Processing is subject to Data Protection Laws. This Addendum is governed by the governing law of the Agreement unless otherwise required by Data Protection Laws.
3. Roles of the Parties
3.1 The Parties acknowledge and agree that with regard to the Processing of Customer Personal Data, and as more fully described in Annex 1 hereto, Customer acts as a Business or Controller, and Neucron acts as a Service Provider or Processor. This Addendum shall apply solely to the Processing of Customer Personal Data by Neucron acting as a Processor, Subprocessor, or Third Party (as specified in Annex 1).
3.2 The Parties expressly agree that Customer shall be solely responsible for ensuring timely communications to Customer's Affiliates or the relevant Controller(s) who receive the Services, insofar as such communications may be required or useful in light of applicable Data Protection Laws to enable Customer's Affiliates or the relevant Controller(s) to comply with such Laws.
3.3 Customer is solely responsible for complying with Security Incident notification laws applicable to Customer and fulfilling any obligations to give notices to government authorities, affected individuals or others relating to any Security Incidents.
4. Description and Purpose of Personal Data Processing
4.1 In Annex 1 to this Addendum, the Parties have mutually set out their understanding of the subject matter and details of the Processing of the Customer Personal Data to be Processed by Neucron pursuant to this Addendum. The Parties may make reasonable amendments to Annex 1 on mutual written agreement and as reasonably necessary to meet those requirements or to address the requirements of Data Protection Laws from time to time. Annex 1 does not create any obligation or rights for any Party.
4.2 The purpose of Processing under this Addendum is the provision of the Services pursuant to the Agreement and any Order Form(s).
5. Data Processing Terms
5.1) Customer shall comply with all applicable Data Protection Laws in connection with the performance of this Addendum and the Processing of Customer Personal Data. In connection with its access to and use of the Services, Customer shall Process Customer Personal Data within such Services and provide Neucron with instructions in accordance with applicable Data Protection Laws. As between the Parties, Customer shall be solely responsible for compliance with applicable Data Protection Laws regarding the collection of and transfer to Neucron of Customer Personal Data. Customer agrees not to provide Neucron with any data concerning a natural person's health, religion or any special categories of data as defined in Article 9 of the GDPR.
5.2) Neucron shall comply with all applicable Data Protection Laws in the Processing of Customer Personal Data and Neucron shall:
6. Warranties
The Parties warrant that they and any staff and/or subcontractors will comply with their respective obligations under Data Protection Laws for the term.
1) Restricted Transfers
1.1 The parties agree that when the transfer of Customer Personal Data from Customer and/or any of its Affiliates (as exporter) to Neucron (as importer) is a Restricted Transfer and EU Area Law applies, the transfer shall be subject to the appropriate Controller to Processor SCCs, which shall be deemed incorporated into and form part of this Addendum as follows:
a. In relation to Customer Personal Data that is protected by the EU GDPR and processed by Neucron on behalf of and under the instruction of Customer, the EU SCCs will apply completed as follows:
i) Module Two will apply (controller to processor transfers);
ii) In Clause 7, the optional docking clause will apply;
iii) In Clause 9, Option 2 will apply, and the time period for prior notice of sub-processor changes shall be as set out in Section 4.2(d) of this Addendum;
iv) In Clause 11, the optional language will not apply;
v) In Clause 17, Option 1 will apply, and the EU SCCs will be governed by Irish law;
vi) In Clause 18(b), disputes shall be resolved before the courts of the Republic of Ireland;
vii) Annex I of the EU SCCs shall be deemed completed with the information set out in Annex 1 to this Addendum; and
viii) Annex II of the EU SCCs shall be deemed completed with the information set out in Section 4 of Annex 1 to this Addendum.
b. In relation to Customer Personal Data that is protected by the Swiss DPA, the EU SCCs shall apply in accordance with Section 5.1(a) of this Addendum, but with the following modifications:
i) Any references in the EU SCCs to "Regulation (EU) 2016/679" shall be interpreted as references to the Swiss DPA and the equivalent articles or sections therein;
ii) Any references to "EU", "Union", "Member State", and "Member State law" shall be interpreted as references to Switzerland and Swiss law, as the case may be;
iii) Any references to the "competent supervisory authority" and "competent courts" shall be interpreted as references to the relevant data protection authority and courts in Switzerland; and
iv) The Controller to Processor SCCs shall be governed by the laws of Switzerland and disputes shall be resolved before the competent Swiss Courts.
c. In relation to Customer Personal Data that is protected by the UK GDPR, the EU SCCs shall apply in accordance with Section 6.1(a) of this Addendum, but as modified and interpreted by the Part 2: Mandatory Clauses of the UK Addendum, which shall be incorporated into and form an integral part of this Addendum. Any conflict between the terms of the EU SCCs and the UK Addendum shall be resolved in accordance with Section 10 and Section 11 of the UK Addendum. In addition, tables 1 to 3 in Part 1 of the UK Addendum shall be completed respectively with the information set out in Annex I of this Addendum, and table 4 in Part 1 of the UK Addendum shall be deemed completed by selecting both "Importer" and "Exporter".
d. Neucron shall process Personal Data using AI and machine learning technologies within the Frankfurt Region, Germany, in accordance with the terms of this Addendum and applicable Data Protection Laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The purpose of such AI processing is limited to the services provided by Neucron tool. Neucron shall ensure that any AI processing of Personal Data is conducted only to the extent necessary to achieve the specified purposes.
1.2 Neucron shall not participate in any other Restricted Transfers of Customer Personal Data (whether as an importer or an exporter of the Customer Personal Data) unless the Restricted Transfer is made in compliance with applicable Data Protection Law and pursuant to the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses implemented between the relevant exporter and importer of the Customer Personal Data, as necessary in order to comply with applicable Data Protection Law.
1.3 Customer should routinely review all international transfers of Personal Data on a case-by-case basis in order to monitor new risks because of the changes in local laws, data practices, etc., and implement additional safeguards (such as encryption or pseudonymization) to mitigate identified risks to ensure the Personal Data remains protected to the standard required under Data Protection Laws.
1.4 Transfer mechanism. Where a party is located outside the EEA or an adequate country and receives Personal Data: (a) that party will act as the data importer, (b) the other party is the data exporter, and (c) the relevant Transfer Mechanism will apply. "Transfer Mechanism" refers to any lawful means of transferring personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) or any adequate country to a third country in compliance with applicable data protection laws. This may include, but is not limited to, the following:
a) Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission Decision of 4 June 2021 (as amended from time to time) for the transfer of personal data from the EEA or adequate countries to a third country;
b) International Data Transfer Agreement issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under Section 119A of the Data Protection Act 2018, effective from 21 March 2022;
c) International Data Transfer Addendum issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under Section 119A of the Data Protection Act 2018, effective from 21 March 2022.
1.5 Additional measures. If the Transfer Mechanism is insufficient to safeguard the transferred Personal Data, the data importer will promptly implement supplementary measures to ensure Personal Data is protected to the same standard as required under Data Protection Laws.
1.6 Disclosures. Subject to terms of the relevant Transfer Mechanism, if the data importer receives a request from a public authority to access Personal Data, it will (if legally allowed): challenge the request and promptly notify the data exporter about it, and only disclose to the public authority the minimum amount of Personal Data required and keep a record of the disclosure.
2) Precedence
2.1 The provisions of this Addendum are supplemental to the provisions of the Agreement. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Addendum and the provisions of the Agreement, they will take priority in this order: (a) any Standard Contractual Clauses or other measures to which the parties have agreed to (Cross-Border Transfer Mechanisms), (b) this Addendum, (c) the Agreement. In the event that any provision of this Addendum and/or the Agreement contradicts, directly or indirectly, the Controller to Processor SCCs, the Controller to Processor SCCs will control.
3) Indemnity
3.1 To the extent permissible by law, Customer shall (a) defend Neucron and its Affiliates (collectively, "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, or proceedings made or brought against any of the Indemnified Parties by any third party (each, a "Claim"), and (b) indemnify and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties from and against any and all losses, damages, liabilities, fines and administrative fines, penalties, settlements, and costs and expenses of any kind (including, without limitation, reasonable legal, investigatory and consultancy fees and expenses) incurred or suffered by any of the Indemnified Parties, in each case arising from any breach by Customer of this Addendum or of its obligations under applicable Data Protection Laws. Neucron may participate in the defense and/or settlement of a Claim under this Section 9 with counsel of its choosing at its own expense.
4) Severability
4.1 The Parties agree that, if any section or sub-section of this Addendum is held by any court or competent authority to be unlawful or unenforceable, it shall not invalidate or render unenforceable any other section of this Addendum.
5) Miscellaneous
5.1 The Addendum considers the following and follows:
a) Privacy by Design and default
b) Achieving security of Processing
c) Notification of breaches involving Customer Personal Data to the relevant Supervisory Authority
d) Notification of breaches involving Customer Personal Data to Customer
e) Conducting Privacy Impact Assessment where appropriate and required by applicable Data Protection Law
f) Assurance of Neucron's assistance if prior consultations with relevant Supervisory Authorities are needed and required by applicable Data Protection Laws.
5.2 Neucron shall comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701:2019 and EU GDPR.
5.3 In the event a Data Subject wishes to exercise its data subject rights under applicable Data Protection Law, including, but not limited to, a data subject's right of access, correction and/or erasure of its Personal Data in Neucron's control, the Data Subjects can submit such request done by contacting Neucron's Data Protection Officer (DPO) below. Also, for raising concerns and/or any complaints related to the Customer Personal Data that can be done by contacting the Data Protection Officer below:
Name: Rohan Sharan
Email ID: neucron@timechainlabs.io
5.4 There are no Temporary files getting generated during processing.
Description of Processing Activities for Customer Personal Data
This Annex includes certain details of the Processing of Customer Personal Data by Neucron in connection with the Services.
1. List of Parties
Customer (as defined in the Agreement)
As set forth in the relevant Order Form.
As set forth in the relevant Order Form.
Recipient of the Services provided by Neucron in accordance with the Agreement.
Signature and date are set out in the Agreement.
Controller
Neucron
Rohan Sharan email (neucron@timechainlabs.io)
Provision of the Services to the Customer in accordance with the Agreement.
Processor
2. Competent Supervisory Authority
| Identify the competent supervisory authority/ies in accordance (e.g. in accordance with Clause 13 SCCs) | As determined by application of Clause 13 of the EU SCCs. |
3. Processing Information
| Categories of data subjects whose personal data is transferred | Customer's authorized users of the Services |
| Categories of Personal Data Transferred | Processed automatically by the Services: Names, email IDs Processed where provided by Customer or authorized users in connection with audit services: Address, date of birth, past employment details |
| Sensitive Personal Data | None |
| Frequency of the transfer | Continuous |
| Nature and Purpose of Processing | The nature of the processing is more fully described in the Agreement and accompanying order forms but will include the following basic processing activities: The provision of Services to Customer. In order to provide people data, Neucron receives identifying Customer Personal Data to permit Neucron to query, cleanse, standardize, enrich, (when required) send to additional data to feed providers, and to store the query information. |
| Purpose of the data transfer and further processing | The purpose of the transfer is to facilitate the performance of the Services more fully described in the Agreement and accompanying order forms. |
| For processing involving California consumers, please select the Business Purpose(s) for Processing Personal Data | |
| Select | Business Purpose |
| ☐ | N/A |
| ☐ | Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards |
| ☒ | Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer's personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes |
| ☒ | Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality. |
| ☐ | Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a consumer's current interaction with the business, provided that the consumer's personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumer's experience outside the current interaction with the business |
| ☒ | Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business. |
| ☐ | Providing advertising and marketing services, except for cross-context behavioral advertising, to the consumer provided that, for the purpose of advertising and marketing, a service provider or contractor shall not combine the personal information of opted-out consumers that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, the business with personal information that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons or collects from its own interaction with consumers. |
| ☒ | Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. |
| ☒ | Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for or controlled by the business. |
| ☒ | To retain and employ another service provider or contractor as a subcontractor where the subcontractor meets the requirements for a service provider or contractor under CCPA. |
| ☒ | To build or improve the quality of the services it is providing to the business even if this Business Purpose is not specified in the written contract required by CCPA provided that Service Provider does not use the Customer Personal Data to perform Services on behalf of another person. |
| ☒ | To prevent, detect, or investigate data security incidents or protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, even if this Business Purpose is not specified in the written contract. |
| Period for which the personal data will be retained or criteria used to determine that period | The period for which the Customer Personal Data will be retained is more fully described in the Agreement, Addendum, and accompanying order forms. |
| Subprocessor transfers – subject matter, nature, and duration of processing | The subject matter, nature, and duration of the Processing more fully described in the Agreement, Addendum, and accompanying order forms. |
4) Technical and Organisational Security Measures
Description of the technical and organisational security measures implemented by Neucron as the data processor/data importer to ensure an appropriate level of security, taking into account the nature, scope, context, and purpose of the processing, and the risks for the rights and freedoms of natural person
Organization. Neucron designates qualified security personnel whose responsibilities include development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of the Information Security Program.
Policies. Management reviews and supports all security related policies to ensure the security, availability, integrity and confidentiality of Customer Personal Data. These policies are updated at least once annually.
Assessments. Neucron engages a reputable independent third-party to perform risk assessments of all systems containing Customer Personal Data at least once annually.
Risk Treatment. Neucron maintains a formal and effective risk treatment program that includes penetration testing, vulnerability management and patch management to identify and protect against potential threats to the security, integrity or confidentiality of Customer Personal Data.
Vendor Management. Neucron maintains an effective vendor management program.
Incident Management. Neucron reviews security incidents regularly, including effective determination of root cause and corrective action.
Standards. Neucron operates an information security management system that complies with the requirements of ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard.
Neucron personnel are required to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the company's guidelines regarding confidentiality, business ethics, appropriate usage, and professional standards. Neucron conducts reasonably appropriate background checks on any employees who will have access to client data under this Agreement, including in relation to employment history and criminal records, to the extent legally permissible and in accordance with applicable local labor law, customary practice and statutory regulations.
Personnel are required to execute a confidentiality agreement in writing at the time of hire and to protect Customer Personal Data at all times. Personnel must acknowledge receipt of, and compliance with, Neucron's confidentiality, privacy and security policies. Personnel are provided with privacy and security training on how to implement and comply with the Information Security Program. Personnel handling Customer Personal Data are required to complete additional requirements appropriate to their role (e.g., certifications). Neucron's personnel will not process Customer Personal Data without authorization.
Access Management. Neucron maintains a formal access management process for the request, review, approval and provisioning of all personnel with access to Customer Personal Data to limit access to Customer Personal Data and systems storing, accessing or transmitting Customer Personal Data to properly authorized persons having a need for such access. Access reviews are conducted periodically to ensure that only those personnel with access to Customer Personal Data still require it.
Infrastructure Security Personnel. Neucron has, and maintains, a security policy for its personnel, and requires security training as part of the training package for its personnel. Neucron's infrastructure security personnel are responsible for the ongoing monitoring of Neucron's security infrastructure, the review of the Services, and for responding to security incidents.
Access Control and Privilege Management. Neucron's and Customer's administrators and end users must authenticate themselves via a Multi-Factor authentication system or via a single sign on system in order to use the Services.
Internal Data Access Processes and Policies – Access Policy. Neucron's internal data access processes and policies are designed to protect against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction of Customer Personal Data. Neucron designs its systems to only allow authorized persons to access data they are authorized to access based on principles of "least privileged" and "need to know", and to prevent others who should not have access from obtaining access. Neucron requires the use of unique user IDs, strong passwords, two factor authentication and carefully monitored access lists to minimize the potential for unauthorized account use. The granting or modification of access rights is based on: the authorized personnel's job responsibilities; job duty requirements necessary to perform authorized tasks; a need to know basis; and must be in accordance with Neucron's internal data access policies and training. Approvals are managed by workflow tools that maintain audit records of all changes. Access to systems is logged to create an audit trail for accountability. Where passwords are employed for authentication (e.g., login to workstations), password policies follow industry standard practices. These standards include password complexity, password expiry, password lockout, restrictions on password reuse and re-prompt for password after a period of inactivity.
Infrastructure. Neucron has Azure as its data center.
Resiliency. Multi Availability Zones are enabled on Azure and Neucron conducts Backup Restoration Testing on regular basis to ensure resiliency.
Server Operating Systems. Neucron's servers are customized for the application environment and the servers have been hardened for the security of the Services. Neucron employs a code review process to increase the security of the code used to provide the Services and enhance the security products in production environments.
Disaster Recovery. Neucron replicates data over multiple systems to help to protect against accidental destruction or loss. Neucron has designed and regularly plans and tests its disaster recovery programs.
Security Logs. Neucron's systems have logging enabled to their respective system log facility in order to support the security audits, and monitor and detect actual and attempted attacks on, or intrusions into, Neucron's systems.
Vulnerability Management. Neucron performs regular vulnerability scans on all infrastructure components of its production and development environment. Vulnerabilities are remediated on a risk basis, with Critical, High and Medium security patches for all components installed as soon as commercially possible.
Data Transmission. Transmissions on production environment are transmitted via Internet standard protocols.
External Attack Surface. Azure Security Group which is equivalent to virtual firewall is in place for Production environment on Azure.
Incident Response. Neucron maintains incident management policies and procedures, including detailed security incident escalation procedures. Neucron monitors a variety of communication channels for security incidents, and Neucron's security personnel will react promptly to suspected or known incidents, mitigate harmful effects of such security incidents, and document such security incidents and their outcomes.
Encryption Technologies. Neucron makes HTTPS encryption (also referred to as SSL or TLS) available for data in transit and implements encryption technologies for data at rest to ensure the security and confidentiality of Customer Data.
Data Storage, Isolation, Authentication, and Destruction. Neucron stores data in a multi-tenant environment on Azure servers. Data, the Services database and file system architecture are replicated between multiple availability zones on Azure. Neucron logically isolates the data of different customers. A central authentication system is used across all Services to increase uniform security of data. Neucron ensures secure disposal of Client Data through the use of a series of data destruction processes.
Neucron Sub-processors
Please refer for Neucron list of sub-processors.
neucron.io