Privacy Policy

Introduction

Arden Technologies, Inc. (“Arden”) is an AI-powered audit automation platform that helps compliance and financial auditors perform SOX ITGC (IT General Controls) compliance testing. Arden automates evidence gathering and management, control testing, result summarization, and PCAOB-compliant workpaper generation for public companies and pre-IPO companies.

This Privacy Notice describes Arden’s policies and practices regarding its collection and use of your personal data, and sets forth your privacy rights. We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, and so we will from time to time update this Privacy Notice as we undertake new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies.

Data Protection

Arden is headquartered in San Francisco, California, in the United States. Arden has appointed an internal data protection officer for you to contact if you have any questions or concerns about Arden’s personal data policies or practices. If you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please direct your query to founders@ardentech.ai.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

Arden collects personal information about its website visitors and customers. With a few exceptions, this information is generally limited to:

• Name
• Job title
• Employer name
• Work address
• Work email
• Work phone number

We use this information to provide prospects and customers with services. We do not sell personal information to anyone and only share it with third parties who are facilitating the delivery of our services.

From time to time, Arden receives personal information about individuals from third parties. Typically, information collected from third parties will include further details on your employer or industry. We may also collect your personal data from a third party website (e.g., LinkedIn).

Use of Arden Services

When customers use Arden’s platform for audit testing, they may upload data that includes personal information of their employees or personnel, such as names, job titles, department information, employment dates, and system access records. This data is uploaded by and at the direction of our customers, who act as the data controllers. Arden processes this data solely to provide the audit automation services requested by the customer and does not use this data for any other purpose.

Use of the Arden Website

As is true of most other websites, Arden’s website (ardentech.ai) collects certain information automatically and stores it in log files. The information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system, and other usage information about the use of Arden’s website, including a history of the pages you view.

We use this information to help us design our site to better suit our users’ needs. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Arden makes available a comprehensive cookie notice that describes the cookies and tracking technologies used on Arden’s website and provides information on how users can accept or reject them. To view the notice, please email founders@ardentech.ai.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The personal information Arden collects from you is stored in one or more databases hosted by third parties located in the United States. These third parties do not use or have access to your personal information for any purpose other than cloud storage and retrieval.

We do not otherwise reveal your personal data to non-Arden persons or businesses for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) the information is provided to comply with the law; (3) the information is provided to our agents, vendors or service providers who perform functions on our behalf; (4) to address emergencies or acts of God; or (5) to address disputes, claims, or to persons demonstrating legal authority to act on your behalf.

To view a list of our third-party sub-processors, please email founders@ardentech.ai.

Transferring Personal Data to the U.S.

Arden has its headquarters in the United States. Information we collect about you will be processed in the United States. By using Arden’s services, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in the United States. The United States has not sought nor received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. Pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR, Arden is providing for appropriate safeguards by entering binding, standard data protection clauses, enforceable by data subjects in the EEA and the UK.

Arden endeavors to apply suitable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of your personal data and to use it only consistent with your relationship with Arden and the practices described in this Privacy Statement. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact us at founders@ardentech.ai.

Data Subject Rights

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other countries’ privacy laws provide certain rights for data subjects, including:

• Right to be informed
• Right of access
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure
• Right to restrict processing
• Right of data portability
• Right to object
• Rights related to automated decision making including profiling

If you wish to confirm that Arden is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data Arden may have about you, please contact us. You may also request information about the purpose of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, who else outside Arden might have received the data, what the source of the information was, and how long it will be stored.

Reasonable access to your personal data will be provided at no cost. If access cannot be provided within a reasonable time frame, Arden will provide you with a date when the information will be provided.

For questions or complaints concerning the processing of your personal data, you can email us at founders@ardentech.ai. Alternatively, if you are located in the European Union, you can also have recourse to the European Data Protection Supervisor or with your nation’s data protection authority.

Security of Your Information

Arden takes reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the personal data. Arden’s security measures include data encryption, firewalls, data use and access limitations for personnel, and physical access controls to our facilities.

Data Storage and Retention

Your personal data is stored by Arden on its servers and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services Arden engages, located in the United States. Arden retains service data for the duration of the customer’s business relationship with Arden and for a period of time thereafter, to analyze the data for Arden’s own operations, and for historical and archiving purposes associated with Arden’s services.

Customer audit data (HR records, access logs, and other evidence uploaded for compliance testing) is retained only for the duration necessary to provide the requested services and is deleted upon contract termination or customer request, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

All personal data that Arden controls may be deleted upon verified request from Data Subjects or their authorized agents. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact us at founders@ardentech.ai.

Children’s Data

We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive information from children.

Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, complaints, or would like to exercise your rights, please contact us at:

Arden Technologies, Inc.
Email: founders@ardentech.ai