Revision Date: January 1, 2023
Professional IT Solutions (“Professional IT Solutions,” “us” or “we”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (“Policy”). This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you access or use the website www.computer-techs.us (the “Site”), or the related products, content, activities, and features available on or through the Site (the “Service(s)”; this Policy does not cover IT services, which are covered by a written agreement, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
In this Policy, “personally identifiable information” means any information by which you can be identified or contacted, such as your name (first and last), mailing, billing or other physical address, email address, telephone number, billing information, third party payment information (i.e., credit card), as well as any similar identifying information or information associated with the foregoing.
This Policy applies to information we collect on this Site; in email, and other electronic messages between you and this Site; and when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy. It does not apply to information collected by Professional IT Solutions offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Professional IT Solutions or any third party, nor does it apply to any third-party application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Site or Services.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will use and treat it. If you disagree with the terms of this Policy or our Terms of Use posted on the Site, which is expressly incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Policy, your sole remedy is to discontinue your use of the Site and Services. By accessing or using the Site or Services, you agree to this Policy, which may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Site and Services after we make any changes to this Policy is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates. We will also endeavor to alert you to any changes to the Policy, but we do this as a courtesy and not as a condition to your being bound by any new terms.
Information We Collect
You may use our Site without disclosing to us any personally identifiable information.
We collect personally identifiable information about you only if you provide it to us by registering for an event sponsored by us, using our contact forms, or signing up for our newsletters and announcements.
Any email messages and IT services information that you send to addresses published on this Site are not governed by this Policy.
Use & Disclosure of Information
To the extent that we collect personally identifiable information for event registration, we use the information solely in connection with the organization of the event for which you registered. We use it, for example, to track registration, confirm attendance, and furnish biographical details to other attendees.
If you request at the time of your registration or at any time afterward, we may use this information to call to your attention to similar events that might be of interest to you.
Changing Your Information
To update or correct the information you provided us via this Site, you may contact us at info@computer-techs.us or update your information via email newsletters or the event page through which you registered. You may also resubmit your personally identifiable information through the Site by re-registering for the event or newsletter.
We allow you to opt out of future communications at any time by replying to any email you receive with a message that reads “Remove” or “Opt-Out” in the subject line or by following the Opt-Out instructions in the email.
Security of Your Information
Please do not disclose any private or confidential information to us via email or this Site. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet.
Aggregate Information
The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, browser type, IP addresses, and External Web Site (defined below) linked to, and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Cookies and Tracking
Third-party vendors, including, without limitation, Google, may show ads for our Site on search engine results pages and other websites across the Internet. These third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visit to our Site. Our Site uses analytics data to also inform and optimize such ad campaigns based on a user’s prior visits to our Site. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page. In addition, users may also opt out of a third party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Users may opt out of our use of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out page. We may report users’ aggregate interactions with our ads across the Google Display Network in conjunction with activity on the Site.
Disclosure
The personally identifiable information and data generated by cookies that we collect are used only within Computer-Techs, In.; provided, however, we will disclose your personally identifiable information (a) if we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or otherwise in cooperation with an ongoing investigation of governmental authority, (b) to enforce our terms of use agreement or to protect our rights or (c) to protect the safety of users of our Site and our services. We may transfer your personally identifiable information to an affiliate or a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization in which Professional IT Solutions participates or to a purchaser or acquirer of Professional IT Solutions business or assets to which this Site and/or the services offered on this Site relate. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information to our third-party service providers and suppliers, who are acting and using your information solely on our behalf. We will not sell or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information to any company or organization for their own marketing or commercial use.
Children’s Privacy
Professional IT Solutions, Inc, recognizes the privacy interests of children, and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. The Site and our services are not intended for children under the age of 13. Professional IT Solutions, Inc endeavors not to collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13. Professional IT Solutions targets its Site or the services offered on this Site to adults and not to children under 13.
Links to Third-party Sites
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which Professional IT Solutions does not have control (“External Web Site”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by Professional IT Solutions of those External Web Site. You acknowledge that Professional IT Solutions is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that Professional IT Solutions is not responsible for the content of such External Web Site. Your use of the External Web Site is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies on the linked External Web Site.
Third-Party Payment Information
We provide paid services and use Intuit third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors). Information entered on that site is not collected, stored by, or accessible to Professional IT Solutions That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy https://intuit.com/privacy
These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
Security
We may employ administrative, physical, and technological measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Professional IT Solutions may use firewalls to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
Notice to users outside the United States
Our computer systems are currently based in the United States, so your personally identifiable information will be processed by us in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. If you use the Site as a visitor from outside the United States, by using the Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy and you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection of that required in the European Union or certain other countries, and to the processing of that information as described in this Privacy Policy.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of the Website that are California residents to request and obtain from us a list of what personally identifiable information (if any) we have shared with third parties or corporate affiliates for those entities direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year, and the names and addresses of those third parties. Requests may be made only once a year and are free of charge.
If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to the following address: 1158 Shannon Lane, Arroyo Grande, CA, 93420. For all requests, you must put the statement “California Privacy Rights Notice” in the body of your request and your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. You also need to attest that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please note that we will not accept requests via telephone, email, or facsimile, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly or that do not contain complete information.
California Do Not Track Disclosures
California Business & Professions Code Section 22575(b) (as amended effective January 1, 2014) provides that California residents are entitled to know how a website operator responds to “Do Not Track” (DNT) browser settings. DNT is a feature offered by some browsers that, when enabled, sends a signal to websites to request that your browsing is not tracked, such as by third-party ad networks, social networks, and analytic companies. We do not currently take actions to respond to DNT signals because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. We continue to review new technologies and may adopt a DNT standard once one is created. For information about DNT, please visit: www.allaboutdnt.org.
Questions
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please contact us at info@computer-techs.us or (805) 489-2131.
