At ITSecurityHQ (“we,” “us,” or “our”), we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users (“you” or “your”). This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website located at itsecurityhq.com (the “Site”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using our Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
- That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Site, and usage details.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you fill out a form, participate in a survey, or use certain Site features.
- Automatically as you navigate through the Site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Site may include:
- Information that you provide by filling out forms on our Site. This includes information you provide when you register for access to our Site, subscribe to a newsletter or email list, or when you participate in any interactive features of our Site, such as surveys or forums.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Your search queries on the Site.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Site
Cookies
Cookies are used to help us improve our Site and to deliver a more personalized service. We use cookies to:
- Remember your preferences and settings.
- Keep track of your specified interests and the pages you have visited on our Site.
- Compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interaction so that we can offer better Site experiences and tools in the future.
We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, some features will be disabled. It won’t affect the user’s experience that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
However, you will still be able to place orders.
Use of Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Site and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Site or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, including for payment processing, email distribution, market research, and data analysis.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of ITSecurityHQ, our customers, or others.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with the services available through our Site, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Security of Your Personal Information
We take measures to protect the security of your personal information. The personal information you provide is stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
However, no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through our Site cannot be guaranteed.
Your Choices
You have the following choices regarding your personal information:
- Accessing and Updating Your Information: You may access and update your information at any time by logging into your account on our Site.
- Opting Out of Marketing Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional or marketing emails from us by following the instructions contained in such emails or by contacting us directly.
- Requesting Deletion of Your Information: You may request deletion of your information by contacting us directly. We will take steps to delete your information as soon as reasonably possible, but please be aware that certain information may be required to be retained for legal or security purposes.
International Transfer of Information
Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please be aware that we transfer the information, including personal information, to the United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Links to Other Websites
Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at https://itsecurityhq.com/privacy-policy.
If we make a change to this Privacy Policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via email or by means of a notice on our Site prior to the change becoming effective.
By continuing to access or use our Site after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@itsecurityhq.com.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 01 Feb 2023.