Privacy Policy
We at teKEZ are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our company, products and services. It is important to us that your privacy is protected whilst using our website. We collect, process and use personal data on our website under tekEZsolutions.com in accordance with the applicable data protection laws regulating use of customer proprietary network information (CPNI), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), California Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA) of 2003, including in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).
Collection and processing of personal data
In principle, you can visit and use our website without telling us who you are. We do not require any registration. Without further information from you we only collect and process certain technical information, including the name of your Internet Service Provider, the webpage from which you came to us and the pages that you visit on our website. This information is only used for purposes of provision of our website. This data is also analyzed for statistical purposes, whereby you remain anonymous as an individual user.
We process your personal data based on your consent, for the performance of a contract or as necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, including for responding to your enquiries and to customize and improve our web offerings, products and services in accordance with your preferences (Art. 6 (1) (a), (b) and (f) GDPR).
Personal data is only collected if you provide us with this information, e.g. in order to register for personalized services, and only processed and used for the provision of these personalized services, or in order to process your enquiries.
Furthermore, in connection with the personalized services we are entitled to process and use your data for advertising and market research purposes or for personalized provision of services if you have given your consent. If you give your consent the information accessed by you whilst visiting our websites can be stored in a user profile in order to be able to offer you information specifically personalized for you (e.g. in the form of a newsletter or other marketing communication). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Use of cookies, webtools and social media plug-ins
Various web tools (analysis programs and social media services) have been integrated into our website that use “cookies”. Cookies are text files that are sent by a web server to the user’s browser in order to store information on the user’s PC via the browser that is being used, for example the user’s current IP address and information about the user. The next time the web server is accessed, the applicable data regarding the user is transmitted from the Cookie file.
You can deactivate the use of cookies via your browser settings at any time. Please note, however, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use certain or all features of our website.
On our website, plug-ins for the following social networks have been or are integrated (hereinafter collectively referred to as “networks” or “network”):
· facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plug-ins are indicated with a Facebook logo (white “f” on a blue tile background a
“Like” (thumbs up) symbol) or are identified with the addendum “Facebook social plug-in”. The list of Facebook social plug-ins and their appearance can be viewed at www.facebook.com/policy.php.
· Twitter, operated by Twitter, Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Twitter”). The plug-ins can be identified by the Twitter logo (bird outline/relief in various colors against various backgrounds). The various Twitter logos which are used to indicate the plug-in can be viewed on the Twitter website under about.twitter.com/en_us/company/brand-resources.html.
· Pinterest – Pinterest Trademark Agent, 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA www.pinterest.com/about/privacy
· Instagram – Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA http://instagram.com/legal/privacy/
· Youtube – YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 USA www.youtube.com/t/terms
· LinkedIn – LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
All of these network plug-ins essentially work according to the same basic principle as described below: When you access our website, the network plug-ins can potentially create a direct connection between the user’s browser and the server of the respective network. The content of the relevant plug-in will be directly transmitted from the network to your browser, which will integrate it into the website. We have no influence regarding the scope of the data which is collected with the aid of the plug-in. Therefore, we can only inform you about the information which is publicly accessible according to our current state of knowledge (see above). The integrated plug-in informs the network that the user has accessed our website and informs the network of the user’s IP address. If the user is logged in to the network of this plug-in at that point in time, the network will be able to link the visit with the user’s account. If the user interacts with these plug-ins, for example in the case of Twitter by clicking on “Tweet This” or with Facebook by clicking the ‘I like’ button or making a comment, the corresponding information will be transmitted directly from the user’s browser to the network where it will then be stored. Furthermore, additional personal data can also be transmitted and stored there, for example the user’s IP address, personal browser settings and other parameters.
If you are a member of the respective network and do not want it to collect information about you via our website and to link this information with the data that the network has already stored about you, then please close this website, log out from your user account for the respective network and afterwards visit our website once again. If you are not a member of the network or you have logged from the network before visiting our website, the possibility still exists that the network will ascertain (at least) your IP address and store it. Please note that this information is already exchanged when you visit our website, whether you interact with the plug-ins or not.
Web statistics tools, Targeting
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the way you use our website. The information generated by the cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the
USA and stored there. Google complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement and is registered with the US Department of Commerce’s ES-US Privacy Shield Program (for details and individual registrations go to www.privacyshield.gov). However, if IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our website by you, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide other services related to the website and internet usage to us.
Please note that we use the code “ga(‘set’, ‘anonymizeIp’, true);” to ensure the anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). As a result, IP addresses are processed in shortened form, which means that direct personal reference can be excluded.
You can deactivate the use of cookies via your browser settings at any time. Please note, however, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use certain or all features of our website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For more information about privacy in connection with Google Analytics, please visit: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
Data Security
tekEZ takes adequate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data from being misused and to prevent the loss of your data. Your personal data is saved in a secure operating environment that is not accessible to the public. All personal data provided by you in the course of registration or use of personalized services will be transferred in encrypted form in order to prevent misuse of the data by any third party.
Transfer, export and processing of the data outside the EU/EEA
Other than described herein, no transfer will take place to third parties outside the tekEZ Group. Personal data of users of our website from outside the EU/EEA can be transferred to affiliates of tekEZ or distributors outside EU/EEA that are responsible for the relevant product or service category and region.
External links
Our website can contain links to other websites. Please be aware that tekEZ is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave one of our websites and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal data. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by our websites.
Further information and contacts, information, corrections, blocking and deletion.
You can contact our data protection officer using the following contact information:
tekEZ, 5160 Federal Blvd. Room # 100, San Diego, CA 92105 or dataprotection@tekezsolutions.com.
You have the right to request from us access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or to restrict processing of your personal data or to object to such processing as well as exercising your right to data portability in accordance with the GDPR and applicable laws. Please contact the address given above by email or by mail.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority in accordance with the GDPR and applicable laws if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR. For this purpose, you can contact in particular the supervisory authority in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or the place of the alleged infringement.
tekEZ reserves the right to change, amend, or update this privacy policy. If we do decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the revised privacy policy. On return visits to our site, please remember to review the privacy policy for any changes, since continued use of our site after any posted revision indicates your consent to our use your information in accordance with the changed, amended, or updated privacy policy.