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Techatty All-in-1 Publishing

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PRIVACY POLICY OF THE USE OF TECHATTY

 

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INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Privacy Policy”) describes how Techatty, part of Tech For Good Innovation, a trademark of Web and Cloud LLC, a Miami corporation (“Techatty, Tech For Good Innovation” Web and Cloud” Web & Cloud” Web and Cloud LLC” or “we” or “us”) and you (or “you” or “your”) and govern it collects, uses, shares, and protects the information in connection with the websites, mobile websites, mobile applications, browser applications and any other Services that refer or link to your use of Techatty.com. 

1. Collection of Information

We may collect and use your information in the following cases:

Your personal information may include:

  • Register for our Services or sign in to an existing account
  • Visit our website(s)
  • Access our application(s)
  • Connect to our Services using third-party accounts, such as your email, social media or payment account(s)
  • Contact us for support
  • Enter a contest, promotion, survey or poll

Further, we and our service providers automatically collect certain information about you through:

  • Interaction with our Services
  • Cookies and other tracking technologies
  • Location-identifying technologies
  • Monitoring and analyzing trends, usage, and activities

The types of information you provide may include personal information. “Personal information” means information that can be used to identify you (whether alone or in combination).

The personal information you may provide to us includes:

  • Name or Company name
  • Email address
  • Billing or mailing address
  • Phone number
  • Payment information in some cases
  • Commercial information such as records of products or services subscribed to or purchased 
  • How you connect to our services, such as your IP address, device or session IDs and information
  • Browsing history
  • Your geolocation, to the extent you have configured your device to permit us to collect such information, date and time stamps associated with transactions, and locale preferences
  • Click-stream data (internet or other electronic information regarding your browsing history, search history, the web page visited before you came to our website, length of visit and number of page views, click-stream data meaning the page-by-page paths you take as you browse through our services)
  • Audio recordings of your voice to the extent you call us, as permitted under applicable law
  • Inferences about your preferences, characteristics, behavior and, attitudes

NOTICE

WE WILL NOT ASK FOR YOUR CARD DETAILS, BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER, OR OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION ON OUR PLATFORMS, BY PHONE, OR IN PERSON. PAYMENTS FOR OUR SERVICES ARE TAKEN CARE OF BY THE THIRD PARTIES: PAYMENT GATEWAYS, BANKS, AND OTHERS VIA THE E-COMMERCE PAYMENT SERVICES OF PAYEBIZ.COM.

*FOR PAYMENT REASONS, WE WILL MOSTLY ONLY NEED YOUR PAYEBIZ ID, WHICH IS SIMPLY YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.

We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you create a Registration ID on the site or when you download free software, enter a contest, order email newsletters or join a limited-access premium site. We use your Personal Information for four primary purposes:

  • To make the site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once.

  • To help you quickly find relevant services or information.

  • To help us create content more relevant content.

  • To alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information, and other new services from Techatty.

By signing into our service through a third-party social networking service (“Social Networking Service”), such as Facebook or Google, you give us permission to access, store, and use any information that you permit the Social Networking Service to share with us by the privacy settings applicable to your account with that Social Networking Service. If you select to use Google to create or sign in to your Service account, your Google account will be automatically linked to your Service account, and we will receive access to your Google email content. We may use your Email Content to confirm your Cashback faster and more reliably and to personalize your experience with Techatty services. We may also offer you the ability to link your email account from other email service providers. If you elect to link your email account with your Service account, we will also have access to your email content. Email content from your linked email accounts shall collectively be known as “Email Data”. You can change these settings in accordance with Section 4 (Your Choices). The Email Data and any other information we collect in connection with Social Networking Services is subject to this Privacy Policy, except where otherwise noted.

2. Use of Information We Collect

We may use information about you in the following ways.

Manage Your Account

If you provide us personal information, we may use it to: (i) process your registration with our Services, including verifying whether your email address is active and valid and enrolling you into our programs; (ii) facilitate and manage your transactions; (iii) track your shopping, deliver you payments and identify opportunities for rewards and/or offers; (iv) send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative messages; (v) provide you member services regarding your account and reply to your questions, comments and requests; and (vi) comply with legal and regulatory provisions in force and with the competent judicial authorities in each geographical jurisdiction that Techatty, operates in. We may also use your information to assess risk and prevent fraud.

Improve our services

We may process information through analyzing and monitoring usages and trends and performing statistical analyses to improve our services and the websites, applications, marketing efforts, and the products and services of our affiliates we recommend or offer to provide a better service to you in the future. We may also use this information to adapt Service content to be more likely to be of interest to you. With the exception of Email Data (defined as the email content from your linked email accounts), we may also share information, including email address, with our affiliates within the Techatty Community for those affiliates to analyse and monitor usage and trends to improve their offer/services.

Provide You Marketing Information

With the exception of Email Data, Techatty may use information to provide you more personalized offers and/or special offers, discounts, and similar information. Techatty may send you newsletters, rewards, discounts, promotion codes, events and general information about Techatty if you consent.

3. Sharing of Information

We may share the information we collect, including your personal information, under the following circumstances:

Protection of Rights and Other Legal Purposes

We may share the information we collect, including personal information, to the extent permitted by applicable law, (i) in response to subpoenas or other legal processes or if in our good faith opinion such disclosure is required or permitted by law; (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; (iii) to defend our terms and conditions or other policies applicable to our Services; and (iv) to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of Company or any third party.

Business Transfers

We may share the information we collect, including personal information, with any third party in connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or actual merger, purchase, sale (including a liquidation, realization, foreclosure or repossession) or any other type of acquisition of all or any portion of Company assets, conveyance or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another company.

4. Your Choices

You may in some cases have the option to decline providing us information. However, your choice not to provide information may impact your use of certain features or services. You may unsubscribe or opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by using the unsubscribe link on the footer of our marketing emails, by logging in to your account and updating your settings or by using the Contact Us option on Techatty.com or the app. Upon request, we will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. We encourage you to maintain the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as the information you provide to register for your account. Techatty may allow you to access, review, correct, update and remove or make inaccessible personal information you have provided through your account settings. With respect to linked email accounts, you may unlink your email account from your Service account by updating or switching off the connection in your account settings within Techatty. You may provide account updates and changes by logging into your account and changing settings or by using the Contact Us option through Techattys. With respect to our mobile and other applications, you can prospectively stop all collection of information by the application by uninstalling the application. You may at any time opt out from further allowing us to have access to your location data by adjusting the permissions in your mobile device. We will make good-faith efforts to make requested changes in our then-active databases as soon as reasonably practicable.

5. Data Security and Retention

We take reasonable measures to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We use a secure, encrypted connection (using a TLS protocol) on all pages where you access or transmit personal information. Although Techatty uses reasonable efforts to help protect your information, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and Company cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Services. Except as otherwise set forth under applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access or other causes beyond our control. We retain the information collected via our Services until you choose to close your account. After that time, we may aggregate the data and retain it for analytical purposes. We may also retain your information on backup media to comply with applicable law, to support financial audits, to resolve disputes, to maintain compliance efforts and for other legitimate business reasons.

6. Electronic Communications

By signing up for an account, you may receive periodic emails from Techatty. If you consented to receiving promotional email communications, you can opt out of receiving such communications from us at any time by (i) following the instructions provided in those communications; (ii) modifying your Email Preferences in the Account Settings of your account; or (iii) contacting us through Techattys. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional communications, we may continue to send you non-promotional emails and other types of communications, as permitted by law, such as service emails relating to our ongoing business relationship. Service emails contain service-related announcements that affect your account, such as product order confirmations, reward or payment updates, and responses to your comments and feedback submitted to us. Techatty mobile applications, browser extensions and websites may send you notifications, such as alerts, sounds and icon badges. Push notifications or in-app messages may include both operational messages and promotional messages regarding products, services and offers that may be of interest to you. When using mobile applications, push notifications and other mobile alerts can be configured in the settings of your mobile device. As with emails, even if you opt out of receiving promotional communications, we may continue to send you non-promotional push notifications, such as those about your use of the applications or our ongoing business relations. If you elect to provide us a mobile number, we may use it to contact you when you make account updates or for account recovery purposes. You may opt out of such messages by removing your mobile number in your account preferences or replying STOP to any incoming messages.

7. Cookie Policy

We and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website and gather demographic information about our user base. We use cookies for many purposes, including, without limitation, authentication and tracking user preferences or web pages visited while using our Services. You may control the use of cookies at the browser level. If you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on Techatty.

8. Analytics, Targeting, Tracking

We, and third parties with which we partner, may also use cookies, pixels and other technologies to automatically collect information about your use of Techattys, such as your click-stream data, browsing history, IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. Data collected from a browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected (also known as cross-linking). We may also work with third parties to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign on other websites or platforms. These third parties may also collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Services to help predict your preferences and to display (and to enable other third parties to display) ads to be more likely to be of interest to you. Some third-party service providers that we engage (including third-party advertisers) may also place their own cookies on your browser. If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising, click here. Note that this Privacy Policy covers only our use of cookies and does not include use of cookies by such third parties.

9. Third-Party Websites

Techattys contain hyperlinks to websites of merchants, retailers and other websites or locations that we do not control and are operated and controlled by third parties (“Third-Party Websites”). Our Privacy Policy does not apply to these Third-Party Websites and we make no representations regarding the policies or business practices of any such Third-Party Websites. We encourage you to review, and if necessary, adjust, your privacy settings on the applicable Third Party Websites.

10. Special Note for EU and Europe Residents

We comply with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland to the United States, respectively.  We have certified to the Department of Commerce that we adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice, Choice, and Accountability for Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation, Access, and Recourse, Enforcement and Liability. If there is any conflict between the policies in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification page, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/

Pursuant to the EU-US Privacy Shield and the US-Swiss Privacy Shield, Overstock.com acknowledges that EU and Swiss individuals have the right to access the personal information that we maintain about them. 

In addition to the secure collection and usage of data through our Website, we note that appropriate privacy rules would apply in connection to the provision of our Service and subject to applicable data protection laws.

Your Personal data will be processed in accordance with applicable data protection laws (including GDPR in the EU) and in line with Techatty Privacy Notice (in the EU: Privacy Notice in accordance with Art. 13-14 GDPR) accessible to you upon the commencement of Personal data processing by us.

GDPR RIGHTS/VISITORS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your Personal data depends on the information we collect and specific context. In particular, we process your Personal data because:

  • We need to address the query you sent to us via the online Contact form;
  • We need to respond to e-mail you have sent to us;
  • To comply with the law.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the personal information we have on you
  • The right of rectification
  • The right to object
  • The right of restriction
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to withdraw consent

Please note that we may ask you to identify yourself via the applicable authentication mechanism before responding and acting upon such request. We kindly remind that you also have a right to complain to a Data Protection Authority, for more information please contact your local Data Protection Authority. For more information click here.

11. Special Notice for California Residents

This section applies only to California Residents

Personal Information Collected

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), below is a summary of the personal information categories, as identified and defined by the CCPA (see California Civil Code section 1798.140 (o)), that the Techatty collects, the reason we collect your personal information, where we obtain the personal information, and the third parties that we share your personal information.

We do not collect the following categories of information from your customer records, protected classifications, biometric information, professional or employment-related information, or education information. For information about the personal information we collect, please refer to Section 1 (Collection of Information), above. In relation to the personal information described,Techatty collects such information for the business and commercial purposes described in Section 2 (Use of Information We Collect). Section 3 (Sharing of Information) describes the categories of third parties with whom Techatty shares such information.

Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have rights in relation to your personal information; however, your rights are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, Techatty cannot disclose specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the personal information, your account with us or the security of the business’s systems of networks.

  • You have the right to know the personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you during the preceding 12 months
  • You have the right to request in writing from us a copy of the:
    • Categories of information we have collected about you
    • The categories of sources from which we collected that information
    • Why we collected that information about you
    • The categories of third parties with whom we shared your personal information
    • The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about you for a business purpose
    • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you
    • Please note that we are only required to respond twice per calendar year to your right to know
    • You have the right to request that Techatty delete any personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is current as of the effective date set forth below. Techatty reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time consistent with applicable privacy laws and principles. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by revising the date on this Privacy Policy. In some cases, we may provide you with additional notice.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our contact form.

Updated: March 09,2023

 

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