EUROPEAN PRIVACY NOTICE
For Users Located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK).
i. Controller of your Personal Data
The controller of your personal data under this Privacy Policy is TechComm LLC, with an address of 228 Park Ave. S PMB 48593, New York, NY 10003-1502, USA.
ii. Legal Bases for Using Personal Data
We process your personal data only if we have a legal basis to do so, including:
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
- for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party;
- where you have given consent to our specific use.
The purpose for which we use and process your information and the legal basis on which we carry out each type of processing is further explained below.
| Purposes for which we will process the information | Legal Basis for the processing |
| To deliver services and features desired by you. | It is necessary for us to process your personal data in order to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us. |
| To improve our services to you. | It is necessary for us to process your personal data in order to improve our services to you according to the applicable contract between us. |
| To personalize content and offers and serve you advertising that may be of interest to you. | We will personalize content and offers to you and serve you advertising based on your interests and online activities if you have consented to this processing. |
| To respond to your inquiries. | It is necessary for us to process your personal data in this manner to respond to your inquiries according to the applicable contract between us. |
| To fulfill your request for products or services. | It is necessary for us to process your personal data to fulfill your request for products or services according to the applicable contract between us. |
| To provide you with updates and other information regarding the Services. | It is necessary for us to process your personal data to provide you with updates and other information regarding the Services according to the applicable contract between us. |
| To analyze statistically site usage and to customize our site’s content, layout and services. | It is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data to analyze our site usage and to customize our site’s content, layout and services. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to you. |
| To enable our family of companies and affiliates and with trusted business partners that we do business with who may have content and offers of interest to you. | It is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data to enable our family of companies and affiliates who may have content of interest to you. We process your personal data to enable our family of companies and affiliates and trusted business partners to send you offers and market to you only if you have consented to these activities. |
| To enable our agents and service providers to perform certain activities on our behalf. | It is necessary for us to process your personal data in this manner in order to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us. It is also in our legitimate interest to enable our service providers to perform certain activities on our behalf. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to you. |
| To administer our Website including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; and To improve our Website to ensure that consent is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer, Device or other item of hardware through which you access the Website. |
For all these categories, it is in our legitimate interest to continually monitor and improve our services and your experience of the Website and to ensure network security. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to you. |
| To keep our Website safe and secure and to prevent detect fraud and abuse; and To comply with our legal obligations, policies, and procedures. We may process your personal data to respond: - To governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); |
- To other circumstances in which we have a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user;
- To an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person;
- When necessary to protect our property;
- In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy. | We conduct this processing to comply with our legal obligations and to protect the public interest. | | To process otherwise for internal administrative and analytics purposes. | It is in our legitimate interest to process your personal data for internal administrative or analytics purposes. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to you. |
iii. International Transfers
Some of our processing of your data will involve transferring your data outside the EEA and/or the UK. Some of our external third-party service providers are also based outside of the EEA and UK, and their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA and UK. This includes the United States. Where personal data is transferred to and stored in a country not determined by the European Commission and/or the UK as providing adequate levels of protection for personal data, we take steps to provide appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data, including entering into standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and/or the UK, obliging recipients to protect your personal data.
iv. Retention of Personal Data
The Community will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes it was retained, such as to enable you to use the Website and your products or to provide services to you. In some instances, we may retain data for longer periods in order to comply with applicable laws (including those regarding document retention), resolve disputes with any parties, and otherwise as necessary to allow us to conduct our business. All personal data we retain will be subject to this Privacy Policy and our internal retention guidelines.
v. Data Subject Access Rights
You have the following rights:
- Right of access to your personal data: You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we are processing your personal data, and access to the personal data and related information.
- Right to correction: You have the right to have your personal data corrected, as permitted by law.
- Right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data, as permitted by law.
- Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw consent that you have provided.
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the member state of your habitual residence.
- Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request the limiting of our processing under limited circumstances.
- Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit that information to another controller, including to have it transmitted directly, where technically feasible.
- Right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, as permitted by law, under limited circumstances.
In order to exercise any of these rights, please contact us according to the “Contact Us” section herein contact us. Please note that the above rights are not absolute and we may be entitled to refuse requests, wholly or partly, where exceptions under the applicable law apply.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE
The California Consumer Privacy Act (" CCPA") as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (" CPRA"), hereafter referred to as CCPA, provides California Consumers certain rights regarding their personal information (" PI") as those terms are defined in the CCPA. We are providing you with notice of the PI we collect, and our purposes for that collection of data that may be subject to the CCPA (" CCPA Notice"). This CCPA Notice supplements the Tech Ladies Privacy Policy (the “ Privacy Policy”) and covers information that is within the scope of the CCPA. This notice also does not apply to data collected from employees, applicants, or contractors or to data collected from individuals acting as representatives of another business in connection with business communications or transactions.
1. Notice of Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect PI directly from you, your device or browser, and our service providers. We use and share PI for the following business purposes:
- to provide requested products and services;
- to advertise and offer new products and services;
- to improve our products and services;
- for quality assurance;
- for research development;
- for prevention of fraud and illegal activity; and
- for marketing purposes.
We may also collect, use, and share PI for our operational purposes as set forth in our Privacy Policy.
We collect the following categories of PI from California Consumers, which we share with service providers:
- identifiers (e.g., name, phone number, email address, I.P. address);
- personal records (e.g., name, phone number, email address);
- Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code Section 1798.80(e), such as credit card information (only if you have purchased a service or product from us);
- Commercial information relating to your use of the Services;
- internet usage information (e.g., information regarding your interaction with our online services);
- geolocation data (e.g., your general location based on your I.P. address);
- inferences from PI collected (e.g., your preferences); and
- The contents of communications made through or facilitated by the Services (which may be deemed Sensitive Personal Information under the CCPA).
2. Rights of California Consumers
If you are a California Consumer and would like to exercise the rights afforded you under your CCPA (as identified below) you can contact us according to the “ Contact Us” section herein of the Privacy Policy. You have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment in a manner prohibited by the CCPA because of you exercising your rights under the CCPA.
To fulfill your CCPA request, we may require you to provide sufficient information to reasonably verify you are the California Consumer about whom we collected PI. This verification process may include providing us at least two unique data points, depending on the type of request.
California Consumers have the right to exercise CCPA privacy rights via an authorized agent who meets the agency requirements of the CCPA. Authorized agent requests must include a copy of the agency agreement between the authorized agent and the California Consumer. We will ask you to independently confirm the agency relationship if this section applies to you.
a. The Right to Know Categories of Information. You have the right, subject to statutory exceptions, to send us a request, no more than twice in a twelve-month period, for any of the following, for the period that is twelve months prior to the request date:
- the categories of PI we have collected about you;
- the categories of sources from which we collected your PI;
- the business or commercial purposes for our collecting or selling your PI
- the categories of third parties to whom we have shared your PI; and
- a list of the categories of PI disclosed for a business purpose in the prior 12 months, or that no disclosure occurred.
b. Right to Know Specific Pieces of Information. You have the right, subject to statutory exceptions, to make or obtain a transportable copy, no more than twice in a twelve-month period, of your PI that we have collected in the period that is 12 months prior to the request date and are maintaining.
c. The Right to Deletion. You have the right, subject to statutory exceptions, to request that we delete your PI that we have collected directly from you and are maintaining. Note also that we are not required to delete your PI that we did not collect directly from you.
d. Right to Correct
You have the right to request we correct inaccuracies in PI we maintain about you.
e. The Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information. We may work with service providers and partner with advertising companies that use Trackers to collect information about your visits to the Properties and Third-Party Services, and then use that information to deliver advertisements relevant to your interests. Use of third party cookies and/or other Trackers associated with our Properties may or may not be deemed to constitute a "sale" or “sharing” of your PI as defined by the CCPA. Regardless of any such classification, you may opt out of Interest-based Advertising using ad industry opt out tools identified here. To effectively manage cookies via this cookie settings tool, you must set cookie preferences on all browsers and all devices that you use. If you clear the cookies on your device, you may need to set your cookie preferences again.
We are not responsible for the completeness, accuracy or effectiveness of any third-party programs, tools or frameworks, or the information they provide.
3. California's "Shine the Light" Law.
If you are a California resident, in addition to the rights set forth above, California's "Shine the Light" law permits customers in California to request certain details about how their personal information is shared with third parties if that personal information is shared for those third parties' own direct marketing purposes. We do not share personal information with third parties for those third parties' own direct marketing purposes. Californians may request information about our compliance with this law by contacting us according to the “Contact Us” section herein.
To make a request, please provide sufficient information for us to determine if this applies to you, attest to the fact that you are a California resident, and provide your current California address to which we will send our response. Your inquiry must specify "California Privacy Rights Request" in the subject line of the email or the first line of the letter and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year.