On this page, you’ll find all the information about what data we collect about our visitors and customers and how that data is used. We’ve described everything as clearly and concisely as possible and avoid legalese as much as possible, so that you can make sense of all this without needing a law degree.We regularly review and, where necessary, update our privacy information. If we plan to use personal data for a new purpose, we update our privacy information and communicate the changes to individuals before starting any new processing.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.Who We Are
Our website address is: https://Technolizm.comWhat We Do
At Technolizm, we provide the following products and services- Web design
- Shopify development
- WordPress development
- App development
- Custom Development
- Logo design
- Animation / web video
- Print design
- Packaging design
- Illustration
- Photo manipulation
- Custom HTML and CSS templates
- Advertisement / Marketing
What Data We Collect
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site, your IP address.What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.Cookie Use For Retargeting
We may use Google Analytics and the DoubleClick advertising network as well as other advertising networks to display ads across the Internet, based on your visit to our website.Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on sites across the Internet. Our site and third-party vendors, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on past visits and pages visited on this website.Our site as well as third-party vendors may use third-party audience data to further optimize advertisements displayed.You can opt-out of this kind of advertising anytime, here and here.IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as “traffic data” so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.Data We Collect In More Detail
We’ve broken this down into sections to make it easy to understand what data we collect:-- As a visitor
- Signing up for our newsletter
- Contacting us through our contact form
- Purchasing a product
1. As A Visitor
You’re a “visitor” if you browse the Technolizm.com website but don’t submit any personal information about yourself.For example, if you visit this website and take a look through our blog content, our sales pages and knowledge base without signing up for anything, then you’re a visitor.As a visitor, the website uses several third party services that act in order to provide you with a better experience and allow us to optimize our content.The following third parties have limited access to some of your data:-- Google Analytics (privacy policy)
- We use Google Analytics to gain an overview of how our site is being used, how to improve user experience, what content to create and similar decisions all focused on improving the experience for our visitors.
- We also integrate Google Analytics with Google Adwords so that we can measure the performance of our paid advertisements.
- Facebook
- We use Facebook conversion tracking to understand how our Facebook ads are performing.
- Affiliate tracking
- If you visit our site through a link of an affiliate of ours, then we track this information through a cookie so that the affiliate can be compensated for referring the sale.
- HotJar for heatmaps
- We send anonymous data to HotJar to understand how our visitors interact with certain pages in our site so that we can improve them.
- Social sharing tools
- Some of the content on the site includes social sharing widgets to quickly allow you to share content with your network. We currently use Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. Some of these services gather data about you, if you are logged in to these social networks while visiting our website. Please see the privacy policies of the social networks for further information.
2. Signing Up To Our Newsletter
On this site, we display various forms that allow you to sign up to our newsletter. When you sign up through one of our forms, we’ll commonly ask you for the following data:-- Name
- Email address
- Which form you filled out
- Referrer URL (the URL that led you to the page that you signed up through)
- Your IP address
- Compliance – to keep a record of where our leads came from
- Testing – to optimize and improve the newsletter sign up forms that we display
- Relevance – we try not to show a form that you’ve already signed up for
3. Contacting Us Through Our Contact Form
If you want to contact us, you can use our contact form here.When you send us a message through our contact form, a user account will be automatically created on our site.When you submit a message to us, we keep the following data:-- Email address
- First name
- Last name
- Content of any messages that you send to us
4. Purchasing A Product From Us
When purchasing a product from us, we collect the following data:-- First name
- Last name
- IP address
- Email address
- Billing address
- Country of residence
- Postcode
- Affiliate ID (of the affiliate that referred you)
- Tax evidence (required for Digital VAT payments)
- IP address
- Geo-location of IP address
- VAT number
- Billing country
- If you declared that you’re a resident of a country other than your billing country and your IP address country. (For instance, you might be purchasing a product from Portugal, but you’re a French citizen. In this case, you can manually declare that you’re a French citizen on our checkout page).
- Compliance – we have a duty to understand what country you are a resident of so that we can charge the correct VAT amount. We must also keep a record of this data for tax audit purposes.
- Integration with our payment processor – we collect address personal data such as your name, email and address to integrate with Payment Gateway (the service we use to collect payments)
- Product delivery – In order to give you access to the products that you purchase and to our support team, we need to create an account using your name and email address.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
Technolizm follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.Cookies And Web Beacons
Like any other website, Technolizm uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies”.Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Technolizm.Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Technolizm, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.Note that Technolizm has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.Third-Party Privacy Policies
Technolizm’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.Technolizm does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.Automated Decision Making From Your Data
We have automated processes in place that are designed to improve the relevancy of the communication we send to you and the content on our site.For example:-- If you’re an Technolizm member, we will send you a notification that you’re membership is due to expire 10 days before your renewal date.
- If you purchase a product from us, we will send you information to help you get up and running with the product that you’ve purchased
- If you purchase an individual product but don’t become a member, we will show an advertisement to highlight the benefits of becoming a full member.
Your Right To View Your Data
You have the right to see the data that we store about you. To request a file containing all your data, let our support team know.We will reply to your request within 12 hours and will provide you with a file to your email address as soon as we’ve gathered the data.The data will be provided to you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format for portability.We are working on creating a self-service platform so that you can easily view all the data that we store about you immediately. We will update the privacy policy when this work has been completed.Your Right To Have Your Data Deleted
You have the right to request that we delete data that we store about you.- If you would like to stop receiving our email newsletter then you can click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any of our emails. This will unsubscribe you from any future communications. If, for some reason, this doesn’t work then let us know and we’ll remove you manually.
- If you would like to have your support forum posts deleted, you can log into your account and delete those manually by clicking on the “Edit” button underneath each thread. Alternatively, let us know and we’ll handle that for you.
Privacy Policy: Summary
- We don’t sell your data to any company for further processing, marketing, profiling or any other reason
- We integrate with certain third party services for the purpose of improving the overall user experience and to optimize certain business processes.
- Any data we hold about you, we do so for necessary and legitimate business reasons
- You can request to view, modify and delete any data that we hold about you.