Privacy Policy

Welcome

We’re glad you chose to visit a Computer Tech Reviews site! We care about your privacy and the information you share with us and want you to understand how we are using and protecting the information we collect about you. Computer Tech Reviews is respectful of data privacy and adopts best practice in compliance with applicable privacy law and regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Use of this website

This privacy policy describes the information we collect from you and how it may be stored and processed in the United States of America and across the Computer Tech Reviews as described below.

This website, and associated Computer Tech Reviews events and publications provide products, content, and services for a professional and consumer audience and is not intended for individuals under the age of 13 years old. We do not knowingly collect or store personal data provided by anyone under 13 years of age.

If you are a European Union (EU) resident, please note that there are a number of provisions in this privacy policy that apply uniquely to you.

What information we collect

Computer Tech Reviews collects data about you that is limited to the kind of information that can be found on a typical business card: first name, last name, job title, employer/company name, work address, work email, and work phone number. In some cases, we may ask you to provide additional professional information such as the size of the company you work for, and industry type.

To enhance and/or update the information that you have provided to us, we may combine it with professional information or personal data that we collect from third-party sources. The personal data that we refer to in this document is the personal and professional information you provide, as well as information that we obtain from third party sources, both of which we typically combine as one user record.

This site also collects and stores certain information automatically using cookies and similar technologies, including IP addresses, the region or general location of a computer or device accessing the internet, browser type, operating system, page view history, and other useful information. See our Cookie Policy for further details.

However, to the extent that any cookie can uniquely identify a computer, mobile device, or tablet (“Device”), or the person using that Device, and you are an EU resident, under the GDPR, this is personal data. Therefore, this privacy policy shall apply to such personal data collected by Computer Tech Reviews.

How we collect it

We may collect your personal data when you register to receive any of the products, content or services offered by Computer Tech Reviews or its third-party sponsors (“sponsors”) such as publications, subscriptions, contests, newsletters, memberships, premium content, webcasts, video, white papers, online seminars, conferences, and events.

What happens if you don’t provide personal data?

In order for us to provide the products, content or services you request, we need your personal data. Therefore, if you do not provide such personal data, we cannot deliver the products, content or services.

How do we safeguard your personal data?

Security of your personal data

Computer Tech Reviews maintains safeguards which include technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized use, access, inadvertent disclosure, alteration, and destruction, and we require the third parties we contract with to support Computer Tech Reviews business operations to employ reasonable security measures as well (see “When and how we share your information with others” below).

We update and test security on an ongoing basis and restrict access to your personal data to only those who need to know in order to provide Computer Tech Reviews products, content or services to you.

Storage of your personal data

We may store your personal data using Computer Tech Reviews own secure on-site servers or other internally hosted technology. Your personal data may also be stored by third parties, via cloud services or other technology, to whom Computer Tech Reviews has contracted with, to support Computer Tech Reviews business operations (see “When and how we share your information with others” below).

These third parties do not use or have access to your personal data other than for cloud storage and retrieval, and Computer Tech Reviews requires such parties to employ at least the same level of security that we use to protect your personal data (see “Security of your personal data” above).

What we do with the personal data we collect

We use the personal data that we collect to communicate with you, deliver what you request, improve our service, and to present other information and offers that may be of interest.

To communicate with you

We may use your personal data to send you important notices, such as communications about your registration, transactions, and changes to Computer Tech Reviews terms, conditions, policies, and/or other internal purposes.

To deliver what you request

We may use your personal data to provide the products, content or services you request. If you enter a sweepstake, contest, or similar Computer Tech Reviews promotion, we may use your personal data to administer such promotion.

To improve our service

We may use your personal data for auditing, data analysis, and research to improve Computer Tech Reviews products, content and services.

To present offers that may be of interest to you

We may contact you to offer you additional Computer Tech Reviews or third-party products, content or services that may be of interest to you.

The GDPR requires data collectors, such as IDGC, to have a legal basis to use the personal data of EU residents. Therefore, this section shall apply to any such personal data collected by Computer Tech Reviews.

Computer Tech Reviews uses the personal data that you provide to supply you with high-quality products, content, and services as you request, to send important notices, and for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to provide you with the information you need to make the most informed technology purchasing decisions.

We may also use your personal data to offer you products, content or services that may be of interest to you, based upon your interests or the preferences you shared with us and may share your personal data with third party sponsors of content, events, and other services or offers.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent. In certain circumstances, we may otherwise process your personal data if Computer Tech Reviews has a legitimate interest in doing so and Computer Tech Reviews is not infringing any of your rights and freedoms.

When Computer Tech Reviews processes your personal data for Computer Tech Reviews legitimate interests, Computer Tech Reviews will consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights under data protection and any other relevant law. Our legitimate business interests do not override your interests. Computer Tech Reviews will not use your personal data in circumstances where your rights and freedoms override our legitimate interests unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law.

Computer Tech Reviews may share your personal data to deliver content and services from our sites, affiliated companies and third parties services that might interest you, including sponsored content and events, for business operations, and to comply with valid legal processes.

If you are an EU resident, Computer Tech Reviews will only share your personal data with third parties outside of the Computer Tech Reviews, with your consent.

For content and services that may interest you or that you request

As we mentioned above, your personal data may be shared within the Computer Tech Reviews to provide you with information about products, content, and services that might interest you and for internal analytical and business development purposes (see “Computer Tech Reviews” above). We may also share your personal data with third parties to deliver the third party sponsored content or other services that you request (see “third party sponsored content and events” below).

For business operations

We may also share your personal data with third parties we have contracted with to support Computer Tech Reviews business operations including delivery, fulfillment, payment processing, email deployment, suppression list management, and data processing.

For third party sponsored content and events

Computer Tech Reviews partners with third-party sponsors to make available a large library of content to our users, such as white papers, professional events (live or online), as well as other services or offers. In return for access to such offers, we may ask you to provide us with personal data as part of the registration.

We may use your personal data to send you the offer you request. In addition, your personal data may be shared with the sponsor(s) of the offer to communicate with you regarding the offer, as well as additional products, content or services that may be of interest to you. Please note that once your personal data is shared with the sponsor, the sponsor’s privacy policy, including information on how to opt-out in the future, will apply to your personal data.

As required by law

Your personal data may be shared when authorized by law or necessary to comply with a valid legal process.

In the event of new ownership

If part or all the ownership of Computer Tech Reviews or any of its products or services are sold or transferred, your personal data will be transferred to the new owner.

This section shall apply to any personal data collected by Computer Tech Reviews from EU residents.

If Computer Tech Reviews shares your personal data within the Computer Tech Reviews or with any other third party as described in this privacy policy and your personal data will be transferred to a State which is not a Member State of either the European Union or the EEA, or deemed adequate by the European Commission, Computer Tech Reviews (as a data controller/data exporter) will only conduct such transfer (to a data processor/data importer) if there are suitable safeguards in place, such as binding corporate rules, standard contractual clauses, approved Codes of Conduct, or approved certification mechanism. For more information, please contact Computer Tech Reviews Data Protection Officer (See contact details below).

We retain your personal data for the duration of your business relationship with us, and we hold your information only as long as necessary for each purpose we use it unless we have obtained your consent to use for another or similar purpose.

Your rights and preferences

If you inform us that you want your personal data erased (if you are an EU resident), or that you no longer wish for us to communicate with you for marketing purposes, or to otherwise restrict Computer Tech Reviews processing of your personal data, we may retain some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future, and to keep a record of your request and our response.

Confirming your personal data

This section shall apply to any personal data collected by Computer Tech Reviews from EU residents.

To confirm that Computer Tech Reviews is processing your personal data, or to access, update or correct the personal data Computer Tech Reviews holds about you, or to obtain a copy to reuse for your own purposes, please send an email to: contact@computertechreviews.com

Questions, concerns or complaints:

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about Computer Tech Reviews personal data practices or this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to get in touch with our Data Protection Officer.

If you believe you have suffered harm due to a breach of your rights by Computer Tech Reviews under this Privacy Policy, and Computer Tech Reviews has not handled your complaint in a reasonably sufficient manner, any EU resident may also file a complaint with the applicable supervisory authority.

Your feedback is important to us. We’d love to hear your ideas, opinions and comments about Computer Tech Reviews services. Please email: contact@computertechreviews.com