Deco Technology Group,
Inc. 1040 Segovia Circle
Placentia, CA 92870 USA
President: Michael Learmouth
Phone: (714) 639-3326
E-mail: sales@decotechgroup.com

At Deco Tech, we respect our customers and understand that you are concerned about privacy. The purpose of this privacy policy is to let you know what kind of information we collect, how we use it, with whom it may be shared, what choices you have regarding our use of your information, and how you may review and change some of the data you provide to us.

We are located in the United States and this is a U.S.-based website. By using this site, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to or within the United States. As we continue to develop our website and take advantage of technologies to improve the services we offer, this policy likely will change. When we change it, we will post the change(s) on our website. If we change the policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate online notice to you.

We, or third-party service providers acting on our behalf, may use cookies or web beacons on our site. A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on the hard drive of your computer when you access the site. A web beacon is an electronic image used to recognize a cookie on your computer when you view a web page. We may use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personal information from you, including your IP address, browser type, the time and length of your visit, the pages of the site you visit, and other clickstream data. This information may be used in order to: (1) recognize you when you return to the site; (2) improve and personalize your experience on our site; (3) provide you with customized advertising; and (4) monitor site usage and analyze the behavior of site visitors. We do not collect any personal information through our use of cookies and web beacons, and we do not combine the non-personal information we collect through them with any of your personal information. You may decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on our site.

You also may be able to make some web beacons unusable by rejecting cookies. Check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

We may transfer or otherwise disclose information collected from and about you to the following entities for the following purposes: (1) to our service providers, sales representatives, suppliers and business associates, if the disclosure will enable them to fulfill your request for products or services from us or another vendor on our site; (2) to our service providers and business associates, if the disclosure will enable them to perform a business, professional or technical support function for us; (3) to our affiliates and other third parties so that they may contact you with marketing offers of their own; (4) to other companies, credit bureaus or government agencies in connection with issues related to fraud, credit or debt collection; (5) as necessary if we believe that there has been a violation of our site Terms of Use, of the law, or of our rights or the rights of any third party; (6) to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; and (7) if our company or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.

We do not direct the site to, nor do we knowingly collect personal information from, children under thirteen.

The site may contain links to third-party websites, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the activities and practices that take place on these sites. Accordingly, we recommend that you review the privacy policy posted on any site that you may access through our site.

We may collect various types of personal information from you, depending upon how you use our site. The categories of personal information we collect may include:

1. Your first and last name.

2. Your business address or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town, state and zip code.

3. Your e-mail address.

4. Your telephone number.

We may combine the information we collect from you with information we receive from you offline. We may also receive information about you from other sources, including, for example, address update services.

We may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes: (1) to fulfill your requests; (2) to provide you with targeted offers and advertising on the site; (3) to contact you with information and promotional materials and offers from our company as well as from our subsidiaries, affiliates, marketing partners, advertisers and other third parties; (4) to contact you; (5) to review site usage and operations; (6) to address problems with the site; and (7) to protect the security or integrity of the site and our business.

California residents may direct us not to share their personal information with our affiliates and third parties, for those parties’ own marketing purposes, by sending an email to sales@decotechgroup.com. Please include "Opt-Out" in the subject line.

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and will take appropriate steps to protect the intellectual property rights of third parties if it receives notice in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe your copyright or the copyright of another has been infringed on, please provide our copyright agent with a written notice containing the following information:

1. a physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest that you believe has been infringed;

2. an identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;

3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringed is located on the site;

4. information on how to contact you including your address, telephone number and email address, if available;

5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;

6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Claims of infringement should be mailed via certified mail, return receipt requested, to the following address:

General Counsel Deco Technology Group, Inc. 1040 Segovia Circle Placentia, CA 92870

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies, small files that are stored on your computer and enable your use of our website to be analyzed. The information that the cookie generates about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

We only use Google Analytics with IP anonymization. If it becomes possible to identify you from the collected data, the personal data and any reference to your identity will be deleted immediately. Your IP address is first truncated by Google within the member countries of the United States or in other countries that are parties to the Agreement. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to render other services for the operator that relate to the use of the website and the Internet.

The IP address transmitted by your web browser within the context of Google Analytics is not associated with other data held by Google.

You can prevent cookies from being stored by changing the corresponding settings in your browser; however, please be aware that you may not be able to enjoy all functions of this website if you do so. You can also prevent cookie-generated data about your website usage (incl. your IP address) from being sent to and processed by Google by downloading and installing the following browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. With the acquired statistics, we can improve our site and make it even more interesting to you as a user. For the exceptional cases in which personal data is transmitted to the USA, Google has committed itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

The lawful basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6(1)(1f) GDPR.

Details of the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html, Overview of data privacy: https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html?hl=en-GB, and Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en

This website contains YouTube videos that can be played directly. YouTube is a service operated by YouTube LLC, a subsidiary of Google LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. All videos are integrated in “extended privacy mode”. This means that no details about you as the user will be sent to YouTube if you do not play a video. Data is transmitted once you play a video. We have no influence over this transfer of data.

When you access our website, YouTube is notified that you have accessed the corresponding URL on our website via the map function. The data described in item 1 of this Privacy Policy is also transmitted. The data is transmitted irrespective of whether you have a YouTube user account, or you are logged into it. If you are logged into a YouTube user account, Google can associate your visit with that account. YouTube processes your data and creates profiles for the purpose of improving YouTube, but also to offer advertising and conduct market research. You can object to your data being used in this way by contacting Google directly.

The lawful basis for the use of YouTube is Art. 6(1)(1f) GDPR.

More details about the data processing practices of YouTube and the available privacy settings can be found in Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en.

Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield framework. This ensures that Google provides the same level of data protection that applies in the EU. More information can be found here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

By contact form
You are able send us a message via the contact form that is provided on this website. You will need to provide a valid email address so that we can respond to your inquiry. You can also provide additional details voluntarily. We collect your first name and surname in order to send you a personalized response.

The transmitted data is stored and used for the purpose of responding to your inquiry, contacting you and performing the corresponding technical measures.

Data processing when you contact us is based on Art. 6(1)(1a) GDPR. The lawful basis is the consent that you provide voluntarily. A further lawful basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1f) GDPR.

If you contact us for the purpose of entering into a contractual relationship with us, or if it is possible for us to perform pre-contractual steps as a result of you contacting us, the lawful basis for processing your data is also Art. 6(1)(1b) GDPR.

The personal data that is collected when you use the contact form will be deleted after your inquiry has been dealt with, provided that it is not subject to any statutory retention obligations.

By Email
When you send us an email, we process your email address (together with the name you entered in the sender information, if applicable) as well as the specified subject and the content of the message. Data processing is necessary in order to adequately respond to your inquiry and initiate the measures requested by you, or in order to fulfill any other legal obligations toward you that relate to your inquiry. Only the data that is needed for the aforementioned purposes is processed.

The lawful basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1f) GDPR.

If you send us your email address for the purpose of entering into a contractual relationship with us, or if it is possible for us to perform pre-contractual steps as a result of you contacting us, the lawful basis for processing your data is also Art. 6(1)(1b) GDPR.

The personal data will be deleted after your inquiry has been dealt with, provided that it is not subject to any statutory retention obligations.

By Fax or post
When you send us a letter or a fax, we process the personal data contained in it as well as the communicated subject matter. Data processing is necessary in order to adequately respond to your inquiry and initiate the measures requested by you, or in order to fulfill any other legal obligations toward you that relate to your inquiry. Only the data that is needed for the aforementioned purposes is processed.

The lawful basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1f) GDPR.

If you contact us by post or fax for the purposes of entering into a contractual relationship with us, or if it is possible for us to perform pre-contractual steps as a result of you contacting us, the lawful basis for processing your data is also Art. 6(1)(1b) GDPR.

The personal data will be deleted after your inquiry has been dealt with, provided that it is not subject to any statutory retention obligations.

We will only send our newsletter to your email address on a regular basis if you have provided your explicit consent according to Art. 6(1)(1a) GDPR. In order to receive the newsletter, you only have to provide your email address, title and surname. We collect the title and surname for the purpose of addressing you personally. For the newsletter subscription process, we use the “double opt-in” method.

After subscribing, you will receive an email in which you must confirm the subscription. This is necessary to verify that it is you who has registered and that the email address belongs to you. Newsletter subscriptions are logged as proof that the registration process corresponds with the legal requirements. This includes storing the time of the registration and confirmation as well as the IP address.

You can unsubscribe via the link at the bottom of each newsletter or by emailing us at sales@decotechgroup.com. You will no longer receive the newsletter if you do so.

We use “MailChimp” to send out the newsletter (operator: Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA). MailChimp’s privacy policy can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. For the cases in which personal data is transmitted to the USA, Rocket Science Group LLC has committed itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active

The lawful basis for the use of MailChimp is Art. 6(1)(1f) GDPR. We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider. MailChimp may use the details of the newsletter recipient in anonymous form for the purpose of optimizing the service, designing the appearance of the newsletters or for statistical purposes. MailChimp will not contact you directly, nor will it share your details.

If you enter into a contractual relationship with us, if a pre-contractual obligation exists (contract initiation) or if we have any other legal obligations toward you, we will collect the following details:

• title
• first name and surname
• address
• fixed line and/or mobile number
• email address
• first name and surname of the contact person at the company
• information that is needed for contract initiation, performance of the contract or fulfillment of other legal obligations toward you.

• to identify you during contract initiation, as a contracting party or for other legal entitlements
• to take pre-contractual steps, execute the contractual relationship or meet other legal obligations toward you
• to engage in correspondence with you
• for billing

The lawful basis for processing the data is Art. 6(1)(1b, c, f) GDPR. It is necessary to process data for the specified purposes in order to ensure proper performance of the contract and to meet any other legal obligations toward you.

The personal data will be deleted after these objectives have been met, provided that it is not subject to any statutory retention obligations.

Your personal data will only be shared with third parties if:

• you have provided your explicit consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1a) GDPR,
• disclosure is necessary in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1a) GDPR and it cannot be assumed that you have an overriding legitimate interest in your data not being shared,
• there is a legal obligation to share the data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1c) GDPR,
• disclosure is permitted by law and required for the performance of a contract with you pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1b) GDPR.

Except for these purposes, your data will not be shared with third parties in any other way.

You have the following rights:

• under Art. 15 GDPR, the right to request whether your personal data is being processed. If your personal data is being processed, you have the right to be informed of which data as well as the right to be given the following information:
• processing purposes; categories of personal data; recipients or categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed; the intended storage duration; existence of the right to rectification of your personal data, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing and the right to object to processing; the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; the origin of your data if it was not collected by us; the existence of an automated decision-making process including profiling and meaningful information about the particulars;
• under Art. 16 GDPR, the right to be informed immediately of any incorrect or incomplete personal data being stored by us;
• under Art. 17 GDPR, the right to demand the erasure of your personal data that is stored by us, provided that processing is not required for exercising the right to freedom of expression and information, for fulfilling a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for establishing, exercising or defending legal claims;
• under Art. 18 GDPR, the right to demand that the processing of your personal data is restricted if you dispute that your data is accurate, if it is being processed unlawfully but you oppose the erasure of it as you still need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or if you have objected to it being processed in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• under Art. 20 GDPR, the right to request that the personal data you have provided to us is made available to you or another authorized party in a structured, conventional and machine-readable format;
• under Art. 7(3) GDPR, the right to withdraw your consent at any time if you have ever given us permission to process your personal data. This means that we will no longer be able to process the data for the purposes to which you consented;
• under Art. 77 GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To this end, you can turn to the supervisory authority where you live or work, or where the alleged infringement occurred.

If your personal data is processed on the basis of the legitimate interest pursuant to Art 6(1)(1f) GDPR, you are entitled under Art. 21 GDPR to object to your personal data being processed if you can provide reasons that relate to your particular situation or if you are objecting to your data being processed for direct marketing purposes. In the case of direct marketing, you have a general right to object, which we will honor even if you do not specify a specific situation or reason. If you wish to exercise your right to object, please send an email to info@decotechgroup.com

On this website, the SSL procedure is used in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. This is usually 256-bit encryption. For your own security, the web server will enforce the SSL version. The SSL certificate is regularly renewed upon expiry. You can tell whether a page is being transmitted with encryption by looking for the key or lock symbol in the top or bottom bar of your browser. In addition, technical and organizational security measures are taken to protect your data against accidental or intentional changes, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. These technical measures are continuously improved or adapted in accordance with technical progress.

This Privacy Policy is valid from December 2022.

It may need to be changed occasionally due to improvements to the website and offerings or due to legal/official requirements. The latest Privacy Policy can be accessed at any time on this website at https://www.decotechgroup.com/privacy-policy