Privacy Policy
Introduction
The purpose of this Website Privacy Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this website. Naturally, if you are not happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use this website. By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.
Who We Are
References in this Privacy Policy to "Powervation", "our", "we" or "us" include our European Headquarters: Powervation Limited, 11 Nessan House, Bessboro Road, Blackrock, Cork, Ireland and our US Headquarters: Powervation, Inc., 2665 N. First St., Suite 206, San Jose, CA 95134.
Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information:
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"Personal Data" This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, address, email address, user IP addresses in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or made anonymous, telephone number, and billing information. Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us.
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"Non-Personal Data" Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped or made anonymous, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.
If you give us personal information about somebody else, such as a colleague, we will assume you have their permission to do so, and their data will also be subject to this policy.
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Non-Personal Data: We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organize our website.
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Cookies: This website uses "cookie" technology. A cookie is a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website - our cookies are not available to other websites. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of this website.
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Personal Data: We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following purposes:
- to provide you with information you have requested or information which you have indicated you would be happy to receive;
- to provide you with the best possible service;
- for customer administration (e.g. to provide you with the goods or services you have ordered or to contact you in respect of any customer service, billing or administrative matter);
- and for our own research and development purposes.
If you provide us with your contact details in the context of a business enquiry, subscription or order, we will include your contact details in our marketing database so as to enable us to keep you informed of Powervation's products and services. When you provide us with your contact details and if we intend to use them for marketing purposes, we will first afford you an opportunity to express your marketing preferences and we will respect those preferences. You can also unsubscribe from receiving any further email marketing communications from us by replying to the relevant email and following the unsubscribe option.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website.
We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to meet the purposes outlined above. We will also disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.
Confidentiality and Security
All Powervation employees that have access to, and are associated with, the processing of personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to any third party except if required by law or other regulation. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organizational measures) to protect your Personal Data.
Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
The services and links of our website
Our website does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. Where our website contains links to third-party sites, Powervation is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of those sites.
Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance with our obligations under applicable Data Protection laws, we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data updated, amended or removed from our database, please contact us using the contact points on the Contact page of our website. Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee.
Changes to the Website Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Website Privacy Policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Website Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner.
