Privacy Policy

1    Overview

Techanisms LLC  (“Techanisms,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use your Personal Information when you visit our website at  www.techanisms.com or www.incomemavericks.com or otherwise use the Platform as described further in the Terms of Service and that you may provide in electronic messages to Techanisms.

Please read this Privacy Policy to understand our policies and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will handle it. We want you to feel secure, so if you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use the Platform. You have full control over your personal information, and by accessing or using the Platform, you agree and consent to this Privacy Policy.

Techanisms retains the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, at its discretion. Your continued use of the Platform after we implement changes is considered acceptance of and consent to those changes. Hence, we encourage you to check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates. We strive to maintain transparency in our policy changes to ensure your confidence in our practices.

This Privacy Policy is subject to and governed by the Techanisms Terms of Service. The Services are part of the Platform and are described further in the Terms of Service.

Income Mavericks is a software program from Techanisms built upon a third-party platform that manages compliance as set out in this policy. This policy is based on their policy.

2    The Types of Information That Techanisms Collects About You and How Techanisms Collects Information About You

Techanisms may collect two types of information from you when you visit the Platform: Personal Information and Non-Personal Information (collectively “Information”).

  • “Personal Information” refers to data by which you may be personally identified, such as name, email address, employer, job title and department, and telephone number.
  • “Non-Personal Information” means data that is about you but does not identify you specifically. If you do nothing during your visit to our Platform but browse, read pages, or view content, we will gather and store Information about your visit that does not identify you personally.

We collect Information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us. When you subscribe to a newsletter, create an account, make a purchase or request information from Techanisms, we will ask for your name, contact, billing, shipping and communication information, and account ID or credentials to fulfil your request. If you set up an appointment with us through the Platform, attend a trade show or event, or otherwise contact us, you may also voluntarily provide similar information.  Suppose you submit any Personal Information about other people to us or our service providers. In that case, you are responsible for making sure that you have the authority to do so and to allow us to use their Personal Information by this Privacy Policy (for example, by You asking for their consent).
  • From third parties. We obtain information from partners, vendors, suppliers, and third parties.  The parties from whom we obtain information are typically corporate enterprises (although some may also be educational or public enterprises), and they may be located in any of the locations where we do business.  These enterprises broadly fall into the following categories: Advertising and marketing companies, data set and information vendors, public database providers, social media platforms, partners, providers of products or services, hosts or vendors at events or trade shows, research partners, or enterprises that use Techanisms Services.  We take steps to confirm that the information we receive from these third parties has been collected with your consent or that these parties are otherwise legally permitted to disclose your Personal Information to us.  We might also obtain information through a partner or co-create datasets with a partner as part of our business operations.  This data is used for work like improving the Platform and other Techanisms Services, enhancing existing products and developing new capabilities and features.  In some cases, we combine Personal Information about individuals that we receive from multiple sources, including directly collected from you or through your use of the Platform.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the Platform or during the time in which you utilise our Services.  We collect information about how you interact with the Platform through cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies.

3    How Techanisms Uses Personal Information It Collects About You and the Purposes for the Collection and Use

We use Personal Information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for the following purposes:

  • For Functionality and Development of the Platform and Techanisms Services. We use the information to provide, offer, and personalise the Platform and other Techanisms Services provided to you.  Some information, like your IP address, is used to communicate with your device to provide network connectivity, measure usage levels of the Platform, diagnose server problems and provide security features.  Other business purposes that depend on using your information include data analysis related to testing, modifying, improving or developing new products, services and technologies and identifying trends.   We use cookies to make our websites and the Platform operate, work more efficiently, and provide analytic information.  Technologies similar to cookies, such as pixel tags, are also used in connection with the Platform.
  • For Customer Support, Platform Updating and Reporting. The Platform may use the information to provide Techanisms with updates and reports and to check that the Platform is working correctly.  Update functions may automatically check your system to see whether files need to be refreshed, updated, or modernised to provide you with up-to-date security, versions, features, options and controls associated with your systems or devices.  We rely on information to analyse performance and improve and maintain the Platform.  We also rely on the Personal Information you provide us to provide you with customer support for the Platform and other Techanisms Services and verify eligibility for promotional offers.
  • For Business Operations. For example, we use information to operate our business and perform accounting, auditing, billing, reconciliation, and collection activities. Other business purposes that depend on the use of your Personal Information include crime or fraud monitoring and prevention, protecting our legal rights, and performing contractual obligations.  We also use Personal Information to contact you to advertise, market and sell Techanisms Services in accordance with your communications preferences.
  • To Communicate. We use contact information to send messages, provide Techanisms’ services, respond to customer service requests to provide alerts such as security updates or changes in our policies or about subscriptions that are ending and send marketing or informational materials like newsletters or white papers by your communication preferences.  We occasionally conduct surveys, focus research, or studies that may require you to share personal information to participate voluntarily.  These activities typically have additional notices that provide more information about using your personal information, to which you may be asked to consent.
  • For Advertising and Marketing. We may use Personal Information collected from you, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, to enable us to provide personalised content and to study the effectiveness of advertising and marketing campaigns.  You may choose whether to allow or deny uses or sharing of your device’s location by changing your device settings. Still, if you choose to deny such uses or sharing, we may not be able to provide you with certain personalised Techanisms Services and content on the Platform.
  • For Statistical Purposes to Improve the Platform. We may compile Platform statistics into traffic reports, which help Techanisms understand, anticipate, and respond to user needs.  If we learn, for example, of heightened interest in certain aspects of the Techanisms Platform, we are likely to highlight that information on the Platform home page. This information helps us create a better overall experience for Platform users.

LEGAL BASIS FOR OUR USE (APPLICABLE ONLY TO EEA AND UNITED KINGDOM VISITORS):  If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Information described above will depend on the Personal Information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will collect Personal Information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the Personal Information to perform a contract with you, where we have a legal obligation to do so, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests (such as processing for administrative purposes, direct marketing, product development or improvement, preventing fraud or criminal acts and in support of information security) and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

If we ask you to provide Personal Information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the time of collection. We will also tell you whether the requirement for that information is mandatory and explain any consequences if you do not provide the information.

Similarly, suppose we collect and use your Personal Information based on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party). In that case, we will take reasonable steps to provide clear notice and describe our legitimate interests.

Techanisms uses a third-party Data Controller for all Personal Information collected through the Platform in the EEA and the United Kingdom.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your Personal Information for any specific processing activity, please contact us.

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including to satisfy any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements and other purposes described in this Privacy Policy.  We may retain your Personal Information for a more extended period in case of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation concerning our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.  In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data: see “YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS” below for further information.  In some circumstances, we will anonymise your Personal Information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

4    How Techanisms Protect Your Information

The Platform is designed to provide reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical and organisational security measures to protect your Personal Information against risks such as temporary or permanent loss, destruction, and unauthorised or unlawful access, alteration, use or disclosure.  We require our suppliers and vendors to apply similar protections when they access or use Personal Information we share with them.

Users of the Platform must also protect the data, systems, networks, and services they use. No technology, data transmission, or system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that your password to any Techanisms account has been compromised), please immediately notify us by contacting us using the instructions in the “HOW TO CONTACT US” section below.

5    When Techanisms Share Your Information

We work through our affiliates to provide the Platform and other Techanisms Services.  We also work with authorised suppliers and business partners.  When we share your Personal Information with these companies, we put in place appropriate measures to limit the use of your information only for legal and authorised purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy, as well as appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We also share information with third parties for advertising and marketing, when required by law or to respond to legal processes, to protect our customers, to protect lives, to maintain the security of the Platform, and to protect our legal rights.  We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • With Affiliates and Subsidiaries. For purposes limited to and consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • With Suppliers. Our authorised vendors and suppliers may require Personal Information to provide services we have contracted for, such as product delivery, website hosting, data analysis, IT services, auditing, or customer service.  We use a wide variety of software and tools at Techanisms and process Personal Information using these tools as a regular course of business.  Our contracts with suppliers and vendors include provisions to protect your Personal Information and limit its use.
  • With Partners. We occasionally have relationships with third parties that are not suppliers or vendors but are working with us to offer specific opportunities such as marketing and similar promotions, to enable joint products or research studies, or to facilitate services on the Platform.  In these cases, additional terms or Privacy Policies may be provided.  For third parties or uses not described in this Privacy Policy, we share your information only with a lawful basis to do so.
  • For Advertising and Marketing. We share your information with our third-party company partners to prepare and deliver advertising and marketing content, provide content services, enable them to provide you with more personalised ads and study the effectiveness of our campaigns.

In particular, we use third-party companies to communicate regarding goods and services that may interest you by your preferences.  You may receive this content via email, phone, or when you access and use the Platform or other Techanisms Services and other websites.  Content may be based on information obtained, for example, through prior purchases or transactions, through your device’s physical location, through information about what advertisements and content you have viewed, or through cookies and similar technologies relating to your access to and use of the Platform and other websites. You can choose whether to allow or deny uses and/or sharing of your device’s location by changing your device settings. Still, if you choose to deny such uses or sharing, our partners may not be able to provide you with the applicable Platform Services and content.

  • For Connections to Social Networks and Third-Party Services. Where you are using our Services and have chosen to connect your social networks profiles to the Techanisms Services, or if you authorise a third-party service to access your account, you agree to provide information about you to the social networks and the third-party services under their respective terms and privacy policies. For example, if you connect your YouTube account to the Techanisms Services, this connection uses YouTube’s API services, and the Google Privacy Policy (located here) will apply to you. Suppose you have authorised us to access your information via the YouTube API services, in addition to our standard procedure for deleting stored data. In that case, you may revoke our access to your data via the Google security settings page, located here.
  • Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions. We may disclose Personal Information as part of a contemplated or actual corporate transaction such as a reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
  • With Your Consent. Techanisms may disclose your Personal Information to any other person or entity where you consent to the disclosure. For information about how to decline our advertising and marketing, please see the section entitled "Your Choices & Rights" below.

We also share non-personally identifiable information, such as anonymised or aggregated information, with suppliers for purposes such as analysis, identifying trends in the areas of our products and helping research and develop new Techanisms Services.

Techanisms does not sell any of your Personal Information for monetary compensation.

6    Information From Children

We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose Information from children under 16.  If we learn that we have collected the Personal Information of a child under 16—or the equivalent minimum age depending on the jurisdiction, such as 13 in the United States per the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act—we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.  If you are under 16, do not provide any Information about yourself to Techanisms, including your name, address, telephone number or email address. If you become aware that Information of a child under 16 years of age has been provided, please use one of the methods provided under the “HOW TO CONTACT US” section below.

7    Links to Other Websites and Services

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked to or from the Platform, including the information or content contained therein.  This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the policies and practices of third parties or other organisations that are not operating on Techanisms’ behalf, including policies and practices related to privacy and security, data collection, processing, use, storage, and disclosure.  This includes: (a) any third party operating any site or service to which the Platform links – the inclusion of a link on the Platform does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates; or (b) any app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer (such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, etc.) - including any Personal Information you disclose to other organisations through or in connection with the Platform or other Techanisms Services.

8    Do Not Track

Some browsers incorporate a "Do Not Track" (“DNT”) feature that, when turned on, signals to websites and online services that you do not want to be tracked.  At this time, the Platform does not respond to DNT signals.

9    YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Techanisms respect your rights in how your Personal Information is used and shared. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access or corrections to your personal data and make choices about the kinds of marketing materials you receive (or choose not to receive marketing from Techanisms at all). See below for more information, depending on your location.

10 European Privacy Rights

In Europe, you may have additional rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, or nFADP.  Additional choices and rights may be available depending on which Techanisms Services you use.

  • Access, Correction to or Deletion of Your Information. Suppose you would like to correct or update your Personal Information or to request access to or deletion of your Personal Information. In that case, you may contact us by visiting the Platform or using the contact details provided under the “HOW TO CONTACT US” section below.  If you request a change to or deletion of your Personal Information, please note that we may still need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began before requesting such change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion). Some of your information may also remain within our systems and other records where necessary for compliance with applicable law.

We will confirm what Personal Information we hold about you at your request and where the law requires us to do so.  You may also have a legal right to obtain a copy of your Personal Information.  You can make such a request by writing in one of the ways described in the “HOW TO CONTACT US” section below.  We may charge a processing fee for this service where permitted by law and we will require evidence of your identity before fulfilling your request.

  • Data Privacy Rights Specific to Individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. You can object to the processing of your Personal Information, ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information, or request portability of your Personal Information.  You can exercise these rights by making a written request in one of the ways described in the “HOW TO CONTACT US” section below.

    Similarly, if we have collected your Personal Information with your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.  Withdrawing your consent will not affect (1) the lawfulness of any processing we conducted before your withdrawal or (2) the processing of your Personal Information under other legal bases.

    If you believe we are using your Personal Information in a way inconsistent with this Privacy Policy or for more information about your rights, contact your local data protection authority.  Additionally, under the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF, you may contact JAMS Mediation, Arbitration, and ADR Services (https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-data-privacy-framework) to address complaints and provide appropriate recourse free of charge to you.  Under certain conditions, you may invoke binding arbitration.

  • Advertising and Marketing Choices. We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for advertising and marketing purposes.  You may access or update your contact details and modify your communication preferences by using one of the methods provided under the “HOW TO CONTACT US” section below.  Please also note that if you choose not to receive marketing communications from us, we may still send you communications related to your products or the Platform, such as information about a security update, service issue or product delivery.  Some advertising content is delivered through the Platform’s use of cookies and similar technologies.

11 International Compliance

Techanisms is a global company with its headquarters in the United States.  As such, we may transfer your Personal Information between the United States and our affiliates and business partners in other countries.  We may also transfer your personal information to our third-party service providers, who may be located in a different country from yours.

Techanisms transfer information internationally to operate efficiently, improve performance, and create redundancies to protect the information in the event of an outage or other problem.  In so doing, we will process your Personal Information in a way that meets the commitments of this Privacy Policy and complies with the law wherever we transfer it.

Whenever Techanisms transfers Personal Information beyond the country of origin, we will do so in accordance with applicable laws.  For Personal Information originating in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), or Switzerland that is transferred to a Techanisms entity outside the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, Techanisms participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) and, as applicable, the UK extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and/or the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF). Techanisms commits to the DPF Principles and, as needed, will take additional steps to provide appropriate safeguards for the Personal Information we transfer. The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over Techanisms’ compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF).  Techanisms may be required to disclose Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. Techanisms is liable for onward transfers to third parties.

12 Data Privacy Framework

Techanisms LLC and LeadConnector LLC comply with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Techanisms has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that Techanisms and LeadConnector adhere to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (EU-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of personal data received from the European Union in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and from the United Kingdom (and Gibraltar) in dependence on the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF. Techanisms has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that Techanisms and LeadConnector adhere to the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles) about processing personal data received from Switzerland in reliance on the Swiss-U.S. DPF. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program and to view our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.

13 How To Contact Us About This Privacy Policy

To ask questions about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at info@techanisms.com.

 

Last Update: May 2024