Datonics Website Privacy Policy

Last Updated: Nov 23rd, 2023

Datonics (“we”, “our”, or “us”) is a New York-based advertising technology company, and it is our firm policy to respect the privacy of anyone that visits this website. To better protect your privacy, we provide this website privacy policy explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This privacy policy covers the information we collect on this website, at datonics.com. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@datonics.com

BY USING OR ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR POLICIES OR PRACTICES, YOU SHOULD NOT USE OR ACCESS THE WEBSITE OR PROVIDE US WITH ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION

WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ON THIS WEBSITE?

Datonics clients are businesses, not individual consumers. As a result, this website is designed to provide information to, and in some instances, collect contact information from our existing and prospective clients who request information or services from us.  This information is only collected through direct correspondence with Datonics.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

“Personal information” is information that directly or indirectly identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with a specific person, such as your name, telephone number, physical address, or email address. The precise definition of personal information (sometimes called personal data) may vary depending on your place of residence, but we take the same general approach to protecting your privacy, subject to any additional measures that may be required by applicable laws. Datonics collects contact information on this website when visitors voluntarily provide such information to us. For example, some visitors may choose to provide us with their contact information while corresponding with us via email or a contact form submission. It is not necessary to provide any personal information in order to simply browse our website. Datonics may also automatically gather online identifiers such as IP addresses and information about user internet activity, such browsing history and browser type, and by using technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies described below.

Information about our data collection during the prior 12 months is further described below.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

Datonics may gather non-personal information including how many people visit this website and the pages they visit. Any such data that has been deidentified or that otherwise cannot reasonably be related back to a specific person is not considered personal information, and is not subject to this privacy policy.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies on this website, but we do not link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our website.

We may use cookies on our website in order to make it easier for you to navigate our website, and for other limited purposes such as analyzing use of our website.

If you would like to stop or restrict the placement of cookies or flush any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to and adjust your web browser preferences. For more information on cookies, and how to remove them from your browser, please see allaboutcookies.org.  If you reject cookies, you may still use our website, although it is possible that your ability to use some areas of our website will be limited.

Note that cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted out. For example, if you have opted out on your device browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. Additionally, if you opt out on one of your devices, that opt out may not be effective on all of your devices. However, please be advised that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on some mobile services.

HOW DO WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We collect and use personal information for the following purposes:

• To communicate with you and provide our services, which may include:

o   Operating the website, and providing you with any specific services that you have requested;

o   Responding to your direct inquiries, requests, issues or feedback, and providing customer service;

o   Adding you to our mailing lists and sending you emails from time to time;

o   Using your email address to target advertising messages to you about Datonics on other platforms, such as social media services. 

• For analytics and personalization, which may include:

o   Identifying trends and making inferences about you and your interactions with us or our affiliates or our business partners;

o   Conducting research and analytics to improve our services and product offerings or those of our affiliates and business partners;

o   Understanding how you interact with the website to determine which of our products or services are the most popular;

o   Personalizing your experience to save you time when you visit the website and to customize the marketing and advertising that we show you;

o   Better understanding our customers’ needs; 

• For security and fraud prevention, which may include:

o   Helping maintain the safety, security, and integrity of the website, databases and other technology assets, and business;

o   Internal research; technological development and demonstration; and improving, upgrading, or enhancing the website;

o   Detecting security incidents; protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;

o   Investigating suspected fraud, harassment, or other violations of any law, rule, or regulation, or the policies for the website; 

• To comply with legal obligations, which may include:

o   Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations, establishing or exercising our rights, and to defending against a legal claim;

o   Responding to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, legal process, or governmental regulation;

o   Acting in connection with a bankruptcy proceeding or the sale, merger, or change of control of Datonics or the division responsible for the services with which your information is associated;

• To support core business functions, which may include:

o   Maintaining records related to business process management, loss and fraud prevention, and to collect amounts owing to us;

o   Providing and provide and maintaining the functionality of the website, including identifying and repairing errors or problems; and 

• For any additional purposes that you specifically consent to.

HOW DO WE DISCLOSE OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In addition to using your personal information ourselves for the reasons stated above (and as otherwise mentioned in this privacy policy), we may disclose your personal information to other affiliates and entities in the following instances:

• Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who may use your information to provide us with services. These service providers may have access to personal information that is necessary to perform their functions, but they are only permitted to do so in connection with performing services for us. They are not authorized by us to use the information for their own benefit. 

• Corporate Affiliates: We may share personal information with our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries, who process personal information on our behalf, where necessary to provide a product or service that you have requested, or in other circumstances with your consent or as permitted or required by law. 

• Legal Compliance and to Defend Our Rights: We may disclose personal information and other information as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (e) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (f) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. 

• Business Transfers: We may share your personal information and other information with third parties in connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the assets of Datonics, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which the assets transferred may include information about the users of our website. 

• Non-Personal Information: We may share non-personal information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business and advertising partners, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, to improve and enhance your experience using the website, and for our own market research activities. We publicly commit to maintain and use the information in de-identified or aggregate form, and not to attempt to re-identify the information. 

Please note that if you specifically consent to additional uses of your personal information, we may use your personal information in a manner consistent with that consent.

WHAT TYPES OF SECURITY PROCEDURES ARE IN PLACE?

The security of your information is very important to us. Datonics follows generally accepted industry standards to protect your information. All information collected by the Datonics system is stored in databases that are stored in a secure data center located in the United States.  Both physical and Internet access is strictly protected and limited.  Access is granted only to those with authorization. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our website, please contact privacy@datonics.com

HOW DOES DATONICS RETAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We will retain your personal information for as long as your inquiry is active or as needed with respect to the website, and for a reasonable time thereafter in accordance with our standard procedures or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. Even if we delete some or all of your information, we may continue to retain and use anonymous or aggregate data, or any other data that constitutes non-personal information. Please note that we will not be liable for disclosures of your data due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties.

HOW DO I OPT-OUT FROM RECEIVING PROMOTIONAL MESSAGES FROM DATONICS?

If you receive an unwanted email or other message from us, you can simply unsubscribe from future messages in accordance with our standard unsubscribe process (such as by using the unsubscribe link included in an email), reply and ask not to receive future emails, or send an email to privacy@datonics.com and request that your email address not be retained.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS If you reside in California, under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, you have specific rights regarding your personal information. This section describes such rights that you have and explains how to exercise those rights. Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed or Sold. You have the right to request that Datonics disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, disclosure or sale of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Your Rights), and subject to certain limitations that we describe below, we will disclose such information to you. You have the right to request any or all of the following:

·       The categories of personal information we collected about you.

·       The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.

·       Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.

·       The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.

·       The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (see Data Portability Rights below).

Right to Request Deletion. You have the right to request that Datonics delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Your Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records. However, we may retain personal information that has been de-identified or aggregated. Furthermore, we may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) in order to perform certain actions set forth under CCPA, such as detecting security incidents and protecting as illegal activity.  

Right to Data Portability. The CCPA allows you to request your information from us up to twice during a 12-month period. We will provide our response in a readily usable (and usually electronic) format.

Right to Correct. You have the right to request the correction of any personal information we maintain about you.

Exercising Your Rights.

To exercise the rights described above, please submit a request to us via email to privacy@datonics.com or call 1 800-569-8617.

Only you, or a person or business entity registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf (an “authorized agent”), may make the requests set forth above. You may also make a request on behalf of your minor child.

The request should include your contact information and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. In addition, you should provide sufficient information (including name, email address you used to contact us in the past, date of original contact, and if possible, a copy of the correspondence, in order to enable us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected the personal information or an authorized representative.

We will respond to consumer requests within 45 days from when you contacted us. If we require extra time to respond, within 45 days from when you contacted, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have a complex request, the CCPA allows us up to 90 days to respond.

In order to protect the security of your personal information, we will not honor a request if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. The method used to verify your identity will vary depending on the nature of the request. Generally speaking, verification will be performed by matching the identifying information provided by you to the personal information that we already have.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. We are not obligated to provide the information set forth above under “Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed or Sold” more than twice in a 12-month period.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Personal Information Sales and Sharing Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights. CCPA gives you the right to direct us to not sell or share your personal information at any time (the "right to opt-out"). As of the date of this privacy policy, Datonics does not and will not sell or share (as defined under the CCPA) your personal information collected through this website to third parties.

Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights, including, but not limited to, by:

·       Denying you goods or services.

·       Charging you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.

·       Providing you a different level or quality of goods or services.

·       Suggesting that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Other State Privacy Rights

Laws in Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut and similar state laws provide consumers and residents of such states, as applicable, with specific rights regarding their personal information. To the extent that you are a resident of a state with similar privacy laws, this section describes your rights and explains how you may exercise these rights.

The categories of personal information we process, our purposes for processing your personal information, the categories of personal information that we share with third parties, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it are set forth in the chart above.

Rights to Your Information

In addition to the rights set forth in our privacy policy, we provide you with the following rights:

• Right to know. You have the right to know whether we process your personal information and to access such personal information.

• Right to data portability. You may have the right to obtain a copy of your personal information that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another business without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means. You may request such personal information up to twice annually, subject to certain exceptions.

• Right to delete. You have the right to delete personal information that you have provided by or that we have obtained about you. Please note that we may deny such request if the requested deletion falls under an exception as set forth in an applicable law. Additionally, if you request deletion of your personal information and we have obtained such information from a third-party source, we may retain such data by keeping a record of the deletion request and the minimum data necessary to ensure that your personal information remains deleted from our records and that such retained data is not used for any other purpose, or we may opt you out of the processing of such personal information for any purpose except for those allowed under applicable laws.

• Right to opt out. You have the right to opt out of the processing of the personal information for purposes of: (i) targeted advertising; (ii) the sale of personal information; or (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. As of the date of this privacy policy, Datonics does not and will not sell or share your personal information collected through this website to third parties.

• Right to correct. You may have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information.

• Right to nondiscrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights. Unless permitted by applicable law, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services;

• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties;

• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services; or

• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS; VERIFYING YOUR IDENTITY

To exercise any of your privacy rights described above, you may email privacy@datonics.com or call 1 800-569-8617.

After submitting a request, we will take steps to verify your identity in order for us to properly respond and/or confirm that your request is not fraudulent. We may contact you for additional information as reasonably necessary to authenticate your request, but if we are ultimately unable to authenticate your request using reasonably commercial efforts, then we may not be able to comply with it.

Only you may make a verifiable request related to your personal information. If you are making a request as the parent or legal guardian of a known child regarding the processing of that child’s personal information, we may ask you to submit reliable proof of your identity.

Response Time; Your Right to Appeal

We will make every effort to respond to your request within 45 days from when you contacted us. If you have a complex request, the law may allow us up to 90 days to respond. We will contact you within 45 days from when you contacted us to inform you of the need for additional time and the reason for such extension. We may charge you a reasonable fee to cover administrative costs if your requests are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive.

If we decline to take action on a request that you have submitted, we will inform you of our reasons for doing so, and if you have applicable rights in your jurisdiction, provide instructions for how to appeal the decision. In that case, you will have the right to appeal within a reasonable period of time after you have received our decision. Within 60 days of our receipt of your appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If we deny your right to appeal, we will provide you with a method for contacting the applicable authorities to submit a complaint.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This website contains links to other websites. We do not endorse or otherwise accept responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those websites, and encourage you to read the privacy policies of any website you visit.

This website is intended for users ages 18 and over, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. When we become aware that personal information (or other information that is protected under applicable law) from a child under 16 has been collected, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our databases. If you believe we might have any personal information from or about a child under 16, please email us at privacy@datonics.com.

If you submit personal information to us, that information may be processed in a jurisdiction where privacy laws may be less stringent than those in your country of residence. The Datonics website is maintained in the United States of America. By using this website, you authorize the export of any personal information you submit to us, as well as the non-personal information collected by this website, to the USA, and its storage and use as specified in this policy. Please note that personal information transferred to the United States is subject to access by law enforcement.

If you have submitted personal information to Datonics via email and would like that information to be removed from our database, please send an email to privacy@datonics.com and request that your information be removed.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here. Any updated version of this privacy policy will be effective immediately upon posting unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of this website after the effective date of the revised privacy policy will constitute your consent to those changes. However, we will not, without your consent, use your personal information in a manner materially different from what was stated at the time your personal information was collected.

Any material change to Datonics’ privacy policy will be prominently noted in the published policy. In addition, you may contact us with any question or concern you may have at:

Datonics LLC
Attn: Privacy Officer
37-18 Northern Blvd Suite 404
Long Island City, NY 11101
Tel: (646) 867-0647
E-mail: privacy@datonics.com