Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how studiotechsupply.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we'll process data.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal data?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as described in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.

Why do we need your personal data?

We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data so as to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You keep the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't consent to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please don't use our Site.

Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:

Information from Social Networking Sites

Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your preferences on that SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may revoke our access to the information you provide in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the site you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and information regarding your use of and actions on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling

We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. But we may do this in order to fulfill obligations imposed by law, in which case we'll notify you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.

Cookies

What are cookies?

We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more interactive and personal experience on our Site.

We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which can be served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.

Cookies we use

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Type of cookie

Purpose

Essential Cookies

These cookies are crucial to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. For instance, they allow you to log into secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. With no cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be supplied, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login information and recalling the changes you make to other parts of our Site which you may customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes each time you visit our Site.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to gather information about visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered doesn't identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they've visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the Site.

We utilize Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to improve how our Site functions.

You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/.

Targeted and advertising cookies

These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our consent, third-party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests while you're on third party websites.

You can disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to eliminate targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that function online behavioral advertising are included in this list, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not listed.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you link your account or participate with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this.

Disabling Cookies

You can typically reject or remove cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your preferences.

If you don't accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your usage of our Site. For instance, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may want to log in each time you visit our Site.

Advertising

We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, date and time, subject of ads clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, including via our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be accessible to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be confidential or confidential once it is published on our Site.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we don't associate such opinions with your personal information. If you have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name together with your comments on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.

International Data Transfer

Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, may be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data security and privacy regulations may not provide the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this move, processing or leasing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

Security

We attempt to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of data via the internet isn't completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the safety of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.

Retention

We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required that you use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (for example for regulatory purposes).

Our Policy on Children

Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Your Rights

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests concerning the private data associated with the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we might need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began before requesting such change or deletion.

Complaints

We are committed to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal information, please contact us through the information listed on our site. We'll reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any case, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint hasn't been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact the regional data protection supervisory authority.

Contact Information

We welcome your comments or queries about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our site.