SPK Technologies LLC, is committed to protecting your privacy. This statement details the steps we take to protect your personal information when you visit our websites. This statement also covers information we receive when you contact us. This notice describes the personal information that we collect, the purposes for which we use such information and your choices regarding our use of it. By accessing our sites or providing us your information when you contact us, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.
Our website doesn’t require you to provide any personal data. When inquiring about our services or product or registering for an event, or subscribing marketing materials, you may be required to provide some or all of the personal data listed below. If you have provided your personal data, you may request from SPK Technologies LLC access to, correction of, blocking of and/or deletion of your personal data in line with applicable data protection law.
Any data collected may be used in SPK Technologies LLC’s business to provide you with the information on products we offer and to aid in SPK Technologies LLC’s sales and marketing efforts and may result in you being contacted by SPK Technologies LLC. In some cases, contact information may be required for SPK Technologies LLC to create an account, enable delivery of materials requested on the website or to otherwise communicate with you.
SPK Technologies LLC may collect the following personal data about you:
To facilitate its sales and marketing efforts, SPK Technologies LLC may combine the personal data you provide with information that is not collected directly from you. Data not provided directly by you may be supplied by SPK Technologies LLC’s vendors that support its sales and marketing efforts. SPK Technologies LLC uses automated processing within its internal systems to optimize its sales and marketing activities.
We will retain your personal information as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. Personal data collected under this Notice is retained as long as you continue to interact with SPK Technologies LLC’s Sales and Marketing Teams, or we have a legitimate business interest in retaining your data.
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your hard disk or to your browser’s memory when you visit one of SPK Technologies LLC’s sites. Cookies are useful because they help arrange the content and layout of our sites and allow us to recognize those computers or other devices that have been to our sites before. Cookies do many different jobs, such as allowing our websites to remember your preference settings and helping us to enhance the usability and performance of our sites and your experience using them.
Our sites also may contain electronic images known as web beacons – sometimes called single-pixel gifs – that allow us to count the number of users who have visited specific pages. We may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Cookie categories The type of cookie that may be used on SPK Technologies LLC’s sites can be put into 1 of 4 categories: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functionality & Profile and Advertising. 1. Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around our sites and use their features, particularly in connection with information searches and order placement. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet. 2. Performance Cookies These cookies collect information about how you use our sites, for example which pages you go to most often and if you get any error messages from certain pages. These cookies collect only anonymous information that is used to improve how our sites work. 3. Functionality & Profile Cookies These cookies allow our sites to store information that you provide such as your site language preferences, user ID, etc., and to store technical information useful for your interactions with our sites. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. 4. Advertising Cookies These cookies may be used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the times you see an advertisement as well as help to measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. Although these cookies may track your visits to other websites, they do not usually know who you are. Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests. Setting your cookie preference You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your computer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the features of SPK Technologies LLC’s site. Our use of web analytics. SPK Technologies LLC uses industry standard web analytics to track visits to our sites. These analytics are provided by Google Analytics. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our sites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our sites, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may opt out of web analytics by installing these tools on your computer. Google Analytics Opt Out Link
SPK Technologies LLC may share personal information with its affiliates and with vendors working on our behalf as necessary to complete your requests and to provide you SPK Technologies LLC products and services. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We may also share data when required by law or to respond to legal process. SPK Technologies LLC, its affiliates, and/or the vendors may be located in countries that are not considered to provide an adequate level of data protection as established by the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EG) or the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR), including the United States. Where required under applicable law, SPK Technologies LLC will implement appropriate measures to secure the data transfers in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Such measures may include use of the Model Clauses or the Privacy Shield Framework.
Registration is not required to gain access to the Website, but there are portions of the Site that require a password.
SPK Technologies LLC uses standard industry measures to ensure the security of any personal information you provide. However, there is no guarantee that information transmitted over the Internet is absolutely secure. Therefore, although SPK Technologies LLC takes reasonable measures to ensure your data, we cannot guarantee the security of your transmissions and you do so at your own risk. After transmission, we will use industry standard measures to secure your information.
SPK Technologies LLC encourages parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities. Our Services are not aimed at people under 18 and SPK Technologies LLC does not knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate parental or guardian consent. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
SPK Technologies LLC may also collect personal data from customers as required to provide support and delivery of SPK Technologies LLC products and services. If you have an agreement in place with SPK Technologies LLC for specific SPK Technologies LLC products or services, that agreement takes priority over this Notice; a customer’s use of SPK Technologies LLC or an affiliate’s products and services is governed by the terms of the contract between SPK Technologies LLC or an affiliate and the customer.
SPK Technologies LLC may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. If we modify this Privacy Notice, we will post the revised version here. We may also provide notification of material changes by other means such as posting a notice on our website.