South Coast Deck Inspections Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 01/01/2024

South Coast Deck Inspections respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are
   • Purpose of This Privacy Policy: This privacy policy aims to give you information on how South Coast Deck Inspections collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for a newsletter, purchase a service or take part in a competition.
   • Controller: South Coast Deck Inspections is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).
   • Contact Details: Our full details are:
     • Full name of legal entity: South Coast Deck Inspections
     • Email address: [email protected]
     • Postal address: 1095 N Main Street Suite Q Orange, CA 92867, USA
     • Phone: (657) 707-9127
     • You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection authority in your country.
2. The Data We Collect About You
   • Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
   • We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
     • Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
     • Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
     • Financial Data: includes bank account and payment card details.
     • Transaction Data: includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
     • Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
     • Profile Data: includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
     • Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
     • Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?
   • We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
     • Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
       • apply for our products or services;
       • create an account on our website;
       • subscribe to our service or publications;
       • request marketing to be sent to you;
       • enter a competition, promotion, or survey; or
       • give us feedback or contact us.
     • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
     • Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
   • We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
     • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
     • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
     • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
   • We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
   • We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
     • Internal Third Parties. None, as of yet identified
     • External Third Parties. None, as of yet identified
     • Specific third parties. None, as of yet identified
     • Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
6. International Transfers
   • We share your personal data within the South Coast Deck Inspections. This will involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
   • Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
     • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
     • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
     • Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.
7. Data Security
   • We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
   • We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. Data Retention
   • We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
   • To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
   • Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
     • Request access to your personal data.
     • Request correction of your personal data.
     • Request erasure of your personal data.
     • Object to processing of your personal data.
     • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
     • Request transfer of your personal data.
     • Right to withdraw consent.
   • If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
10. Glossary
    • LAWFUL BASIS
      • Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
      • Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
      • Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.
11. Third-Party Links
    • This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
12. Cookies
    • You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see [insert link to cookie policy].
13. Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes
    • We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on [Insert date]. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
14. Queries, Requests or Concerns
    • To exercise all relevant rights, queries, or complaints, please in the first instance contact our Data Protection Officer at [Insert contact details].

This privacy policy sets out how we will use your personal data and supplements other notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

South Coast Deck Inspections 1095 N Main Street Suite Q Orange, CA 92867, USA (657) 707-9127 [email protected]