Privacy Policy
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, the MITC website.
If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain Personally Information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.
BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may process Personal Information under the following conditions:
- Consent: You provided your consent for one or more specific purposes.
- Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Information is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations.
- Legal obligations: Processing Personal Information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
- Legitimate interests: When we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests
In any case, we will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and whether the Personal Information is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
The table below explains what we use your Personal Information for and our reasons for doing so:
| What We Use Your Personal Information For | Our Reasons |
|---|---|
| To provide services to you. | For the performance of our contract(s) with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract. |
| To prevent and detect fraud against you or our Company. | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to minimize fraud that could be damaging for us and for you. |
| Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, judicial enquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies. | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
| Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training and quality control. | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can. |
| Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information. | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information. To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
| Preventing unauthorized access and modifications to systems. | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to prevent and detect unauthorized and/or criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you. To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. |
| Updating and enhancing customer records. | For the performance of our contract(s) with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract. To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. For our legitimate interests or those of a third party. |
| Marketing our existing and new services and those of selected third parties to: existing and former customers; third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our products or services. | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to promote our business to existing and former customers. |
LOG DATA
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small data text file, which is stored on the hard drive of your device. We do not use cookie technology on our website to collect any information.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate our Service;
- To provide the Service on our behalf;
- To perform Service-related services; or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
SECURITY
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE US
The website is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting the website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The data protection and other applicable laws of the United States or other countries may not be as comprehensive as those laws or regulations in your country or may otherwise differ from the data protection or consumer protection laws in your country. Your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and law applicable in such jurisdictions. By using the website and/or providing Personal Information to us, you consent to transfer of your information to our facilities as described in this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
ACCESS, CORRECTION & DELETION
We respect your right to access and correct your Personal Information. You may exercise your rights, subject to applicable laws, to request that we delete or restrict access to your Personal Information. We may need to retain it for legally permitted purposes, and this will be explained to you if necessary.
If you need assistance correcting or updating your Personal Information, or would like to request that we delete your Personal Information, please contact us using the contact information detailed in the “Contact Us” section below.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We retain Personal Information that we receive for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which the information was collected, to provide our services and products, to pursue legitimate business purposes, to enforce our agreements, and comply with all applicable laws.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS DISCLOSURE
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), provide you additional rights with the respect to your Personal Information. California law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information about our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. This request is free and may be made once a year. To make such a request, please follow the directions in the Contact Us section below.
If you are a California resident, California law provides you with the following additional rights with respect to your Personal Information:
- The right to know what Personal Information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you. You may submit a request to know by using the contact information detailed in this Section. You also may designate an authorized agent to make a request for access on your behalf.
- The right to request that we delete any Personal Information we have collected about you. You may submit a request for deletion by using the contact information detailed in this Section. You also may designate an authorized agent to make a request for deletion on your behalf.
California residents may also have the right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling, where it would have a legal or similarly significant effect on them; and the right to data portability with regard to the data they provided to us. If you exercise any of these rights and submit a request to us, we may verify your identity. We also may use a third party verification provider to verify your identity. Your exercise of these rights will have no adverse effect on the price and quality of our goods or services. At present we have not sold Personal Information about our users; nor do we have any plans to do so in the future.
VIRGINIA CONSUMER DATA PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
If you are a Virginia resident, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) (Va. Code § 59.1-575) allows for consumers to request that the company collecting their personal data: (A) confirm if the company is actually processing their personal data, (B) correct inaccuracies in the consumer’s personal data that is collected by the company, (C) delete personal data provided by or obtained about the consumer, (D) obtain copies of the personal data collected by the company, and (E) opt out of the processing of personal data for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or further profiling.
UTAH CONSUMER PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a Utah resident, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) (S.B. 227) gives consumers a number of rights related to their personal data, including the right to: (A) access and delete personal data, (B) opt out of the collection and use of personal data for certain purposes, and (C) obtain a copy of their personal data.
CONNECTICUT DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a Connecticut resident, (Public Act No. 22-15) An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring provide you additional rights with the respect to your Personal Information. The Act grants Connecticut consumers the right to (A) access, correct, delete and obtain a copy of personal data that we collect, and (B) opt out of the processing of personal data for the purposes of (i) targeted advertising, (ii) certain sales of personal data, or (iii) profiling.
HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the contact information detailed in the “Contact Us” section below.
Please note that you may only make a privacy-related data request twice within a 12-month period.
If you choose to contact us directly by phone, email, or in writing, you will need to provide us with:
- Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number);
- Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport); and
- A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
We are not obligated to make a Personal Information disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.
Any Personal Information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at the address provided below:
Management Information Technology Corporation
ATTN: Privacy Protection Officer
info@mitcsoftware.com
301-228-2105