Privacy Policy
Last modified: November 7, 2023
Introduction
SBS CyberSecurity ("Company", "We", or “Us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (“policy”).
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website, www.sbscyber.com (our "Website"), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process in connection with this Website as well as other websites that we own and operate, unless a more specific privacy policy applies, as well as any third-party websites and services that include links to this policy, and any other related content, platform, services, products, and functionality offered on or through this Website. This policy does not address our privacy practices concerning SBS CyberSecurity job applicants.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means including, but not limited to, data collected via the mail, telephone, at live events, or through on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
- Any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect personal information from and about users of our Website. Personal information means information that is personally identifiable. For our purposes, personal information includes information:
- That you provide Us through the Website or optional registration by which you may be personally identified, such as your name, email address, telephone number, state name, job title, or company name; and/or
- Gathered as you navigate through this website.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, webinars, signing up for or downloading our products and services, joining our mailing list, subscribing to our free downloads, or requesting further services. This also includes information that you provide when you request a quote. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders.
- Your search queries on the Website.
Registration
To make use of certain features on the Website, you may need to register and provide certain information as part of the registration process. The information provided will help us to offer more personalized features, tailor the website, and make it more useful to you and other users. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. However, if you choose not to supply the information requested, we may be unable to provide you with services made available to other users of the Website.
Automatic Data Collection
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small block of data issued by a web server and stored on your computer by your web browser. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting(s) on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting(s) to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
- Browser Local Storage. We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may interest you. If you don't want us to use your information this way, please email privacy@sbscyber.com to submit your request.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide to us as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties whom we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of SBS CyberSecurity’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by SBS CyberSecurity about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, please send an email to privacy@sbscyber.com with your request.
- To fulfill the purposes for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide us with information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of SBS CyberSecurity, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may be unavailable to you or may not function properly.
- Promotional Emails and Other Marketing Material. You can unsubscribe from receiving marketing material from us at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of our emails, which directs you to manage your preferences or by emailing us at privacy@sbscyber.com. Unsubscribing from promotional material will not prevent you from receiving transactional, relationship, or non-commercial content from us.
Your State Privacy Rights
Depending on where you reside, your state may have consumer privacy laws that provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.
California
“Shine the Light” & “Eraser” Laws: California residents may, once a year and free of charge, request information about certain types of personal information that a business has disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year. However, under Civil Code, section 1798.83(c)(2), we are not required to provide this information if we have: (1) notified you that you have the right to prevent disclosure of your information; and (2) provided you with a no-cost means to exercise that right. California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) or California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) (Civil Code, section 1798.100, et. seq.): The CCPA as amended by the CPRA, states that California residents or their authorized agents have the following rights:
- The right to know about the personal information we have collected about you and how it is used and shared;
- The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by submitting a request by contacting us using the “Contact Us” feature of our website, or using emailing privacy@sbscyber.com, or using the contact information provided below;
- The right to delete any of the personal information collected or retained by us, subject to exceptions;
- The right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we have about you; and
- The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about you.
Other States
Some other states, such as Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah, also have laws that may provide their residents with additional rights to protect their personal data. If you have questions about what rights may apply to you, please see your state’s privacy rights for more information or email privacy@sbscyber.com to request more information.
Privacy Policy for Children Under the Age of Sixteen
Our services are not intended for children. This children’s privacy statement explains our practices with respect to the online collection and use of personal information of children under the age of sixteen and provides important information on your rights under federal law with respect to such information. We do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of sixteen. If we become aware that such information has been received, we will delete such information from our records. We also do not knowingly distribute such information pertaining to children under the age of sixteen to third parties. We do not knowingly allow children under the age of sixteen to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information.
Miscellaneous
- Do Not Track. There is no accepted standard on how to respond to Do Not Track signals, and we do not respond to such signals.
- Third Parties. Our services may contain links to other websites, products, or services that we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy does not apply to your activities on these third-party services or any personal information that you disclose to these third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. If you have any questions about how these other sites use your personal information, you should contact them directly. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing any personal information to them.
- Retention. We take measures to delete your personal information or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when your personal information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it unless we are required by law to keep your personal information for a longer period. When determining the specific retention period, we consider various factors, such as the type of service provided to you, the nature and length or our relationship with you, and mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute or limitations.
- Information Security. We make reasonable efforts to protect your personal information by using physical and electronic safeguards designed to improve the security of the personal information we maintain. However, as no electronic transmission or storage of information can be entirely secure, we can make no guarantee as to the security or privacy of your personal information.
- International Visitors. Our services are hosted in the United States (“U.S.” and intended for visitors located within the U.S. If you choose to use our services from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK"), or other regions of the word with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the U.S. for storage and processing. We may transfer personal information from the EEA or UK to the U.S. and other third countries based on European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses, as needed to perform services you requested, or with your consent. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to our services, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing. To obtain additional information on the transfers, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
- Update Your Information. You can update your account and profile information by writing or emailing us at our contact information provided below.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may use personal information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change, we will post the policy changes to this Website to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned with how Your information is used, you should check back to this website periodically. Contact Information To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at (605) 923-8722 or email us at privacy@sbscyber.com.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at (605) 923-8722 or email us at privacy@sbscyber.com.