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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 2nd, 2020

TestEquity, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes how TestEquity processes personal data in its capacity as a controller (i.e. TestEquity decides what Personal Data is collected and what it is used for) or processor (i.e. TestEquity only processes the data as per the controller's instructions), as the case may be. It also describes your choices regarding use, access, and correction of your personal data.

When you visit any TestEquity website, we help you maintain control over your personal data on the Internet. Below are the guidelines we use for protecting the information you provide us during a visit to our Internet sites.

If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy notice or practices, please contact us at [email protected].

Information Gathering and Usage

TestEquity gathers information about you from data that you provide through such things as optional or mandatory registration, online surveys, and contests. The types of personal information collected can include name, mailing address, phone number, email address, transaction and credit card information. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic information such as your job function, industry, application, contact preferences or experience with our products. TestEquity may enhance or merge your information collected on our site with other operational data as well as data from third parties for purposes of marketing products or services to you. Such information enables us to better tailor our content to your needs.

The information you provide will be used to support your professional relationship with TestEquity and our products. Among other things, we want to help you quickly find information on TestEquity websites and alert you to information on our products, services and programs. We also use this information to help you complete a transaction and to contact you for market research.

Public Forums

This website may make forums and message boards available to you. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Electronic Newsletters

TestEquity offers various free electronic newsletters. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the instructions provided in each electronic newsletter or by visiting our unsubscribe page.

Contests

TestEquity offers contests in which we request certain personal information. At a minimum, the required information includes name and email address. In some cases, the entrant must answer mandatory survey questions about a range of technical interests and personal data. The information gathered in the entry form is used to verify the entrant's identity and eligibility, to contact winners or prize recipients, and to market and sell our products. Because the rules and terms of each contest can vary, all information about each contest is clearly posted during the event.

Log Files

We use log files to automatically log information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. We log this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. For areas of our site that require registration, we log the user's email address and specific information concerning the user's activity on the site. This information may be tied to the user's other personal information and, if so, it is used to support the user's professional relationship with TestEquity and our products.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our third-party advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies in analyzing trends, administering the website, tracking users' movements around the site, and gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis. Most web browsers support cookies and users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Websites and services.

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our Website (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We link this automatically collected data to other data we collect about you. We do this mainly to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, and/or website performance and functionality.

Information Sharing

TestEquity will not disclose your personal information to any outside organization unless it is affiliated with TestEquity. suppliers, affiliates, contractors, or other business partners of TestEquity who have access to your personal information use the information in connection with your customer relationship with TestEquity and our products. Suppliers use the information to fulfill TestEquity requirements for such things as processing credit card purchases, shipping goods to customers, and providing information to potential customers. We will not share your email address with any outside organization.

Legal Requirements

TestEquity may be required to disclose personal information in response to a court order or other legal requirement.

Information Correction, Updating, and deletion

If you seek access to, or wish to correct, update, modify or delete personal data (hereinafter referred to as a “request”) which forms a part of collected data, please contact us at [email protected]. We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights within a reasonable timeframe in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): Applicable to California Residents Only

If you are a California resident, please click HERE for additional information about your privacy rights.

Security

TestEquity operates secure data networks protected by industry-standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by you. Any particularly sensitive information, such as a customer's credit card number collected for a commerce transaction, is encrypted prior to transmission.

Childrens' Privacy Protection

TestEquity websites do not target and are not intended for children under the age of 13. TestEquity websites will not knowingly collect personal data from children, and will delete such data upon discovery.

Sale of Business

TestEquity may transfer personal information to a third party that acquires a business from TestEquity where the information is provided as an important asset of that acquired business.

Contact TestEquity

For Privacy Policy questions, contact via postal mail, email or telephone at:

TestEquity LLC
6100 Condor Drive
Moorpark, CA 93021
[email protected]
805-498-9933

Notification of Change

All updates to this Privacy Statement will be posted on this statement. Last updated January 2, 2020. If we make a material change to this statement with respect to the use of personal information, we will place a notice on our website.