WaTech Computer Services, Inc., and its affiliates (collectively, “WaTech” and “we”) respect your privacy and handle your personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection-legislation. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what personal data we collect, how we use it, how we protect and share it, and how you can control it. By accessing our website and/or disclosing your personal data to us or too our business partners in furtherance of our business relationships with you, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please carefully read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy (“this Policy”).

For the avoidance of doubt, the terms below shall have the definitions set forth hereinafter.

The “products” include the software and hardware we sell, re-sell, or license to our clients.

• The “services” mean post/after sale services and other services of the products under the control of us, either online or offline.

• “Personal data” means any information that, alone or when in combination with other information, may be used to readily identify, contact, or locate you, including but not limited to your name, address, email address, IP address, or phone number.

• Please pay attention that your personal data does not include information that has been anonymized.

• “Cookies” means small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and that enable us to recognize your computer when you return to our online services.

1. To whom does this Policy apply?

This Policy applies to every natural person for whom WaTech collects and processes personal data as a data controller.

An overview of main categories is listed below:

• Our clients and their employees.

• Visitors to our website.

• Third parties who communicate with us.

2. What personal data do we collect?

We collect personal data that you directly provide to us, personal data generated during your visit to our website, and personal data from our business partners. We will never collect any personal data revealing your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, or religious or philosophical beliefs, or any other sensitive data defined by applicable data protection legislation.

• Personal data that you directly provide to us.

• You directly provide us with contact details and other personal data when you interact with us via various methods, for example, when you make a phone call, send an email, join a video conference/meeting or create an account.

• Personal data generated during your visit to our website. Some of your personal data may be generated automatically while you visit our website, for example, the IP address of your device. Our online services may use cookies or other similar technologies to collect such data.

• Personal data from our business partners.

• In some cases, we may collect your personal data from our business partners such as distributors or resellers who may collect this data from you in the context of your business relationship with us and/or the business partner.

3. How may we use your personal data? 

We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To conduct marketing activities.

• To provide you with our services and technical support.

• To provide you with updates and upgrades for our products and services.

• To provide information based on your needs and in response to your requests.

• For the administration and improvement of our products and services.

• For inquiry about the evaluation of our products and services.

• For internal and service-related -only purposes, fraud- and abuse-prevention, or other public-security-related purposes.

• Communicating with you via phone, email, or other communication methods for implementing the relevant purposes described hereinabove.

4. Use of Google Analytics

We may use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies or other similar technologies to collect and store your information. which is made anonymous and non-personal.
You can read the Google Analytics’ privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ for more information.

5. How do we protect your personal data?

The security of your personal data is of great importance to us. We have taken proper technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access either within us or externally, and from being lost, misused, altered or destroyed arbitrarily. For example, we use access control mechanisms to permit only authorized access to your personal data, cryptographic technologies for personal data confidentiality, and protection mechanisms to prevent system attacks.
Persons who have access to your personal data on our behalf have a duty of confidentiality, inter alia, on the basis of the rules of conduct and rules of professional practice applicable to them.

In respect of the retention periods of your personal data, we are committed to keep it no longer than is necessary for achieving the purposes stated in this policy or for complying with applicable data protection legislation. And we endeavor to ensure that irrelevant or excessive data are deleted or anonymized as soon as reasonably practicable.

6. How do we share your personal data?

WaTech does not trade, rent, or sell your personal data. We might share your information with our business partners, service vendors, authorized third-party agents and contractors (collectively, “third parties” hereinafter), your organization’s account administrators, and/or our affiliates for any of the purposes stated in this policy.

Because we do our business globally, your personal data might be transferred to third parties in other countries, and held and processed on our behalf for the abovementioned purposes.

Third parties to whom we provide your personal data may themselves be responsible for complying with data protection legislation. WaTech is neither responsible nor liable for the processing of your personal data by these third parties. To the extent that a third party processes your personal data as a processor of Watech and therefore acts at the request and on the instructions of us, we conclude a data-processing agreement with such third party which meets the requirements set out in data-protection legislation.

7. How can you control your personal data?
You have the right to control your personal data in several ways:

• You have the right to request that we inform you of any of your personal data that we hold.

• You have the right to request that we correct, supplement, delete or block your personal data if it is incorrect or incomplete or is being processed in contravention of any statutory provision. If you choose to delete your personal data, you should be aware that we may retain some of your personal data to the extent required to prevent fraud and abuse, and/or to comply with legal requirements as permitted by law.

• You have the right to unsubscribe from emails and messages from us at any time and at no cost if you no longer wish to receive them.

• You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. We will discontinue the processing if it is required by law to do so. We will continue with the processing if there are justified imperative grounds to do so that outweigh your interests, rights, or freedoms or that are related to bringing, exercising or substantiating a legal action.

8. Our contacts and your complaints procedure

Please contact us by sending an email to info@watech.com if you have any questions regarding this policy or if you would like to exercise your rights to control your personal data.
If you believe that we have breached this policy or any applicable data protection legislation, you may lodge a complaint by sending an email to info@watech.com. Please provide us with specific details about your complaint as well as any supporting evidence. We will investigate the issue and determine the steps that are needed to resolve your complaint appropriately. We will contact you if we require any additional information from you and we will notify you in writing of the outcome of the investigation.

9. Personal data about children

Our products and services are not directed toward children under age 13, nor do we knowingly collect personal data from children without the consent of the parent(s)/guardian(s). If you find that your child has provided us with personal data without your permission, you may alert us at info@watech.com. If you alert us or we find that we have collected any personal data from children under age 13, we will delete such data as soon as possible.

10. Changes to this Policy

This policy may be revised from time to time in order to comply with current laws or for other reasonable reasons. Should this policy be revised, WaTech will post the changes on our website and the new policy will be effective immediately upon posting. If we make any material changes that will diminish your rights under this policy, we will notify you by email or by other applicable means prior to the changes becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this policy for the latest information.

Third Party Processors

Our carefully selected partners and service providers may process personal information about you on our behalf as described below:

Digital Marketing Service Providers

We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the compliant processing of personal information. Our appointed data processors include:

(i)Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733. You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: http://sopro.io. Sopro are registered with the ICO Reg: ZA346877 their Data Protection Officer can be emailed at: dpo@sopro.io.