We're glad you chose to visit the Direct Tec Services, ("Direct Tec Services") site! We care about your privacy and the information you share with us and want you to understand how we are using and protecting the information we collect about you. Direct Tec Services is respectful of data privacy and adopts best practice in compliance with applicable privacy law and regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").
This privacy policy describes the information we collect from you and how it may be stored and processed in the United States of America and across the Direct Tec Services Publishing Network as described below. This website, and associated Direct Tec Services events and publications provide products, content, and services for a professional and consumer audience
We may collect your personal data when you register to receive any of the products, content or services offered by Direct Tec Services or its third-party sponsors ("sponsors") such as publications, subscriptions, contests, newsletters, memberships, premium content, webcasts, video, white papers, online seminars, conferences and events.
In order for us to provide the products, content or services you request, we need your personal data. Therefore, if you do not provide such personal data, we cannot deliver the products, content or services.
This website is one of many that Direct Tec Services and its group of undertakings operates, all of which we collectively refer to as the Cable Fix Inc Publishing Network. Where permitted by law, we may share the personal data we collect about you with another Direct Tec Services Publishing Network company so that we can provide you with information about products, content and services that might interest you.
Direct Tec Services maintains safeguards which include technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized use, access, inadvertent disclosure, alteration, and destruction, and we require the third parties we contract with to support Direct Tec Services business operations to employ reasonable security measures as well (see "When and how we share your information with others" below). We update and test security on an ongoing basis and restrict access to your personal data to only those who need to know in order to provide Direct Tec Services products, content or services to you. Storage of your personal data.
We may store your personal data using Direct Tec Services own secure on-site servers or other internally hosted technology. Your personal data may also be stored by third parties, via cloud services or other technology, to whom Direct Tec Services has contracted with, to support Cable Fix Inc business operations (see "When and how we share your information with others" below). These third parties do not use or have access to your personal data other than for cloud storage and retrieval, and Direct Tec Services requires such parties to employ at least the same level of security that we use to protect your personal data (see "Security of your personal data" above).
We use the personal data that we collect to communicate with you, deliver what you request, improve our service, and to present other information and business offers that may be of interest. Storage of your personal data.
We may use your personal data to send you important notices, such as about your registration, transactions, and changes to Direct Tec Services terms, conditions, policies, and/or other internal purposes.
We may use your personal data to provide the products, content or services you request. If you enter a sweepstake, contest, or similar Cable Fix Inc promotion, we may use your personal data to administer such promotion.
The GDPR requires data collectors, such as Direct Tec Services, to have a legal basis to use the personal data of EU residents. Therefore, this section shall apply to any such personal data collected by Direct Tec Services. Direct Tec Services uses the personal data that you provide to supply you with high-quality products, content and services as you request, to send important notices, and for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to provide you with the information you need to make the most informed technology purchasing decisions. We may also use your personal data to offer you products, content or services that may be of interest to you, based upon your interests or the preferences you shared with us, and may share your personal data with third party sponsors of content, events, and other business services or offers. The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent. In certain circumstances we may otherwise process your personal data if Cable Fix Inc has a legitimate interest in doing so and Direct Tec Services is not infringing any of your rights and freedoms. When Direct Tec Services processes your personal data for Direct Tec Services legitimate interests, Direct Tec Services will consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights under data protection and any other relevant law. Our legitimate business interests do not override your interests. Direct Tec Services will not use your personal data in circumstances where your rights and freedoms override our legitimate interests, unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law.
Direct Tec Services may share your personal data to deliver content and services from our sites, affiliated companies and third parties services that might interest you, including sponsored content and events, for business operations, and to comply with valid legal processes. If you are an EU resident, Direct Tec Services will only share your personal data with third parties outside of the Direct Tec Services Publishing Network, with your consent.
We retain your personal data for the duration of your business relationship with us, and we hold your information only as long as necessary for each purpose we use it, unless we have obtained your consent to use for another or similar purpose.
If you inform us that you want Direct Tec Services to provide the categories and specific pieces of personal data Direct Tec Services collects, your personal data erased (if you are an EU resident) or deleted (if you are a California consumer), that you do not want your personal data sold (if you are a California consumer), that you no longer wish for us to communicate with you for marketing purposes, or to otherwise restrict Direct Tec Services processing of your personal data, we may retain some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future, and to keep a record of your request and our response.
