Home Technology Association LLC (hereinafter “HTA”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your right to privacy and takes our responsibilities in relation to the processing of personal data seriously. We do not collect or process personal data unnecessarily. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) together with our terms of service (the “Terms of Service”) sets out important information about your rights in relation to the processing of your personal data, and the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with your use of the https://htacertified.org/ website (“our Site” or “the Site”) and the provision of our Services.
Under this Policy, and unless the circumstances otherwise require, we will be what’s known under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) as the “controller” of the personal data you provide to us. This means that we determine the purposes and means of the processing of personal data we collect.
This privacy policy applies to information we collect:
Your Data. This is information about you which is consensually given by making a registration on our Site.
The information you give us may include:
We may collect different kinds of personal data about you, depending on whether you chose to create an account with us.
Automatically Collected Information. With regard to each of your visits to our Site we will automatically collect the following information:
No special categories of personal data: We do not require or collect any personal data that is your sensitive personal data or any special category of personal data under the GDPR or CCPA.
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data and the legal basis we rely only on to do so. We have also identified our legitimate interests where appropriate:
To respond to your queries and to provide you with the information you request from us in relation to our products or Services.
Identity Data
Technical Data Usage
Data Public Data
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to respond to new or existing customer queries and grow our business)
Performance of a contract with you
To set up and administer your account for the Services.
Identity Data
Performance of a contract with you
To provide the Services and perform our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
Identity Data
Financial Data
Data Technical Data
Usage Data
Performance of a contract with you
To manage payments, fees, and charges and to collect and recover money owed to us.
Identity Data
Financial Data
Performance of a contract with you
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to the Services, our Terms of Services or Privacy Policy.
Data Public Data
Performance of a contract with you
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products and services).
To provide you with information about goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about.
Identity Data
Technical Data
Usage Data
Public Data
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products or Services and grow our business)
Where you have given us your consent to do so, to provide you with information about other goods or services we feel may interest you.
Identity Data
Technical Data Usage
Data
Consent
To ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device.
Identity Data
Technical Data
Usage Data
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our Site and the Services updated and relevant and to develop and grow our business).
To administer and protect our business, our Site, the Services, and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.
Identity Data
Technical Data
Data Usage
Public Data
Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and as part of our efforts to keep our Site and the Services safe and secure)
To use data analytics to improve or optimize our Site, Services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
Technical Data
Usage Data
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our Site and the Services updated and relevant, to develop and grow our business and inform our marketing strategy).
To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Services (including surveys), when you choose to do so.
Identity Data
Technical Data
Usage Data
Performance of a contract with you
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products or Services, to develop them and grow our business)
To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and, where applicable, to deliver relevant advertising to you.
Identity Data
Technical Data
Usage Data
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products or Services, to develop them, to grow our business, and to inform our marketing strategy).
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. This means that the period of time for which we store your personal data may depend on the type of data we hold.
We do not share your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without your explicit consent. To provide you with our services and to also meet our regulatory requirements, we may need to share your information with our business partners, suppliers, and sub- contractors, affiliated companies and other third party product and service providers. We may also disclose your information if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any law, legal obligation, or court order and/ or to protect our rights, property or safety, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the maintenance and security of the Site and Services.
You have the option to share your personal information stored on the website with the users in your friend list or with the companies you desire. By doing so, you acknowledge that you share your personal information willingly with these third parties.
You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with the following recipients or categories of recipients:
Selected third parties including:
We take our security responsibilities seriously, using the most appropriate physical and technical measures, and require our partners to use the same standard of care. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
Your personal data is stored on a secure server in our data center with highly restricted access. which helps ensure your personal data is secure and private.
Your personal data is stored on secure servers hosted on Digital Ocean These servers are located in the New York Data Center.
Data is encrypted using SSL Certification when transmitted from our servers to your browser.
You may request access at any time to a copy of the personal data we hold about you. Any such request should be submitted to us in writing and sent to jc@HTACertfied.org. We will need to verify your identity in such circumstances and may request more information or clarifications from you if needed to help us locate and provide you with the personal data requested. There is usually no charge applied to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
You may restrict us from processing your personal data in any of the following circumstances:
If we hold personal data concerning you which are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or if you withdraw consent for us to process your personal data, you can request the deletion of this personal data. This right, however, will not apply where we are required to process personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation or where the processing of this information is carried out for reasons of public interest in the area of public health. If the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, you may request to have your personal information updated and corrected.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time:
Should this occur, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes unless doing so is justified by a compelling legitimate ground as described above.
Where we process your personal data by automated means (i.e., not on paper) and this processing is based on your consent or required for the performance of a contract between us, you have the right to request from us a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used machine- readable format and, where technically feasible, to request that we transmit your personal data in this format to another controller.
Profiling is an automated form of processing of personal data often used to analyze or predict the personal aspects of an individual person. This could relate to a person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, reliability, behavior, location, or movements. An example of this would be where a bank uses an automated credit scoring system to assess and reject a loan application.
You have the right to be informed if your personal data will be subject to automated decision making, including profiling. You also have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on the automated process, including profiling, where that decision impacts on your legal rights. There are some exceptions to this rule, where, for example, the decision is necessary for connection with the performance of a contract between us, is authorized by law, or where you have given your explicit consent to this automated processing. In this case, however, we do not engage in profiling or automated processing for profiling purposes.
The rights described in this section are personal rights and are exercisable only by the individual person (or data subject) concerned. If we receive any such request or communication directly from your customers and/or in relation to Your End Customer Data, we will refer the matter to you and cooperate in providing such reasonable assistance as may be required to enable you, as a controller, to respond to the matter. This will be described in more detail in the Terms of Service or the other relevant contract between us.
HTA has adopted this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Please refer to the sections Information you give us & What we do with your information above for information on how we process your personal data in compliance with the CCPA.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose, subject to your right to opt-out of those sales
We share your personal information with services such as web hosting, data analysis, payment processing, customer service, email delivery, security, advertising or marketing, and similar services.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed personal information for a business purpose which include: identifiers, customer record information, commercial information, internet or electronic network activity, geolocation data, and professional or employment-related information.
We do not sell information we collect.
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
Any changes made to this Policy from time to time will be published at the Site.
Any material or other change to the data processing operations described in this Policy which is relevant to or impacts on you or your personal data will be notified to you in advance by email. In this way, you will have an opportunity to consider the nature and impact of the change and exercise your rights under the GDPR in relation to that change (e.g., to withdraw consent or to object to the processing) as you see fit.