ABC Tech Media (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting https://tecnopk.xyz/ (the “Website”) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

For the purpose of the applicable data protection laws, the data controller is ABC Tech Media with its registered address at 123 Main Street, Karachi, Pakistan.

1. Information We Collect

We collect and process the following personal information from users:

1.1 Information You Provide Voluntarily

When you use the Website or interact with us online (e.g. submitting queries, comments, or reviews), we may collect personal information like your name, email address, postal address, contact number, date of birth, occupation, and payment details if you make any purchases from us.

We may also collect information about how you use our services and Website through user logs, surveys, or market research. This can include details about the type of device and browser you use to access the Website, IP address, location, pages visited, links clicked, preferences, etc.

You may provide information to participate in competitions, receive newsletters, or sign up for discussion forums. We may also ask for additional optional information to better improve your online experience with us.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

We use common analytics tools like Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel to collect standard internet usage information. This includes details like your device properties, operating system, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, internet connection, IP address, general location, and pages visited on our Website.

We also use cookies and similar technologies to collect information when you interact with our Website or ads. Cookies are small text files that websites transfer to and store on a user’s computer or mobile device to uniquely identify the user’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. We use them to remember user preferences, improve site navigation, track user visits, and conduct analytics and advertising activities. Read our Cookie Policy for more details on our use of cookies.

We may also collect precise real-time location information from your device’s GPS, WiFi signals, or cell towers. You can opt out of this type of tracking through your device and browser settings.

1.3 Information from Other Sources

We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources like social media profiles/platforms if you link them to your account or engage with our pages and advertisements on such platforms. We may also collect information from publicly available sources to update, expand, and analyze our records or assess new prospective customers or users.

2. Use of Information

We use the information collected for various purposes:

2.1 To Operate and Improve Our Website and Services

We process personal information to enhance user experience on our Website, provide relevant content and services, conduct analytics, and improve our offerings based on usage patterns and customer needs.

2.2 To Communicate with You

We may use your contact details to send marketing communications, newsletters, promotional offers, surveys, notifications, or any other information we think you may find interesting based on the preferences selected by you or consent separately provided. You can opt out of promotional emails at any time.

2.3 For Marketing and Advertising

We and our advertising partners use non-personal and aggregated user information to operate, deliver, measure, and improve relevant advertising served or viewed on our Website and other sites.

We may use cookies and similar technologies to identify your device and deliver tailored contextual online advertisements and content. This helps support our Website and keep it free for everyone to use.

2.4 To Process Transactions

If you purchase any products or services from us, we will process your payment details and other related information like name, and address to fulfill your order and invoice you accordingly. This information will be shared with our payment providers/banks as needed to complete transactions.

2.5 To Protect Rights and Safety

We may use your information to enforce our Terms and Conditions, prevent fraud, spam, or any potentially illegal activities, and protect the security and safety of our Website, users and business. This can include disclosing personal information to authorities as required under applicable laws.

2.6 To Comply with Legal Obligations

We may process personal data to comply with legal obligations like responding to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights where it is needed.

3. Sharing of Information

We will not share your personal information with third parties except in the following situations:

3.1 With Your Consent

We may share your details with any third-party service providers, affiliates, or partners if you provide consent separately for the same at the time of collection. You always have a right to withdraw this consent at any time.

3.2 With Service Providers

We share information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who work on our behalf for limited purposes like fulfillment of orders, delivering mailers/packages, processing payments, data storage, analytics, improving our services, or operating our Website.

3.3 In Business Transfers

We may share information within our corporate family of companies in case of any mergers, acquisitions, asset sales or company transfers to ensure continuity of service. However, the receiving party will have to agree to maintain the privacy standard of the information provided.

3.4 For Legal Reasons

We will share information to comply with subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes; to assert and exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; if we believe it is needed to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to safety or situations where your information is needed by law enforcement or national security.

3.5 For Advertising Partners

We may share non-personally identifiable information about Website usage and user demographics with our advertising and analytics partners for them to select, optimize, deliver, and measure the effectiveness of their advertising served on our Website and other sites.

3.6 Publicly

Where required by law, we display limited identifiable public information about your activity on Discussion Forums and Reviews on our Website. We ensure such shared details do not unnecessarily intrude on users’ privacy or reveal sensitive personal information.

4. International Data Transfer

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between our affiliates and partners located worldwide including countries outside the European Economic Area/ Pakistan where data protection laws may not offer the same level of protection as domestic laws.

In such cases, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data receives an adequate level of protection comparable to that provided under applicable privacy laws. We obtain your consent for the transfer of information to countries without adequate data protection in place. You can withdraw consent for international transfers that are not required at any time.

5. Data Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Website, please contact us at info@tecnopk.xyz.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as required to do so by law or as reasons dictate like to establish or defend a legal claim if required.

Unless a longer retention period is required or justified by a legal obligation, we securely delete or destroy user accounts and personal information that are no longer in use after 6 months to 1 year of inactivity on the Website. We will also ensure any third-party service providers do the same as per the timelines specified in the data processing agreements with them.

7. Minors/Children Privacy

Our Website is not directed toward individuals under 18 (“Children”). We do not intentionally gather or store any personal information from Children. If you are under 18, please do not submit any personal information to us or engage with any advertising or forms on our Website.

For any questions regarding the protection of Children’s privacy while using www.tecnopk.xyz, contact us at info@tecnopk.xyz.

8. Privacy Rights of Users

You have certain rights under applicable data protection laws with respect to the personal information we hold about you. These include:

• Right to access personal information, receive information on how it is processed, and obtain one free copy of your details from our records annually.

• Right to correct or update incomplete or inaccurate personal data.

• Right to erasure or “right to be forgotten” – Request deletion of your personal information from our records.

• Right to restriction of processing or restrict use of your information for certain purposes.

• Right to data portability to obtain your information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have it transmitted to another controller where technically feasible.

• Right to object to the processing of personal information for direct marketing.

• Right to withdraw consent at any time where processing activity requires consent.

• Right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority (such as the Information Commissioner of Pakistan) if you believe we are processing your personal data in violation of applicable laws.