Privacy Statement

Last updated on [01-AUG-2024]

TechyDude, its subsidiaries, and branch operations (hereinafter referred to as ‘TechyDude', ‘we', ‘us', or ‘our') are committed to respecting your privacy and choices. This privacy statement (hereinafter “Privacy Statement” or “Statement”) outlines our privacy practices regarding the personal information we collect and process in compliance with applicable data privacy regulations.

Objective:

Through this Privacy Statement, we intend to provide a summary of our privacy practices regarding the personal information we collect and process about you through various sources. Although the primary focus of this statement is on the data collected and processed through our websites, which include www.techydude.biz and its sub-domains (collectively referred to as “TechyDude Websites”), our adherence to the principles mentioned below remains consistent across the organization concerning personal data processing. Depending on the purposes of processing and your relationship with us as a data subject, we may provide additional customized privacy statements, more information on which can be found below.

The scope of this Statement covers the categories of personal data collected, how we use or process such data, who the recipients of such data are, and your associated rights under applicable laws, including how to exercise the same. The applicability of the Privacy Statement is global; however, certain additional information may be relevant to you depending on the country where you reside. Such additional terms, based on these particular countries or regions, are called out in region-specific statements below.

1. Personal Information That We Process and Use

1.1 Personal Information That We Process

We may collect the following categories of personal information:

Information collected as part of your visit and usage of our websites: Internet Protocol (IP) address, demographics, your computer's operating system, device information, telemetry data, and browser type, along with information collected via cookies or similar tracking technologies. As a website visitor who merely browses our websites, this is the most relevant paragraph for applicable data processing.
Personal and Contact Details: Name, title, e-mail address, phone numbers, address, designation, company/organization, industry, location (in terms of city/country), LinkedIn profiles/URLs (or similar professional data sets).
Login Credentials: Username and passwords when you register for any of our applicable services.
Audio-Visual Information: Photographs or images captured, video recordings (if enabled), when attending any of our events, webinars, etc.
Queries, Comments, or Feedback: As submitted by you, including any correspondence you have made with us.
Preferences relating to marketing communications, interest areas, subscription details: Including dietary preferences/allergies in relation to events we may organize.

Additionally, we may collect certain data points based on the categories of data subjects and their relationship with us, as detailed in additional Privacy Statements for relevant categories of data subjects at the end of this Statement.

1.2 Sources of Personal Information

We may collect the aforementioned personal information through various sources, such as:

Submitted by yourself, through our website forms, applications on our portals, or by contacting/emailing our official contacts.
Shared with TechyDude employees, such as our sales or marketing representatives.
Shared with or by TechyDude's affiliates.
Shared by the employers of the visitors and contractors, where applicable.
Sourced from public websites and social media, including your publicly accessible profiles.
Shared by our suppliers, vendors, and service providers.
Sourced via cookies and similar tracking technologies as deployed on our website (details are available in the Cookie Policy).

1.3 Use of Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

To provide better usability, troubleshooting, and site maintenance.
To understand which parts of the website are visited and how frequently.
To create your login credentials, where applicable.
To identify you once you register on our website.
To facilitate communication with you, including contacting you and responding to your queries or requests.
To offer curated content tailored to your preferences.
To enable marketing and sales-related communications and related purposes.
To publish testimonials and case studies.
To generate and maintain leads as part of our Customer Relationship Management database.
To perform data analytics for providing a better user experience, enhancing website performance, and achieving business objectives.
To enhance and optimize our business operations, applications, systems, and processes, including the operation and management of our communication assets and systems, ensuring and strengthening information security, maintenance of audit trail, and associated records.
To protect your data and TechyDude's assets from information security threats and secure against any unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
To comply with applicable laws and other legal requirements, such as regulatory filings, record-keeping and reporting obligations, cooperating with government-authorized inspections or requests, protecting our legal rights, and seeking remedies, including defending against any claims or engaging in legal proceedings, responding to subpoenas or court orders, and managing documentation for related purposes.
To enhance your website experience and other associated purposes by deploying cookies or similar technologies.

1.4 Legal Basis of the Processing

The applicable privacy and data protection laws provide for certain justifiable grounds for the collection and processing of personal data, commonly referred to as the legal basis of processing. We primarily rely on the following legal bases:

Performance of a Contract: We process your personal information when it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
Legitimate Interest: We process your personal information when it is necessary for the purposes of a legitimate interest pursued by us or a third party (when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights).
Consent: We process your personal information with your consent. Where we process personal data based on consent, your consent is revocable at any time.
Legal Obligations: We may process your personal information to comply with any legal obligations on us, including applicable laws and protecting our legal rights, seeking remedies, and defending against claims.

2. Consequences of Not Providing Personal Information

If you choose not to provide your personal information that is mandatory to process your request, we may not be able to fulfill the relevant purpose of processing, including the provision of any services to you, if applicable.

3. Data Recipients, Transfer, and Disclosure of Personal Information

3.1 Data Sharing

We do not share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, we may share your personal information within:

TechyDude or with any of its subsidiaries.
Business partners.
Service providers.
Authorized third-party agents.
Auditors and/or government authorities, where applicable.

4. Your Rights

4.1 Your Rights as a Data Subject

Subject to the laws of your country, you may have certain rights as a data subject, including but not limited to the right to information, access, rectification, erasure, object, restriction of processing, and the right to complain. Where the data processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent to the processing of any personal data at any time.

Your rights as a data subject may differ based on your applicable jurisdiction. Please refer to region-specific data privacy statements for more information.

4.2 Exercising Your Rights

For exercising your rights, we may need to request certain information from you to ascertain your identity and confirm that you are entitled to exercise the same. You can exercise your rights by contacting us at [email protected].

5. Data Security

At TechyDude, we adopt reasonable and appropriate security controls, practices, and procedures, including administrative, physical security, and technical controls, to safeguard your personal information.

6. Data Retention

Personal information will not be retained for a period longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required by law or for directly related legitimate business purposes. Personal data that is no longer required to be retained as per legal and business requirements will be disposed of securely.

7. Contact Your Local Data Protection Authority

If you are unhappy with how we safeguard your personal data, depending on the laws of the country where you reside, you have the right to bring a complaint to your local data protection authority.

8. Data Breach

In the event of a data breach, we will promptly notify you and any relevant authorities as required by law and the terms of this Privacy Statement.

9. Updates to This Privacy Statement

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to changing legal, technical, or business developments. When we update our Privacy Statement, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

The date of the latest update can be found at the beginning of this Privacy Statement.

10. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy statement or your data, please contact us at [email protected].

This privacy statement applies to TechyDude. By continuing to access or use the website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this privacy statement.