Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
Updated: September 18, 2024

INTRODUCTION

CapTech Ventures, Inc. (“CapTech,” “we,” or “us”) are committed to your rights to privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”), effective as of the date above, is designed to inform you about your rights and how we collect, use and share your personal data. Use of our website (“Site”) indicates agreement with this Privacy Policy and any updates. Any questions may be directed to [email protected].

CapTech works with the world's most successful companies pioneering custom solutions that bridge the gap between business and technology. We are a national IT management consulting firm that collaborates with clients to design, develop, and manage technical and digital solutions that enhance customers experiences and meet strategic objectives. As part of that business and our services, you may share information with us.

This Policy applies to the information we collect:

• on the Site;
• in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Site; and
• in telephone communications between you and CapTech.

This Policy does not apply to information collected:

• Through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party; or
• By any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Site.

By accessing the Site, you consent to the collection, processing, use, retention, protection and disclosure of your information by CapTech as described in this Policy. By accessing the Site, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by this Policy and our Terms of Use (the “Terms of Use”), incorporated herein by reference. In addition, you agree to be bound by any other terms and conditions posted by CapTech on any part of the Site.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

In visiting our site or conducting business with us, you may submit personal data directly to us for several reasons, such as interest in:

• Learning more about our products and services
• Accessing our proprietary content
• Registering for webinars, training programs, courses, or other events
• Subscribing to newsletters, updates, or requesting additional information
• Applying for a job

We collect information you may provide to us as well as information we automatically collect:

• Identifiers. Including any information by which you may be personally identified, such as your name, title, address, telephone number, and email address.
• Commercial Information. Any transaction information, including payment method and services retained.
• Communications Information. Including information that you provide during communications and interactions with us, which may include the content of email messages and phone calls. This may also include information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This may also include information you provide when you report a problem with our Site.
• Internet or other Electronic Network Activity Information. Including your Internet connection information such as your IP address, your operating system, and browser type, the equipment you use to access our Site, device information, cookie identifiers, web beacons, device and browser settings and information, interactions with our Site, information about how and when you access our Site, such as the date and time of your visit or use, the website or URL to which you go upon leaving the Site, and other usage details.
• Geolocation Information. Including city, country, region, and continent information when using our Site (if your device settings permit us to collect this information).
• Inferences. We may use information about or derived from the information above including technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
  

(together “Personal Data”).

Most of the Personal Data we receive from you may be publicly available, but will be protected as set forth below.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL ‌INFORMATION

We collect your personal information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the Site collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.

‌INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns (collectively, “Automatic Data”).

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.

There are two types of cookies: (1) First-party cookies are created by the site you visited. The site is shown in the address bar. (2) Third-party cookies are created by other sites. These sites own some of the content, like videos or images, that you see on the webpage you visit. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the Site to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your Personal Data. The third-party cookies used on our Site are used mainly for understanding how the Site performs, how you interact with our Site, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our Site.

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Site may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit CapTech, for example, to count users who have visited certain webpages and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content on the Website and verifying system and server integrity).
• “Cookies”, “Flash Cookies” and “Web Beacons” (collectively, “User Attribution Devices”) help facilitate and enhance the Site’s communications and interactions with you. CapTech may share information collected via User Attribution Devices with third parties, including without limitation advertising, analytics and social media websites, platforms and applications, to inform, optimize and serve information and content to you, including without limitation advertisements. You may opt-out of collection and use of information by certain User Attribution Devices in connection with your use of the Site by: (i) visiting http://optout.aboutads.info/; and/or (ii) setting your Internet browser to refuse certain types of User Attribution Devices, such as cookies.
• Some content on the Site is served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with other User Attribution Devices) to collect information about you when you use our Site. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We may not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use information about our users, including without limitation any Personal Data, in aggregated, anonymized and/or non-personally identifiable form, without restriction (except to the extent prohibited by applicable law).

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us as described in this Policy, including without limitation any Personal Data:

• To administer our systems and Site, and make improvements to them.
• To personalize your experience on the Site.
• To improve our customer service.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, including without limitation to provide you with updates regarding any order for products that you make.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Site or any products we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site.
• To comply with legal processes and safety requirements, including to maintain the security of our customers, employees, and property, respond to court orders, lawsuits, subpoenas, and government requests, as well as to address legal and regulatory compliance purposes.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We limit the use of Personal Data to comply with the express use associated with your granted consent. You may opt-out at any time.

Individuals are prohibited from acting as a signing authority in transactions that may result in a direct or indirect personal benefit. No individual may authorize expenditures for departments other than those within their area of responsibility. It is the responsibility of each Signature Authority to:

• Ensure that prior to execution, the appropriate reviews and approvals (Legal, Risk, Finance, Operations, Board of Directors and Markel) are complete; and
• After execution, obtain and circulate the fully executed document(s) for storage.

We may also use your Personal Data to contact you about CapTech news and updates and about our own and third parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. We may also use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your Personal Data for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

HOW CAN I CONTROL HOW CAPTECH USES AND DISCLOSES MY INFORMATION?

To process your Personal Data, we rely upon your consent, contract performance, our legitimate business interest, or compliance with law. You may object or restrict our processing of your Personal Data. You may withdraw any prior consent you may have given to process your Personal Data at any time. It is also within your rights to refuse to provide any Personal Data we request. However, refusal to provide certain Personal Data may limit your access to information or use of the Site.

Should you wish to access or amend any Personal Data you may have provided to us or if you wish to request deletion, please contact us at [email protected].

You may also exercise the following controls over your Personal Data:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Promotional Offers from CapTech. If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to CapTech as a result of services retained or other related transactions.

In any such case of your withdrawal of consent, you acknowledge that there may be a delay before we fully implement your request and you may therefore still be contacted by us for a period of time thereafter. Notwithstanding your withdrawal of consent, CapTech may subsequently contact you for other purposes that are unrelated to marketing and/or selling, including without limitation legal or regulatory purposes. Please be aware that applicable laws, statues, rules and/or regulations may require or permit the collection, processing, retention, use and disclosure of your Personal Data without your consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, pursuant to applicable laws, statues, rules and/or regulations or other reasons, there may be circumstances in which you may not withdraw your consent to the collection, processing, use, retention and disclosure of your Personal Data.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (”NAI”) on the NAI’s website located at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.

Most Internet browsers can be set to transmit digital “Do Not Track” requests to websites. Such sites may but are not required to comply with “Do Not Track” requests. We honor this feature and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when this mechanism is in place. CapTech also does not permit third party behavioral tracking.

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” link on the bottom of your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

The “Help” section of the browser toolbar will inform you how to have notifications enabled when a new cookie is received, to prevent your browser from accepting a new cookie, or from disabling the use of cookies completely. Disabling cookies completely may cause CapTech’s Site features not to function as intended. Some browsers permit enablement of a “Do Not Track” feature.

OUR USE OF GOOGLE

We use Google Analytics to understand visitor traffic and navigation preferences for CapTech’s Site. You may opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

THIRD PARTIES AND INFORMATION WE SHARE

Other than as set forth in this Policy, CapTech will not collect Personal Data about you when you visit our Site, unless you choose to provide such information to us, nor will such information be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection.

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights. We may also link to other websites which are controlled by third parties. These third-party websites are not under CapTech’s control. Thus, once you have clicked these links and are on the third-party websites, you and your data are subject to the privacy notices or privacy policies of the third parties and not CapTech. Once navigating away from CapTech’s Site, we recommend you take the opportunity to familiarize yourself with your rights under any third-party privacy notice

Additionally, third party vendors may help us administer our Site, communication with you or others, comply with regulations, or deliver services. We may share your data with them in support of any of these goals. However, prior to doing so, we obtain assurances from our vendors that they will safeguard your Personal Data. There may be other limited instances where we need to share your Personal Data in order to respond to your request or inquiry.

YOUR CHOICES, ACCESS, CORRECTION, AND DELETION

To process your Personal Data, we typically rely upon your consent, contract performance, our legitimate business interest, or compliance with law. You may object to or restrict our processing of your Personal Data. You may withdraw any prior consent you may have given to Process Personal Data at any time. It is also within your rights to refuse to provide any Personal Data we request. However, refusal to provide certain Personal Data may limit your access to information or certain areas of CapTech’s Site.

Should you wish to access or amend any Personal Data you may have provided us or if you wish to request deletion, please contact at [email protected]. Your Personal Data will be deleted or blocked from our database at your request.

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AND SECURE INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS?

CapTech safeguards your Personal Data by regularly scanning the Site and taking commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical steps to make it as secure as possible. Despite the security measures we have implemented, it is well-known that Internet data transmission and electronic data storage are not 100% safe. As such, CapTech cannot and does not warrant the security of your Personal Data. You must protect the privacy of your own information. You are solely responsible for the security of all such information at all times. You must take precautions to protect the security of all Personal Data that you may transmit to, from or through the Site over any home networks, routers, private wireless (WiFi) networks, public WiFi networks, and all other communication technologies. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site, for the unauthorized acts of others, or for acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send sensitive personal information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our Site may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information should never be transmitted via email.

CapTech may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our Site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, CapTech uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Retention of Personal Data

Your Personal Data is stored by CapTech on its servers, and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services CapTech engages, located in the United States. We will retain your Personal Data for as long as you remain a customer, for which we need to hold your Personal Data to deliver our products and services to you, and for a period of time thereafter as long as necessary for legal reasons or to protect our interests. For more information about how long your Personal Data is stored, and for more information on your rights for erasure or portability, please contact us at [email protected].

CHILDREN’S POLICY

CapTech’s Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age, nor do we knowingly market or sell any goods or services to persons under the age of 18. Accordingly, we do not request or knowingly collect any Personal Data from anyone under 18 years of age and anyone under 18 years of age should not submit any Personal Data to CapTech. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the age of eighteen, please contact us at [email protected].

RIGHTS OF CERTAIN TYPES OF USERS

Subject to local law, you may have certain rights with regard to your Personal Data. To learn more about the Personal Data we collect about you or the rights you may have, please contact us at the contact information below. These rights may include the following rights to (1) access or rectify your Personal Data or request its deletion, (2) request a restriction on the processing or opt out of certain processing of your Personal Data, (3) object to the processing of your Personal Data (4) request a portable form of your Personal Data, or (5) exercise other rights with respect to your Personal Data. Please contact us at [email protected]. described below. While we strongly encourage you to first raise any questions or concerns about your Personal Data directly with us, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.

A. INDIVIDUALS IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA/EUROPEAN UNION (EU) - GDPR

CapTech’s headquarters and offices are in the United States and we do not intentionally target European visitors to our web site. For clients in the European Union (“EU”), where data collections specifically apply to them, CapTech complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679/EU (“GDPR”) as set forth by the EU regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Data from the EU member countries and Switzerland.

If you are a European resident or considered a Data Subject under GDPR, you have the following rights:

Rights under GDPR

1. Right to withdraw consent to the Processing of Personal Data at any time.
2. Right to object to the Processing of Personal Data if the Processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
3. Right to learn if Personal Data is being Processed by CapTech, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of Processing, and obtain a copy of the Personal Data undergoing processing. (CapTech reserves the right to charge you a small but reasonable fee for this service, if requests are unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.)
4. Right to verify the accuracy of Personal Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
5. Right, under certain circumstances to restrict the Processing of Personal Data. In this case, CapTech will not Process Personal Data for any purpose other than storing it.
6. Right to receive Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another Controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Personal Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on your consent, on a contract which you are a part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
7. Right to bring a claim before your competent data protection authority (DTA).

CapTech’s (1) legitimate interests and legal basis for processing your Personal Data; (2) categories of Personal Data we collect; and (3) storage and retention period of your Personal Data are set forth above. If CapTech engages in any transfer of your Personal Data outside of the jurisdiction of collection or your residence, we will seek your consent as discussed above and/or transfer such Personal Data in accordance with the GDPR.

While we strongly encourage you to first raise any questions or concerns about your Personal Data directly with us, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. To exercise any of the rights listed in this section, or to contact CapTech’s data protection officer, please contact us at [email protected].

B. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS (CCPA)

We abide by California law where applicable for any California residents using our Site. You can request access to and/or revision of certain Personal Data by contacting us as described below. If you wish to limit the emails you receive from us, you can let us know by contacting us at [email protected] or toll free at 844-916-1316. California residents can make certain requests about their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).

Specifically, if you are a California resident, you may request that we:

1. Provide you with information about: the categories of personal information we collect, disclose or sell about you; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information. Such information is also set forth in this Policy;
2. Provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you;
3. Delete certain information we have about you; and/or
4. Provide you with information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any.
5. Send general information and answer questions and queries.
6. Provide sales updates and information.
7. Engage in marketing activities.
8. Determine collaboration or partnership interest/opportunities of mutual interest.

California residents can also designate an authorized agent to make access and/or deletion requests on their behalf. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request for access and/or deletion from you or your designated agent. The CCPA further provides you with the right to not be discriminated against (as provided for in applicable law) for exercising your rights. Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under California law.

If you are a California resident and would like to exercise any of legal rights under the CCPA, please contact us at [email protected] or toll free at 844-916-1316.

Annually, California residents may request and obtain information about the Personal Data that CapTech has shared with third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes within the prior calendar year (as defined by California Civil Code § 1798.83, commonly known as California’s “Shine the Light Law”). If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of Personal Data that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which CapTech shared this information in the immediately preceding calendar year. To obtain this information, please send an email message to [email protected] with the words “California Shine the Light Privacy Request” in the subject line as well as in the body of your message.

C. OTHER UNITED STATES USERS

For users residing in Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, or Utah, and in other such states not explicitly listed, state law grants you additional rights with regard to your Personal Data under applicable law. You or your legally designated representative may submit a request to exercise your Personal Data rights by contacting us at [email protected].

D. CANADA

CapTech also operates consistently with Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (“CASL”). We do not send unauthorized Commercial Electronic Messages (“CEM”) to Canadian email addresses, unless they have opted-in to receive CEM. We understand a message sent to request consent is also considered CEM under CASL and we do not engage in this activity.

REQUESTS, RECOURSE, ENFORCEMENT, AND LIABILITY

To ask questions, comment, or submit complaints and issues about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us toll free at 844-916-1316.

Or you may email us at [email protected].

CapTech will respond to you promptly, especially with regard to any data breach, but in any event within 30 days of receipt.

POLICY CHANGES

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.