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Privacy Policy

Protect your personal information and offer you a safe shopping experience

 

Last Updated: September 1, 2022

We recently updated our Privacy Policy. Updates include:

* Describing of new rights available to California consumers under the California Consumer Privacy Act

* Clarifying our practice not to sell personal information under any circumstances

DUCTCABLE attaches great importance to protecting your personal information entrusted to us. We spare all efforts to maintain the security and integrity of your personal information confidentially according to the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and this Privacy Policy.

The use of our website is generally possible without providing personal data. Personal data, such as names, addresses or email addresses, are always provided on a voluntary basis when possible. Those data will not be passed on to third parties without your explicit permission.

 

 

Collection of Personal Information

In order to provide DUCTCABLE services to you, we will ask you to provide personal data depending on how you interact with us (online, offline, over the phone, etc.). Personal data about our customers is an important part of our business. We will not sell, share or rent your information to third parties in any way other than what is disclosed in this statement.

 

Personal Contact Information

This includes any information that would allow us to personally contact you, such as your name,

delivery address, phone number, or email address. In some cases, this could include personal information that you give us about someone else (for example, if you provide a friend's name and

email address for a share cart/product/saved items action).

 

We typically collect personal contact information in connection with a variety of activities, including website registration, email subscriptions, website community features, online purchases, customer service inquiries, and consumer feedback. If you create an account with us, your personal contact information may be stored under your account profile.

 

Account Sign-in Information

This refers to any information that is required for you to establish a unique account with us or for

us to give you access to your specific account profile. Examples may include your email address,

user name and password.

 

We only collect unique sign-in information for those activities that require an account, such as

general website registration, email subscriptions, and website community features. Your sign-in

information, especially your password, should be kept confidential and never shared with anyone

else. To change your login email address or password, sign in to the relevant account setting

section of our website.

 

Demographic Information

This includes any information that describes your demographic or psycho-graphic characteristics.

Examples may include your geographic location (e.g., post code, country/region, mobile location),

frequently viewed products, and preferred language.

 

We typically collect demographic information in connection with a variety of activities, including

general website registration, customer service inquiries, and site browsing information. If you

create an account with us, you may be allowed to modify certain demographic information stored under your account or in your browser. For demographic information stored under your profile on a third party social network (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+ etc.), see separate paragraph onSocial Network Information.

 

Technical Computer Information

This includes any information about the computer system or other technological device that you may be using to access one of our websites, applications or online services. We typically collect this information through automated technologies such as cookies and tags. Examples of technical computer information may include your computers IP address, operating system type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), and web browser type. View more in Cookies and Contents of Third Parties.

 

Website Usage Information

This includes information about how you use and navigate our websites, applications and online

services, including which links you click on, which pages or content you view and for how long, and other similar information and statistics about your interactions with our website or application (e.g., date and time of visit, which site you came from, frequently viewed products, and site activities, etc.).

 

This information is captured using automated tracking technologies such as cookies or Yandex Metrica,and may also be collected through the use of third party tracking services (such as Google Analytic)that collect data in aggregate (such as number of visits to a particular page, or the amount of time spent on a web site). We may also use these programs, such as Yandex Metrica, to capture information about how users respond to certain emails (e.g., time the email is opened, where user links to from the email, etc.). Please view more in Cookies and Contents of Third Parties.

 

Consumer Feedback

This includes information that you voluntarily share with us about your experience in using our products and services, including our websites and applications. Examples may include unsolicited

reviews and suggestions, or other questions and feedback related to our products. We typically ollect this information in the form of product review, Q&A, requesting stock, getting a quote, creating a case, submitting technical solutions, Google customer review and customer service through email or hotline.

 

Social Network Information

This refers to any information that is part of your profile on a third party social network (such as but not limited to Facebook/Twitter) and that you allow the third party social network to share with us. Examples include your basic account information (e.g., name, email address, gender, birthday, current city, profile picture, user ID, list of friends, etc.) and any other additional information or activities that you permit the third party social network to share with third party application developers. For example, we may receive your social network profile information (or parts of it) every time you download or interact with a DUCTCABLE application on a social network such as Facebook or Twitter or every time you use a social networking feature that is integrated within a DUCTCABLE (such as Post DUCTCABLE product to Facebook, share news from DUCTCABLE Blog to Facebook, etc.).

 

To learn more about how your information from a third party social network may be obtained by us (or other third party application developers), please visit the website of the relevant social network. You further acknowledge using your personal information to match information with a social network for advertising purposes.

 

Payment Information

This includes any information that you use to make a purchase, such as your credit/debit card details (cardholder name, card number, expiration date, etc.), other payment information if you choose to pay by Credit/Debit Card/PayPal/Wire Transfer. This also includes the billing name and address associated with your form of payment.

 

Personal Information from Children

Personal information will not be collected by any person who is known by DUCTCABLE to be under the age of eighteen (18) without the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Persons under age eighteen (18) may only provide personal information with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian.

 

Mobile Information

If you access our website or application via a mobile device such as a smart-phone, the collected

information may also include your phone's unique device ID, brand, type, operator company and

operating system.

 

 

Use of Personal Information

We use personal information to better understand our customers interests and needs, to complete purchase transactions and fulfill orders and to consistently improve quality of products.

We may use your personal information in following ways:

 

Account maintenance

We may use your personal information to maintain your accounts with us, including administering any consumer satisfaction or products optimization programs that are associated with your account. This typically involves the use of personal information that was originally collected to set up your account (e.g., personal contact information, payment information, delivery address, account login information, demographic information, etc.) or purchase history.

 

Customer Service

We may collect and use your personal information to provide you customer service, including responses to your inquiries, stock request, quote sheet, technical solution request, etc. If you enjoyed our offline service (e.g. placing order or requesting quote by contacting account manager instead of directly doing them online), we may display the service data (the content of offline order or quote) in your account center to provide you a better account management. This typically requires the collection and use of certain personal contact information (such as your name, phone or email address) and information regarding the reason for your inquiry (e.g. order status, technical issue, product question/complaint, etc.). Customer service may be provided through various forms of communication, including email correspondence, call centre support, and live chat online.

 

Product Improvement and Customization

We may collect and use your information so we can constantly improve our products, tailor them to your needs, and come up with new product ideas. This mostly involves the collection and use of demographic information and consumer feedback.

 

Product and Service Improvement

We may collect and use your personal information to encourage you to be more actively engaged with our products and services (including our websites and applications), thereby increasing overall brand engagement and improving our products/services. This mostly involves the collection, use, and publication of consumer-generated content (such as product/order reviews).

 

And we will send an email to you and invite you to write a review about our products and services in this transaction. If you choose to join in the Google customer review program, you will also receive an email from Google about it.

 

Third Party Social Networking

We may collect and use your personal information when you interact with third party social networking features such as Post to Facebook or Tweet to Twitter. These features may be integrated in our sites or applications for the purposes of allowing you to share DUCTCABLE product/news with your friends, or other stated purposes. If you use these features, we may have the ability to obtain certain information about you from your social networking profile (see Social network information). You can learn more about how these features work, and the profile data we may obtain about you, by visiting the website of the relevant third party social network.

 

Website Improvement and Personalization

We may collect and use your information to improve and personalize your experience on our websites and applications. This is typically done through automated tracking technologies that collect and remember certain account login information, technical information, previous website usage information, and/or IP address. For example, we might remember your sign-in email address and password so you can quickly sign in next time when you visit our website. Based on this type of information, we may also show you specific DUCTCABLE content matched your country/region.

 

Website Sharing Features (e.g., share cart/product/saved items with a friend)

We may request and use your personal information so you can use website sharing features, such as our share-with-a-friend features. These features allow you to easily share certain product information, saved items/carts, or shopping cart with your colleagues or friends. These features may also require the collection and use of your friends personal information (such as names and email addresses) so that the selected one-time message or content can be delivered to the proper recipients. In most cases, we do not retain the information provided. In some cases (for example, as part of a refer to-share-data program), we may store the information so we can track and conclude the referrals data. For other sharing features administered by third party social networks (such as Facebook’s Share and Twitter's Tweet features), please refer to the website of the relevant social network for additional information.

 

Order Fulfillment

We may collect and use your personal information to process and deliver your orders, and to inform

you about the status of your orders. This could involve the collection and use of certain personal

contact information, payment information, account login information, and/or other information

related to your purchase (such as products ordered).

 

As payments, shipping and delivery are being fulfilled by a third party (bank, online payment

company, or logistics company), we will share your personal information with them for the purposes

of fulfillment of the order. You may, as a result, also receive communications from that third party

(whether by email, SMS or other methods of communication) regarding the fulfillment of payment or

delivery.

 

Marketing

We may collect and use your personal information to send you marketing emails to keep you aware of what we're up to and to help you see and find our products and services.

 

Other General Purposes (e.g., website security, internal research)

We may collect and use your information for other general business purposes, such as to maintain the day-to-day operation and security of our websites and applications and to conduct internal records and demographic studies. These activities mostly require the collection and use of certain demographic information, technical computer information, website usage information, and consumer feedback.

 

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may use or disclose personal information in the good faith belief that we are lawfully authorized to do so, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to protect you, to comply with legal process or authorities, to respond to any claims, or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of DUCTCABLE Wholesale, our Members, our employees or the public.

 

We may also share your personal information

between:

* Our related

companies (for example, our head office, UK branch office, etc.)

* Our service providers including IT service

providers, delivery companies, live chat service providers, out-sourced call centres, and third

party fulfillment contractors;

* Our professional advisers including our

accountants, auditors and lawyers for particular purposes;

* Payment system operators and financial

institutions;

* Government agencies if necessary or

requested by law;

* Youtube Video Plugins;

* Those website analyse service providers and social media

networking service plugins listed below:

 

Google Tag Manager

On the basis of

our legitimate interest (interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of

our website), this website uses the Google Tag Manager provided by Google Inc. This service

allows website tags to be managed through a single interface.

 

Google (Universal) Analytics

For the purpose of

continuous optimization of our pages, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of

Google Inc. In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies are used.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website such as

Browser type / version,

Used operating system,

Referrer URL (the previously visited page),

Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),

Time of server request,

are transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there.

 

Google AdWords

conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. that connects data from

the Google AdWords advertising network with actions performed on our website or applications. Through the targeting measures, we just want to display advertisement based on

your actual interests or behavior-orientation.

 

Yandex Metrica Web Analytics

We use Yandex

Metrica Web Analytics to get visual reports and video records of user activities on our websites or applications. It can help us track referer URL and evaluate the effectiveness of online advertisement.

 

Social Networking Services (SNS) Plugins

Concerning SNS

providers in DUCTCABLE, it contains Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or Linkedin. When you visit a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser connects directly to the corresponding SNS servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by the SNS company directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, these SNS companies receive the information that your browser has accessed relevant pages, even if you do not have a SNS profile or are currently not signed in to SNS websites. This information (including your IP address) will be transmitted from your browser directly to a SNS server in the US and stored there.

 

If you are signed in to the SNS website, they can immediately

assign your visit to our website with your SNS profile. If you interact with the plugins, for example, click the "Like/Tweet/+1/share" button or leave a comment, this information will be posted on your SNS profile, displayed to your friends and transmitted to the SNS server and stored there.

 

The purpose and scope of the information collection, the further processing and use of the personal information by SNS, your rights in this regard, and setting options for the protection of your privacy can be reset in the SNS websites.

 

Choice & Control

We give you choices related to your personal information, and numerous methods to inform us of your decision. You can control your personal information that DUCTCABLE has obtained. You have the right to access, correct, or delete the personal data that we collect. You are also entitled to restrict or object, at any time, to the further processing of your personal information.

 

You have the right to refuse the display of your offline service data in your account center on DUCTCABLE website by contacting us through email or live chat.

 

You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured and standard format and,

where technically feasible, the right to have your personal data transmitted directly to a third party.

 

To protect the privacy and the security of your personal data, we may request data from you to enable us to confirm your identity and right to access such information, as well as to search for and provide you with the personal data we maintain.

 

You have the right to stop marketing emails, which you can do through My Account or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of each marketing email. Please note that opting out of marketing emails will not stop service communications, such as order status updates, or responses to your inquiries and request, etc. You can also access and clear your data through the DUCTCABLE privacy dashboard.

 

 

Cookies

The acceptance of cookies is not necessary to access DUCTCABLE. However, we draw your attention that failure to accept cookies may limit some certain functions of our website. You can reset your browser to decline cookies at any time if you wish.

 

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small

data files that are stored on your data carrier and record certain settings and data for

exchange with our system via your browser.

In general, there are 2 different types

of cookies:

* The so-called session cookies, that

are deleted as soon as you close your browser;

* Temporary/permanent cookies, that are stored on your data

carriers for a longer period or without limit.

 

Which Cookies Are Used by DUCTCABLE

Session cookies are used by us, which will be

automatically deleted from your hard disk at the end of the browser session. Session cookies are needed, for example, to make the shopping-cart function available to you over several pages. In addition to these we also make use of cookies that remain on your hard disk. On a subsequent visit it is then automatically recognized that you have previously visited DUCTCABLE, and let us know which input and settings you prefer. These temporary or even permanent cookies (lifespan of 1 day to 2 years) are stored on your hard disk and are automatically deleted after the pre-specified period.

 

What Information Is Stored in The Cookies

In the cookies used by DUCTCABLE, only anonymous data is

stored. Your name, your IP address and other personal information that might be used to

trace you directly are not placed in the cookie. On the basis of the cookie technology we

receive only anonymous information, relating for example to which of our shop carts have

been visited, which products were viewed, etc.

 

Why Does DUCTCABLE Use Cookies

This information will never be used to identify

you personally but only help us to recognize and remember your interests so that we can

customise content and enhance the personalization of your online shopping experience. For

example, after the initial set-up and sign in, these cookies enable you to come back to our

site again without having to sign in each time.

 

With this technology, we can recognize your interests, present specific products/services to

make our website more user-friendly, more effective and more secure. The content will be

based on information obtained from a connection to click-stream analysis (for example, it is

based on the fact that during the past few days only Fibre Optic Cables has been viewed).

Our aim is to make your shopping experience as comfortable as possible.

 

How Can You Prevent The Storage of Cookies

In your browser you can adjust the setting that

storage of cookies is only permissible when you agree to it, and thereby prevent the further

storage of cookies in the future.

 

 

Protect Your Personal Information

Security

The security of your personal information is very important to DUCTCABLE. We use physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards that are designed to protect your Personal Data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

 

In addition, DUCTCABLE uses standard security protocols and mechanisms to exchange the transmission of sensitive data such as credit card details. When you enter sensitive Personal Data such as your credit card number on our site, we encrypt it using secure socket layer (SSL) technology.

 

In the event that your personal information is acquired, or is reasonably believed to have been acquired, by an unauthorized person and applicable law requires notification, DUCTCABLE will notify you by e-mail or mail. DUCTCABLE will give you notice promptly, consistent with the reasonable needs of law enforcement and/or DUCTCABLE to determine the scope of the breach and to investigate and restore the integrity of the data system.

 

Retention and Deletion

DUCTCABLE will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active; as needed to provide you products or services; as needed for the purposes outlined in this policy or at the time of collection; as necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to honor opt-outs), resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements; or to the extent permitted by law.

 

At the end of the retention period, DUCTCABLE will take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to destroy the information or to ensure that the information is no longed identified.

 

 

California Consumer Privacy Act

If you are a California resident, you can make certain requests regarding your personal information. We will fulfill each of these requests to the extent required by law.

 

Right to Request Access to Personal Information

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request, that we disclose to you the

personal information related to you we have collected during the past 12 months. This may

include:

* The categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you

* The categories of sources from which we collected the personal information

* The business or commercial purpose for which we collected the personal information

* The categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information

* The categories of personal information about you that we disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed that information for a business purpose

 

Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you. If we delete your personal information, we will

both render certain personal information about you permanently unrecoverable.

 

No sale of personal information

DUCTCABLE will not sell any personal information of consumers under any circumstances.

 

No Discrimination

DUCTCABLE will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

 

If you wish to do any of these things, please contact DUCTCABLE customer service team or your account manager for any assistance.

 

 

Changes to This Statement

DUCTCABLE shall regularly review the sufficiency of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify and change the Privacy Policy at any time.

 

Subject to your rights at law, you agree to be bound by the prevailing terms of the Policy as updated from time to time on our Website. Any changes to this policy will be published on the Platform. By continuing to use our Platforms and/or services after the Policy has been amended, you hereby agree to be bound by the terms of such amended Policy.

 

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy statement or would like to contact us for

any reason, you can do the following:

Email to info@zr-fibercable.com, Call us at 008615211074652

Emails and letters should clearly state that you are making a data

protection query, request or complain in the subject line to ensure the matter is dealt with

expediently. We will strive to deal with any query, request or complaint promptly and fairly.