Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how coretechsystems.org (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information that we obtain about visitors to our website, coretechsystems.org (the “Site”), and the services available through our Site (collectively, the “Services”).
By visiting the Site or using our Services, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site or Services.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information directly from you, automatically through your use of our Site, and from third parties.
A. Information You Provide to Us
When you use our Site, you may provide us with the following types of information:
- Contact Information: Your name, email address, postal address, and phone number (e.g., when you sign up for a newsletter or create an account).
- Account Credentials: Usernames, passwords, and similar security information.
- Payment Information: If you make a purchase, we collect payment information, such as your credit card details or other billing information (note: this is often processed directly by a third-party payment processor, and we generally do not store the raw data).
- Communications: Any information you provide to us in communications, such as customer service inquiries, feedback, or participation in surveys.
- User-Generated Content: Any content you post to the Site, such as comments, reviews, or forum posts.
B. Information Collected Automatically
We automatically collect certain information about your use of our Site through technologies like cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies:
- Usage Information: Details of how you use our Site, including the time and date of your visit, the pages you view, the links you click, and the amount of time spent on the Site.
- Device Information: Information about the computer or mobile device you use to access the Site, including the IP address, operating system, browser type, and device identifiers.
- Location Information: In some cases, your general geographic location, which can be inferred from your IP address.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To Provide and Maintain the Services: To operate the Site, enable you to use its features, and fulfill your requests (e.g., processing transactions).
- To Improve Our Services: To understand how users access and use our Site and Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve and develop new features.
- To Communicate With You: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, send administrative information (like policy changes), and, if you opt-in, send you promotional and marketing emails.
- Personalization: To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, including offering location-based personalization and customized help and instructions.
- Security and Legal Compliance: To protect the security of our Site, prevent fraud, troubleshoot technical issues, and comply with legal obligations.
3. How We Disclose Your Information
We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may disclose the information we collect to third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform functions on our behalf, such as payment processing, data hosting, email delivery, and analytics.
- Business Transfers: If we are acquired by or merged with another company, or if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the other company.
- In Response to Legal Process: We may disclose your information to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a subpoena.
- To Protect Ourselves and Others: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or violations of our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy.
- Aggregate and De-Identified Information: We may share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for marketing, advertising, research, or similar purposes. This information does not personally identify you.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We and our third-party service providers use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your hard drive by a website. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
5. Third-Party Links
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy but, instead, is governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites.
6. Security
We have implemented reasonable technical, physical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
7. Your Choices
- Marketing Communications: If you receive promotional emails from us, you can opt out by following the instructions contained in the email.
- Cookies: As noted above, you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies.
8. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Policy on our Site. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice.