Cookies Policy
What are Cookies
The Shieldbyte Infosec Pvt. Ltd. website (“Shieldbyte,” “Website,” “We,” “Us,” “Our”) may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your device by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by the Shieldbyte domain that issues the cookie to you.
Purpose of this Policy
This policy explains how our website uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize your visit to our website. It explains what technologies we use, their purpose, and your rights to control their usage by us.
Why do we use Cookies?
We use the information we procured through technical means in order to monitor and analyze the use of the website, for the website’s administration, to enhance our website’s functionality and user-friendliness, and to derive useful data and information concerning the interests, characteristics, and website user behavior.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time during regular website access. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. The next time you access our website, information previously provided by you can be retrieved to navigate through the website easily.
Types of Cookies
We use first and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are placed on your device directly by the Shieldbyte website. Third-party cookies are placed on your device, not by the website you are visiting, but by a third party, like an advertiser or an analytic system.
These cookies can be Session cookies, which are temporary and expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends), or persistent cookies, which include cookies that remain on your hard drive until you erase them or your browser does, depending on the cookie’s expiration date.
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. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Shieldbyte services or Websites you visit.
Strictly necessary Cookies
Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for Shieldbyte Website to operate, also known as “strictly necessary” cookies. These cookies are essential for browsing the Shieldbyte website and using its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
Preferences Cookies
Also known as “functionality cookies,” these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, what region you would like weather reports for, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help us to personalize Your browsing experience. Unlike necessary cookies, these cookies support additional functionality that enhances the website’s user experience. These cookies are anonymous and don’t track browsing activity across other websites.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organizations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and are almost always of third-party provenance.
GDPR Rights
The general data protection regulation is a European Union regulation on data protection and privacy for countries included in the European Union and European Economic Areas (EEA). If you are a data subject from the above-mentioned countries, you are entitled to the following rights with regard to your personal data:
Right to access
You have the right to request that we provide you with copies of your personal data, which we hold on record. In certain circumstances, to the extent permitted by law, we may charge you a fee for this service.
Right to rectification
You have the right to request rectification for any information that we have on record that you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete any information we have on record that you believe is incomplete.
Right to erasure
In accordance with particular circumstances, you have the right to request that we erase your personal data. The right to erasure is subject to several limitations. The general exemption includes the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims for the right to freedom of expression and information to comply with legal requirements.
Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to restrict how your personal data is processed under certain conditions; however, we may continue to maintain your personal information when processing has been restricted, to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; to safeguard the rights of another natural or legal person; or for the purposes of important public interest.
Right to Data Portability
Pursuant to certain conditions, you have the right to request that we directly transmit your personal data that we have collected to another organization, if this is technically possible, or directly to you. You also have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, generally accepted, and machine-readable format.
Right to Object
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data. In response to your objection, we will no longer process the information unless we can show compelling, legitimate grounds that outweigh your interest, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the exercising of legal claims.
Right against Automated Decision-making
Pursuant to certain conditions, you have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing. Processing is automated, where it is carried out without human intervention, and where it produces legal affects or significantly affects you.
CCPA Rights
The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is the privacy legislation that protects and aims to safeguard the personal information of California residents. As a Californian resident, you are entitled to the following rights with regard to your personal data:
Right to opt-out
You have the right to opt-out, where an organization is selling your information to third parties. We do not sell your information to third parties as of now. We shall update this policy if there are any altercations to this practice.
Right to know
You have the right to know about the personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared. This policy provides the required information.
Right to Delete
Pursuant to certain exceptions, you may request that businesses delete personal information they collected from you and tell their service providers to do the same.
Right to Non-discrimination
Pursuant to certain exceptions, you have a right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights. Businesses cannot deny goods or services, charge you a different price, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services just because you exercised your rights under the CCPA.
If you want to exercise any of these rights mentioned above or have a query regarding the same, kindly contact us at info@shieldbyteinfosec.com. We try to acknowledge and respond to subject access requests within 30 days of such request according to GDPR and 45 days according to CCPA. Upon request by the data subject to exercise any of the above-mentioned rights, our data privacy team shall resolve/fulfill the request to its capacity accordingly.
We may have some cases where we may refuse to comply with your request. We will inform you of the reasons for the refusal. We will not be able to perform the agreement with you if we no longer have the personal information with us.
