Your privacy is our highest priority

Data I/O Corporation respects your privacy. We do not sell, rent, loan or transfer any personal information regarding our customers to any unrelated third parties. Any information you give us about yourself is held with the utmost care and security and will not be used in ways to which you have not consented.

Therefore, your personal data will be treated confidentially and in accordance with the law and this declaration.

1. Principles of our Privacy Policy

The provisions below serve to provide information as to the manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing personal information. This data privacy statement applies only to the pages of our website https://www.dataio.com. If links on our sites direct you to third-party-internet sites, please inform yourself there about the respective handling of your data.

Information collected on our website is collected and used by Data I/O Corporation and no others. Data I/O will not collect any personal information about anyone except when specifically and knowingly provided by him or her.

2. Personal Information

Information is considered personal if it can be associated exclusively to a specific natural person, e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address. Basically, you can also use our website without revealing any personal information about yourself. We store personal information only if you provide it voluntarily while getting in touch with us. None of your personal data is transferred to third parties.

3. Anonymized Data

For technical reasons, data is collected, which your internet browser transmits to us or to our Web space provider. Among this data is the following: type and version of the browser you are using, operating system, referrer URL, or the date and time of your visit. The hosting provider of our website automatically collects and stores this information in so-called server log files, which are transmitted automatically by each browser. This data is not considered personal data because it is anonymized. It is evaluated for statistical purposes only. However, we reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of any concrete indications of unlawful use.

4. Processing of personal data when you get in touch with us

When you get in touch with us by phone, e-mail or a contact form, the information you provide will be stored by us based on point a of Article 6 (1) GDPR to answer your questions and to process your request. We record our getting in contact in order to be able to prove it happened complying with legal requirements. The personal data communicated are deleted when the respective conversation is finished; the situation has been settled and if archiving your data is not necessary for legally indispensable reasons.

5. Other processing purposes and lawful bases for processing your personal data

Data I/O uses collected information for three main purposes.

• First, we collect information to improve our site by seeing which areas, features and products are most popular.
   
• Second, we collect information in order to personalize the site for our customers. For example, in the future, we may recommend products or features you may like based on what you have liked in the past.
   
• Last, we collect information to enable customers to conduct transactions on our website and to participate in sweepstakes, contests and other activities. If we want to collect information for other purposes, we will inform you when we collect the information.
   
• On occasion, Data I/O may also share nonpersonal, summary information regarding our customers with unrelated third parties (for example, we publicly disclose the aggregate number of registered users of our website). However, Data I/O does not share any personal information about any particular customer with unrelated third parties. 
   
• We also utilize the information gathered from you to provide you with additional proactive customer support. For example, if you have difficulty searching for articles in our Knowledge Base or other support areas, we may use the information provided to contact you regarding any of these problems and offer further assistance.

The processing of your personal data is based on the following legal principles:- point a of Article 6 (1) GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which your consent has been obtained.- point c of Article 6 (1) GDPR applies as far as Data I/O needs to process your personal data to fulfill its legal obligations.- point d of Article 6 (1) GDPR serves as a legal basis if the processing of your personal data is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.- point f of Article 6 (1) GDPR is used for the protection of our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party commissioned by us.

6. Data Security

The data is encrypted when you visit our websites over the Internet. In order to ensure sufficient data security during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption methods (SSL). A secure connection is indicated by the "https" prefix in front of our domain name, which is displayed in the address bar of your browser.

We implement technical and organizational measures to secure our website and other systems against loss, destruction, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure of your data to unauthorized persons.

Please be aware that complete data security cannot be guaranteed when communicating by e-mail. Therefore, it is always recommended to use the postal services, especially for correspondence with sensitive or important content.

7. Use of Cookies

We would like to make your usage of our website as pleasant and effective as possible and for this purpose we use cookies within the framework of point f of Article 6 (1) GDPR.

Cookies are small files that allow us to store specific device-related information on your device (PC/Mac, tablet, smartphone etc.). Thus, we obtain certain information about your computer and your connection to the Internet, including IP address, browser used, operating system, etc.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called session cookies. After you have left the site or after the session has ended, these cookies will be deleted automatically. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website and to offer you our support.

As a user, you can influence the use of cookies. Most browsers have a feature that allows you to restrict or completely prevent the storage of cookies and to enable the automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. Additionally, you can disable cookies separately by setting an opt-out cookie. Please note that disabling must be done for each of your browsers separately. You should be aware, however, that the usability and particularly the comfort of our websites without cookies may be limited and that some features of our website will not work.

8. Embedded Third Party Content

Some of the pages of our website include third-party content, such as directions sketches from Google Maps or videos from YouTube. This content always requires that its providers (third party providers) can detect your IP address while you visit our pages or the linked up third party content. Without IP-address, the contents in question cannot be sent to the browser of the respective user. The IP address is therefore a prerequisite for the presentation of this content.

We strive to make use only of such third party content whose provider uses the IP address solely to link up to his content. Unfortunately, we have no influence on whether a third party stores the IP addresses e.g. for statistical purposes. Once we become aware of such policy, we will inform you about it.

Please note that if you use this content, your data may be transmitted to the United States of America. There is an adequacy decision by the European Commission for data transfers to the U.S.A.

You have the option to prevent the processing of your personal data. For this you need to disable JavaScript. We would like to point out that in this case you will not be able to use all features of this website.

9. Google Analytics

On our website we use the web analytics service Google Analytics (Provider: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.A). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Web pages is transmitted to Google's servers in the United States and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on our website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be sent to the Google servers in the U.S.A and truncated there.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the operator of this website. The IP address provided as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data held by Google.

The lawful basis for the use of Google Analytics is the consent obtained from you according to point a of Article 6 (1) page 1 GDPR. The personal data is transmitted within the framework of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield in compliance with the adequacy decision by the European Commission for data transfers to the U.S.A. Information as to the self-certification process of the privacy shield can be found here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant.The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs or advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 14 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached is done automatically once a month.

You may revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future: just prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the features of our website.

In addition, you may prevent the cookie to transfer the data it generated as to your use of our Internet pages (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

This will set an opt-out cookie preventing your data from being collected on future visits to our Web pages. The opt-out cookie will work as long as it remains on your computer. In order to prevent Universal Analytics, Google’s next-generation web analytics tool, to collect data from across different devices, you have to opt-out on all platforms and devices you have in use.

For more information about Google's data usage, as well as browser settings and opt-out options, please visit Google's website: "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps" (http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners), "Advertising" (http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads), "Control the information Google uses to show you ads" (https://adssettings.google.com).

10. Your rights

In accordance with Articles 15 to 20 GDPR you have the following rights in relation to the collection of your data:

a) Right to obtain information

You have the right to obtain information about the personal data stored about you.

b) Right to rectification

You have the right to request immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data and / or completion of incomplete personal data concerning you.

c) Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to demand the restriction of processing of your personal data, as far as the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you, or as far as the processing is unlawful. As an alternative to erasure you may demand from us to restrict the use of your personal data, as far as you need this data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. You may further demand the restriction or omittance of the erasure if you have objected to the processing of your data pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR pending the verification whether our legitimate interests in data use and/ or processing override those of you.

d) Right to erasure

You have the right to obtain the erasure of personal data that we have stored about you unless processing is necessary for exercising the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

e) Right to notification

If you have asserted your right to rectify, erase or limit processing, we will notify all recipients to whom your personal data have been disclosed of such rectification or erasure or restriction of processing of the data unless this proves to be impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort.

f) Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. The same applies if you demand that your data is to be transmitted to a third party. If you require the data being directly transmitted to another controller, this will only be done where technically feasible.

g) Right to object

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with point f of Article 6(1) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing at any time in accordance with Article 21 of the GDPR.

h) Right to revoke previously given consent

You have the right to revoke your consent to the collection of data at any time with effect for the future. The data collected until the legal validity of the revocation remains unaffected. Please understand that for technical reasons the implementation of your revocation may take a little time during which you may still receive messages from us.

i) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

In accordance with Article 77 of the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law or is otherwise unlawful.

11. Who to contact

If you have additional questions or comments of any kind, or if you see anything on our website that you think is inappropriate, please let us know or e-mail us at:  [email protected]

Data I/O Web Safety & Privacy
6645 185th Avenue NE, Suite 100
Redmond, WA 98052
(800) 3-DATAIO