This Privacy Statement explains how www.lincplustech.com (the "Site" or "we") collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit the Site or make a purchase.

Information Security

To secure your personal information, we take reasonable steps and follow best practices in the industry to prevent it from being lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, or deleted unlawfully. All communications with our website are encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. All information transmitted between you and our website is protected by SSL encryption technology.

• We shall not gather the personal information of users as our primary objective.
• We use the information we gather to better your experience on our website and with our goods and services.
• We do not rent or sell this information to third parties.
• We will not use your personal information or photographs for advertising without your permission.

Collecting Personal Information 

When you visit the Site, we gather information about your device, your use of the Site, and the information required to process your transactions. Additionally, we may gather extra data if you contact us for customer service. In this Privacy Statement, "Personal Information" refers to any information that may be used to uniquely identify an individual, including the information listed below. See the list below for details on the Personal Information we gather and why we collect it.

Device information

• Examples of Personal Information gathered include web browser version, IP address, time zone, cookie information, the sites or items you visit, search keywords, and how you interact with the website.
• The purpose of collecting this information is to load the site correctly for you and to do analytics on site usage in order to improve the site.
• Origin of the collection: Automatically collected when you visit our website via cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
• Disclosure for business purposes: shared with Shopify as our processor.

Order information

• Name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number are examples of Personal Information collected.
• To provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, to communicate with you, to screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and, based on the preferences you have shared with us, to send you information or advertisements relating to our products or services.
• You are the collector's source of information.
• Disclosure for business purposes: shared with Shopify as our processor.

Customer support information

• Examples of gathered Personal Information include ages, localities, languages, genders, and email addresses.
• With your consent, we may also send you emails about our shop, new goods, and other relevant information.
• You are the collector's source of information.
• Disclosure for business purposes: We may share your personal information if compelled by law or if you breach our Terms of Service.

Minors

The Site is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age. We do not gather Personal Information on purpose from children. If you are the parent or guardian of a minor who you feel has supplied us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address shown below to request deletion.

Sharing Personal Information

As indicated above, we share your Personal Information with service partners that assist us in providing our services and fulfilling our contracts with you. For instance:

• We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
• We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
• We may use Google Tag Manager to track and analyze your personal data, you can learn how Google deal with your personal data here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
  
  

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, with your consent, we will use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

• We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

• FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
• GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Using Personal Information

We use your personal information to provide our services to you with your permission, which include: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

Lawful basis

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area ("EEA"), we process your personal information pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") as follows:

• Your consent;
• The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
• Compliance with our legal obligations;
• To protect your vital interests;
• To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
• For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
  
  

Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights' section below.

Automatic decision-making

• If you are an EEA resident, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling) if the decision-making has a legal impact on you or significantly affects you in another way.
• We DO NOT participate in completely automated, legally or otherwise consequential decision-making utilizing customer data.
• Our processor Shopify utilizes limited automated decision-making to avoid fraud that does not significantly affect you legally or otherwise.
• The following services incorporate components of automated decision-making:
• Temporary list of IP addresses related with recurrent transaction failures. This denylist remains active for a few hours.
• Temporary denial list for credit cards connected with IP addresses on the denial list. This denylist is valid for a brief period of time.
  
  

Your rights

GDPR

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information at the bottom.

Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.

CCPA

You have the right to view the Personal Information we maintain on you (also known as the "Right to Know"), to transfer it to a different service, and to request that it be rectified, updated, or deleted if you are a California resident. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

If you wish to appoint a representative to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address shown below.

Cookies

Whether a cookie is "permanent" or "session" determines how long it will remain on your computer or mobile device. Persistent cookies stay until they expire or are erased, while session cookies expire when the browser is closed. The majority of the cookies we employ are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years after being downloaded into your device.

Cookies may be managed and controlled in numerous ways. Please bear in mind that deleting or disabling cookies may impair your user experience and render certain portions of our website inaccessible.

You may select whether or not to accept cookies using your browser's settings, which are often located in the "Tools" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. In your browser's help file, you may learn how to adjust your browser's settings or how to prevent, manage, or filter cookies.

In addition, please be aware that disabling cookies may not prevent us from sharing information with third parties, such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of some uses of your information by these parties, please refer to the "Behaviorally Targeted Advertising" section.

Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store

Reporting and Analytics

Whether a cookie is "permanent" or "session" determines how long it will remain on your computer or mobile device. Persistent cookies stay until they expire or are erased, while session cookies expire when the browser is closed. The majority of the cookies we employ are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years after being downloaded into your device.

Cookies may be managed and controlled in numerous ways. Please bear in mind that deleting or disabling cookies may impair your user experience and render certain portions of our website inaccessible.

You may select whether or not to accept cookies using your browser's settings, which are often located in the "Tools" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. In your browser's help file, you may learn how to adjust your browser's settings or how to prevent, manage, or filter cookies.

In addition, please be aware that disabling cookies may not prevent us from sharing information with third parties, such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of some uses of your information by these parties, please refer to the "Behaviorally Targeted Advertising" section.

Do Not Track

Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

Consent

How do you obtain my consent?
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for delivery, or return an item, we assume that you consent to our collecting and using that information only for that purpose.
If we ask you to provide personal information for a secondary purpose, such as marketing, we will either ask for your explicit consent directly or give you the opportunity to decline.

How can I withdraw my consent?
If, after opting in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you or to continue collecting, using or disclosing your information at any time by contacting us at support@lincplustech.com.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Contact

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at support@lincplustech.com or by mail using the details provided below:

TECHVISION INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED慧為智能科技(香港)有限公司, 803, 8/F, Yue Xiu Building, 160-174 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.


Last updated: [14/11/2022]

If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: https://www.lincplustech.com/.