Privacy Policy

Defibtech LLC Privacy Policy

Hello and welcome to Defibtech’s (“our,” “we,” or “us”) website (our “Website”). We appreciate you visiting our Website and want you to know that Defibtech respects our user’s privacy. Defibtech is committed to this privacy and will handle your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy (“Policy”).

This Policy will help you understand how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, www.defibtech.com, including all pages within the website. This Policy applies to information that is collected on, or via, our Website. Please read this Policy carefully. By accessing, browsing, or using this Website, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, storage, and processing of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as required by applicable law. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use the Website.

Introduction

This Policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including websites, applications, and advertisements, which may link to or be accessible from our Website. At some point during your use of our Website you may be redirected to a website entitled Nihon Kohden University (https://nkuniversity.org). This Policy does not apply to Nihon Kohden University. Defibtech is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of that or other third party websites. You should take time to inform yourself of the privacy policies of these other websites or applications before using them.

This Policy does not apply to information collected via Defibtech’s products and software.

This Policy does not apply to an employee’s, a job applicant’s, or a similar individual’s personal information collected during employment-related processes. There is a separate employment-related privacy policy for handling this information that will be made available for those to whom it is applicable.

Where noted, this Policy does not apply to information relating to business-to-business communications (“B2B personal information”), for example, where a person is contacting us in their role as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company.

Children Under the Age of 16. Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under the age of 16, do not use our Website or provide any information, including information about yourself, to us without parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under the age of 16 without parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we have any information from a child under the age of 16, please contact us (see Help below).

Users Outside the United States. Please note, this Website is hosted in the United States and your information will be processed in, and treated in accordance with the laws of, the United States. The United States’ data protection laws and regulations that apply to your personal data may differ from the laws in your country of residence. By using the Website, you agree that any personal information that you provide will be treated in accordance with the laws of the United States.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect information about you in a variety of ways. Below are the two primary ways we may collect information about you. Some of this information may be personal information that could be used to identify you. Note that personal information does not include any publicly available information found within government records or deidentified or aggregated information.

Information you provide to us voluntarily. When you visit our Website you can typically do so without providing any information other than the information that is collected automatically. However, there are a variety of situations when we may need you to provide us with information about yourself. For example, if you contact us about our services, when you request information from us, when you provide contact information in your role for an outside employer, if you engage with the Website for use of our services, etc. When you contact us, we may also maintain records of the correspondence, including your name, address, or email address. The personal information collected may include:

• Contact information, such as name, address, email, telephone number, fax number, organization name, and/or job title
• Financial information, such as data related to your payment method that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Website.
• Sensitive personal information, such as health information or reports of an individual end-customer, i.e. concerning product claims and investigations, or patient outcomes for research and statistical purposes

You are not under any obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind. However, if you choose not to provide us with personal information, then certain features of our Websites or services may not be available to you.

Information we collect automatically. In addition to the information you provide us voluntarily, we may use data collection technologies that collect certain information about you as you interact with our Website. We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time. This information may help us to improve our Website’s functioning and services and allow us to deliver a more personalized experience when you visit our Website. Information collected automatically may include:

• The browser and operating system that you are using
• The unique internet protocol (IP) address or other unique identifiers for any computer, mobile phone, or device used to access the Website
• The search terms used that lead you to the Website, the length of your visit, the actions you take while on the Website, and language preferences

Cookies and How You Can Control Them. Cookies are small pieces of data stored locally by your web browser on your device that allow us to serve you faster and with better quality. Cookies allow us to recognize your equipment or device, record a user’s browsing actions and patterns including details of your visits to our Website, and collect information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address or device identifier, operating system, and browser type.

Most browsers accept cookies by default, but you may be able to adjust your browser settings to reject or remove them. However, if you select this setting, this may prevent this Website, other websites, and their services from working properly. Additionally, be aware that turning off cookies may invalidate your selection to opt out of certain services that use cookies to identify those who have opted out.

How Do We Use This Information

Defibtech may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for the following purposes to:

• Present our Website and its content to you.
• Monitor and analyze Website usage and trends to improve your experience and with the Website.
• Provide you with information, products, courses, course materials, or services that you request from us.
• To remember and restore your preferences when you return to the Website
• Understand, through the use of cookies, how our Website is being used, to measure its efficiencies, and to improve how it operates
• Contact you about product or customer service requests
• Notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products or services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
• Identify, prevent, or take any other action with regard to fraudulent or illegal activity or any activity that violates our policies.
• Respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• Evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it or for which you consent.

If you are submitting information on behalf of a third party (for example, registering a fellow employee for a webinar or conference), Defibtech expects that you have received appropriate consent, according to applicable privacy laws, before transferring any personal information to Defibtech.

Data Analytics. We may also use the third-party web analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to optimize our Website and how we serve our advertisements across the Internet. These services help us understand and analyze how user’s arrive at and engage with the Website, including such activities as, but not limited to: which advertisement you clicked on to arrive at our Website and what pages of our Website are accessed, how often, and for how long. These services can be blocked by rejecting or removing the cookies associated with them. If you would like assistance in managing these services please contact us (see Help below).

Information We Share

We may disclose aggregated information about users without restriction.

Defibtech may share your personal information with other parties in the following instances:

• With Our Third-Party Service Providers. Defibtech may share your information with our service providers who help us run our business and provide services on our behalf (for example, credit card processing services, managing our application process, providing marketing and analytical services, or building and providing our Applications). When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the service provider to keep the personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except for performing the business purpose set forth in the contract.
• For Corporate Transactions. Defibtech may also disclose your information to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Defibtech’s assets, where personal information held by Defibtech about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• Other Reasons. To: (a) satisfy applicable law, regulations, legal process or valid governmental request; (b) enforce the terms of use applicable to our services, (c) detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of our company, our customers or the public as required or permitted by law.

In the past twelve months Defibtech has not sold any user’s personal information.

Security

Defibtech respects your personal information and we take administrative, technical, and physical steps to protect it from loss, misuse, or alteration. Where appropriate, these steps can include technical measures like firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and encryption. We also train staff on data processing obligations and confidentiality, identification of data incidents and risks, restricting staff access to your personal information, and ensuring physical security including appropriately securing information when not being used. Please note that, despite this, we cannot warrant or guarantee that any information transmitted over the Internet or stored electronically is 100% secure. When you use our Website and provide us with any of your information, you do so at your own risk.

Updates to this Privacy Notice

Defibtech reserves the right to update this Policy from time to time, without notice, at our discretion. The date that the Policy was last revised is and will be identified at the top of this page. Please return to this page to review the most recent revision of this Policy. You are responsible for periodically visiting this page to check for any changes to the Policy. However, we will also seek your consent to any material changes that may affect the use of your information when required by applicable laws. Be aware that your continued use of the Website following any changes to this Policy constitutes acceptance of such changes.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law provides you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, please refer to the information below.

Help

If you need help or have questions regarding this Policy and our practices, please call 203-453-6654, email us at sales@defibtech.com, or you can contact us by regular mail addressed to:

Defibtech LLC
741 Boston Post Rd.
Suite 101
Guilford, CT 06437

Attn: Legal / Privacy

Privacy Policy for California Residents

Your Rights and Choices

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This policy is to comply with the CCPA and applies solely to users, visitors, and others who are residents of California. This next sections describe those rights and explain how to exercise those rights.

Accessing Your Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that Defibtech disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
• If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, we will identify the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

We do not provide these access and data portability rights for B2B personal information.

Information We Have Collected

As noted in the Policy above, we collect information about you in many ways. Some of this information may include personal information that could be used to identify you.

In the past twelve months we have collected the following categories of information:

1. Identifiers
   1. Real name, alias, address, IP address, email address
2. Select Information in Customer Records
   1. Name, Signature, telephone number, employment, financial info
3. Legally Protected Characteristics
   1. Age, marital status, sex, gender
4. Commercial Purchasing Information
   1. Tendencies
5. Biometric Information
6. Internet or Network Activity
7. Geolocation
8. Information Typically Detected by the Senses
   1. Audio information if they were to call
9. Employment Information
   1. This does not cover B2B interactions – and so I imagine we do not collect this info for those approaching us outside of their role as an employee
10. Education Information
11. Inferences from Above Used to Profile

We do not collect information relating to the following categories of personal information:

• Publicly available information from government records
• De-identified or aggregated consumer information
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
  • Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
  • Personal information covered by certain sector-specific laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994
  • Job applicants, current and former employees and independent contractors
  • Representatives of another business in connection with business communications or transaction

Information We Have Shared

In the past twelve months Defibtech has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

In the past twelve 12 months Defibtech has not sold personal information.

Requesting Deletion of Information

You have the right to request that Defibtech delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Coe § 1546 et seq.).
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We do not provide these deletion rights for B2B personal information.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Calling us at 203-453-6654;
• Emailing us at privacy@nihonkohden.com; or

• Adressing regular mail to the address below:

  Defibtech LLC
  741 Boston Post Rd.
  Suite 101
  Guilford, CT 06437
  Attn: Legal / Privacy

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent, you must provide the authorized agent, who, for California residents, has registered with the Secretary of State to conduct business in California, with written permission, signed by you, to act on your behalf, confirm with Defibtech, after verifying your identify, that you have provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative;
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We will use your email address and may request additional information to verify your identity. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing

We will confirm receipt of your request to know or your request to delete within ten days, which will include information about how we will process the request, our verification process, and when you should expect a response, except in instances where we have already granted or denied the request. We will endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.

For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

“Shine The Light” Law

California law permits users or customers who are California residents to request and obtain details regarding how their personal information is shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes. Additionally, they may obtain the names and addresses of all third parties with which we have shared personal information in the preceding twelve months. Californians may request and obtain this information from us once a year, free of charge. To make a request, please email or mail a letter to the appropriate address below. In your request please ensure to provide sufficient information for us to determine that this law applies to you, attest to the fact that you are a California resident, and provide your current California address to which you wish us to send our response.

Removal of Content Posted by Minors

California residents under the age of eighteen (18) who have registered an account with the Website, and who have posted content or information on the Website, have the right to request that such information be removed from the Website. To do so, contact us, state that you personally posted the content or information and detail where it has been posted. We will then make reasonable good faith efforts to remove the post or information from public view. Please note however, this process cannot ensure complete deletion or removal of your post or information from the internet.

Help

If you need help or have questions regarding this Policy, your choices and rights regarding our practices, please call 203-453-6654, email us at sales@defibtech.com, or address regular mail to us at the address below:

Defibtech LLC
741 Boston Post Rd.
Suite 101
Guilford, CT 06437

Attn: Legal / Privacy