Your privacy is very important to us. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personal information.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related laws, we have a legal duty to protect the personal information we collect from you. GDPR says that ‘personal data’ is any information relating to a living individual who can be identified, either directly or indirectly, from that information. This could include your name, e-mail address, postal address or telephone number, or information collected online and used to identify you.
DDA Services Inc. (“DDA Services”) operates the www.ddacompanies.com website (“website”). It is DDA Services’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
By using or accessing www.ddacompanies.com you have chosen to opt in and agree to our privacy practices outlined here. You may revoke, at any time, your consent and also ask to have your information removed from our databases.
In addition to the information provided automatically by your browser when you visit www.ddacompanies.com to become a subscriber to DDA Services you will need to create a personal profile. You can create a profile by registering with DDA Services and entering your e-mail address, and creating a user name and a password. By registering, you are authorizing us to collect, store and use your e-mail address in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so; for example to provide our services, to communicate with you, or to make our services better.
When you leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form (your name, your e-mail and, optionally, your website address), and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your e-mail address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Our website enables you to post information to be accessed by others through our comments. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data and attempt to contact you off the site. DDA Services cannot be held liable for any offsite communications that result from your posting of personal information on our site. If you do not wish to be contacted offsite by other website visitors, do not give your e-mail address or website address in the content when leaving a comment. Please note: Although you are required to provide your e-mail address in the specified field when entering a comment, your e-mail address will only be available to the Website administrators and will not be publicly visible.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Information submitted through the contact forms on our site includes your name and e-mail, as well as any other personal information you might voluntarily supply. We only use this information to better serve you. The information collected through our contact forms is never used for marketing purposes, and is never shared with third parties. Contact Form stores a record of all form submissions. Your data may be deleted by the site administrator. You may request a report of saved data related to your e-mail address. Uploaded media files may remain on the server.
Cookies are small data files which are sent to your your computer, mobile phone, or other device when websites are loaded in a browser. They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. DDA Services uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of DDA Services’ website, and their website access preferences. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as ‘first party cookies’), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (‘third party cookies’). You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our service though your access to some functionality may be restricted.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. These companies may collect and use information about your visits to this and other websites and your interaction with our products and services in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. However, no personally identifiable information (such as your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) will be connected with such information.
They may use information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for goods and services and may be used to keep track of user response to each advertisement. These targeted advertisements may appear on our Websites or on other sites that you visit. The anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag or cookies, which are industry standard technologies used by most major websites. If you do not want such companies to collect this information you may opt-out.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged-in to that website.
We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like e-mail, name, etc. However, some data is transferred and/or stored with third-party services we use, like cloud-based services. This is done as a way to provide you with a better overall service and user experience.
Here are the services we use to make our own service better for you:
Google Analytics: Google Analytics is used by us to help us analyze how visitors use our site. Data generated by Google Analytics cookies are sent to and stored by Google in their servers. IP addresses are anonymized by Google.
Hosting services: FatCow Founded in 1998 is a provider of shared Web hosting solutions for small to medium-sized businesses and individuals provides our hosting, so the data collected by our website is stored in their servers. More info at https://www.fatcow.com/fatcow.
When you submit a comment, its metadata is retained until (if) you tell us to remove it. We use this data so that we can recognize you and approve your comments.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
We may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through DDA Services. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third party website accessed by selecting a link on our website. To the extent that you access or use another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that site or application. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.
Data protection laws give you rights to request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To protect user data we are entirely using SSL/HTTPS throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so personal identifiable information is never captured by third parties without authorization.
In the event there is a breach and your information is no longer secure, we will inform you of such event within 72 hours of the event at your last known address.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to update, delete, or change any personal information we might hold, please contact us at dwayne@ddaservicesinc.com. We will attempt to resolve any complaints regarding the use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
