Privacy Policy

This website and other related websites and mobile applications (collectively referred to as the "Sites") comprise various web pages and services operated by PowerBASIC Tools, LLC ("PowerBASIC", "we", "us" or "our").

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information as described in this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). We use the information we collect about you through your use of the Sites and that you provide to us to process orders and to provide a more personalized experience. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect on the PowerBASIC Sites and through email, text or other electronic communications between you and the Sites. It does not apply to information collected by us offline or by other means, including by any other website operated by our parent company, Drake Enterprises, Ltd., any of our affiliates and subsidiaries, or any other third party, including any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on the Sites.

This Privacy Policy will inform you on our privacy practices with respect to personal data collected when you visit our Sites and tell you about your privacy rights.

Our Sites are not targeted at children of any age, and we do not collect personal data from individuals under age 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from an individual under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that data.

What information do we collect?

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and disclose non-personal, aggregated data for any purpose. If aggregated data can be combined with or connected to your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat that combined data as personal data that will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

How is your information collected? How do we use it?

We collect information when you provide it to us directly. We use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it and only as the law allows us to. Most commonly, we collect your data to provide you services and software products through our Sites. For example, when you place an order through our online store, we will need to know basic identification and payment method information - name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card number/expiration, etc. This information allows us to fulfill our contract with you, process your order and notify you of your order status. When you opt-in and sign up for the Electronic Gazette and new product notices, we need only an email address, which we use to send the information you requested.

We also collect information using automated technologies when you interact with our Sites. We personalize your shopping experience by using your purchases to shape our recommendations about the books, add-ons, and other merchandise that might be of interest to you. As you browse and interact with our Sites, we automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We monitor customer traffic patterns and website usage to help us develop the design and layout of the Sites. We may also use the information we collect to occasionally notify you about important functionality changes to the Sites, new PowerBASIC services, and special offers we think you'll find valuable.

What are the legal bases for our collection of your information?

We collect your data to provide our services to you and to fulfill any contract we enter into with you, such as the sale of our products or services.

Also, we collect your data out of a legitimate business interest to the extent that our business interest is not overridden by your applicable rights or interests.

In addition, we collect your data with your express consent. By clicking the "I Accept" button when first using our Sites, setting up an account with us, and/or purchasing any of our products or services, you are expressly and freely consenting to allow PowerBASIC to collect and process your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at support@powerbasic.com. However, if we still have the need to collect and/or process your data due to an existing contract with us or out of another legitimate and overriding business interest, we will continue to process your data to the limited extent allowed by applicable law.

We have set out in the table below, a description of the ways we may use your personal data, and which legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal grounds we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity	Type of data	Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer	(a) Identity (b) Contact	Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications	(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Providing you notice of updates to our products/services (c) Asking you to leave a review	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications	(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
To enable you to participate in a prize drawing, competition or complete a survey	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications	(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical	(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our Sites, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences	(a) Technical (b) Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our Sites updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile (f) Marketing and Communications	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

Purpose/Activity

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

To register you as a new customer

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with you

To process and deliver your order including:

(a) Manage payments, fees and charges

(b) Collect and recover money owed to us

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Transaction

(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)

To manage our relationship with you which will include:

(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy

(b) Providing you notice of updates to our products/services

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

To enable you to participate in a prize drawing, competition or complete a survey

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)

To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise)

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

To use data analytics to improve our Sites, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

(a) Technical

(b) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our Sites updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Profile

(f) Marketing and Communications

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

Will PowerBASIC disclose the information it collects to outside parties?

PowerBASIC does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may offer advertising space to third parties on our Sites, but no personal information is shared with any third party without your consent. If you do not choose to contact third party advertisers, they will not have any information about you. We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing messages from PowerBASIC at any time by contacting us.

We may disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy, consistent with the purposes set out in the table above:

To our parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates;
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
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 our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by use about our Sites is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures;
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or
With your consent.

In addition, we may also disclose your personal data:

To comply with any valid subpoena, court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; or
To enforce or apply our terms of use or license agreement and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes. If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of PowerBASIC, our customers, or others.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers, including our affiliates, to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

What about "cookies"?

"Cookies" are small files of information that are stored by your browser on your computer. When you first visit our Site, you will receive a notice informing you that cookies are used by PowerBASIC in providing the Sites and services. By clicking OK and continuing to browse the Sites, you signify that you understand and agree to our use of cookies.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser to refuse or restrict cookies, and you may delete cookies after they have been placed on your computer or device at any time. If you refuse or restrict cookies on your browser, some parts of the Sites may not function properly.

Data Transfers and Processing

PowerBASIC is headquartered in Franklin, North Carolina in the United States. Our Sites are hosted and administrated in the United States or hosted with cloud service providers who are headquartered in the United States. If you are located in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), or anywhere outside of the United States, be aware that information you provide to us or that we obtain as a result of your use of our Sites and services will be processed in, transferred to, and stored in the United States. The privacy and data protection laws of the United States may be different from the laws of your country of residence and may not protect your personal data to the same level as laws of the EEA or give you the same rights that you have in the EEA. Transfer of your data from PowerBASIC to its parent company, affiliates or subsidiaries will be done in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These data transfers are necessary to provide our services and to globally operate and provide our services and products to you. By clicking the "I Accept" button when setting up an account and/or purchasing any of our goods or services, you also provide your consent to these data transfers.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Sites. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Sites.

How long will you use my personal data for?

We only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation with respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy, which you can request from us by contacting us at support@powerbasic.com.

In some circumstances we will anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your Consent

By using our Sites and clicking "Accept" on the initial cookies notification you receive, you consent to the collection and use of your information by PowerBASIC consistent with this Privacy Policy. In the process of creating an account and/or purchasing any of PowerBASIC's products or services, you will be given an opportunity to accept or reject additional collection and processing of your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Some collection or processing of your data is necessary for us to enter into a contract with you, and or for other legitimate business interests. In order to receive email reminders and other marketing communications from PowerBASIC unrelated to your orders, you must opt-in to receive communications from us. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing communications at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us. Where you opt-out of marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of products purchased by you through our Sites or other transactions. If you choose to opt-out of receiving marketing communications, we will not send you messages about new products and services.

Your Legal Rights

Based on your country of residence or if you are located in the EEA, you may have rights under certain data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access to your personal data, request a correction to your personal data, request erasure of your personal data, object to processing your personal data, including to object to direct marketing, request restriction of processing your personal data, request the transfer of your personal data and the right to withdraw consent related to use of your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at support@powerbasic.com. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This security measure ensures that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may contact you to ask you for additional information related to your request to assist our response. We try to respond to all legitimate requests as soon as possible and in any event within one month. Occasionally, it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made multiple requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. Additionally, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Links to Third Party Websites

The Sites may contain links to other websites, plug-ins and applications ("Linked Sites"). Clicking on Linked Sites may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. PowerBASIC does not control these Linked Sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any Linked Sites. When you leave the Sites, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of each website you visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy and Correcting Your Information

We regularly review our Privacy Policy terms and conditions and may update this Privacy Policy by notifying you of any material changes through our Sites or through the contact information you provide to us. You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of information you provide to us, such as your contact and billing information. Please notify us of any changes to your information by emailing support@powerbasic.com.

Accessibility

We are committed to making our Privacy Policy accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you use assistive technology (such as a Braille reader, a screen reader, text-enlargement programs, etc.) and the format of the Privacy Policy interferes with your ability to access any information in the Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@powerbasic.com. Please indicate the nature of your accessibility problem, the preferred format you would like to receive the Privacy Policy, and your contact information so that we may respond in a manner that is helpful for you.

Questions about this Privacy Policy

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

support@powerbasic.com

PowerBASIC
235 East Palmer St.
Franklin, NC 28734