Privacy Policy

At dswcc.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website. We adhere to stringent data protection principles and comply with applicable regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

  • Personal Information: This includes information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and any other information you voluntarily provide to us when you subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form, or contact us.
  • Usage Data: We automatically collect information about your interaction with our website. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits.
  • Log Files: Like many other websites, dswcc.com uses log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
  • Cookies: We use cookies to store information, such as visitors’ preferences and record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits. Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device to remember your preferences and improve your browsing experience. You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device for a set period).
  • Web Beacons: We may also employ web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, or single-pixel gifs) to help us analyze our website traffic patterns and measure the effectiveness of our content or email campaigns. These small graphic images are placed on web pages or in emails and are used to track user behavior.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on dswcc.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to dswcc.com and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Amazon Associates Program

dswcc.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As part of this program, we may include affiliate links on our website. When you click on these links and make a purchase on Amazon, we may earn a commission. Amazon uses cookies to track your browsing activity and purchase history to attribute sales to our website. This data is used to optimize the program and provide reporting on its effectiveness. Please review Amazon’s privacy policy for further information on how they use your data: Amazon Privacy Notice

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of dswcc.com.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on dswcc.com, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that dswcc.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

dswcc.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, California residents have specific rights regarding their personal information. These rights include:

  • The Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of the information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
  • The Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  • The Right to Opt-Out of Sale: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. dswcc.com does not sell your personal information. However, in compliance with the CCPA, we provide you the option to opt-out of any future sale, should our business practices change. To exercise this right, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
  • The Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

To exercise your CCPA rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us through the channels provided at the end of this policy. We will respond to your request within 45 days.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the GDPR. These rights include:

  • The Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data and receive a copy of the information we hold about you.
  • The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
  • The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., if we have a legal obligation to retain it).
  • The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
  • The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
  • The Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, particularly for direct marketing purposes.
  • The Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise your GDPR rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We will respond to your request within one month.

Children’s Information

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. dswcc.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers promptly.

We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their children’s online activity.