This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for SIREWALL (www.sirewall.com). It’s important to us that we maintain the highest standards in protecting your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.
This website uses input forms to gather information consensually submitted to us by website visitors. For example, on some forms we ask for information about a person’s geographic location which helps with the logistics of arranging a time meet, or which of our regional support personnel should respond. Our website uses secure SSL technology which protects information being sent to our secure servers. All data submitted to us is stored in a secure database. We only store and use this information to help serve our visitors and customers better and we never use any of it for marketing purposes.
For purposes of spam prevention, we use a plugin called ‘Akismet’ that collects information about visitors who comment on pages. This data typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). None of these data are used for any other purpose than spam prevention.
Learn more about Akismet’s own privacy policy: https://akismet.com/privacy/
Several of our website forms allow visitors to request a subscription to our general email list, a service managed by a third-party provider called Mailchimp. We always require ‘double opt-in’ so users can confirm consent to have their email, first and last name added to our distribution (mailing) list. Additionally all of our email publications include links for either unsubscribing or updating subscription preferences.
You may be interested to read Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy pertaining to contacts who subscribe to distribution lists under their service. Check it out here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/#3._Privacy_for_Contacts
Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files that are stored on your computer or other device when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to “remember” you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. 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”).
Both websites and HTML emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, web beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.
We use a service called ‘Google Analytics’ to anonymously track visitors on our website. ‘Google Analytics’ tracks detailed, but anonymous information about the browsing behaviour of visitors to our website. This includes but is not limited to page views, time on pages, and also geographic data and some information about the device used, outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms. None of the information can be used to personally identify the actual user.
This website also uses software to track the browsing history of, and certain actions taken by, visitors on this website. If a visitor takes a particular action, such as submitting certain forms, the personally identifiable data submitted on that form is combined with that user’s browsing history to establish a basic ‘lead’ profile. From time to time we may use this information to help us make decisions on how we may better serve the needs and interests of that visitor. We treat this information with a high level of confidentiality, in order to protect the identity and privacy of our website visitors, and we never share it with third parties.
The Facebook pixel is an analytics tool we use on this website that allows us to measure the effectiveness of our paid Facebook and Instagram content by understanding the actions people take on our website.
This includes making sure our paid social media content is served to audiences interested in our offerings; finding new people with related interests, or people who have visited a specific page or taken a certain action on our website.
This also allows us to measure the results of our paid content and better understand the impact of this content by measuring what happens when people see it.
The pixel will ‘fire’ when someone takes an action on a website. On our website, these actions consist of viewing specific pages, for example, our ‘Inspiration Kit Download’ page. The pixel receives these actions, or events, and tracks them on our Facebook Ads account Events Manager. From there, we’ll be able to see, in aggregate, the actions that visitors are taking. This then allows us to better reach Facebook users most likely to be interested in information and or services we have to offer.
If you have a Facebook account, we encourage to also read Facebook’s Cookie policy to understand how they obtain and use the browsing data they collect about you. Additionally, you will learn how you may change the settings to better suit your preferences for how your own browsing data gets used.
https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Also, you can control your Facebook privacy settings from here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen
Backups of this website’s files and/or database are created and stored locally on our server and/or remotely on 3rd party servers based on the settings of the software. Archives can include, but are not limited to, file and database assets, including hashed passwords, 3rd party data, uploads and user information. These backups are stored to provide critical functionality of this software and website.
Backup retention is typically 6 month, but we reserve the right to retain backups indefinitely.
Backups are not sent to remote destinations automatically, however backups can be configured to be sent to third-party servers.
Backup zip files are stored with hashed file names to prevent filename guessing and directory browsing is disabled.
Backups are sometimes sent to and/or retrieved from third-party destination servers, including:
Links to third party privacy policies have been included.
Pages 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 into that website.
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
For uniform representation of fonts, this website uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
We do not share personally identifiable information about our website visitor or clients, or what they may have purchase, with third parties. We do not share or rent our email address lists. We do not rent, sell, or give away our customer list to anyone, ever. Your customer information or email address will be used only by SIREWALL and only with your permission. If you would like not to receive emails from us, you can unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link on the email you’ve received or by emailing us at [email protected] with “Please Remove” in the subject line. Your name will be removed from our email newsletter list with 48 hours.
If you have submitted data to us via any of the forms on this website, you can 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. For example, you may request us to delete all personally identifiable information we have acquired, but we would not be obliged to delete any other non-identifiable analytics data which we use only to make improvements to the design and ease of access of this website.
The administrators of this website use best-in-class practices to ensure our website is as safe as possible from unauthorized access.
In the event of a data breach, all affected data subjects will be immediately notified of the event and a follow-up process will be launched to determine the cause and extent of the exposure.
Affected data subjects will also be notified of the result of the subsequent investigation upon its completion.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about your rights to be forgotten, please contact us.