Last Updated: May 3, 2022

The domain lifetechshorts.com, including its subdomains, together with all of their features and content and related or commonly-owned or operated websites, is made available by Ts Tech Solutions LLC DBA Life Tech Shorts (“Life Tech Shorts”).

How This Privacy Policy Applies

Your privacy is very important to Life Tech Shorts, and in order to best protect your information, Life Tech Shorts has adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), which applies to any and all information you submit to Life Tech Shorts in connection with your access to and/or use of the Life Tech Shorts Website on SquareSpace (the Website). This Privacy Policy describes the information Life Tech Shorts collects from you through the Website, how Life Tech Shorts uses that information, and its legal basis for doing so. It also covers whether and how that information may be shared and your rights and choices regarding the information you provide to Life Tech Shorts. It also covers whether and how that information may be shared and your rights and choices regarding such information.

By using the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy (including new versions of this Privacy Policy when and as they go into effect), and Life Tech Shorts’s {Terms and Conditions of Use}, which governs this Privacy Policy and contains all disclaimers of warranties and limitation of liabilities, and which constitutes a legally binding agreement between Life Tech Shorts and each individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other entity or party (a “Person”) that visits or uses the Website (collectively, “Users,” and each, a “User”, “you” or “your”). Capitalized words not defined in this Privacy Policy are defined in the {Terms and Conditions of Use}.

What Information Life Tech Shorts Collects and Receives

In order for you to use the Website, Life Tech Shorts needs to collect and process certain information, which depending on how you use the Website, may include:

• Information you provide by using the Website, such as by completing forms, such as your name, email address, mailing address, or telephone number. We may ask for this information if you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us;
• Details of any requests or transactions you make through the Website. Life Tech Shorts may from time to time offer memberships, events or products for sale through the Website and partner with MemberSpace and Stripe to facilitate in the transaction, in which case the payment information you submit will be collected and used by the payment processor in accordance with their respective privacy policies;
• Information that is not personally identifiable but that relates to your usage of the Website or that is necessary for the proper functioning or improvement of the Website, including: (i) times and dates and the extent of your usage of the Website; (ii) time zone, language, screen resolution, and other usage preferences you select when using the Website; (iii) device keyboard settings; (iv) usage history such as areas and pages within the Website that you access or use and/or which buttons on the Website you click on; (v) the search terms you entered into a search engine that may have led you to the Website; (vi) the Internet service provider (ISP) or mobile platform you use, and (vii) other device and Website access information such as your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, referring/exit pages, and other unique device identifiers; and
• Communications you send to Life Tech Shorts, such as when you request support, submit comments or questions, or report a problem to Life Tech Shorts.

You can opt out of being included in Google Analytics at {https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout}. For more information about our use of data analytics to protect and improve our Website, see Cookies and How We Utilize Them below.

Life Tech Shorts also collects and maintain aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized information to protect the safety and security of the Website, improve the Website, or comply with its legal obligations.

You may decline to provide Life Tech Shorts with some or all of your information. However, this will limit your ability to use the Website.

Types of Cookies Life Tech Shorts Utilizes

Life Tech Shorts uses the following types of cookies and other technologies:

• Security: Life Tech Shorts secures the Website with cookies that facilitate security features and allow Life Tech Shorts to detect activity that might violate the {Terms and Conditions of Use}, such as unauthorized access or activity.
• Site Features and Services: Certain cookies provide greater functionality to the Website and help Life Tech Shorts deliver our products and services.
• Performance: Life Tech Shorts uses performance cookies to help route traffic between servers and understand how the Website is performing so Life Tech Shorts can provide Users with the best experience possible.
• Analytics and Research: Cookies and other technologies also help Life Tech Shorts SquareSpace Analytics or Google Analytics, which you can opt out of at {https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout}.

Limiting or Blocking Cookies and Our Do Not Track Policy

Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies, which may depend on the type of cookie, and browsers can be set to reject browser cookies. However, blocking or deleting cookies may prevent you from using most of the Website.

Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. If you block cookies, certain features on the Website may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described in this Privacy Policy will necessarily stop.

Note that certain options you select are specific to certain browsers and devices.

How Life Tech Shorts Uses the Information It Collects

Life Tech Shorts uses the information it collects for the following purposes:

• To protect the Website;
• To enable Life Tech Shorts to provide you and other Users with the Website, and to improve and promote the Website and services;
• To address inquiries and respond to customer service requests, questions, and comments;
• To contact you with newsletters, offers, promotions, and other product specials or to customize your experience on the Website;
• To track and analyze use of the Website and Life Tech Shorts’s services, such as to identify trends, conduct data analysis, and determine the effectiveness of marketing and promotion efforts, and other service offerings, so that Life Tech Shorts can improve how its performance and provide Users with the best experience possible;
• To maintain security and to enforce the {Terms and Conditions of Use} and comply with applicable law; and
• For other purposes that Life Tech Shorts believes are necessary to protect its rights and the rights of others, or as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

California Users

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California customers are entitled to request information relating to whether a business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. As explained elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, Life Tech Shorts will not sell or transfer your personal information to any third-party companies for their direct marketing purposes without your consent. California Users who wish to request further information about Life Tech Shorts’s compliance with this statute or who have questions more generally about the Privacy Policy and Life Tech Shorts’s privacy commitments to its Users should not hesitate to contact Life Tech Shorts at tom@gadoimages.com.

European Union Users

European Union data protection law requires a “lawful basis” for collecting and retaining personal information from citizens or residents of the European Economic Area. Life Tech Shorts’s lawful bases include:

• Consent: In certain cases, you have affirmatively provided Life Tech Shorts with your consent to collect your personal data for a specific purpose, such as providing your name and email address when you sign up for our newsletter or register for an Account.
• Contract: Life Tech Shorts may need your personal data to comply with contractual obligations to deliver the Website, such as fulfilling subscriptions or transactions made through the Website.
• Legal Obligations: Sometimes the law requires the collection and use of your data, such as applicable tax laws may require Life Tech Shorts to retain records of payments made through the Website.
• Legitimate Interests: This is a technical term that means Life Tech Shorts has a good and fair reason to use your data and in ways which do not harm your interests and rights, such as to pursue Life Tech Shorts’s legitimate interests in a way that might reasonably be expected as part of running its business and that does not materially impact your rights, freedom, or interests. For example, Life Tech Shorts uses identity, device, and location information to prevent fraud and abuse and to keep the Website secure, may also send you promotional communications about the Website and services subject to your right to opt out, analyze how Users interact with the Website so Life Tech Shorts can understand better what elements do or do not work well, thereby facilitating improvements and developments in the quality of the online experience for all Users.

How Life Tech Shorts Shares the Information It Collects

User-Posted Information That is Publicly Accessible

At this time, no user-posted information posted on the Website is publicly accessible or viewable.

Information Life Tech Shorts Never Shares Publicly

The following personal information is never publicly displayed:

• Your name;
• The date you register for any services Life Tech Shorts provides through the Website;
• Your email address, IP address, mailing address, or phone number;
• Any other identity verification information or documentation;
• Any payment information you provide; and
• Communications you send to Life Tech Shorts.

Information Life Tech Shorts Shares with Trusted Third-Party Service Providers 

Life Tech Shorts may share certain information pertaining to you with certain trusted third-party service providers to help provide, improve, promote, or protect the Website, such as when Life Tech Shorts partners with payment processors or use services to help manage ads on other websites. When Life Tech Shorts shares data with third-party services to help deliver the Website and Life Tech Shorts’s services, Life Tech Shorts requires those service providers use your information only for the purposes Life Tech Shorts has authorized and protect your personal information at least to the same standards Life Tech Shorts does. Life Tech Shorts may also share information that is aggregated and anonymized in a way that it does not directly identify you.

Information Life Tech Shorts Shares to Protect Life Tech Shorts and Comply with the Law

Life Tech Shorts reserves the right to disclose information Life Tech Shorts collects from or about you when doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with the law or law enforcement, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to protect Life Tech Shorts’s legal rights, property, or the safety of Life Tech Shorts, Users, or others. You hereby authorize Life Tech Shorts to share or disclose your personal information, including, without limitation, any content, records, or electronic communications of any kind, when Life Tech Shorts determines, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of such information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against you if and to the extent:

• You are or may be violating the {Terms of Use} or this Privacy Policy;
• You are interfering with the rights or property of Life Tech Shorts or a third party;
• You are violating any applicable law, rule, or regulation;
• Necessary or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation; and/or
• Requested by governmental authorities in the event of any investigation, act of terrorism, or instance of local, regional, or national emergency.

In the event that Life Tech Shorts is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, or sells all or substantially all of its assets, Life Tech Shorts reserves the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information and content it has collected from Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, Life Tech Shorts may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Links to Other Websites and Services

The Website may include links to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from Life Tech Shorts’s privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy. When you click or otherwise use a link to an external website or service, the privacy policy and data processing disclosures for that website or service govern.

Data Retention

Life Tech Shorts will retain the information collected from or about you as long as necessary to provide you with the Website or Life Tech Shorts’s services, or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent set out in this Privacy Policy and as necessary to comply with Life Tech Shorts’s legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect Life Tech Shorts’s legal rights. Additionally, Life Tech Shorts may retain indefinitely any aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized information collected, and may from time to time transfer or merge your information collected off-line to our online databases or store off-line information in an electronic format.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Life Tech Shorts is based in the United States so your information will be collected and processed in the United States, which has its own laws governing data protection and access to it, including by the government. If you reside outside of the United States, be advised that the rules that protect your personal information under United States federal, state, and local law may differ from those of your home country.

Children’s Privacy

The privacy of children is of the utmost importance, and Life Tech Shorts is committed to complying with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Life Tech Shorts does not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If Life Tech Shorts ever discovers that it has inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of thirteen (13) on or through the Website, Life Tech Shorts will delete it from its records as soon as possible. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) and believe that Life Tech Shorts has collected personal information from your child, please email us at tom@gadoimages.com, and Life Tech Shorts will take steps to delete such personal information from its records as soon as possible.

Accessing Your Information

Users residing in certain countries, including citizens or residents of the European Economic Area, are afforded certain rights regarding their personal information. Except where an exception or exemption applies, these rights include the ability to access, correct, and request deletion of such User’s personal information. Even after you request Life Tech Shorts deletes your personal information, Life Tech Shorts may retain certain information as required by law or as necessary for its legitimate business purposes.

More specifically, these Users have the following rights:

• The right to require free of charge (i) confirmation of whether Life Tech Shorts processes your personal information and (ii) access to a copy of the personal information retained;
• The right to request proper rectification, removal or restriction of your personal information;
• Where processing of your personal information is either based on your consent or necessary for the performance of a contract with you and processing is carried out by automated means, the right to receive the personal information concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to have your personal information transmitted directly to another company, where technically feasible (data portability);
• Where the processing of your personal information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw your consent at any time without impact to data processing activities that have taken place before such withdrawal or to any other existing legal justification of the processing activity in question;
• The right not to be subject to any automatic individual decisions which produces legal effects on you or similarly significantly affects you; and
• The right to take legal actions in relation to any breach of your rights regarding the processing of the personal information, as well as to lodge complaints before the competent data protection regulators.

As far as Life Tech Shorts processes your personal information on the basis of its legitimate interests, you can object to processing at any time. You can find a detailed description of Life Tech Shorts’s processing activities and the legal basis herein. If you object to such processing, Life Tech Shorts will ask you to state the grounds of your objection to examine the processing of your personal information and decide whether to adjust the processing accordingly.

Email Notifications

Life Tech Shorts wants to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. Life Tech Shorts will send you emails relating to your transactions on or through the Website or via Google mail. You also may elect to receive certain marketing email communications, in accordance with your preferences, and from which you may opt out at any time by adjusting your notification settings. Life Tech Shorts also will send you service-related announcements when and as necessary. Life Tech Shorts will try to keep emails to a minimum and give you the ability to opt in to any marketing communications.

Life Tech Shorts maintains a strict no-spam policy. Life Tech Shorts will not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses, identify the message as a promotion in a reasonable way, include Life Tech Shorts’s physical address, monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly, and allow Users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email. If you are having problems unsubscribing, contact Life Tech Shorts at tom@gadoimages.com by forwarding the email communication and including the word “Unsubscribe” in the subject line and Life Tech Shorts will use reasonable efforts to remove you within seven (7) business days. Please note that Life Tech Shorts will not process any unsubscribe requests submitted as direct replies to any newsletter.

Security

Life Tech Shorts takes security seriously, and the security of your personal data is important to us. Life Tech Shorts follows industry-standard practices to protect the data Life Tech Shorts collects and maintains, including using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt information as it travels over the Internet.

However, the Internet is, by nature, not a secure environment and the nature of security risks is constantly evolving as are the technical and organizational industry standards relating to management of those risks. While Life Tech Shorts strives to keep current our security technology and will review, refine, and upgrade its security technology as Life Tech Shorts deems appropriate based on new tools that may become available in the future, the complete security of any information collected, stored or used by Life Tech Shorts cannot therefore be guaranteed. In the unlikely event that an unauthorized third-party compromises Life Tech Shorts’s security measures, Life Tech Shorts will not be responsible for any damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party’s ability to view, use, or disseminate such information.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

Life Tech Shorts may change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. Whenever Life Tech Shorts makes a material change, Life Tech Shorts will post on the Website or send you an email. The effective date of the most recent version of this Privacy Policy will appear at the top of this page. New versions of this Privacy Policy will never apply retroactively.