Data Protection Policy

Introduction

Fusion Forge ("we," "our," "us") is committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy. This Data Protection Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Definitions

Personal Data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("data subject").
Processing: Any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation, alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure, dissemination, alignment, combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.
Data Controller: The entity that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
Data Processor: The entity that processes personal data on behalf of the data controller.
Data Subject: An individual whose personal data is processed by us.

Data Protection Principles

We adhere to the following principles when processing personal data:

Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency: Personal data shall be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner.
Purpose Limitation: Personal data shall be collected for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.
Data Minimization: Personal data shall be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
Accuracy: Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
Storage Limitation: Personal data shall be kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed.
Integrity and Confidentiality: Personal data shall be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures.
Accountability: We shall be responsible for, and be able to demonstrate compliance with, these principles.

Collection and Use of Personal Data

Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services, such as IP address, browser type, and pages visited.

Purposes of Processing

We use personal data for the following purposes:

To communicate with you: Responding to your inquiries, sending service-related communications, and providing customer support.
To improve our services: Analyzing usage data to improve our website and services.
To comply with legal obligations: Complying with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process personal data based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: The data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specific purposes.
Contractual Necessity: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
Legal Obligations: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the data controller is subject.
Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.

Data Subject Rights

Under the GDPR, data subjects have the following rights:

Right to Access: The right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning them is being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data.
Right to Rectification: The right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning them without undue delay.
Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): The right to obtain the erasure of personal data concerning them without undue delay under certain conditions.
Right to Restriction of Processing: The right to obtain restriction of processing under certain conditions.
Right to Data Portability: The right to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have provided to a data controller, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided.
Right to Object: The right to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning them, including profiling.
Right to Withdraw Consent: The right to withdraw their consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including:

Encryption of personal data
Ensuring confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of processing systems and services
Regularly testing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of processing

Data Retention

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When personal data is no longer needed, we securely delete or anonymize it.

International Data Transfers

If we transfer personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Changes to This Data Protection Policy

We may update this Data Protection Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your personal data.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Data Protection Policy or our data practices, please contact us at support@fusionforge.tech