Privacy Policy
This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”), sets forth how Business Solution Technologies, Inc. (“Business Solution Technologies”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”) collects, processes, stores, and discloses your personally identifiable information if you visit Our website located at https://bstusa.com/ (the “Site”) or otherwise provide personally identifiable information to Us. PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ITS TERMS, DO NOT VISIT THE SITE OR PROVIDE ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION TO US VIA ANY MEANS.
INFORMATION THAT IS AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED THROUGH THE SITE AND HOW WE USE SUCH INFORMATION
When you visit the Site, We automatically collect and store information about your device and your activities. This information may include (without limitation) (a) your computer or other device’s unique ID number; (b) technical information about your device such as type of device, web browser, IP address or operating system; (c) your preferences and settings such as time zone and language; and (d) statistical data about your browsing activities and patterns. However, none of this information is linked to any personally identifiable information. We also use cookies provided by Our third-party vendors. For example, the Site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web, to help Us understand how you use the Site and ways in which We can improve your user experience. These cookies may track things, such as how long you spend on the Site and the pages that you visit, so We can continue to produce engaging content. We use the information We collect on an anonymous basis to improve the Site and Our products and services, as well as for analytical and research purposes.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
We collect some personally identifiable information if you fill out and submit certain forms on the Site. We also provide Our contact information so you can mail, email or call Us with questions or concerns about Our products and services or to apply for employment. When you contact Us for such purposes, the information We collect may include, for example, your name, mailing address, company affiliation, phone number, e-mail address, educational history, employment history, references, and professional and voluntary affiliations. We may use your personally identifiable information to carry out Our daily business functions, including (without limitation) Our employment activities, providing Our products and services, engaging in marketing and promotional activities, performing Our internal business operations, and providing customer service. When you contact Us by email, mail, or phone, you consent to our use of your email address, mailing address or phone number to contact you and respond to your inquiries.
HOW WE USE COLLECTED PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
The information We collect is used to help manage Our relationship with you, including to answer any questions you may have about Our products and services or the Site; to make decisions about the products or services We provide; to carry out market research or analysis; to deliver information about Our products, services, and promotions; to improve the effectiveness of to Site and Our services; to consider your application for employment; and to resolve customer questions or complaints. We do not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties under any circumstances, but We may share your personally identifiable information with third party service providers that We appoint to perform certain services on Our behalf and in accordance with Our instructions. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information except to provide their contracted services to Us, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information.
We may also disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties when We believe that doing so is necessary or appropriate to satisfy any applicable rules, regulations, laws, legal process or governmental request; detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; or protect Our rights, property, or safety or the rights, property, or safety of Our customers or third parties. For example, We may disclose your personally identifiable information in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, levy, attachment, order of a court-appointed receiver or other comparable legal process, including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action. If the subpoena or other legal process seeks personally identifiable information about you, We will make reasonable business efforts to contact you before providing such information to the requesting party. However, We cannot guarantee that We will be able to do so in all cases, whether due to time constraints, court order, Our inability to effectively contact you, or other circumstances.
HOW WE PROTECT COLLECTED PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
We restrict access to your personally identifiable information to only those employees and third party providers who need to know the information to consider your application for employment, perform their jobs or provide their contracted services. To extent We collect your personally identifiable information electronically, We process and store your personal information in a manner that ensures its appropriate security, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures. The information is stored on secure cloud servers hosted by the third party vendors, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and others. However, you acknowledge that no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although We take these steps to secure your personally identifiable information, We do not represent or warrant that your personally identifiable information will always remain completely secure.
RETENTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
We will retain your personally identifiable information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy unless a longer or shorter period is required under applicable law, or is needed to resolve disputes or protect Our legal rights or otherwise to comply with legal obligations. You may request that We delete your personally identifiable information by contacting Us as described in this Privacy Policy. However, please note that in certain cases, We may continue to process and store your personally identifiable information, even after We receive a request to delete it, if We have a legal basis to do so. For example, We may retain personally identifiable information if We need it to comply with an independent legal obligation, if We still need it for the lawful purposes for which it was obtained, or if it is necessary to pursue Our legitimate interest in keeping Our Services and operations safe and secure.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The Site may contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any linked websites and We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any linked websites or businesses. We encourage you to read the privacy policies for any linked websites whenever possible, because they may differ from this Privacy Policy.
OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to the Company. For that reason, We never collect or retain information from those We actually know are under the age of thirteen, and the Site is not designed to attract any users under the age of thirteen. By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are at least thirteen years of age or older. If you are under the age the thirteen you may not visit or use the Site or otherwise provide any personally identifiable information to Us in any manner.
THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT OF 2018 (“CCPA”)
Business Solution Technologies is a Hawaii-based corporation, that is focused on providing strategic, operational and technology solutions for Hawaii’s largest human resources, education and healthcare organizations. While Business Solution Technologies may, on occasion, do business with entities outside of Hawaii, including California, Business Solution Technologies (1) does not have annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars, (2) does not buy, receive, sell, or share for commercial purposes, alone or in combination, the personally identifiable information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices, and (3) does not derive fifty percent or more of its annual revenues from selling consumers’ personally identifiable information. As such, Business Solution Technologies and the Site are not subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please write to Us at the following address:
Business Solution Technologies
1188 Bishop Street, Suite 1801
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813.
UPDATES
We may update and change the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Privacy Policy, so that you are aware of any updates or changes. By using the Website and Services, you are deemed to have accepted the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of your use.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on June 28, 2021.