Privacy policy

 

Who We Are?
At MZ & Associates Private Investigations, we are dedicated to safeguarding your privacy. Our website, www.mzpillc.com, is committed to protecting any data you share with us. We are headquartered in California and are the data controller responsible for your personal information.

Contact Information:

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

  • Personal Data: Names, email addresses, and telephone numbers to provide customer support and respond to inquiries.
  • Transactional data, including purchase details, necessary for processing payments and providing services.
  • Technical data, such as IP addresses and cookies, used to enhance website functionality and user experience.
  • Sensitive Data: We do not collect sensitive personal data concerning health unless explicitly provided by you for a specific purpose.
  • Data from Website Interactions: Our website uses analytics tools and cookies to improve functionality and user experience. For more details, please refer to the cookies section below.
  • Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • Media: If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
  • Contact Forms: We retain submissions from contact forms for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes unless specifically authorized by the user.
  • Cookies: Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience. Detailed information about the cookies utilized by our website is provided in our dedicated cookie policy.
  • Analytics: We use analytics services to monitor website usage and improve service quality. These tools collect anonymous data about your interactions with our website.

Purpose and Legal Basis: We collect data to fulfill our contractual obligations, comply with legal requirements, and serve our legitimate business interests. Where none of the above conditions apply, we will obtain consent from you before collecting your data.

Who We Share Your Data With? We do not share your personal data with any third parties except as required to provide our services or as required by law.

How Long We Retain Your Data?

  • Contact form entries are kept for six months.
  • Analytics records are retained for one year.
  • Customer purchase records are maintained for ten years.

What Rights Do You Have Over Your Data?  You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal data we hold about you. You also have the right to data portability, restriction of processing, and the right to object to processing.

Where Your Data Is Sent? Your data is primarily processed in the United States. We comply with applicable U.S. data protection laws concerning the collection, use, and retention of personal data from California residents.

How We Protect Your Data?  We employ robust security measures such as encryption, two-factor authentication, and regular security training for our staff to protect your data.

Data Breach Procedures: Our procedures for dealing with data breaches include internal reporting systems, immediate containment and mitigation, and notification to affected individuals and regulatory authorities where applicable.

What Third Parties We Receive Data From? We do not receive data about users from third parties.

What Automated Decision Making and/or Profiling We Do With User Data? We do not use automated decision-making or profiling with user data.

Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements:As a private investigation firm, we comply with all applicable industry regulations concerning privacy and data protection.

For further information on how we manage and protect your data, please contact us at the provided contact details.