Homeland Safety Systems strives to be your reliable partner and your privacy is important to us. We are committed to protecting your personal data and with this Privacy Policy, we will inform you on how we apply your personal data when you visit our website, when you contact us, and when you sign up to join our community.

For Google cookies, you may also install a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on by going here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. 

If you have any questions which are not answered in this Privacy Policy, or you would like to assert your privacy rights to be informed on the data collected, make corrections or deletions, or make withdrawal of consent, you can contact us at.

When you visit our Website

Homeland Safety Systems shares information within our company, and with our Partners consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. We will apply the information to provide and improve our products, services, the content of our website, and our advertising activities. This Privacy Policy outlines the personal data we may collect and store, and how we use personal data for these general business purposes.

Personal Data

Unless you have provided it to us voluntarily via our contact form, Homeland will not collect directly identifiable information about you such as name, email, address etc. when browsing homelandsafetysystems.com.  For collection of indirectly identifiable information about you, please see our Cookies and IP addresses sections below.

Cookies

Homeland uses cookies to keep statistics on how many users use our sites and how they use them. We may collect information regarding your activities on our website, including your preferences related to our website. We also use cookies in connection with forms and orders to save the information entered for more seamless experience. This information is used to optimize our website and help us to provide useful information to our visitors. This also makes your visit to our website as convenient and interesting as possible, and helps Homeland improve our site, increasing its usability and visitors’ satisfaction. 

Google

If you have allowed all cookies on our website, the site will also make use of Google cookies, including Analytics and Ads, based on your consent (cf. the GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). This means that personal information about activities of you based on Cookie IDs can be disclosed to Google, i.e. IP addresses, unique ID’s and ClientID’s. Homeland has enabled IP Anonymization (or IP masking) in Google Analytics which means Google Analytics anonymizes the address as soon as technically feasible. You can read more about the topic here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en. The purpose of the statistics and behavior is to understand how users use our website by collecting and reporting information and enable us to provide personalized marketing material to you. This assists us with providing more relevant documentation and services and with providing appropriate staffing to meet member and customer needs.

Google cookies allows us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site as well as provide you with personalized marketing content. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site and build better user experiences for our users. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance. Further, we will not be able to provide you with personalized marketing material.

If you consent to Homeland’s collection of your data, your data may be transferred to the US (as Google is a US-owned company) where there is not an adequacy decision nor appropriate safeguards in place, as Google may possibly be required to give data access to the United States Intelligence Community without any judicial review. Your data will be stored for the period 

An overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

You can find more information and the data protection terms in the Google Privacy Statement at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.

YouTube

If you have allowed all cookies on our website, the site will also make use of YouTube cookies, based on your consent (cf. the GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). This means that personal information about activities of you based on Cookie IDs can be disclosed to YouTube, i.e. IP addresses, unique ID’s and ClientID’s. The purpose of these cookies is for Homeland to be able to show embedded YouTube content on or website.\

YouTube is a Google/Alphabet owned company. Because of the shared ownership, the Google and YouTube cookies allow us to see the statistics of the viewed YouTube content. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not be able to view any YouTube.

If you consent to Homeland’s collection of your data, your data may be transferred to the US (as YouTube is a US-owned company) where there is not an adequacy decision nor appropriate safeguards in place, as YouTube may possibly be required to give data access to the United States Intelligence Community without any judicial review. This means that, depending on the circumstance, Homeland also collects and transfers your personal data to the US based on your consent.

You can find more information and the data protection terms in the YouTube/Google privacy statement at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.

Facebook

If you have allowed all cookies on our website, the site will also make use of Facebook cookies, based on your consent (cf. the GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). This means that personal information about activities of you based on Cookie IDs and pixels can be disclosed to Facebook. The purpose of this cookies is for Homeland to help us show ads and to make recommendations for user who may have an interest in the products and/or services we offer, e.g. because you have already visited our website. We also use cookies to help measure the performance of Facebook ad campaigns. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not be able to show personalized ads and to make product and/or service recommendations.

If you consent to Homeland’s collection of your data, your data may be transferred to the US (as Facebook is a US-owned company) where there is not an adequacy decision nor appropriate safeguards in place, as Facebook may possibly be required to give data access to the United States Intelligence Community without any judicial review. This means that, depending on the circumstance, Homeland also collects and transfers your personal data to the US based on your consent.

You can find more information and the data protection terms in the Facebook privacy statement at: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies.

IP-addresses

When you browse on our website you will provide machine readable trails by using your IP address, e.g. cookies may track data about users, such as their IP address and their browsing activity. Usually, you will not be capable of establish the personal reference to you.

When you contact us

You may be asked to provide personal data to Homeland in order for us to respond to your questions or requests. This includes information in your message which may contain personal data. We register the personal data you provide in the contact form such as your first/last name, email address, company name, phone number, and country or region based on your consent (cf. the GDPR Article 6(1)(a)) for the purpose of processing your enquiry as a visitor of the website. Without any of this information, Homeland would not be able to respond to your request.

How we use your Personal Data

We use personal data to respond to your requests, or contact you via mail, e-mail, or phone to fulfill your request or provide service communications. We will also use personal data to help us develop and improve our website, services, content, advertising, including through auditing and data analysis, statistics, surveys, research purposes, and other lawful processing for our reasonable business purposes. The personal data we request in our contact forms are minimized to the relevant data required for its purpose, but we may ask for your consent to use your data for other purposes such as marketing activities. If you agree to receive our products, Homeland will use your personal data to contact you for marketing similar products.

Consent

We may ask for your consent to allow Homeland to contact you, or to keep you posted on Homeland’s latest announcements, or to receive our free newsletter or other marketing activities. We will use your email address and other personal data you provide for these marketing activities and for uses as stated in this Privacy Policy.

If you do not want to be on our mailing list for one or more marketing activities, you can opt out anytime by updating your preferences or withdraw your consent by contacting us at (888) 909-2261.

We will store your personal data while you receive our marketing material and up to six (6) months after you have ceased to be a potential customer for our marketing purposes.

Terms and Conditions and Policies

From time to time, we may use your personal contact data to send important notices, such as communications about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information is important to your interaction with Homeland, you may not opt out of receiving these communications as long as you have an ongoing contract with Homeland for delivery of our products or services, or a contract for other long-term purposes.

Information required for other Legitimate Purpose

Homeland may be required by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities or court order to disclose your personal data. We may also need to disclose personal data if we determine, it is required to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal data we have collected to the relevant third party.

How we protect your Personal Data 

Homeland takes precautions, including administrative, technical, and physical measures, to safeguard your personal data against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Homeland’s website may use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on web pages where personal data is collected. Doing so protects the confidentiality of your personal data while it’s transmitted over the Internet.

Retention Policy

We will retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or for such-longer retention period as required or permitted by law.

When you participate in our events, your data will be erased once it is no longer required.

For data provided on our website, your data will be erased once it is no longer required.

Your Rights 

Under certain circumstances, you have one or more of the following rights:

The right of access by the data subject – You have the right to request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. You can contact us at info@hssems.com

The right to rectification – You have the right to request correction of your personal data that we hold about you. If you become aware that the personal data we process is inaccurate, we encourage you to contact us in writing which will enable you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

The right to erasure (“the right to be forgotten”) – You may have the right to request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. To the extent the continued processing of your personal data is necessary, for example in order for us to comply with our legal obligations or for legal requirements to be established, enforced or defended, we are not required to delete your personal data

The right to restriction of processing – You may have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data to consist only of storage. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

The right to data portability – You may have the right to obtain personal data that you have provided us with, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and have the right to request a transfer of that information to another data controller.

The right to object – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data at any time when it relates to our direct marketing efforts towards you.

Furthermore, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data at any time, for reasons relating to your personal life, where we are relying on a legitimate interest as legal basis for processing. 

The right to withdraw your consent – You have the right to withdraw a consent you have provided us with for the purpose of processing your personal data. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us by using the contact information specified in the top.

Updating our Privacy Policy

Homeland may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We recommend that visitors to our website re-visit this Privacy Policy on occasion to learn of new privacy practices or changes to our Privacy Policy. For any material changes in our Privacy Policy, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.

Kind regards,

Homeland Safety Systems, LLC

Last updated: August 23, 2022