{
  "document_type": "website_privacy_policy",
  "format_version": "1.0",
  "status": "effective",
  "last_updated": "2026-11-08",
  "effective_date": "2026-11-08",
  "title": "Privacy policy",
  "organization": {
    "name": "TechZone Systems, LLC",
    "telephone": "+1-850-910-5509",
    "service_area": "Nationwide, United States",
    "postal_address": null,
    "contact_url": "/#contact"
  },
  "scope": "The company website, business and privacy inquiries, and hiring applications, including the Atlanta data center technician opportunity. Separate employee onboarding, customer systems, and third-party services are outside this notice.",
  "website_features": {
    "on_site_forms": true,
    "visitor_accounts_in_public_page": false,
    "analytics_scripts_in_public_page": false,
    "advertising_pixels_in_public_page": false,
    "third_party_embeds_in_public_page": false,
    "application_cookies_set_by_public_page": false,
    "public_asset_service_worker_cache": true,
    "email_and_telephone_links": true,
    "hosting_logging_practices_verified": false,
    "staff_authentication": "tzapp SSO",
    "staff_applications_permission": "tz.apps",
    "contact_verification": "Server-checked arithmetic question, hidden spam field, and rate limiting; no third-party CAPTCHA service"
  },
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "scope",
      "title": "1. Who we are and what this covers",
      "paragraphs": [
        "TechZone Systems, LLC collects information you voluntarily provide to respond to business and privacy inquiries and to handle hiring applications, including copper and fiber technician opportunities at Atlanta data centers.",
        "This policy covers our public company website, contact form, and hiring applications. It does not cover customer systems, point-of-sale transaction data, separate employee onboarding records, or third-party services."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "information",
      "title": "2. Information you provide",
      "paragraphs": [
        "For contact inquiries, we collect your name, email address, inquiry topic, message, and any company or phone number you choose to provide. Inquiries are saved in our database with a reference, submission date, privacy acknowledgement, and notification delivery status. Please do not include passwords, payment card details, or other sensitive records.",
        "We collect information you voluntarily provide through our application form, email, or telephone for hiring. This may include your name, email address, telephone number, city and state, uploaded resume and its filename, file type, and size, work experience, skills, qualifications, and availability.",
        "The application asks whether you believe you can pass a job-related background check, whether you have worked on structured cabling jobs with 100 or more drops, and whether you have copper tools, fiber tools, an inspection camera or fiber scope, and a certifier. If you have a certifier, we ask for its brand, model, and whether its modules support copper, fiber, or both. This is a self-report; submitting the form does not authorize or conduct a background check.",
        "Applications submitted through the website are stored in our hiring database, including any resume you upload. Resume uploads are optional and are used only for hiring. We also record the submission date, role, application reference, application status, and acknowledgement of this privacy policy. No visitor account is required. Do not submit Social Security numbers, criminal-history details, payment card information, passwords, or other sensitive records in this form."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "uses",
      "title": "3. How we use information",
      "paragraphs": [
        "We use contact inquiry information to respond to questions, discuss requested services, handle privacy requests, and keep track of those conversations. We use applicant information only for hiring: reviewing qualifications, evaluating candidates, communicating about opportunities, and coordinating the hiring process. We do not sell this information or use it for targeted advertising or unsolicited marketing.",
        "We may retain or disclose hiring records where required by law or necessary to address a legal claim relating to the hiring process."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sharing",
      "title": "4. How information is shared",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Contact inquiries and applicant information are used by the team members handling the relevant conversation or hiring process. Hosting, email, telephone, and other service providers may process information as needed to deliver their services. Contact notifications and hiring notifications are sent internally through Mailgun. Hiring notifications may include a generated application PDF, application answers, and an uploaded resume. We limit disclosures to handling your inquiry, hiring, supporting communications, or complying with legal requirements.",
        "If disclosure is required by law, legal process, or a lawful government request, we may provide the information required."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "storage",
      "title": "5. Website operation and browser storage",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The public page does not include analytics scripts, advertising pixels, or third-party embeds, and it does not set application cookies or use local storage to track visitors. A service worker may cache public website files in your browser for loading and offline access. You can clear this cache through your browser settings.",
        "The contact and application endpoints temporarily use request metadata for rate limiting and abuse prevention. The contact form uses a server-checked arithmetic question and a hidden spam field. Verification answers and question identifiers are not stored with your inquiry; questions expire after 10 minutes. No third-party CAPTCHA service is used. Form entries are not saved in browser storage or cached by the service worker.",
        "Hosting, network, and access-control providers may process technical information, such as IP addresses, browser information, request times, and authentication cookies, to deliver, secure, or control access to the website. That operational processing is separate from the information you provide in inquiries or applications and is governed by the relevant providers’ practices.",
        "Email and telephone links open your chosen application. Those services have their own privacy practices.",
        "Hiring staff sign in through TechZone single sign-on. An essential session cookie is used for staff access, and application records and downloads require the staff applications permission. Applicants do not need an account. Application PDFs may include the resume and are available only to authorized hiring staff or through hiring notification emails."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "retention",
      "title": "6. Retention and security",
      "paragraphs": [
        "We retain contact inquiries only as long as needed to respond, manage the relevant business conversation or privacy request, and meet applicable recordkeeping obligations. We retain applicant information only as long as needed for hiring and applicable recordkeeping obligations, including resolving hiring-related legal claims. When information is no longer needed, we delete it or securely dispose of it.",
        "Access to inquiry and applicant information is limited to the people who need it for the relevant conversation, hiring process, or related legal obligations. No method of transmission or storage can be guaranteed completely secure."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "choices",
      "title": "7. Your choices and requests",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Use the contact form at /#contact and choose Privacy request, or call (850) 910-5509, to ask about information you have provided, request a correction or deletion, withdraw from hiring consideration, or raise a privacy concern. We may need to verify your identity before acting. Deletion may be limited by applicable recordkeeping obligations.",
        "Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have additional privacy rights. Contact us to exercise an applicable right or raise a privacy concern."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "children",
      "title": "8. Children and international visitors",
      "paragraphs": [
        "This website and its hiring information are not directed to children. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can address it.",
        "TechZone Systems, LLC operates in the United States. If you contact us from another country, your inquiry or hiring information may be processed in the United States and where our communication providers operate."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "changes",
      "title": "9. Changes and contact",
      "paragraphs": [
        "This policy is effective November 8, 2026. If our practices change, we will update this page and its last-updated date.",
        "For privacy questions or requests, contact TechZone Systems, LLC through the contact form at /#contact or call (850) 910-5509.",
        "A machine-readable JSON version contains the same policy sections. It uses a custom structured format and does not function as an automatic consent mechanism."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "representations": {
    "legal_compliance_certified": false,
    "standardized_machine_policy_format": false
  },
  "links": {
    "human_readable": "/privacy.html",
    "machine_readable": "/privacy.json"
  },
  "summary": "TechZone Systems, LLC uses the information you provide to respond to business and privacy inquiries and to evaluate hiring applications. Applicant information is used for hiring; contact information is used to handle your inquiry.",
  "collection": {
    "purposes": [
      "business_inquiries",
      "privacy_requests",
      "hiring"
    ],
    "sources": [
      "Information voluntarily provided through the contact form, application form, email communications, or telephone"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "Name",
      "Email address",
      "Telephone number",
      "Uploaded resume, file metadata, and work experience",
      "Qualifications",
      "Availability",
      "Other information voluntarily provided for a job opportunity",
      "City and state",
      "Background-check eligibility self-report",
      "Experience on structured cabling jobs with 100 or more drops",
      "Copper and fiber tool availability",
      "Certifier brand, model, and supported modules",
      "Inspection camera or fiber scope availability",
      "Company name",
      "Inquiry topic and message"
    ],
    "sale": false,
    "targeted_advertising": false
  }
}
