PRIVACY POLICY

MindShare respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.kfocus.org (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

WHAT WE DO COLLECT

We collect personal identification information including name, email address, shipping address, billing address, and telephone number.

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

You directly provide MindShare with most of the data we collect. We collect and process data when you:

HOW WE WILL USE YOUR DATA

MindShare collects data so that we can:

We partner with companies for order processing, account management, shipping, data hosting, and newsletter marketing. When we process your order, we may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, a partner company to prevent fraudulent purchases. Where personal information is provided to third parties, it is subject to contractual protections.

HOW DO WE STORE YOUR DATA

We securely store your data on our hosting provider, AWS. We retain your data only for as long as necessary to provide our services to you, to maintain our records, or as otherwise required by law. Please note that some of our database backups may store your personal information for up to 30 days after deletion. Personal data may be transferred to the United States for processing an order and the laws of the U.S. may not provide the same protection and the laws of the EU.

WHAT ARE YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

COOKIES

Our website uses a first-party functionality cookie to store your cart status. Third-party, non-essential cookies are used for Google Analytics. You can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies in your browser settings, but this may affect how you are able to interact with our site and others.

KUBUNTU OS

MindShare does not collect or store any information from the OS user installations. Minimal OS and hardware data is temporarily used—not stored—to provide updates and connectivity verification during the process of building a computer.

Kubuntu software sources include Launchpad, Ubuntu, and Snapcraft hosted repositories. Your Kubuntu installation will connect to these sources to keep your software up to date, secure, and to install additional software that you may select.

Kubuntu provides firmware updates from Ubuntu and LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) repositories.

HOW TO CONTACT US

MindShare is a Data Controller for the information described in this policy. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the data we hold on file, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please contact us at privacy@kfocus.org or by phone at +01 844-536-2871.

Last Updated: January 30, 2024