PRIVACY POLICY

First principles: We are the good guys.  We protect your data.

By accessing our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy and to our use of cookies .

Our Privacy Policy describes how Special Investigations Limited Company (SI) uses and protects the data you provide to us when you visit and use our website.

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and we will update this page when we do.  If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest version of our Privacy Policy, please come back to this web page.

What User Data We Collect

When you visit our website, we may collect the following data:

  • Your IP address.
  • Your contact information and email address.
  • Other information like your interests and preferences.
  • A data profile regarding your online behavior on our website and in other locations on the web.

Why We Collect Your Data

We are collecting your data for several reasons:

  • To understand your needs better,
  • To improve our services and products,
  • To send you promotional e-mails or social media feeds containing the information that we think you might find interesting or useful,
  • To contact you to fill out surveys and to participate in other types of marketing, market research, investigations, and cyber research, and
  • To customize our website according to what we see in online behavior and personal preferences of our site’s users.

Safeguarding and Securing Your Data

SI is an investigative firm and a cyber company.  We are committed to securing your data and keeping it confidential.  SI has acted to prevent data theft, unauthorized access, and disclosure by implementing cutting-edge technologies and software, which help us to safeguard all of the information that we collect online.

Our Cookie Policy

Once you have accessed our website, agreeing to allow our website to use cookies, you also agree to permit us to use the the cookie-based data about your online behavior—for example, to analyze your web traffic, the web pages you spend the most time on, and other websites that you visit.

The data we collect by using cookies is used to customize our website to your needs.  After we use the data for statistical analysis and/or for research purposes, the data is removed from our systems.

Cookies don’t allow us to gain control of your computer in any way.  They are strictly used to figure out and respond to the web pages that you find useful and those that you do not—all so that we can provide a better user experience for you.

If you want to disable cookies, you can do that by accessing the settings of your Internet browser.

Hyperlinks to Other Websites

Our website may contain hyperlinks that lead to other websites—although we usually minimize our use of external links.  If you click on these links SI is no longer responsible for your data and privacy protection.  Visiting linked websites is not governed by this privacy policy agreement.  Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of whatever website you go to that’s linked from our website.

Restricting the Collection of Your Personal Data

You may wish to restrict the use and collection of your personal data.  You can achieve this aim by doing the following:

  • Contact us by email—info@specinv.com—or using the form on the “Contact” page of this website, and we will restrict the use and collection of your personal data.  You have a right to request what personal information has been collected about you as well as what personal information has been sold or otherwise disclosed about you.  For your protection the law requires that you have to make a “verifiable request,” so we do have to validate you.

Our corporate policy is: We do not lease, sell, or distribute your personal information to third parties.

We will share personal information where required by operation of law in the United States of America.  Even though we work with public authority professionally, we do not automatically deliver data whenever a law enforcement officer makes a request.  Our policy is to require legal due process to be followed and for a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States to be involved.  We are a licensed and regulated private security services and investigative firm, so we may use your personal information in any lawful way if, in our judgment, it affects a legal investigation that we are conducting.  Your personal information could be also used to send you promotional or research materials.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this Privacy Policy, you should e-mail us at info@specinv.com—or use the form on the “Contact” page of this website.

DCMA Compliance and Copyright

SI complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (Pub.L. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860) (DMCA). Our website is copyrighted. All content and images that SI publishes online are our intellectual property and may not be reused, republished, repurposed, or reposted without our explicit prior written consent.

GDPR and CCPA Compliance

SI complies with

  • European Union (EU) Regulation 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and  the Digital Services Act on content moderation, the Digital Markets Act on digital competition, the Artificial Intelligence Act on the application of AI, and the Data Act on the ownership of data generated by Internet-connected devices; and
  • California Civil Code § § 1798.100 – 1798.199 (AB-675, 2017–2018 Session), the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA).

The Physical Corporate Office Address of Special Investigations Limited Company

Special Investigations Limited Company
SI – Special Investigations – SI Cyber – SI Training
SugarOak Office Retreat
459 Carlisle Drive, Suite B
Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia 20170-5607

Law and Venue for Any Dispute Concerning Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia.  By using our website, you agree that any dispute you may have, or any claims regarding the violation of this policy, now or in the future, with or involving SI or any SI-affiliated person or entity, will be resolved only in the United States federal courts in the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, or in the Fairfax Circuit Court, 19th Judicial Circuit of the Commonwealth of Virginia.