Privacy Policy

Assured Technology Services is dedicated to honoring the privacy and wishes of our supporters at all times. Following are details about our privacy policies, including what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used and with whom the information is shared. The statement was last updated on June 26, 2024. Updates to this privacy statement will be reflected on this web page. 

This privacy statement is separate from other policies that may apply to Assured Technology Services partners or other parts of our operations. This includes the following:

• The Short Message Service (SMS) Privacy Policy is a subset of our overall Privacy Policy and addresses how Assured Technology Services handles the confidentiality of information related to SMS communications that come directly from Assured Technology Services. Please see our SMS policy.

INTRODUCTION

Assured Technology Services LLC (“Assured Tech”, “Assured Technology Services”, or “ATS”) is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal information. In this Privacy Policy (“Policy,” or “Statement”), we explain how we collect, use, share, retain and transfer information you may provide when you visit www.assuredtechservices.com, associated sub-pages, any ads or applications we may provide, or through the provision of our services (collectively, our “Services”). We also let you know your rights regarding the personal information we collect.

APPLICABILITY

This Policy is applicable to all website visitors, registered users, and all other users of our Services. It applies to information we collect:

• Via your activity on our Services, including but not limited to registration forms, quizzes, and searches. This information is collected based on your direct input.

• Via email, text, and other electronic messages sent between you and our Services.

• Through mobile and desktop applications that we may provide.

• Via your interactions with any Assured Tech advertisements and/or applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to our Services

This Policy does not apply to information we collect:

• Through any other means, including on any other website operated by a separate company or any third party, including our partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, as applicable.

By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

General

The information we collect on or through our Services may include:

• Information that you provide when using our Services, such as information provided through the following means:

  • Creating an account and accessing our Services using a user name and password;

  • Donating, which may include full name, home address, billing address, payment type, and credit card details, as applicable, to ensure secure, non-fraudulent transactions;

  • Registering for any event or group.

  • Signing up for newsletters or other information sources.

  • Signing up to receive SMS text messages. For more information regarding our use of SMS, please view our SMS policy, available at SMS Policy — Assured Technology Services (assuredtechservices.com).

  • Sending a comment online or reporting a problem with our Services, whether that be online or offline via our dedicated Call Center.

  • Submitting search queries through our Services.

  • Submitting content to our Services for posting or publication.

Information that You Provide to Assured Tech

Depending on the type of interaction you have with us, we may collect the following information (“personal information”) when you openly and directly share this data with us:

• First Name

• Middle Name

• Last Name

• Date of Birth

• Postal Address

• Telephone numbers

• Email Address

• Company Name

• Credit card (only store last 4 digits)

• Bank information or bank billing for payment authorization when this payment method is selected

• Information related to any employment application, including employment and education history

• Demographic information including, but not limited to, age, birthdate, gender, state of residence, marital status, home ownership status, donation history, occupation, education, ethnicity, that we analyze for statistical purposes.

In addition to these categories of information, we may collect and process information about your interactions with us. This includes details about our contacts with you through email, SMS, U.S. Post, on the phone or in person (i.e., the date, time, and method of contact), details about donations you make to us, events or activities that you register for or attend and any other support you provide to us. We may also collect and record any other relevant information you share with us about yourself, including your interests or your affiliations with other charities, community groups, your employer or an Assured Tech corporate partner.

Information that We Collect Automatically When You Use Our Services

We will automatically collect the following information when you use our Services:

• Technical information;

• IP address, browser type, and plug-in details;

• Information about how you interact with our website;

• Device type (e.g., desktop, laptop, tablet, phone) and related information;

• Operating system information; and

• Local time zone.

We collect this information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser and we may use this information to generate aggregate statistics about visitors to our Services. We may also use this information for various business purposes such as providing customer service, fraud prevention, market research, and improving our Services. For more information regarding our use of cookies, please see the Automatic Data Collection Technologies section, below.

Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies, such as cookies, tags, and pixels to better understand how people use our Services. The types of information we collect using automatic data collection technologies include:

• Details about your visits to our Services, including traffic data, top pages visited, referral pages, location data, device type and browsers, and other data that is available through technologies and tools implemented on our Services

• Referral pages, such as the social media platforms that bring visitors to our Services

• Organic and paid search terms that bring visitors to our Service

• Information regarding the programmatic display ads on other sites that bring visitors to our Services

• Details about click-through rates using Call-to-Action (CTAs) buttons

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services.

We may tie the information we collect automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us to give us a better understanding of the type of interaction that is occurring with constituents and with our Services.

We collect this information in order to improve our Services and deliver a more personalized experience, including by enabling us to, e.g.:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;

• Determine which of our Services pages receive the most interest;

• Customize our Services in accordance with individuals’ interests;

• Speed up searching;

• Recognize you when you return to our Services; and

• Provide better advertisements for our Services.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Services.

  • The “Help” menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser's cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether.

• Tags. All pages of our Services are connected to tracking by third-party analytics providers. This allows Assured Tech to better understand activity, interaction, and how users move around on our Services. Google Analytics is a common tool used on the majority of business websites. To learn more about how to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, please click here.

• Pixels. Pages of our Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as pixels (also referred to as clear gifs, web beacons, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Assured Tech, for example, to count users who have visited those pages, clicked on an ad, or opened an email and for other related website statistics (e.g., recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on our Services are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect the information identified in the Automatic Data Collection Technologies section about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

Children and Minors

Our Services are not intended for minors and children under 13 years of age and only should be used by young people under age 18 with the direct permission, consent, and oversight by legal guardians. 

Young people under 13 should not use or provide any information on our Services, through any of its features, register on our Services, make any purchases through our Services, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Services, or provide any information about themselves to Assured Tech, including name, address, telephone number, email address, screen name or other information that can be considered linked to a particular person.

If we become aware of any information provided on our Services from children under age 13, we will delete it. We do not store or use personal information relating to children under 13 for our own purposes or share it with any 3rd party.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use the Personal Information you provide to us for the following purposes:

• To provide you with information about our work or our activities;

• To fundraise in accordance with our internal policies and procedures;

• To organize events that you have registered for, and to provide you with information and other materials relating to the content of the event, the speakers, sponsors and other attendees.

• To provide our newsletters and publications, provided you have given your consent.

• To respond to your questions and provide related services.

• To provide you with information about other events, products and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or attended, provided you have not opted-out of receiving that information.

• To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about events, products or services we feel may interest you, provided you have given your consent.

• To tailor advertising that is presented to you on the Internet according to your interests, preferences and other characteristics (as described below);

• To respond to applications for employment;

• To ensure that content from our Services is presented most effectively for you and your computer; and

• Where we are required by law to disclose or otherwise use your information.

We may use the Personal Information we collect about you:

• To administer our Services and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.

• To improve our Services to ensure that content is presented most effectively for you and your computer.

• As part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure.

• To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you; and

• To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Services about goods or services that may interest you or them.

We may use the Personal Information we receive from other sources to:

• Combine it with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We will use this information and the combined personal data for the purposes set out above.

We may process aggregated information about our Services’ visitors, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

The following chart provides a high level summary of the information we process for each purposes of processing and the manner in which we may use or disclose such information associated with each purpose.  Please note that we may not collect each category of information about each user of our Services.