General
Ascend Technology (“Ascend Technology”, “we” or “us”) is committed to your online privacy and protecting any and all personally identifiable information (1) (“Personal Information”) about you that we may collect and store as a result of our business activities with you. This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) outlines the type of information we may collect, how we might use such information, and the choices you have regarding the Personal Information we may possess about you.
We encourage you to read this Policy carefully. If you have any questions about this Policy, our use of your Personal Information, or your dealings with this website, please feel free to contact us by submitting a support request to us.
We may update this Policy from time to time in our sole discretion to reflect changes in our use of your Personal Information and/or applicable law. Any changes made to this Policy will be reflected in an updated policy (denoted by an updated date above) posted on our website at www.Ascend Technology.com.
Ascend Technology Business Customer Privacy
Collection of Personal Information
Customers who use the products and services available through our website (collectively, the “Services”) do so voluntarily. In order to use our Services, a customer is required to create an account by registering and providing us with basic contact, billing and website information, including, but not limited to, such customer’s name, email address, credit card information and website URL. By providing us with Personal Information, customers are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of such Personal Information in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Policy.
How We Use Personal Information
Any Personal Information collected and stored by us is used strictly for billing purposes, contacting our customers, evaluating a prospective customer’s website content, and for such other purposes as are described in this Policy. Ascend Technology does not share any customer Personal Information with any third party other than those business partners which are directly involved in managing our day to day business operations, such as, without limitation, our billing and payment processes.
Ascend Technology reserves the right to disclose your Personal Information without notice or consent as it deems necessary (a) to conform to applicable law; (b) when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and property; (c) to protect the safety of our users, us, or other third parties; (d) to comply with any judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us; and/or (e) pursuant to an acquisition, merger, sale of assets or other business transfer.
Log Files
By accessing our website, our internet servers automatically record information that your internet browser sends when you visit a website. These logs may contain information such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser version, domain name, language, date and time, the referring website and information in your cookie files.
General Internet User Privacy
In order to gather and aggregate statistical data for our customers, we may from time to time place persistent or temporary cookies on a visitor’s hard drive when visiting a customer’s website. These cookies are not capable of tracking, retaining, or storing any Personal Information, and they are used for no other reason than to gather the same general internet information that is available to all internet service providers, search engines, and websites. Examples of this information include, without limitation, a visitor’s general location based on IP address, information from the visitor’s browser such as browser type, type of operating system, keywords used while searching, websites visited, monitor resolution settings.
Ascend Technology may from time to time also authorize and facilitate the use of cookies from trusted third party business partners to gather and aggregate additional, anonymous, and non-Personal Information data from general internet visitors for the purpose of providing our customers with additional information about their viewing audience.
Ascend Technology does not gather, retain or store any data from these third party partners. Ascend Technology has also chosen to partner only with businesses that have shown a strong commitment to online privacy and have represented and warranted to Ascend Technology that any and all data collected on our behalf is non-Personal Information.
Ascend Technology does not condone, support, or participate in any activities that could potentially gather, retrieve or store any Personal Information about or from internet users.
Children’s Online Privacy
Ascend Technology does not do business with any person under the age of 18 and anyone using our Services must be at least 18 years of age. If we become aware that a person under the age of 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will discontinue the use of such information and remove it from our active systems. To our knowledge, we are in full compliance with all children’s online privacy guidelines and practices.
Data Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card information) on our registration forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information collected by us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Personal Information may be stored on computers systems maintained by an agent or service provider of Ascend Technology, each of which will be bound by an agreement to protect the confidentiality of your Personal Information. Our computer systems are located in the United States of America, but the computer systems of our service providers may be located in another country. Your submission of Personal Information constitutes your consent to the transfer and storage of your information across international borders.
Links to Other Websites
Ascend Technology’s website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Ascend Technology. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party websites and this Policy does not govern such other websites or your use of them. This Policy applies only to information collected by our website.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
(1) For a comprehensive list of definitions and what constitutes “personally identifiable information” please visit http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-P3P10-harmonization-19980330
