Privacy Policy for A.W.A.R.E., Inc.

Thank you for visiting A.W.A.R.E., Inc.'s website located at www.aware-inc.org. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information when you visit our website:

• Personal Information: Our website is not set-up to track, collect, or distribute personal information that is not provided by you. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, such as when you fill out a contact form, sign up for our newsletter, or pay for services. This personal information includes, but is not limited to, contact information, demographic information, and financial information (e.g., your name, address, email address, phone number, credit card information, and banking account information).

• Usage Data: We may collect information about your browsing activity on our website, such as your IP address, location data, browser type, pages visited, and the date and time of your visit.

• Minors: We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age. By using our website, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age or that you are the parent or guardian of such minor child and consent to the child using our website. If we learn that a minor’s personal information has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records.

We collect personal information directly from you, and we collect usage data through automated monitoring of our website.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may collect the following types of information when you visit our website:

• Personal Information: Our website is not set-up to track, collect, or distribute personal information that is not provided by you. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, such as when you fill out a contact form, sign up for our newsletter, or pay for services. This personal information includes, but is not limited to, contact information, demographic information, and financial information (e.g., your name, address, email address, phone number, credit card information, and banking account information).

• Usage Data: We may collect information about your browsing activity on our website, such as your IP address, location data, browser type, pages visited, and the date and time of your visit.

• Minors: We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age. By using our website, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age or that you are the parent or guardian of such minor child and consent to the child using our website. If we learn that a minor’s personal information has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records.

We collect personal information directly from you, and we collect usage data through automated monitoring of our website.

3. Sharing Your Information

We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never share, sell, trade, or otherwise transfer it to outside parties for marketing purposes. We may share your personal information with third parties we use to help deliver our services to you (e.g., payment service providers), third parties we use to help us run our business (e.g., website hosts), other third parties approved by you, and our external auditors and professional advisors. We will only allow these third parties to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We will disclose your personal information if required by law (e.g., to law enforcement agencies, courts, and regulatory bodies in compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations).

4. Security of Your Information

Your personal information may be held online, at our offices, and in the offices of the third parties mentioned above. We implement a variety of reasonable security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information and to ensure that it is not accidentally lost or used or accessed unlawfully. We will limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it.
Although we exercise all reasonable efforts to keep your information secure, transmissions protected by industry standard technology and implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure. Consequently, we shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal information due to no fault of ours, including but not limited to, errors in transmission and unauthorized acts of individuals.

We have procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach, and we will notify you of suspected data security breaches where we are legally required to do so. Suspected incidents of unauthorized use or data security breaches should be reported to us.

5. Your Rights

You may have the following rights, which can be exercised free of charge:

• Right to Access: To request a copy of your personal information.

• Right to Rectification: To request that we correct any inaccuracies in your personal information.

• Right to Erasure: To request that we delete your personal information in certain situations.

• Right to Restrict Processing: To request that we limit the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances (e.g., if you contest the accuracy of the data).

• Right to Data Portability: In certain situations, to request that we provide you with your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

• Right to Object: To object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing (including profiling), and to object to our continued processing of your personal information in certain situations (e.g., processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims).

• Right to not be subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making: To request that you no be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

• Right to Withdraw Consents: If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal information, you may withdraw your consent easily at any time by contacting us. Withdrawing a consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal information in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn.

For more information regarding these rights and the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us.

6. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with legal, regulatory, or internal policy requirements.

7. Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to a user’s browser from a web server and is stored on the computer’s hard drive. We, and/or our third-party service providers, may use non-identifying cookies to provide easier site navigation. If used, our cookies do not generate personal information, do not read personal information from your machine, and are not tied to anything that could be used to identify you. Our website can still be used if a user’s browser is set to reject cookies.

8. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those websites, and we encourage you to review the privacy practices of any third-party websites you may visit.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy first became effective on August 1, 2024 and was last updated on August 1, 2024. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you believe we have not complied with your data-protection rights, please contact the Director of Development & Marketing, 406-563-8117, media@aware-inc.org.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with data protection regulatory bodies.

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