Altiusllc.com Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) explains how Altiusllc.com (“Altius”) uses personal information (“Personal Information”) and applies to all people who visit our site on or after the Effective Date. If you do not agree to our practices, please do not register, subscribe, or otherwise interact with Altius at www.altiusllc.com.
Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or this Privacy Statement. You can reach us online at info@altiusllc.com.
Types of Personal Information We Collect
Personal Information is information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual. It also includes other information that may be associated with Personal Information. We collect Contact Information that allows us to communicate with you, such as your name, postal addresses, email addresses, social media website user account names, telephone numbers, or other addresses at which you receive communications from or on behalf of Altius.
How Altius Collects Personal Information
We ask you for Personal Information (including Name, Title, Company Name, Email, Phone Number, etc) when you register or subscribe to any area of our site. We use cookies and related technologies to collect information about your computer and your interaction with the various pages on our site. If you use a social media platform or your mobile device (or other method of communication) to interact with Altius or the Sites, the application may have a specific privacy statement that governs the use of Personal Information related to that application. For example, if you use an Altius mobile application and your mobile device’s settings allow it, we may collect Mobile Location Information from your device. Our mobile applications may be designed to collect information even if you are not logged into the Altius application. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of your mobile device, please refer to instructions from your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings.
How Altius Uses Personal Information
Altius uses Personal Information to:
Operate and improve our Site;
Provide customer support, including to our business partners;
Fulfill requests for Altius services;
Communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to you about Altius and our affiliated business partners;
Send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages service bulletins;
Manage our everyday business needs such as Site administration, forum management, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms of Use or to comply with the law.
When and Why Does Altius Discloses Personal Information
We will never disclose your Personal Information to any third parties except to:
Affiliated companies (e.g., subsidiaries and other companies owned by or controlled by Altius) who may only use the Personal Information for the purposes described above.
Our service providers that provide services for us such as sending emails on our behalf. Our service providers are bound by law or contract to protect the Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them.
Effect a merger, acquisition, or otherwise; to support the sale or transfer of business assets; to enforce our rights or protect our property; to protect the rights, property or safety of others, investigate fraud, respond to a government request; or as needed to support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions. We may also disclose Personal Information to defend ourselves in litigation or a regulatory action, and when required or advised to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States and other countries where we may operate. If Altius is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.
We may also disclose information about you that is not personally identifiable. For example, we may provide our business partners, or other third parties with reports that contain aggregated and statistical data about our users.
Cookies and Related Technologies
When you use Altiusllc.com, we collect certain information by automated or electronic means, using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags and web beacons, browser analysis tools, and web server logs. As you use our Site and/or applications, your browser and devices communicate with servers operated by Altius, our business partners and services providers to coordinate and record the interactivity and fill your requests for services and information.
The information from cookies and related technology is stored in web server logs and also in web cookies kept on your computers or mobile devices, which are then transmitted back to our Sites by your computers or mobile devices. These servers are operated and the cookies managed by Altius, our business partners, or our service providers.
For example, when you visit our Sites, Altius and our service providers may place cookies on your computers or mobile devices. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return, track and target your interests in order to provide a customized experience. They also help us provide a customized experience and help us to detect certain kinds of fraud. A "cookie" is a small amount of information that a web server sends to your browser that stores information about your account, your preferences, and your use of the Sites. Some cookies contain serial numbers that allow us to connect your Site activity with other information we store about you in your profile or as related to your interactions with the Sites.
Some cookies are temporary, whereas others may be configured to last longer. “Session" cookies are temporary cookies used for various reasons, such as to manage page views. Your browser usually erases session cookies once you exit your browser. "Persistent" cookies are more permanent cookies that are stored on your computers or mobile devices even beyond when you exit your browser. We use persistent cookies for a number of purposes, such as retrieving certain information you have previously provided.
Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed specific actions. When you access these pages or open email messages, the pixel tags and web beacons generate a notice of that action to us, or our service providers. These tools allow us to measure response to our communications and improve our web pages and overall experience on our site.
We collect many different types of information from cookies and other technologies. For example, we may collect information from the devices you use to access our Sites, your operating system type or mobile device model, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone of your device. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you came to our Site and the website you visit after you leave our Site, if this information is supplied to us by your browser.
In many cases, the information we collect using cookies and other tools is used in non-identifiable ways, without any reference to Personal Information. For example, we use information we collect about Site users to optimize our Sites and understand its traffic and usage patterns. In other cases, we associate the information we collect using cookies and related technologies with Personal Information. In that case, this Privacy Statement governs how we use that information.
Your Choices
You may manage how your browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. Browsers are different, so refer to instructions related to your browser to learn about cookie-related and other privacy and security settings that may be available. You can opt-out of being targeted by certain third party advertising companies online at www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp or http://preferences.truste.com/truste/.
You may also manage the sharing of certain Personal Information with us when you connect with us through a social media platform or application, such as through Facebook Connect. Please refer to the privacy settings of the social media website or application to determine how you may adjust our permissions and manage the interactivity between Altius and your social media account or your mobile device.
If you wish to opt out of receiving offers directly from Altius merchants or business partners, you can follow the opt-out instructions in the emails that they send you.
Security of Personal Information
Altius has implemented an information security program that contains administrative, technical and physical controls that are designed to reasonably safeguard Personal Information. For example, we use industry-standard encryption technology to secure Financial Account Information when it is being transmitted over the Internet.
Notice to Residents of Countries outside the United States of America
Altius, Inc. is headquartered in the United States of America. Personal Information may be accessed by us or transferred to us in the United States or to our affiliates, business partners, or service providers elsewhere in the world. By providing us with Personal Information, you consent to this transfer. We will protect the privacy and security of Personal Information according to our Privacy Statement, regardless of where it is processed or stored.
Privacy Practices of Third Parties
This Privacy Statement only addresses the use and disclosure of information by Altius through your interaction with the Sites. Other websites that may be accessible through links from our Sites may have their own privacy statements and personal information collection, use, and disclosure practices. Our business partners or service providers may have their own privacy statements, too. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy statements provided by these other parties prior to providing them with any of your Personal Information.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
From time to time, we may update this Privacy Statement to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different privacy practices, such as when we add new features to our Sites. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information about our privacy practices.
This Privacy Statement was last updated on October 01, 2019.