Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 1/8/2024

In Effect: 1/8/2024

At Advance Security Technologies (AST), we highly value your privacy. We respect the privacy of our online visitors and individuals who receive communications from us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, store, use, and share information about you when you use our online services or visit our website, which include any website owned, provided, or operated by Advance Security Technologies (AST), or its affiliates that link to or reference this Privacy Policy. By using our website or opting-in to receive communications from us, you are consenting to our collection, storage, use, and sharing of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please refrain from using our website.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Advance Security Technologies collects different types of information to enhance your online experience and to provide you with the best possible products and services.

1.      We collect non-personal information about online visitors to improve your user experience on our website. This information includes your IP address, Internet service provider, browser type, operating system, mobile network, device identifiers, general location information, and pages accessed on our sites. We collect this information automatically as you browse through our website. We may use cookies and web beacons to collect this information.

2.      We collect personally identifiable information when you voluntarily provide it to us. For example, when you contact us through our website, we collect your name, address, phone number, email address, and other relevant information. We use this information to communicate with you, to provide you with the products and services you request, and to improve our products, services, content, and advertising.

We may share your personally identifiable information with our subsidiaries, affiliates, and third-party service providers who help us provide our products and services to you. We may also share your information in connection with any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock. We may also share your information as required by law or to protect our operations, rights, privacy, safety, or property, and that of you or others.

We use cookies to improve the operation of our website and to determine which ads of our ads are shown to you on other web sites. We also work with third-party companies that use their tracking technologies on our sites to provide tailored advertisements to you on our behalf.

Please note that even if you opt out of receiving these tailored advertisements, tracking technologies may still collect data and you may still see our ads, but they will not be targeted based upon the information collected through our tracking technology criteria.

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

We do not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties. However, our website may contain hyperlinks to third-party websites, and those third-party websites may collect and use personally identifiable information about you for other purposes. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party websites.

Security of Your Data

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, it’s important to keep in mind that no method of transmitting or storing information online is completely secure. Despite our efforts to use appropriate and reasonable measures to safeguard your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

·        We use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to encrypt and protect sensitive information such as your email address and phone number.

Data Subject Rights

If you wish to access, modify, or delete any of your personally identifiable information, exercise any other rights granted by your applicable law, or if you have any inquiries about the processing of your personal information or this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at https://www.astadvancedsecurity.com/support If you wish to stop receiving marketing or promotional emails and mobile marketing communications from Advance Security Technologies, reach out to us at https://www.astadvancedsecurity.com/support.

Data Retention
If you are not a customer, we keep your data for 3 years after our last interaction with you (e.g. if you requested information from us or clicked on a link in one of our emails).

If you are a customer, we keep your data for 3 years after the end of our business relationship with you (e.g. after a purchase, the end of a contract, or our last interaction with you).

After the above retention periods expire, we will delete your data. However, we may contact you before the deadline to ask if you agree to us keeping your data for a longer period. If you agree, the above retention period will begin from the extended date.

Children Under the Age of 16

AST’s website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on our website or through any of its features, register on the website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at https://www.astadvancedsecurity.com/support/.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

You can continue to find this Privacy Policy here or you may contact us with any questions. We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice. If we modify our Privacy Policy, we will post any changes here. Updates of our Privacy Statement will be published on our website. Any amendments become effective upon publication on our Website.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: https://www.astadvancedsecurity.com/support

Advance Security Technologies (AST)

12564 Ohio River Blvd,
Chester, WV 26034 

Telephone number:

(412) 206-1060

 Effective as of January 8, 2024.