AK Website Privacy
Aggregate Knowledge sees privacy as an important part of a company offering.
Last updated January 28, 2011
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Does the Aggregate Knowledge website use standard log files?
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Does the Aggregate Knowledge website provide links to third-party sites?
What information is on your website?
The Aggregate Knowledge Inc. (“Aggregate Knowledge”) website (www.aggregateknowledge.com) provides users with information about Aggregate Knowledge, including our products, services, job opportunities, press releases, and contact information for any inquiries related to those topics.
Do you collect any personally identifiable information?
On this website, for your convenience, you may voluntarily fill out various forms to request more information from Aggregate Knowledge. These forms can be used to collect personally identifiable information (PII) such as: name, title, company, addresses, email address, and telephone numbers. All PII is voluntarily supplied.
Aggregate Knowledge does not share, sell, rent, or trade PII with third parties for their promotional purposes.
How do you use this personally identifiable information?
The use of PII on this website is solely to respond to your request for more information and to help in our sales, marketing, and customer service efforts. Based upon the PII you provide to us, we will communicate with you in accordance with your wishes if at all. Aggregate Knowledge will keep this information to be used for periodic notifications based on your requirements. If necessary, Aggregate Knowledge will also disclose this PII if compelled to do so in response to subpoenas, court orders, or any legal or governmental process, as well as when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request. Aggregate Knowledge does not share, sell, rent, or trade PII with third parties for their promotional purposes.
Can I opt-out of receiving the website-specific mailing lists and/or the collection of my information?
After opting-in to website-specific mailings (that is to say, after you have provided personally identifiable information through the website), you may choose to opt-out from any lists or services you are currently receiving. To remove yourself from lists and services that relate specifically to our website, please send your opt-out request to privacy@aggregateknowledge.com.
How can I review and delete my personally identifiable information voluntarily provided to you on the website?
Please send an email to privacy@aggregateknowledge.com if you wish to access your personally identifiable information (PII) provided to our website. Aggregate Knowledge will provide you with access to your PII so that you can review and/or request the deletion of any or all of your PII in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Does the Aggregate Knowledge website use cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
We set a persistent cookie to enable us to to gather analytical information such as visitor activity for website effectiveness.
Third Party Cookies
Cookies by our tacking utility company are used to define user sessions, as well as to provide a number of key features in our reports. Cookies are set or updated by our tracking utility company only to collect data required for the reports. In addition, all cookies set by our tracking utility company are for our domain and send data only to the servers for our domain. This cookies are the personal property of our website domain, and the data cannot be altered or retrieved by any service on another domain.
Does the Aggregate Knowledge website use standard log files?
As is common with most websites, we automatically gather certain information and store it in log files. However, none of this information identifies individual users using personally identifiable information (PII). Information in our log files includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, referring URL, operating system, date/time stamp, and bytes transferred. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer our site, to track and understand how people use our site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
For this website, we use a third-party tracking service called StatCounter that uses cookie log files to track non-PII about visitors to our site in the aggregate. To view the privacy policy of StatCounter, click here.
Does the Aggregate Knowledge website use web beacons?
On our site, a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a., web beacons/web bugs) may be deployed by our third-party statistical analysis partner. Clear gifs may help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to report anonymous individual or aggregate information. In addition, we may use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. These emails have opt-out options.
Does the Aggregate Knowledge website provide links to third-party sites?
Aggregate Knowledge may provide links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Aggregate Knowledge. Please be aware that Aggregate Knowledge is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects information.
Group aggregate data
Aggregate Knowledge reserves the right to provide aggregate or group data about visitors of our website for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage, or characteristics of end users as a group, without disclosing personally identifiable information.
How are changes made to the privacy policy?
Aggregate Knowledge reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to review our privacy policy whenever you use this website to make sure you understand how your information will be used. Upon any change in our privacy policy, Aggregate Knowledge will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here or by email.
If changes are made to this policy in regard to personally identifiable information (PII) and merger with non-PII, prior notice will be posted in this section of the website. In the case of such a change, visitors will be prompted to opt in. Any such material change in this privacy policy will apply only to information collected following the change in policy. Information collected prior to the material change in policy will continue to be governed by this policy in effect at the time the information was collected, unless you opt in to allow collected information to be governed by the new policy.
Security
Aggregate Knowledge adheres to industry-standard measures to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) collected and received. A combination of network and host security services are used to protect data related to the website.
For this website, we use a third-party service to collect and store the PII. The third-party service adheres to industry-standard measures to protect PII. For more information specifically related to the third-party service, please contact us at privacy@aggregateknowledge.com.
Aggregate Knowledge provides reasonable security for both non-PII, as well as PII. We endeavor to safeguard and protect all information we collect; however, be advised that, although we take reasonable technological precautions to protect the data we collect, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure.
Complaints and outside resources
Please email questions or requests for more information about Aggregate Knowledge's privacy policies to privacy@aggregateknowledge.com. In addition, we can be contacted at:
Aggregate Knowledge
Attn: Privacy
1820 Gateway Drive
Suite 300
San Mateo, CA 94404
650 293-2920
privacy@aggregateknowledge.com
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Aggregate Knowledge is committed to protecting privacy. Aggregate Knowledge is a licensee of the TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal Program and also a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), which adheres to self-regulatory principles that are designed to inform consumers about data collection and advertising practices across multiple websites, and provide the ability to opt out.