Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 14th April 2005

Associated Security Professionals Ltd takes your privacy seriously. Please take a moment to read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how Associated Security Professionals Ltd treats personal information that Associated Security Professionals Ltd collects and receives, including information related to your use of Associated Security Professionals Ltd products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Associated Security Professionals Ltd does not own or control or to people that Associated Security Professionals Ltd does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

Associated Security Professionals Ltd collects personal information when you register with Associated Security Professionals Ltd, when you use Associated Security Professionals Ltd products or services, when you visit Associated Security Professionals Ltd pages or the pages of certain Associated Security Professionals Ltd partners, and when you enter promotions, sweepstakes, or incentive programs.

Associated Security Professionals Ltd may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, post code, occupation, industry, and data about your work history. Once you register with Associated Security Professionals Ltd and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

Associated Security Professionals Ltd collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners.

Associated Security Professionals Ltd automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the page you request. This information may be stored in our database.

Associated Security Professionals Ltd uses information for the following general purposes: to customise the content you see, fulfil your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Associated Security Professionals Ltd does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Associated Security Professionals Ltd under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Associated Security Professionals Ltd communicate with you about offers from Associated Security Professionals Ltd and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Associated Security Professionals Ltd's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We transfer information about you if Associated Security Professionals Ltd is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Associated Security Professionals Ltd will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Associated Security Professionals Ltd does not provide any personal information to our advertisers when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to select and to display the ad.

Associated Security Professionals Ltd advertisers may include security products and services companies, airline and travel companies, etc.

Your IP Address

Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.

Cookies

Associated Security Professionals Ltd sets and accesses Associated Security Professionals Ltd cookies on your computer. The information stored in Associated Security Professionals Ltd's cookies is encrypted as an additional method of security. The information collected by cookies helps us identify you when you use the various products and services on the Associated Security Professionals Ltd site and to dynamically generate content on web pages or in emails specifically designed for you. Cookies also allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, or opening our emails, and for what purposes. We may use cookie information to target certain content or advertisements or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements.

We require the use of cookies in order to authenticate you on the Site. Turning off all cookies may prevent you from signing-on to the system or accessing certain functions and conveniences on our site, which may not work properly.

While it may be possible to link non-personal cookie information to Personal Information collected in other ways, Associated Security Professionals Ltd only uses the cookie to identify the user and session information.

Beacons

In limited circumstances we also may use "Web Beacons" to collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of our web site and the sites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of emails, special promotions or newsletters we send to you. Web beacons are tiny graphic image files imbedded in a web page or email that provide a presence on the web page or email and send back to its home server information from the Users' browser. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, or opening our emails, and for what purposes. Associated Security Professionals Ltd web beacons are not used to track your activity across Websites generally. While it may be possible to link non-personal web beacon information to Personal Information collected in other ways, we want you to know that we will not, without your consent, link the web beacon information we collect to Personal Information you provide to us on our site.

Emails and Newsletters

As noted in the discussions of cookies and web beacons, Associated Security Professionals Ltd collects anonymous, non-personal information about your use of e-mails and newsletters that we send to you. In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the site of a third party which, acting on behalf of Associated Security Professionals Ltd, notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to its proper destination; this re-direction process will not be apparent to you. When you use Associated Security Professionals Ltd's "Tell a Friend" or "Tell a Pro" application, Associated Security Professionals Ltd emails your comments, the article, or other content you designate to your friend's email address and lists your email address as the sender. Associated Security Professionals Ltd uses the friend's email address only for the purpose of sending your friend the email you requested and for no other purpose unless otherwise disclosed to you at the time you send the email.

Public Forums

This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you use Associated Security Professionals Ltd's public forums such as discussions groups, public chat sessions with instructors, etc. where users with similar interests can share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer. You should be aware that any information shared in a chat room, forum, or online discussion is public information and may be collected and disclosed by third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy.

Emails to Associated Security Professionals Ltd

This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send business information, ideas, concepts or inventions to Associated Security Professionals Ltd by email or to the various Associated Security Professionals Ltd departments listed on the "Contact Us" link on our Website. If you want to keep business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Associated Security Professionals Ltd. We give our best effort to answer every email in a timely manner, but are not always able to do so.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General

You can edit your Associated Security Professionals Ltd Account Information, modify your account preferences at any time.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Associated Security Professionals Ltd service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Associated Security Professionals Ltd Newsletter, that are considered part of your Associated Security Professionals Ltd account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

You can delete your Associated Security Professionals Ltd account by visiting our Account Deletion page, or by emailing our member services department. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with goverment regulations to protect personal information about you. Your Associated Security Professionals Ltd Account Information is password-protected. In certain areas Associated Security Professionals Ltd uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Associated Security Professionals Ltd may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Associated Security Professionals Ltd account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.