Privacy Policy

Your Privacy on the Internet

Protecting the individual’s privacy on the Internet is crucial to the future of Internet-based business and the move toward a true Internet economy. Anderson Sterling Associates has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to the individual’s right to privacy. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices for this website.

This Privacy Statement covers this website and other sites that reference this Privacy Statement. Some Anderson Sterling Associates partners, programs and/or sites may have their own, possibly different, privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each of the Anderson Sterling Associates’s partner websites you visit or review.

Global Privacy Fundamentals

Our privacy practices reflect current global principles and standards on handling personal information. These principles include notice of data use, choice of data use, data access, data integrity, security, onward transfer, and enforcement/oversight. We abide by the privacy laws in the States where we do business.

Consent

By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of the information as described here. If we decide to make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will post the changes on this site so that you will always know what information we collect, and how we use it.

From time to time, as may be required by applicable law, we may also seek your explicit consent to process certain data and information collected on this website or volunteered by you.

Collection and Processing of Your Personal Data

To serve you better and understand your needs and interests, Anderson Sterling Associates collects, exports, and uses personal information with adequate notice and consent, along with required filings with data protection authorities, when applicable.

When you visit our web site, we may record your IP address and use cookies and other Internet technologies (referred to below as Automated Tools and Embedded Web Links) to gather general information about our visitors and their interests. The technologies used and the information collected are described in more detail below.

We may further collect and process any information and data that you volunteer to us, e.g. when you fill out a form, subscribe to newsletters, or participate in online surveys, discussion groups or forums.

Use and Purpose of Collected Personal Data

The information Anderson Sterling Associates collects to understand your needs and interests helps Anderson Sterling Associates deliver a consistent and personalized experience. We will use such information only as described in this Privacy Statement and/or in the way we specify at the time of collection. We will not subsequently change the way your personal data is used without your consent, as required by applicable law. Some of the ways we may use your personal data include, but are not limited to:

• To deliver the services that you have requested;
• To keep you up to date on the latest announcements, and other information. This may occasionally include information from other companies or business partners about products and services that could be of value to you ;
• To tailor information about our services to your individual interests. For example, during a visit to our site, it allows us to provide you with specific information services that may be of interest;
• To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content;
• To provide the ability to contact you, and provide you with customer feedback and support;
• To provide contests, sweepstakes or other marketing or promotional activities on the AndersonSterlingAssociates.com or affiliate websites. Personal data may be collected to administer those programs;
• To conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better products and services to our customers and end users. Your completion of any questionnaires is voluntary;
• To support recruitment inquiries; and
• To meet contractual obligations.

IP Addresses

We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems, to administer our website, and to gather demographic information. We may also use IP addresses or other information, such as your AndersonSterlingAssociates.com user information you have shared on this website or at any earlier occasion or a campaign code, to determine which pages on our sites are being visited and topics that may be of interest so we can provide you with information about relevant products and services. Generally, Anderson Sterling Associates will aggregate such data only in an anonymous way and will not tie it to a particular individual. When you visit our site, we recognize only your domain name.

Anderson Sterling Associates may also collect IP addresses and other technical information such as browser type. This information is collected when you connect to Anderson Sterling Associates so that we may identify your session, deliver content based on the technical capabilities of your browser, and for quality control purposes. Your IP address will not be used to identify you unless you provide your prior consent.

Anderson Sterling Associates will only gather information related to your visit to the Anderson Sterling Associates site. We do not track or collect personal information from your visits to companies or entities outside Anderson Sterling Associates.

Automated Tools

In addition to the information you provide, Anderson Sterling Associates may also collect information during your visit to Anderson Sterling Associates’ website through automated tools, which include Web beacons, cookies, embedded Web links, and other commonly used information-gathering tools. These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to our website such as your browser type and language, access times, and the address of the website from which you arrived at Anderson Sterling Associates’ website. Using these tools, Anderson Sterling Associates is also able to confirm receipt of e-mails that the recipient consented to receive, and can track other information such as pages visited on the Anderson Sterling Associates site and certain other aggregate data that is not related to a particular individual.

Embedded Web Links

Emails from Anderson Sterling Associates often use links designed to lead you to a relevant area on the Web, after redirection through Anderson Sterling Associates’ servers. The redirection system allows Anderson Sterling Associates to change the destination URL of these links, if necessary, and to determine the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives.

In emails, such links may also allow Anderson Sterling Associates to determine if you have clicked on a link in the email, and the information about this interaction may be connected to your personal identity. If you do not want Anderson Sterling Associates to collect information about the links you clicked, you can simply choose not to click on the links in an e-mail that Anderson Sterling Associates sends you.

Cookies

We use cookies to deliver personalized content, to save you having to re-enter your password repeatedly, and to tailor our information offerings to how you and others use the site.

E-mail Addresses

If you choose to give us your e-mail address, we will communicate with you via e-mail. We do not share your e-mail address with others outside of Anderson Sterling Associates. You can choose not to receive any more e-mail at any time.

Depending on how your e-mail application is set up, information about you may be transmitted automatically when you send an e-mail to Anderson Sterling Associates.
If you choose to register for third-party services, we may need to send some information from your AndersonSterlingAssociates.com registration to the service provider, possibly including your e-mail address.

Sharing Your Personal Data

Anderson Sterling Associates may use the information internationally in connection with processing your inquiries and orders, to help improve our products and services and for processing and storage.

We may share such information with business partners, service vendors, authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction, including processing orders, processing credit card transactions, hosting websites, hosting event and seminar registration and providing customer support, or providing you with information on products and services that may be of interest to you.

We only provide these third parties with the minimum amount of personal data necessary to provide the services on our behalf, and the third parties are not permitted to use your personal data except for the limited purpose of completing the requested service or transaction.

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes unless you have granted us permission to do so.

We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal data and other related information, if necessary. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

We may collect and possibly share personal data and any other additional information available to us 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 Anderson Sterling Associates’ terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

While visiting Anderson Sterling Associates’ website you may be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third-party supplier, not on AndersonSterlingAssociates.com . When information is collected on behalf of Anderson Sterling Associates exclusively, the appropriate Anderson Sterling Associates entity’s privacy statement will be referenced on the site and will govern how information is used. For other, non-Anderson Sterling Associates sites, the site’s owner’s privacy policy will be referenced. It is Anderson Sterling Associates’ practice to require such suppliers and business partners to handle information in a manner consistent with Anderson Sterling Associates’ privacy statement.

Security of Your Personal Data

Anderson Sterling Associates is committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. Anderson Sterling Associates uses a combination of industry-standard security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Anderson Sterling Associates supports online security using secure server technology because we want your data to be safe. There are state-of-the-art security arrangements and facilities on the Anderson Sterling Associates site to prevent abuse.

Links to Other Sites

This site may contain links to other sites. Anderson Sterling Associates is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites outside of Anderson Sterling Associates.

Choice/Opt-Out

We communicate with users who subscribe to our services on a regular basis via email, and we may also communicate by phone to resolve complaints or investigate suspicious transactions. We may use your email address to confirm your opening of an account, to send you information about changes to our services, and to send notices and other disclosures as required by law. Generally, users cannot opt out of these communications, but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional.
Anderson Sterling Associates provides you the opportunity to exercise an opt-out choice if you do not want to receive other types of communication from us such as emails or updates from us. The opt-out choice is found at the bottom of every promotional email we send.

Data Retention

Anderson Sterling Associates will not retain your personal data longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

Children’s Privacy

Anderson Sterling Associates does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18. If we learn that we have collected Personal Data on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that data from our systems.

Revised and posted as of 27th of May, 2015.