COOKIES AND NON-COOKIE TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

ASI may use browser cookies on our websites to keep track of your visits. A “cookie” is a small amount of data that is sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Use of cookies may allow ASI to provide a higher quality, more relevant, customer experience. Use of cookies may also allow ASI to automate entry into password protected portions of the websites so that you will not need to re-enter your password each time you visit our Websites. We may also use cookies to track which areas of the websites are most popular with our users and to further ASI’s understanding concerning overall use of the site. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screens to learn more about these functions and how to use them. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of websites may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies. For more detailed information on how to control cookies you may wish to visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Some cookies we use are from third party companies, such as Hubspot and Google to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our sites. These companies use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our sites. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies: Hubspot at Hubspot Privacy Policy and Google at Google Privacy Policy. ASI’s Websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the websites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by HubSpot and Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. For more information about Google Analytics please click on the following link: http://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

ASI may also use web beacons (including conversion pixels) or other technologies for similar purposes as above and we may include these on our websites and in our newsletter and/or promotional materials, to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device. MailChimp uses this technology in our newsletters. For more information about web beacons please read their Privacy Policy.

EXTERNAL LINKS AND PLUGINS

ASI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-ASI websites to which we provide external links and/or plugins (generally for social media) from our websites. When you click on this, your personal data will be shared with the relevant external site. Once you leave this website, the processing of your personal data is no longer regulated by us nor governed by this Policy. Where you click on a social media plugin (indicated by the relevant symbol), personal data is shared with that entity. It is generally your IP address, information about the directing site, and, where you remain automatically logged-in on your device to the social media site, they will collect information about your profile. Clicking on external links and plugins is entirely voluntary; therefore, if you do not wish for your personal data to be processed in this way, you do not have to click on these links.