Applied Technology Group, Inc. appreciates the trust and confidence you have placed in us and understand the importance of protecting your personal information. As part of our commitment to our customers, we annually notify customers of the policy we have in place to protect private information.
Effective Date: January 1, 2020
The privacy and security of your information is very important to Applied Technology Group, Inc. (“ATG”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We are deeply committed to maintaining industry standard levels of security that comply with applicable federal and state laws to help protect the personal information we collect.
This Privacy Notice applies to your interaction and communication with ATG, including, without limitation, in person, by phone, through mail or email or through any online or mobile site, application or social media account that ATG owns and controls (collectively, “Sites”), unless a separate privacy notice is posted or made available to you and supplements this Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Notice applies only to the Sites and does not extend to other websites, including websites owned and controlled by our partners or third-party websites for which we have provided links, or to any social media platforms, which are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies.
Information we collect:
We collect the below categories of information directly and indirectly from individuals and the parties with which we do business in a variety of ways, including in person, by phone, through mail or email and through our Sites. These may include parties that interact with us directly (our customers or individuals that apply for our products, respond to our surveys, request information about our products or services or otherwise voluntarily provide us with their information), parties to which we provide goods or services, parties that provide goods or services to us and other parties with whom we offer or provide products and services.
We may continue to collect and store the following types of information:
- Identifiers, such as, name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, taxpayer ID, driver’s license number, passport number, government ID or IP address.
- Geological data, such as, physical location or movements.
- Commercial information, such as, organizational information, records of purchasing history.
- Information that you provide by filling in forms or providing other contributions on our Sites.
- Information received from a government entity or other third party.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Responses to surveys.
How we use information we collect:
We may use information:
- To pay your bill; our Pay Online portal does not save your information on our servers. The payment transaction is processed via AuthorizeNet and no credit card or personal data is saved. ATG receives an email for your payment and our merchant account receives the funds.
- To detect, investigate or prevent activity that may be illegal, violate our policies, cause harm to our operations or compromise our security.
- To optimize, improve or enhance our products, services and operations.
- To respond to your inquiries or fulfill your requests, including to provide individuals with, or evaluate their eligibility for, products and services that they have requested from us.
- To communicate with individuals about their accounts or transactions that they have made with us.
- To provide important information regarding our products or services, including changes to our policies or other terms, conditions or agreements and our Sites.
- To allow participation in surveys and other promotions.
- To send offers and promotions for our products and services or for other products and services that may be of interest.
- To personalize online or mobile content and user experiences.
- To provide advertising based on activity on our Sites.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us to you at the time you provide us information.
- We may disclose each of the categories of information we collect for any of the business purposes set forth above.
How we share information we collect:
We may disclose information that we collect:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
- To comply with any court order, law or legal process, such as, responding to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use with respect to our Site and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of ATG, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- We may disclose aggregated information about you, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose each of the categories of information we collect for any of the business purposes set forth above.
California resident privacy rights:
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to disclose categories of personal data we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect personal data, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.
Cookies and similar technologies:
We or our service providers may automatically collect information about you or visitors to our Sites using cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on a computer or mobile device by a webpage server that allows the webpage server to determine things like how much time each visit by the computer or device lasts and what the computer or device is viewing and clicking on during each visit. This information may be used for security purposes, to help in navigation, to display content more effectively, or if in an aggregated format to improve experiences, optimize our sites and better serve you with appropriate and relevant marketing offers. The cookies that we use do not track activities that occur on websites other than our own.
Cookies that are used as part of our Sites may include cookies of a third party website that are being cobrowsed, for example, to deliver the Sites as intended by the third party website operator.
While most web browsers are automatically set to accept cookies, web browser preferences can be modified to disable cookies. Disabling or declining cookies, however, will likely impact or disable some of our Sites’ functionality and/or your user experience.
Changes to this Privacy Notice:
We may change this Privacy Notice at any time. The most current version of this Privacy Notice will be posted and available on the Sites. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective at the time we post the revised Privacy Notice to the Sites. If we make material changes to how we treat your information, we will notify you through a notice on our Sites home page. Please review it periodically. Your use of the Site following any changes made means that you accept the revised Privacy Notice.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Applied Technology Group, Inc.
4440 Easton Drive
Bakersfield, CA 93309
Website: www.atginternet.com
Email: atg@atginternet.ocm
Phone: 661-322-8650