Align Business Advisory (“Align Business Advisory Services”) operates alignba.com and may operate other websites. It is Align Business Advisory policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Align Business Advisory collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Align Business Advisory purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Align Business Advisory visitors use its website. From time to time, Align Business Advisory may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Align Business Advisory also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on alignba.com blogs/sites. Align Business Advisory only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Align Business Advisory websites choose to interact with Align Business Advisory in ways that require Align Business Advisory to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Align Business Advisory gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at alignba.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Align Business Advisory are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Align Business Advisory collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Align Business Advisory. Align Business Advisory does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Align Business Advisory may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Align Business Advisory may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Align Business Advisory does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Align Business Advisory discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Align Business Advisory behalf or to provide services available at Align Business Advisory websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Align Business Advisory websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Align Business Advisory will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Align Business Advisory discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Align Business Advisory believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Align Business Advisory, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Align Business Advisory website and have supplied your email address, Align Business Advisory may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Align Business Advisory and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Align Business Advisory takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Align Business Advisory uses cookies to help Align Business Advisory identify and track visitors, their usage of Align Business Advisory website, and their website access preferences. Align Business Advisory visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Align Business Advisory websites, with the drawback that certain features of Align Business Advisory websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Align Business Advisory also works with third parties for advertising and remarketing purposes. These third parties use personal data, such as visitor IP addresses, collected from visitors using tracking technologies such as third party cookies and non-cookie technologies, in order to serve targeted advertising and for measurement and analytics purposes. Our partners [such as NextRoll] may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit you to block such technologies. For this reason, you can use the following third party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving you interest based advertising:
The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
The EDAA’s opt-out platform: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
Business Transfers
If Align Business Advisory, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Align Business Advisory goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Align Business Advisory may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Align Business Advisory and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Align Business Advisory may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Align Business Advisory sole discretion. Align Business Advisory encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a alignba.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Last updated August 12, 2024.