Online Privacy Practices Notice
Keeping your information secure
This Notice Is For Your Information
PRIVACY NOTICE: Allied Fire & Security believes in protecting the confidentiality and security of the information that we collect about our customers. This notice refers to Allied Fire & Security by the terms "us,” and “we,” or “our.” This notice describes our privacy policy and describes how we treat the information we receive (the “Information”) about our customers.
We here at Allied Fire & Security are committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the www.alliedfireandsecurity.com website and governs data collection and usage. By using the www.alliedfireandsecurity.com, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
WHY WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE INFORMATION: We collect and use information for business purposes with respect to the extension of credit and other business relationships involving you. These business purposes include evaluating a request for the extension of credit, or for doing business with us involving our products or services, administering our products or services and processing transactions requested by you. We may also use the information to offer you other products or services we provide, and to generally evaluate our business relationships with you.
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501-06 and 16 C.F.R. §§ 312.1-312.12, www.alliedfireandsecurity.com does not permit children under 13 years of age to become users of this website, and www.alliedfireandsecurity.com does not collect information from children. By using www.alliedfireandsecurity.com's website, you represent that you are not under 13 years of age.
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION: We get most information directly from you. The information that you give us when applying for credit or making purchases generally provides the information we need. If we need to verify information or need additional information from third parties such as mercantile commercial credit reporting agencies, (if appropriate) consumer credit reporting agencies and other sources permitted by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Information collected may relate to your finances, business activities, credit history and other financial characteristics, as well as transactions with us or with others, including our Affiliates.
If you register with www.alliedfireandsecurity.com, Allied Fire & Security will collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. www.alliedfireandsecurity.com also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code or region.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by www.alliedfireandsecurity.com. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by www.alliedfireandsecurity.com for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the www.alliedfireandsecurity.com Website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through www.alliedfireandsecurity.com public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: www.alliedfireandsecurity.com does not read any of your private online communications.
Allied Fire & Security encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from www.alliedfireandsecurity.com so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. www.alliedfireandsecurity.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the www.alliedfireandsecurity.com website.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: Allied Fire & Security collects and uses your personal information to operate the www.alliedfireandsecurity.com website and deliver the services you have requested. Allied Fire & Security also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Allied Fire & Security and its affiliates. Allied Fire & Security may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Allied Fire & Security does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. www.alliedfireandsecurity.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, www.alliedfireandsecurity.com may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to www.alliedfireandsecurity.com, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Allied Fire & Security keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within www.alliedfireandsecurity.com, in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within www.alliedfireandsecurity.com to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Use of Cookies: The Website use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize www.alliedfireandsecurity.com pages, or register with www.alliedfireandsecurity.com site or services, a cookie helps www.alliedfireandsecurity.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information. When you return to the same www.alliedfireandsecurity.com website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the www.alliedfireandsecurity.com features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the www.alliedfireandsecurity.com services or websites you visit.
HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION: We treat information as a confidential. Our employees are required to protect the confidentiality of information. Employees may access information only when there is an appropriate reason to do so, such as to administer or offer our products or services, including the extension of credit to you. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect information; these safeguards comply with applicable laws. Employees are required to comply with our established policies. We maintain the same standard of privacy after the customer's relationship has ended as we do for current customers.
Allied Fire & Security secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Allied Fire & Security secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE: We may disclose any information when we believe it necessary for the conduct of our business, or where disclosure is required by law. For example, information may be disclosed to others to enable them to provide business services for us, such as helping us to evaluate requests for credit extension by you, performing general administration activities for us and assisting us in processing a transaction requested by you. Information may also be disclosed for auditor research purposes; or to law enforcement and regulatory agencies, for example, to help us prevent fraud. Information may be disclosed to others that are outside of Allied Fire & Security, such as companies that process data for us, companies that provide general administration services for us, commercial credit reporting agencies and (if appropriate) consumer reporting agencies. We may make other disclosures of information as permitted by law. We do not share or make available information we collect to nonaffiliated companies for the purpose of providing you with offers of products and services.
Allied Fire & Security websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on www.alliedfireandsecurity.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of www.alliedfireandsecurity.com: and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Www.alliedfireandsecurity.com, or the public.
ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF INFORMATION: Generally, upon your written request, we will make available information for your review. Information collected in connection with, or anticipation of, any claim or legal proceeding will not be made available. If you notify us that the information is incorrect, we will review it. If we agree, we will correct our records. If you do not agree with our conclusion, you may submit a short statement of dispute, which we will include in any future disclosure of information.
FURTHER INFORMATION: In addition to any other privacy notice we may provide, the recently enacted Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (the Financial Services Modernization Act) passed by Congress established new privacy standards, and requires us to provide this summary of our privacy policy to you once each year. You may have additional rights under other applicable laws such as the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. For information regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at Allied Fire & Security, Attn: Credit Manager, 425 W. Second Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201-4311.
CONSUMER CREDIT INFORMATION: You have the right to prohibit information contained in any file with a credit-reporting agency from being used in any credit or insurance transaction that you did not initiate. To exercise that right, you may write to the following credit bureaus: Experian Credit Marketing, PO Box 919, Allen, TX 75013; Equifax Options, PO Box 740123, Atlanta, GA 30374-0123; and TransUnion Name Removal Opt-Out Request, PO Box 97328, Jackson, MS 39288. This only applies to consumer credit information as defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Changes to this Statement: Allied Fire & Security will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Allied Fire & Security encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how www.alliedfireandsecurity.com is protecting your information.
Contact Information: Allied Fire & Security welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that www.alliedfireandsecurity.com has not adhered to this Statement, please contact www.alliedfireandsecurity.com at info@allied-security.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
