Thank you for visiting www.americansecurityproject.org [1], the website for the American Security Project (ASP). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this statement explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. The American Security Project reserves the right to change this policy at any time. ASP will make reasonable efforts to inform users of any changes.

Information Collected
The American Security Project website may allow you to enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, contribute money, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various reports, programs or issues. Credit card information is collected for contribution processing and all processing is performed through a secure third-party payment site or service using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to protect the transmission of your confidential information.

ASP also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Internet Explorer or Firefox), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Microsoft Windows or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., Comcast or Verizon).

Please be aware that if you decide to disclose personally identifiable information on a publicly-accessible area of the ASP site (such as the Town Hall forums), this information may become public. ASP does not control the acts of other visitors to its sites, so please be cautious when deciding to reveal personal information on a public area of any site. Please contact us if you believe a visitor to the ASP site is improperly collecting or using information about you or other users.

The American Security Project is concerned about the safety and privacy of children online. Because of this, we will make all efforts to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. We do not and will not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13, and we will develop our site with the capacity to block acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested. It is possible that by fraud or deception by others we may receive information given to us or pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or else delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by e-mailing us at info@americansecurityproject.org [2].

Usage of Collected Information
ASP may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our reports or related information, to respond to your inquiries, and to offer you other information that we believe may be of interest to you. We may use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about content you have contributed to the site.

We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage and better design the site to serve you. ASP may also use other third party web analytics products or services to analyze this information (e.g., Google Analytics).

ASP will not sell or share the personal information you provide or that we collect through our website to any unaffiliated organization without your permission, with the following exceptions: We may share personal information with third parties who provide services, such as website hosting or other services of an administrative or technical nature, solely for the purpose of providing such services and subject to confidentiality obligations. In addition, we reserve the right to disclose personal information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by law. From time to time, we may send you information from other like-minded organizations whose products or services we think subscribers might find interesting, but we do not exchange, trade, rent, or give email lists to unaffiliated third parties.

If you sign up for one of our mailing lists we will collect relevant contact information and enable you to self-select the type of information that you’d like to receive. You will be able to unsubscribe from communications you receive from us by following the directions included in each such communication.

The American Security Project appreciates and accepts online contributions. Contributors will be asked to submit contact information for verification purposes. Financial information will be transmitted to third-parties only for the purpose of processing your donation, and will not be stored by the American Security Project.

Cookies
To enhance your experience the ASP website may use "cookies." Cookies are text files that websites place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. However, confidential data such as credit card information will never be stored in a cookie.

ASP uses cookies to better understand site usage and to improve the content we offer on our site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site). We also may use cookies to better offer you information that you have indicated an interest in.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites
The ASP website may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult each website’s privacy notice as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

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