Allied Universal (“we” or “us”) are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you.
It contains important information on how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
On our websites we collect and use personal information (including personal contact information, information from your device or website usage information) in order to:
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions: You may give us some information about you by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our cookies policy for further details.
Third parties or publicly available sources: We will receive personal data about you from various third parties such as analytics providers or analytics networks.
We also collect cookies on our site for performance related tasks. You can read about the cookies we collect here.
We collect information to analyse the performance of our websites and how different parts of our website are used. We use Google Analytics to do this.
Google Analytics stores information about how users get to our sites and from which device types, how content is being used whilst on the site and how long users spend on our site.
Google Analytics also provides information on interests and demographics of our visitors.
The information is collected using a tag placed on our websites and does not relate to any personally identifiable information being collected.
Allied Universal does not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
You can read Google’s Data Processing Amendment online here.
You can read Google’s Data retention policy here
We have set our analytics not to expire i.e. the information will be retained in order to allow us to analyse trends in our website usage over time.
If you want to opt out of Google Analytics collection you can install a browser add on.
If you wish to opt out of data collection for demographic and interest data you can do this using Google Ad Settings here.
You can manage your consent via our consent management solution or your browser.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
We will not share your personal information with any other third party and we will only provide your personal information which we consider is necessary for the performance of that reason.
We do not need your consent if we use special categories of your personal information in accordance with our written policy to carry out our legal obligations. In limited circumstances, we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain particularly sensitive data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of information that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent.
We will inform you and ask your consent to use cookies on our website.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.
Allied Universal have agreed to retain the information collected in Google Analytics indefinitely in order to allow us to analyse trends in our website usage over time. This is not personally identifiable information.
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
If you have questions about the privacy aspects of our services or if you would like to review, change, or remove your personal information, please call 855-592-6982 (toll free) or email privacy@aus.com.
