Data Protection

Data Protection

Privacy Statement

AAM respects your privacy. At all times we will strive to keep your personal information confidential. We will only collect, store, and use any personal information you provide to us for defined purposes and will share it only with companies who share our commitment to protecting your privacy and data. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, AAM is the data controller, which means that we determine the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is to be processed.  Please take a moment to read this privacy statement to learn how we handle your personal information. This privacy statement is subject to change at any time.

Normal Website Usage

When you visit AAM's website you do so anonymously. During normal website usage, we do not collect or store personally identifiable information such as name, mailing address, email address, phone number or social security number. We reserve our right to collect and/or store information during normal website usage, which may include the name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP), the date and time you entered our website, the amount of time you spend there, the pages you request, the referring website, and other such related information. Accordingly, we may gather this information to generate statistics and measure site activity for the purpose of continuously improving the website.

Why and When We Collect Personal Information

Sometimes it is necessary to collect specific information in order to fulfill a visitor's request for a service or correspondence. You voluntarily provide this information, such as name, mailing address, email address, type of request or other information, which is collected and stored by AAM to fulfill your request. Your personal information is not given to any other company for that company's independent use. AAM may employ third-party companies to perform services or functions on our behalf—data processors. These companies may require access to personal information in order to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Visitors to this website provide personally identifying information only when using one or more of the following services: (1) contact forms; (2) resume submission; (3) requests for additional information; (4) surveys and business reply forms; (5) subscription emails.

What We Do With Information You Provide Us

When contacting us about a product or service, visitors to our website may decide to send us information that identifies them personally. That information may be used to identify the user as a customer and AAM will respond accordingly. AAM will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to others. Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information if required to do so in compliance with applicable law or, a court order or legal process served on our website. Periodically, we may send electronic newsletters and other communications that contain industry, marketing, product, or event information. Only AAM (or its authorized agents, representatives or employees) will send you these direct mailings. You can opt-out of receiving further marketing information from AAM by following the instructions within the mailing. AAM will retain the data collected (either personal or usage) only as long as it is useful or necessary for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy or if it is legally required, needed to resolve disputes, or to enforce our legal agreements and policies. AAM administers and operates www.AAM.com from the United States. Other AAM sites may be administered and operated from various locations outside the United States.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

AAM will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, AAM may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

AAM may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

•         To comply with a legal obligation

•         To protect and defend the rights or property of AAM

•         To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website

•         To protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public

•         To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. AAM aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at DataProtection.Europe@aam.onmicrosoft.com

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where AAM relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).  However, we are also happy to address any concerns you have directly.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Behavioral Remarketing

AAM uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our website. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our website.

Facebook

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950

To opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

AdRoll

AdRoll remarketing service is provided by Semantic Sugar, Inc.

You can opt-out of AdRoll remarketing by visiting this AdRoll Advertising Preferences web page: http://info.evidon.com/pub_info/573?v=1nt=1nw=false

For more information on the privacy practices of AdRoll, please visit the AdRoll Privacy Policy web page: http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy

Children's Privacy

Our website does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Cookies Policy

 

Last updated: (Jan. 22, 2021)

AAM uses cookies on www.aam.com. By clicking “Accept” or scrolling past our cookies consent banner, you consent to the use of cookies.

 

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third­parties we may partner with may use cookies on the site, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the site or a third­party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

Cookies can be persistent or session cookies.

How AAM uses cookies

When you use and access the site, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the site, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.

We use both session and persistent cookies on the site and we use different types of cookies to run the site:

Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Third­party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third­parties cookies to report usage statistics of the site, deliver advertisements on and through the site, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Where can you find more information about cookies

You can learn more about cookies and the following third­party websites:

All About Cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by visiting this page on our website: www.aam.com/contact or emailing GDPR@aam.com.