1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes how Alevaris Group, LLC ("Alevaris," "we," "our," or "us") collects, uses, and discloses information in connection with our facility security staffing assessment application ("Application"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information. By accessing or using our Application, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use our Application.
2. Information we collect
2.1. Information you provide to us
- Account Information: When you register for an account, we collect your name, email address, company or facility name, job title, and account credentials.
- Facility Information: Information about your facilities, including location, size, layout, operating hours, and existing security measures.
- Operational Data: Information about facility operations, including patient/visitor volume, high-value assets, incident history, and operational workflows.
- Assessment Responses: Your responses to security assessment questions, surveys, and questionnaires.
- Communications: Information you provide when you contact us for support or inquiries.
2.2. Information we collect automatically
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our Application
- Device Information: Technical information about your devices
- Log Data: Server logs and similar data
- Cookies: Information about your browsing activities
3. How we use your information
3.1. Providing and improving our Application
- To provide you with access to and use of our Application
- To deliver the specific services you request, including security staffing assessments and recommendations
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests
- To send administrative information, such as updates, security alerts, and support messages
- To personalize your experience with our Application
- To maintain, improve, and develop our Application and services
- To enhance the accuracy and relevance of security recommendations
- To calibrate our algorithms based on evolving security trends and data
3.2. Analytics and research
- To better understand how users access and use our Application
- To evaluate and improve our Application, services, marketing, and user experiences
- To develop new features, functionality, and services
- To generate insights, trends, patterns, and statistical intelligence regarding facility security practices
- To create industry knowledge resources and benchmarks
- To advance the field of facility security through data-driven research
3.3. Legal and security purposes
- To protect the safety, rights, property, or security of Alevaris, the Application, any third party, or the public
- To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues
- To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests
4. Data processing and transformations
4.1. Data transformations
In the course of providing our services, we process the information you provide to generate meaningful insights, recommendations, and statistical analyses. This processing may include:
- Applying our proprietary algorithms and methodologies to your facility information
- Transforming raw data into security staffing recommendations and risk assessments
- Converting input data into formats suitable for comprehensive analysis
- Creating statistical models that improve our analytical capabilities
- Developing intelligence mechanisms to enhance recommendation quality
4.2. Derivative information
Our Application and services may generate derivative information based on the data you provide. This derivative information:
- Is created through our proprietary processing methods and analytical systems
- May include patterns, trends, and statistical correlations
- Helps power our proprietary security staffing algorithms and recommendations
- Contributes to our ongoing efforts to improve the Application's functionality
- Enhances the accuracy and relevance of security staffing recommendations
- Improves our ability to predict and prevent security vulnerabilities
- Enables continuous refinement of our assessment methodologies
- May exist in forms that are distinct from the original information sources
- May be retained and used independently of the original information sources
4.3. Aggregate information
We may process information in ways that transform it into aggregate forms that do not directly identify you or your facility. This aggregate information:
- No longer contains individually identifiable characteristics
- May combine information across multiple facilities and users
- Enhances our ability to identify broad patterns and industry trends
- Informs the ongoing development of our analytical methodologies
- Contributes to the advancement of security staffing best practices
- Allows for continuous improvement in assessment accuracy
- Enhances our Application's ability to deliver personalized recommendations
- Facilitates the creation of more effective security staffing models
- May be used for various business purposes, including to improve our services
5. Information sharing and disclosure
5.1. Service providers
We may share information with third-party vendors, service providers, and contractors who perform services on our behalf to help us operate, improve, and maintain our Application.
5.2. Business transfers
If Alevaris is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Application of any change in ownership or uses of information, as well as any choices you may have regarding that information.
5.3. Legal requirements
We may disclose information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
5.4. Business intelligence
We may share certain forms of processed information, including statistical analyses, patterns, trends, and insights derived from our analysis with:
- Industry partners for collaborative research initiatives
- Security standards organizations to contribute to best practices
- Academic institutions for research purposes
- Industry publications to advance the field of facility security
- Prospective clients as part of our service demonstrations
Such shared information will be in forms that do not directly identify specific facilities or users.
6. Your choices and rights
6.1. Account information
You may update, correct, or delete your account information by logging into your account or by contacting us directly.
6.2. Communications
You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
6.3. Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Application.
7. Data retention
We retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we cannot identify you.
The insights, patterns, and derivative forms of data that emerge from our analysis processes may be retained indefinitely to maintain and improve the quality of our assessment algorithms, enhance prediction accuracy, and provide continuously improving security recommendations to all users. These ongoing improvements benefit all Application users through more accurate and effective security staffing guidance.
8. Data security
We implement reasonable technical, administrative, and physical safeguards designed to protect the information we collect. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems or your information.
9. Changes to this privacy policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or through the Application prior to the changes becoming effective. Your continued use of the Application after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
10. Children's privacy
Our Application is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the Application.
11. Contact information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Alevaris Group, LLC
1 Perimeter Park South, Ste. 100N
Birmingham, AL 35243
[email protected]
+1 (205) 567-0203