Protecting your personal information is important to us. This Privacy Policy describes how Security SMEs LLC d/b/a OneAxiom (together with its affiliates, “OneAxiom,” “our,” “us,” or “we”) collects, uses, or discloses personal information we receive through our websites that link to this Privacy Policy, together with any related online or offline services provided by OneAxiom (collectively, the “Services”). This policy also describes your choices about the collection and use of your information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use our Services. By using the Services, you agree to be bound and abide by this Privacy Policy and our posted Terms of Use (the “Terms”). If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy or the Terms, or if you violate them in any way, your right to access or use the Services is terminated. IF YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE EXECUTED AGREEMENT WITH US (SUCH AS FOR PAID SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES), THE TERMS OF THAT AGREEMENT WILL CONTROL IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT. Please see Sections 11-13 of our Terms regarding your legal rights in any dispute involving our Services.
We may collect information about you through various means, including:
In order to provide you with our Services, we may collect the following categories of information:
If you provide us with information regarding another individual, you represent that you have that person's consent to give us their information and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Cookies are a commonly-used web technology that allows websites to store and retrieve certain information on a user's system, and track user's online activities. We, together with the vendors we use, may collect information about your use of our Services by such automated means, including but not limited to cookies, pixels, and other similar technologies.
Cookies and similar technologies can help us automatically identify you when you return to our website. Cookies help us review traffic patterns, improve the website, and determine what Services are popular. We can also use such information to deliver customized content and advertising to users of the Services whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
When you use the Services, the information we may collected by automated means, include, for example:
We may also ask advertisers or other partners to serve ads or services to you, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by us or the third party. If as er does not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow the visitor to reject cookies, but if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features our Services provide. We may share non-personal information we obtained via cookies with our advertisers and affiliates. Because there is not yet a consensus on how companies should respond to browser-based do-not-track (“DNT”) mechanisms, we do not respond to web browser-based DNT signals at this time.
We may use the information we obtain about you for purposes allowed by applicable laws, including to:
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances:
Where appropriate, we will limit sharing of your information in accordance with the choices you have provided us and as required under applicable law.
We offer you certain choices about what information we collect from you, how we use and disclose the information, and how we communicate with you.
Certain privacy laws may provide additional rights with respect to the collection and use of personal information collected by businesses: (i) disclose personal information maintained about the individual; (ii) correct or delete personal information maintained about the individual (subject to certain exceptions); (iii) not sell personal information about the individual to a third party (excluding qualified service providers); and (iv) not engage in third party targeted advertising. We do not engage in impactful profiling activities with respect to user's personal information, do not use sensitive personal information except for the reasons provided, and do not generally provide a financial incentive in return for the collection or use of personal information (except where disclosed with relevant terms at the time of collection). We do not share personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. It can be unlawful to discriminate against an individual for exercising such rights. Do to our size and operations, we may not be subject to any particular state's privacy laws, but you can submit such requests to us via the contact information provided below and we will endeavor to fulfill any obligations that are legally required, otherwise we will respond to such requests in our discretion.
Our Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States (“US”). In the event we receive personal information from a foreign jurisdiction under a contractual relationship, that contract will typically specify the privacy and security requirements and governing laws with respect to such information. In all other instances, this section addresses individuals residing outside of the US. This includes residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) including the European Union (“EU”), the United Kingdom (“UK”), Switzerland and any other relevant jurisdiction outside the United States with respect to your local privacy and data protection laws, to the extent they are applicable to us.
Where required by law, all processing of personal information is justified by a legally-recognized basis for processing. In the majority of cases, processing will be justified on one or more of the following bases for processing: (i) The processing is necessary to perform a contract with you (such as if you using an Account, subscribing to our Solutions or Services, or email marketing); (ii) The processing is necessary for us to comply with a relevant legal obligation, such as keeping accounting records; (iii) The processing is in our legitimate interests, which are not overridden by your interests and fundamental rights. Our legitimate interests are to use personal information to reasonably and responsibly conduct and develop our business activities without abusing any privacy interests or rights of such individuals, including provision of our Services, facilitating communications between users, and engaging in promotional and advertising activities with partners that may be of interest to you; and (iv) In some instances, we rely on your consent to our processing (at times as a secondary basis for processing in an abundance of caution).
If you use our Services from outside the United States, you acknowledge and agree that we may transfer your information to and from the United States. If you are in the EEA/EU, the UK, Switzerland or another jurisdiction that has imposed similar legal requirements regarding the lawful transfer of personal information from that jurisdiction to another country (e.g., the US), to the extent that we engage in such a transfer of your personal information (a “Cross-Border Transfer”) we will take steps to ensure that such Cross-Border Transfer satisfies known legal requirements. In particular: If we transfer personal information to a jurisdiction deemed by relevant regulatory authorities to provide adequate protection for personal information, we will rely on such adequacy decision, as applicable, and will otherwise take steps to conduct the Cross-Border Transfer using other legally-valid mechanisms, such as by entering into data transfer agreements with standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) among our affiliates and with relevant service providers, in any necessary supplementary safeguards. We monitor evolving laws and regulatory developments to assess if and when alternative or supplemental measures are available or necessary.
Residents of certain jurisdictions outside the United States may be entitled to exercise certain rights under privacy laws applicable to their personal information. This includes the right to (a) request access to your personal information; (b) request that we correct inaccurate personal information we hold about you; (c) request that we delete any personal information we hold about you; (d) restrict or object (i.e., withdraw consent) to the processing of personal information we hold about you in some circumstances; and/or (e) receive any personal information we hold about you in a structured and commonly used format. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority if the processing of your personal information infringes applicable law. Please contact us as provided below if you wish to exercise any of your rights, or if you have any inquiries or complaints regarding the processing of your personal information.
Our Services may contain links to other websites or online services, including social media. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other websites or online services, and we encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of any other website or online service that collects personal information.
You may see us promoted by other businesses on various websites, web pages, social media and other platforms. Please note that we do not always have complete information about where our brand may be displayed or promoted, and if you believe that we are featured in venues that are inappropriate or offensive, please contact us.
We endeavor to maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we maintain against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. However, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us, or guarantee that this information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. We will make any legally required disclosures in the event of any compromise of personal information. To the extent the law allows us to provide such notification via e-mail or conspicuous posting on the Services, you agree to accept notice in that form.
We will only retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for any business, legal, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for such personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as all applicable legal requirements.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 on our Services and will endeavor to promptly delete any information upon discovery.
We may revise or update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will post the updated version on our Services, and may notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Policy. We will indicate on our Privacy Policy when it was most recently updated. Your continued use of our Services after such updates will constitute an acknowledgment of the change and agreement to abide and be bound by the updated Privacy Policy.
Any complaints, questions, or comments regarding our policies or other abuse of our network, may be submitted anonymously via this online form. Please include all applicable information that will assist us in investigating the complaint, including all applicable headers of forwarded messages. Please state the urgency of the situation should you need immediate attention.
You can also contact us more generally at (703) 543-9900 or info@oneaxiom.com.
This Privacy Policy was last updated July 3, 2024.