Privacy Policy

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Updated: November 1st, 2024
Effective: November 8, 2024

Aston Technologies LLC (“Aston”) understands that you care about how information about you is used. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how we collect information pertaining to businesses and business people (“Business Information”) and all other types of information, including personal information, through our online services (the “Services”), website, and mobile applications (collectively with the Services, the “Site”); how we maintain, use, and share that information; and how you can manage the way information about you is handled.

“Aston” for purposes of this Privacy Policy includes Aston Technologies LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its affiliates.

For individuals residing in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, please click here to find out more information.
For information specific to residents of states with privacy laws, click here to find out more about your privacy rights under applicable state law(s).

I. Introduction

This brief summary of certain information in this Policy is intended to help you quickly understand what Aston is, how you can opt out of our database, and the potential outcomes of remaining in our database. Aston collects business contact and similar information related to individuals when they are working in their professional or employment capacity and uses this information to create professional profiles of individuals and profiles of businesses. We provide this information to our customers, who are businesses trying to reach business professionals for their own business-to-business sales, marketing, and recruiting activities.

You can opt out of our database by visiting our Privacy Center. At the Privacy Center, you can also submit an access request or claim your professional profile and update your profile information. Using the Privacy Center is the quickest and easiest way to access your information or have it deleted or corrected. However, if you prefer to email or call us, our contact information is listed under the “Contact Us” section at the end of this Policy.

By remaining in our database, you may be contacted by our customers when they are conducting their business-to-business sales, marketing, and recruiting activities. Communications you receive from our customers may be relevant to your profession or employment role, but we cannot guarantee that you will find such communications to be relevant or of interest to you.

II. How We Collect Information

Aston collects data about people and companies through multiple channels, including the web, information provided by our users and customers, information licensed from other companies, and research from our in-house research team. Click on each dropdown below to learn more about how we collect information and the types of information we collect.

A. Where does Aston get the Business Information for its Professional and Business Profiles?
B. How does Aston Lite (formerly Community Edition) and the Aston Contact Contributor Work?
C. How does Aston handle customer information?
D. How else does Aston Collect Information?

III. How We Use Information

Details about how we use information are provided throughout this Policy, but in this section, we compile a list of specific uses. Please see below to learn more about how Aston may use the information it collects.

In addition to the uses described in the above section, we may also use Business Information and/or personal information for one or more of the following purposes:

Provide, maintain, and improve the Site
Verify, cleanse, update, and maintain Business Information and other information provided through the Site or through the other methods described in this Policy
Provide and deliver the Services, process transactions, and send related information, including communications and invoices
Send technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
Respond to comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer support
Create Aston account(s) and identify users signing in to their accounts
Communicate about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by Aston and others, and provide news and information
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Site
Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud and other illegal activities
Protect the rights and property of Aston, our customers, and others
Personalize and improve the Site and Services, including by training LLMs or other Artificial Intelligence models
Provide notice of important changes to the Site, including changes or updates to this Privacy Policy
Facilitate contests, sweepstakes, and promotions, process entries, and deliver rewards
Consider persons for possible employment with Aston, and communicate about employment opportunities or submitted employment applications
Respond to requests from individuals to access, correct, or delete their information, or requests to exercise other rights related to their information under applicable law
Create aggregated statistical data, inferred non-personal data, or anonymized or pseudonymized data (rendered non-personal and non-identifiable), which we or our business partners or customers may use to provide and improve our respective services
Comply with our contractual and legal obligations, resolve disputes with users, and enforce our agreements
Carry out any other purpose described at the time the information was collected

IV. How We Share Information

We share information with our customers, partners, certain third parties, and as required by law. We also share some information publicly through our Public Directory. Click on the dropdown below to learn more about how Aston may share information.