PRIVACY POLICY

Effective date : February 25, 2023

The company Ascent Ad Astra is delighted that you have visited our website and that you are interested in our company and services.

We respect your privacy and take the protection of your personal data seriously. We, therefore, rely on your trustworthy cooperation when you visit our websites. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

By using the ascentadastra.com website you understand that your data in relation to you: use of our Service is processed according to the followin: Privacy Policy.

Definitions

  • The services are offered by Ascent Ad Astra (the "Company", "We", or “Us”).
  • Service: the service described on our website.
  • Personal Data: data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
  • Usage Data: data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Cookies: small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
  • Data Controller: the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
  • Data Processors (or Service Providers): any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
  • Data Subject (or User): any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

Type of data collected

We may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”).

FORM

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of us
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

This data is collected when you submit the form in our website.

COOKIES & LOCAL STORAGE

  • Essential cookies
  • Optional cookies

This data is stored in your device. The purpose of essentials cookies is to ease your navigation and remember your settings (e.g. language used to navigate the website or decision to accept or refuse optional cookies). Optional cookies are collected only if you have explicity accepted them.

Use of data

Based on our legitimate interests, we collect, store, and process your personal data to the extent necessary for the provision of the Service, the execution of the contract or the response to the inquiry.

The form allows you to contact us in a simple way. The collection of your e-mail address or phone number is essential in order to answer your request. If data, such as first and last name, company name or similar, is also processed, it is used to individualize the respective user and to respond as best as possible to his request and to prevent any misuse of the form.

Retention of data

Your data will be stored as long as it is necessary to fulfill the above-mentioned purposes. As soon as this is no longer the case, e.g., after complete execution of the contract, you will be deleted or blocked if required by commercial or tax law. From the point in time at which legal storage obligations no longer stand in the way, the data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use. The cookies and other data can be stored in your device as long as two years. In the session storage, data is retained as long as the session is open, it is automatically deleted when the session is closed. You can delete cookies and items in your session/local storage whenever you want as explained here: delete cookies and here: delete local storage. Consider that the website may not work properly if you delete cookies.

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 from those of your jurisdiction. We will take all the 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

We 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 us
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Data protection rights

  • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you: whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data by contacting us at contact@ascentadastra.com.
  • 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 we relied on your consent to process your personal info

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

Third Parties

All third parties organizations are in compliance with the GDPR and data protection regulations. The data will be used to respond to your request as explained previously. The data is not used to track you and not shared with anyone else.

Our hosting provider is Netlify: Netlify Inc., 2325 3rd Street, San Francisco, 94107 CA USA

Forms on our websites use Netlify Forms to collect the data and automatically send it to our secure email service Proton Mail using Netlify Form Notification. The data is automatically deleted from Netlify’s servers as soon as the transfer is done.

The data is stored in Proton Mail servers: Route de la Galaise 321228 Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland

We will not sell your Personal Data to third parties. We will not share or otherwise make available your Personal Data to third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy.

analytics

This website uses a minimal build of Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States and allows us to notice trends to improve the user experience on our website. This minimal build processes personal data such as: the unique User ID set by Google Analytics, the date and time, the title of the page being viewed, the URL of the page being viewed, the URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page, the screen resolution, the time in local time zone, the files that were clicked on and downloaded, the links clicked on to an outside domain, the type of device, and the country, region, and city.

You may opt out of this tracking at any time by activating the “Do Not Track” setting in your browser.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service 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 Child 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 possession.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to periodically review and change this policy from time to time. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy. Continued use of the Service after such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at contact@ascentadastra.com.