We at Advanced Technology Consultants are dedicated to protecting your personal information and we pledge to keep it confidential and secure, in accordance with your decisions.

We are rapidly developing our service to meet your needs, and therefore Advanced Technology Consultants reserves the right to modify this policy without advance notice. Currently this Online Privacy Policy applies to all users of this web site whether they are general visitors to the public portions of our web site, or consumer users who register.
Our Privacy Pledge
Our privacy pledge to you is this: we will not share any private information that personally identifies you ("personal information") with any third party, unless we have your consent.

The only exceptions to this pledge are that we reserve the right to disclose personal information to protect our rights or property, to enforce our Terms of Use Agreement, or as required by operation of law or the request of government regulators or other law enforcement officials and the courts (including the issuance of a valid subpoena). We shall have no duty to notify you of such compliance with the law.
What information do we collect, and how can you access it?
Advanced Technology Consultants learns certain information about you from your visit to this web site, and what we do with this information depends on what you do when you are visiting the site. This policy explains the uses we currently make of this information and lets you know what choices, access, and security you have with respect to information Advanced Technology Consultants collects.

Unless you register and create a profile, send us an e-mail, or use chat rooms and forums or other products and services that are or will be available on Advanced Technology Consultants's web site, we collect and store only the following information about you: your IP address; your domain name; the date(s) and time(s) that you access the web site; a record of all pages and graphics you view on the web site; the type of your computer operating system and version; your type of web browser and version; how much time you spend on the web site; the referring URL from which you accessed the web site. We also issue and record a user cookie with respect to you visit to the web site. This information is not linked to a user name unless you give us one. We use the information to measure the number of visitors to various portions of our service and to help us improve our service.

Our site will use cookies if you have chosen this option on your browser. Cookies help us customize and improve the site for you. You do not have to accept cookies to use the Advanced Technology Consultants web site; however, if you disable cookies, you will be unable to use those Advanced Technology Consultants services that require registration. Moreover, our web site will not remember your customizations and cannot help you find what you want on the site most easily. If you accept cookies, you can delete them later by going to the preferences, tools, or options menus of your browser.

Advanced Technology Consultants does not currently employ web beacons (also called single-pixel gifs), but reserves the right to do so in the future in order to learn more about this web site's aggregate usage patterns. Advanced Technology Consultants will not use web beacons to access your personally identifiable information.

If you do register and create a profile, create a user name and password, send us an e-mail, or use the chat rooms and forums or other products and services that are or will be available on Advanced Technology Consultants's web site, we will collect and store the information you enter. What we collect depends upon what you enter. You can edit your profile or render it non-searchable by clicking here. We reserve the right to keep all information in an off-line form, for archival purposes, or as otherwise required by law.

Please remember that the information that you disclose in chat rooms or other such forums becomes public information. Advanced Technology Consultants would like to remind its users to exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information.

Because this is a career web site, we offer you the option of placing your resume on our searchable database so that it can be made available to potential employers. Advanced Technology Consultants makes reasonable efforts to limit access to this database to paying customers such as employers, recruiters, and headhunters, but we cannot guarantee that others will not gain access to it without our knowledge or consent. You may remove your resume from our searchable database at anytime. However, those who have previously accessed your resume through the database may have retained a copy of it. Advanced Technology Consultants is not responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of resumes that have been obtained from our searchable database.
How is this information used?
If you do not consent to permit us to share your personal information with third parties, we will use that information only to track your visits to our web site, which enables us to learn more about what you, specifically, and our customers, in general, are expecting from our service.

If you do consent to allow us to share your personal information with third parties, we will only use that information according to the consent you give. We may use aggregate data (information about our base of users in general, from which all personally-identifying information has been removed) for any purpose.

Note that certain links on our web pages will take you off the Advanced Technology Consultants site to web pages operated by third parties. Advanced Technology Consultants will have no control over the information you enter or the cookies your browser accepts while on third parties' sites. You should examine the terms of service and privacy policies of other web pages whenever you leave the site of Advanced Technology Consultants.
Security
When we use personal information gathered through this web site internally at Advanced Technology Consultants companies and affiliates, we will do so only subject to this Online Privacy Policy. When we share personal information with third parties, we will require the third parties to enter confidentiality obligations similar to this policy or other appropriate confidentiality obligations (including but not limited to professional duties).

Advanced Technology Consultants will make reasonable efforts to use the latest security technologies to ensure that the information its users provide is secure. However, Advanced Technology Consultants would like to remind its users that technology is no substitute for common sense. For this reason, we strongly encourage users to keep their login names and passwords secret and to change their password when they think they have become compromised. Furthermore, we recommend that our users communicate over secure channels wherever possible, disable the automatic login features found in some browsers, and empty their browser caches regularly.
Children
Advanced Technology Consultants serves general users of the World Wide Web. We support and comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and other laws and we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13, nor do we share such information with third parties. Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to register and create a profile at Advanced Technology Consultants.
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Attn: General Information
Advanced Technology Consultants & Associates, Inc.
2570 North First Street, Suite 400
San Jose, CA 95131-1018

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