SUMMIT DEFENSE, LLC
Website Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 9, 2025

 

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Introduction

Summit Defense, LLC ("Company" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website summit-defense.com (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

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This policy applies to information we collect:

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• On this Website.

• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.

• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

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It does not apply to information collected by:

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• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or 

• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please exit from our Website and do not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time without notice. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. 

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Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@summit-defense.com

 

Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please refer to your state’s privacy rights for more information.

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Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

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• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");

• That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or

• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

 

We collect this information:

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• Directly from you when you provide it to us.

• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

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Information You Provide to Us  

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

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• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

• Your search queries on the Website.

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You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages/you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

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Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies  

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

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• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

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The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

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• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

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The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

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• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. 

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity). 

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How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

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• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

• To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.

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We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. 

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We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

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Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 

 

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

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• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Summit Defense, LLC's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Summit Defense, LLC about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.

 

We may also disclose your personal information:

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• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Summit Defense, LLC, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information: 

 

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out at any other time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to contact@summit-defense.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by emailing info@summit-defense.com.

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We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

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Residents of certain states, such as Massachusetts may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please refer to your state’s privacy rights for more information.

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Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

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You may also send us an email at info@summit-defense.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

 

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use www.summit-defense/termsofuse

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Residents of certain states, such as Massachusetts may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see https://www.mass.gov/regulations/201-CMR-1700-standards-for-the-protection-of-personal-information-of-residents-of-the-commonwealth for more information. For international consumers, please see https://gdpr.eu/tag/chapter-3/ for more information. 

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Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. 

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Please see your current states consumer privacy laws for further information. For Massachusetts residents, please see https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-law-about-privacy#massachusetts-laws- for more information. 

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Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. We implement industry-standard security measures including encryption, access controls, and regular security audits, to protect your personal information. Any payment transactions and will be encrypted using SSL technology. 

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While we take reasonable steps to protect your information, the safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

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Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. 

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Data Retention

We may retain information you have provided after you cease to use our services. The retention period will be determined based on the sensitivity of your information and as reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations. 

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Data Breach

In the event of a data breach that may compromise your personal information, we will notify affected users promptly pursuant to applicable laws and will work diligently to mitigate harm. After the discovery of a breach, Summit Defense, LLC will notify the appropriate authorities including the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and the Attorney General’s Office of the breach, the Federal Trade Commission pursuant to the Safeguards Rule, and international authorities pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation if warranted. 

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For more information please see https://www.mass.gov/info-details/requirements-for-data-breach-notifications#:~:text=The%20Data%20Breach%20Notification%20Law,of%20a%20breach%20of%20security, https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/10/ftc-amends-safeguards-rule-require-non-banking-financial-institutions-report-data-security-breaches, and https://gdpr-info.eu/ 

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Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

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Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@summit-defense.com

 

For EU and International Website Visitors: Privacy and Data Protection (GDPR Compliance)

At Summit Defense, LLC, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the lawful processing of your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

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1. Data Collection and Purpose
As part of our threat mitigation consulting services, we may collect personal data including, but not limited to, names, contact details, job titles, business-related information, security incidents, and other data necessary to assess and manage security risks. This data is used exclusively to deliver our services, provide reports and recommendations, comply with contractual obligations, and improve our security consulting practices.

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2. Legal Basis for Processing
We process personal data based on:

• The performance of a contract with our clients,

• Compliance with legal obligations (e.g., incident reporting),

• Our legitimate interest in providing secure and effective consulting services,

• Consent, where applicable (e.g., for ongoing communications or marketing).

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3. Confidentiality and Data Sharing
All client and personal data is treated as confidential. Data is only shared with authorized personnel or third-party processors (e.g., secure cloud service providers or subcontractors) who are contractually bound to uphold confidentiality and data protection standards. No data is sold or disclosed to unrelated third parties without explicit consent unless legally required.

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4. Data Transfers
Where data must be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission or equivalent legal mechanisms.

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5. Data Retention
We retain personal data only as long as required to fulfill the consulting engagement or comply with legal and regulatory obligations. Once retention periods expire, data is securely deleted or anonymized.

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6. Data Subject Rights
You have the right to request access to your personal data, rectify inaccuracies, request erasure, object to processing, restrict processing, and request data portability. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@summit-defense.com

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7. Contact and Complaints
For questions or concerns regarding how we handle your personal data, or to lodge a complaint, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@summit-defense.com. You may also contact your local supervisory authority.