Privacy is a core tenant of our company and is emphasized as such in our corporate responsibility policy. Please read more about CYBER DEFENSE CENTER corporate responsibilities here.
We only collect information that you provide to us directly which may include your business contact information. Contact information may include first name, last name, e-mail address, job title and company name, as well as other information related to your company such as your company address, phone number, and locations. We collect information when you visit this website web site, talk to us on the phone or at an event, or when you sign up as a member or partner.
We ONLY use the information you directly provide to deliver our certifications, training, member services, and community programs, to respond to inquiries and requests made on this website, and/or to contact you regarding your inquiries or requests. For members and partners, we use the information you provide to us to send you member applications, agreements, or set up your member portal account/s. If an OPT-IN is provided for using your company logo or sharing your information at events to welcome you, we may use this information per your specific requests.
Our website collects some additional information about you automatically when you visit our site. This information may include your device’s IP address and what pages you viewed, and for how long. We use this information exclusively to administer our website, enhance your user experience, and for security purposes. Aside from this, our web site does NOT otherwise use cookies for automated collection of your personal information. You will receive a cookie notice when visiting the site.
On this site, we collect the following information when you voluntarily submit it to us through one of our contact forms:
Forms used on this site in the collection of this information represent the following upon form submission:
"You also attest that the information entered is business contact information ONLY and represents you and not someone else"
The CYBER DEFENSE CENTER collects your information for the exclusive purpose of corresponding with you regarding expressions of interest in our services and programs, membership requests, membership eligibility and initiation, program inquiries and applications, and donation/support purchases made by you on our website.
When you become a member or volunteer for the ASEND | DEFEND programs, more information may be collected in conformance with those programs separately from this site including payment information, eligibility information about your company or university, or background information when required for program participation. A specific Privacy Notice is provided for each within our portal.
Information collected on this site will NEVER be shared with any third parties under any circumstances.
We do not use the information collected for any marketing purposes except to fulfill your specific contact request.
Information collected is not retained for more than a year, unless required by law, unless you become a member, volunteer, or are an active beneficiary of one or more of our programs.
Where technically feasible and while being retained, we protect the information we collect using pseudo-anonymization techniques which allows for the processing of your personal data, where necessary, without your identification data being visible to our staff.
Information collected to provision or validate credentials as an independent certification body are kept for the duration of the credential's validity and for an additional 2 years following to facilitate renewals and credential checks by employers. Your credential number may be shared during routine checks to validate your credentials held by the CYBER DEFENSE CENTER.
We are a charitable organization that DOES process your information as stated above for operational purposes ONLY. In support of our member services and programs, information that you provide may be shared in the following ways:
1) internally to our administrative or governing members to process your application and make a determination of eligibility.
2) In support of services as your company works toward or is actively validated or certified under our ASSURANCE service.
3) With a very limited list of vendors who perform administrative or operational tasks on our behalf to provide member services or programs.
4) As required by law.
See details below:
We do NOT and will NEVER rent or sell information for monetary consideration.
We do NOT share the data you provide to us for other purposes that could be deemed a “sale” under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).
We will NEVER sell the data you provide to us under any circumstances.
We may share and disclose information (including personal information you provide) in the following limited circumstances in support of the initiation or delivery of our service and programs to partners, members, and internal personnel:
For use in the onboarding or delivery of our service and programs. This may include sharing with other members that are acting in an administrative or governing role for our corporation to process, vote, or make determinations on eligibility;
We may also share and disclose information (including personal information you provide) to third-parties or vendors who perform administrative or operational tasks on our behalf (these companies include, for example, our payment processing providers (e.g., PayPal), website analytics companies (e.g., Google Analytics), email service providers (e.g., Google), Portal identity proofing, certification application background checks, or volunteer background checks (e.g., Safe Volunteer).
We may also share the personal information you provide where required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities. To learn about our policies for handling government and law enforcement requests, please refer to our corporate responsibility policy tenant on Transparency.
When you are asked to provide us information, we always inform you of your rights to make it easy for you to exercise them. WE are also available by phone or e-mail to answer any questions you may have regarding your rights.
Exercise your privacy rights by contacting us directly.
PHONE: (800)-381-DFN5 (3365)
EMAIL: partner at cyberdefensecenter.org
If you are an active member, you may also use our Member Portal to submit a Privacy Form request.
You can always choose not to disclose information to us, but it may impact your membership experience, navigation or use of our site, or delivery of our services and programs that you may be entitled to under the terms of your membership.
You can unsubscribe from our member communications by using the “remove” link provided in member e-mails (this will NOT remove your active membership, just communications outside the portal).
We do not serve Europe or other countries across the globe. Our services and programs are exclusively available to companies and individuals within the United States. Therefore, we do not comply with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We do serve California and other states that provide specific or extended privacy rights. Those rights include:
1) the right to obtain a copy of or know what personal data we hold about you; and
2) the right to correct inaccurate data; and
3) the right to erasure (right to be forgotten) if you want all your personal data deleted from our systems (this will also remove any active membership entitlements); and
4) the right to restrict or stop the processing of your data (this will also remove any active membership entitlements); and
5) the right to withdraw consent when you have provided it to us to authorize the use or processing of the data you provided to us.
You can exercise these rights at anytime by using our member portal Privacy Form requests or by contacting us by e-mail (partner at cyberdefensecenter.org) or phone. The exercise of the rights is subject to identity proofing and validation.
California residents have other specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that we extend to ALL members. These additional rights include:
1) the right to request access to your personal information we hold about you, which includes the right to request specific pieces of personal information; and
2) the rights to deletion of your personal information from our systems; and
3) the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.
We send direct e-mail communications to members about events, meetings, cyber defense alerts, advisories, or member services or programs. These communications may also include changes to our Privacy practices. You may unsubscribe to these messages at anytime by using the "Remove" link provided at the bottom of each message. This will remove your e-mail address from all future communications but does not remove you as a member or impact your access to our member portal. You may also use the form below to unsubscribe to these communications or process a privacy request.
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