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Thank you for reviewing the Privacy Policy for www.assistinghands.com , your web portal into Assisting Hands\u00ae Home Care (\u201d Assisting Hands\u00ae \u201c). Assisting Hands\u00ae is sensitive to the issue of confidentiality in online dealings and is committed to protecting individual privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform users about the general approach Assisting Hands\u00ae uses in collecting, using and disseminating user information via www.assistinghands.com.<\/p>\n

What Data Do We Collect Automatically And Why?<\/span>
\nWhen you visit www.assistinghands.com our web server automatically recognizes your domain name, but not your e-mail address. We collect the domain name and monitor general site use and traffic patterns to improve our web site and the products and services we offer. Assisting Hands\u00ae uses web server logs to collect data for metric purposes. Examples of the types of data collected on the logs are IP addresses, referral pages, date and time of Site access, and Site visited. We may use collected data to customize the content and\/or layout of our pages for each individual visitor.<\/p>\n

Do We Use Cookies Or Tracers?<\/span>
\nCookies are small data files placed on your hard drive by a website server when you visit. www.assistinghands.com may use cookies for tracking purposes or to make the Site easier to use. Cookies are currently the only way to effectively identify a unique anonymous visitor and understand how they navigate our web site. An anonymous visitor to our site remains anonymous in all cases. We do not attempt to identify visitors if they do not voluntarily submit personal information to us. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Cookies offer enhanced functionality to the user, but whether you allow a cookie to be placed on your computer is up to you.<\/p>\n

In some instances, we use tracking scripts or \u201ctracers\u201d that recognize a unique identifier from a cookie placed on your hard drive by another website. These are used by Assisting Hands\u00ae solely to gauge the success of our own advertising. For instance, we may use a tracer to determine whether you visit our site by clicking on an Assisting Hands\u00ae banner ad from a different website. We do not use tracers to gather information on your use of the internet unrelated to Assisting Hands\u00ae. Please note that Assisting Hands\u00ae does not use tracers to identify your personal information, and you remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

Do We Collect Personal Information?<\/span>
\nIn some cases, Assisting Hands\u00ae requests personally identifiable information from you in order to satisfy the underlying transaction or purpose of your accessing the Site. Examples of personally identifiable information include names, e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, and the like. Please note that we do not consider aggregated information, from which personally identifiable information has been removed, to be private.<\/p>\n

What Security Is Provided?<\/span>
\nWe do not treat your general interaction with www.assistinghands.com (e.g., submission of suggestions) as confidential. However, certain Assisting Hands\u00ae Sites do conduct transactions for which heightened security is appropriate. For instance, certain Assisting Hands\u00ae Sites encrypt your personal information (e.g., for transmission of credit card data), so that only appropriate personnel are able to decode your information. Note that most internet browsers also offer security alerts that permit you to determine whether your transmissions are protected. Please refer to the agreements and policies applicable to the Assisting Hands\u00ae Site for which you provide personal information in order to assure that you understand applicable security practices.<\/p>\n

When Would We Disclose Your Information?<\/span>
\nWe do not rent, sell, or trade any personally identifiable information about you (e.g., e-mail addresses) to third parties. Certain Assisting Hands\u00ae Sites may disclose information to third parties assisting us in processing a transaction requested by you (e.g., credit card service providers). In order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas, or court orders, to protect Assisting Hands\u00ae and\/or Assisting Hands\u00ae \u2018s systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of Assisting Hands\u00ae and\/or Assisting Hands\u00ae \u2018s business and systems, Assisting Hands\u00ae and\/or Assisting Hands\u00ae may access and disclose any information it considers necessary or appropriate under the circumstances.<\/p>\n

What About Children\u2019s Privacy?<\/span>
\nAssisting Hands\u00ae asks children under 13 not to transmit any information to the Site. Assisting Hands\u00ae welcomes the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 to use the Site and provide any information, service, or product gained from the Site to their child.<\/p>\n

What If Data Is Transmitted Internationally?<\/span>
\nIf you are one of our international guests, we realize that you may want to know whether your personal information will be transferred out of your country of origin. Please be aware that when you request a transaction on a Assisting Hands\u00ae Site, your personal data may be transferred to computers in the United States in order to process your request.<\/p>\n

What About External Links?<\/span>
\nFor the convenience of our Site visitors, Assisting Hands\u00ae may provide links to third party web sites that are external to Assisting Hands\u00ae . These web sites are not operated or controlled by Assisting Hands\u00ae , and Assisting Hands\u00ae is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external web sites.<\/p>\n

How Do We Keep Current?<\/span>
\nFrom time to time, Assisting Hands\u00ae may revise this Privacy Policy at its discretion. We note the date of the policy below, so you know when it was last updated. Assisting Hands\u00ae advises you to check back periodically to review the Privacy Policy because users of the Site will be prospectively bound by the then-current version of this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n

Privacy Policy(Last Updated 8\/15\/2025)<\/span><\/strong>
\nThis Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.<\/p>\n

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n

Assisting Hands – West Austin maintains strict privacy policies, ensuring that personal information and mobile information of our users and members is not sold, shared, rented, released, or traded to third parties for marketing\/promotional purposes.<\/p>\n

SMS Opt-Out: If you are receiving text messages from us and wish to stop
\nreceiving them, simply respond with either \u201cSTOP\u201d to the number from which you received the message. Once we receive your message, you will no longer receive further text messages from us.<\/p>\n

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data<\/span>
\nTypes of Data Collected<\/em><\/p>\n

Personal Data
\nWhile using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:<\/p>\n