This Privacy Policy explains how SWORT LLC collects, uses, and shares information when you visit swort.net or submit information through it. We keep collection to what is needed to answer your inquiry, schedule a meeting, review an application, and operate the website securely.
1. Who operates this website
This website is operated by SWORT LLC ("SWORT", "we", "us"), a United States limited liability company. For privacy questions, contact [email protected].
2. Scope
This policy covers the swort.net website. It does not cover information handled under a separate signed agreement with a customer or partner, employment relationships after hiring, or third-party websites we link to.
3. Information you submit through forms
Our project intake form collects your name, email address, organization, project type, vehicle type, timeline, budget range, how you found us, and your written project description. Some fields are required and are marked in the form; the rest are optional.
Our engineering-updates signup collects only an email address.
4. Booking information
When you book a technical session, we collect your name, email address, organization, selected service and budget range, any notes you write, and the date, time, and timezone you select. This information is used to create a calendar event and to send confirmations to you and to us. Calendar entries persist in our business calendar until deleted.
5. Careers and applicant information
If you apply through our careers page, we collect your name, email address, location, the role you are interested in, links you provide such as LinkedIn or a portfolio, a resume link or text, and your written answers. We use this only to evaluate your application and to contact you about it.
6. Technical descriptions you submit
Free-text fields let you describe a project, mission profile, or prior work. Please provide only what is appropriate to share. Do not submit classified information, Controlled Unclassified Information, export-controlled technical data, third-party confidential information, sensitive personal information, or proprietary engineering files through this website. We will provide an approved secure intake method when a program requires one.
7. Information collected automatically
When you visit the website, our hosting and security provider and our analytics and advertising technologies may receive:
- IP address. Used by our content delivery and security layer, and by our booking and availability endpoints to apply rate limits that prevent abuse.
- Browser and device information, such as browser type, operating system, language, and screen characteristics.
- Referrer and request metadata, such as the page you came from, the pages you view, and timestamps.
8. Cookies and local storage
We use a small number of cookies and browser storage items. Our website also stores a short-lived rate-limit marker and your cookie-consent choices in your browser's local storage. A full inventory, including provider, purpose, and how to control each item, is in our Cookie Policy. You can change your choices at any time using the control in the footer.
9. Analytics and advertising
We use a Google advertising tag to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. Advertising and optional analytics technologies do not load until you make a consent choice, and they remain off if you reject non-essential technologies. Where these technologies are enabled, Google may receive information about your visit and may use identifiers associated with your browser or device. Google's handling of that information is governed by Google's own policies.
Depending on how advertising technologies are configured, some United States state privacy laws may treat certain advertising activity as "sharing" or "selling" of personal information. We are reviewing our advertising configuration and will state our position clearly in this policy once that review is complete. In the meantime, you can reject non-essential technologies at any time using Cookie Preferences, and we will honor a Global Privacy Control signal.
10. Service providers
We use the following providers to operate the website. They process information on our behalf or as independent controllers for their own described purposes:
| Provider | Function | Information involved |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosting, content delivery, security | IP address, request metadata |
| Web3Forms | Delivery of intake, careers, and updates form submissions to our inbox | Everything you type into those forms |
| Google (Calendar and Gmail) | Creating booking events and sending confirmations | Booking details and email address |
| Google (advertising tag) | Advertising measurement, only after consent | Device and browsing identifiers |
| Upstash | Rate limiting for booking and availability endpoints, where enabled | IP address, short-lived |
| Google Fonts | Font delivery | IP address and request metadata |
We do not currently use Resend or any other email marketing platform for this website.
11. How we use information
- To respond to project inquiries and evaluate whether we can help;
- To schedule, confirm, and manage technical sessions;
- To review employment applications and communicate with applicants;
- To send engineering updates if you asked for them;
- To operate, secure, and improve the website, including preventing abuse;
- To measure advertising effectiveness where you have consented;
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Use.
12. Security and abuse prevention
We serve the site over HTTPS with a content security policy and other security headers, and we apply rate limiting to our endpoints. Access to submissions is limited to people who need it to respond. No website, transmission method, or storage system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. Legal disclosures
We may disclose information if required by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or where we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our rights, safety, property, or the rights and safety of others, or to investigate fraud or abuse.
14. Business transfers
If SWORT is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, information covered by this policy may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will seek to ensure the recipient honors this policy or provides notice of any material change.
15. Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, to maintain appropriate business records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and satisfy legal obligations. Booking entries remain in our calendar until removed. You may ask us to delete information you submitted, as described below.
16. Deletion and access requests
You may ask us to access, correct, or delete information you submitted, or to stop sending you updates. Email [email protected] with enough detail for us to locate the information, such as the email address you used and roughly when you submitted it. We will respond within a reasonable period and within any timeframe required by applicable law.
Some information may need to be retained where we have a legal obligation or a legitimate business need, such as records of a completed engagement.
17. International processing
SWORT is based in the United States, and our providers may process and store information in the United States and other countries. If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be processed in the United States, where data-protection laws may differ from those in your location.
18. Children's privacy
The website is intended for business, engineering, and professional audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information, contact us and we will delete it.
19. United States state privacy rights
Depending on your state of residence, you may have rights to know what personal information we collect, to access or obtain a copy of it, to request correction, to request deletion, and to opt out of certain processing such as targeted advertising. Residents of California and of other states with comprehensive privacy laws, including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah, may have these or similar rights.
To exercise a right, email [email protected]. You may also reject non-essential technologies at any time through .
20. Authorized agents
You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We may ask for proof of the agent's authorization and may still ask you to verify your own identity.
21. Identity verification
To protect your information, we may ask you to provide details that let us match your request to information we hold, such as the email address used in a submission. We use verification information only to process your request.
22. Non-discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right. We do not offer financial incentives in exchange for personal information.
23. Browser privacy signals
Where the Global Privacy Control signal is present, we treat it as a request to reject non-essential technologies, including advertising, and we default those categories to off. You can still adjust your choices through Cookie Preferences.
24. Student Research Program
SWORT publishes coursework for the Student Research Program on this
domain, at addresses beginning /learn. Those pages are
written for students, and some participants are under 18. They are
reached directly rather than through the navigation on the rest of this
website, and they are not part of the business and engineering audience
described in section 18.
The coursework pages run entirely in the browser. Work in progress, and an identifier a participant enters so that their work can be recognised when they return, are held in that browser's local storage on the participant's own device. That information is not transmitted to SWORT by the page and is not stored on a SWORT server. Clearing browser storage removes it. A participant using a shared or public computer should clear it when finished, and the pages provide a control that does so.
Completed coursework reaches SWORT only when a participant chooses to send it from their own email account. At that point SWORT receives what the participant chose to send, together with the email address it was sent from, and holds it for the purpose of reviewing the work. Nothing submitted through a form elsewhere on this website is treated as coursework.
A participant, or a parent or guardian acting for a participant under 18, may ask SWORT to delete coursework sent by email, and may ask what SWORT holds, by writing to [email protected]. SWORT does not use coursework or a participant's email address for advertising, does not sell it, and does not share it with third parties for their own purposes. No third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking code runs on the coursework pages.
25. Updates to this policy
We may update this policy as our practices or legal obligations change. The effective date and last-updated date appear at the top of this page. Material changes will be reflected by an updated effective date.
26. Privacy contact
Privacy questions and requests: [email protected].
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