This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) outlines the types of information we collect about you, how we process your personal data, the purposes for which we use it, and the measures we take to store and protect it. Additionally, this Policy outlines your rights regarding processing your personal data.
1. Introduction
Welcome to Athena
Athena Investment Systems Inc. (“Athena,” “we,” “us” or the “Company”) has issued this Global Data Protection and Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to describe how we handle personal information that you may provide to us.
We respect the privacy of individuals and are committed to handling personal information responsibly and in accordance with applicable law. This Policy sets out the personal information that we collect and process about you, the purposes of the processing and the rights that you have in connection with it.
If you are in any doubt regarding the applicable standards, or have any comments or questions about this Policy, please contact us at the contact details in Section 10 below.
2. The Types of Personal Information We Collect
- We may require basic information which identifies you as an individual (“Personal Information”), such as your name, email address and phone number, in order to transact business with you, on behalf of the company you work for, as our customer. We will only use such Personal Information for the purposes of providing information which you have requested, fulfilling business transactions, or for other purposes set out in this Policy.We may also collect Personal Information indirectly from third parties, such as our business partners or third party providers of marketing lists.We may collect the following information:
- Name and job title
- Company or organisation
- Contact information including email address and telephone number(s)
- Demographic information such as postal code, preferences and interests
- Language spoken
- Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
- IT information required to provide access to systems and networks such as IP addresses, log files and login information
- Information pertinent to fulfilling business transactions on a customer’s behalf.
We do not collect sensitive information such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, or data concerning health or sexual orientation.
3. Purposes for Processing Personal Information
a. Business Transactions with Customers
We process Personal Information through the Company’s global IT systems, which include tools and systems that help us to administer customer accounts, orders and business transactions and share information across Company systems, and with related corporate entities, as described in Section 4.1 below. This includes transferring Personal Information to our servers in the US (see also Section 6.1 below). We may host these servers or utilize third party servers and applications, but in either case will be responsible for the security access of Personal Information on the systems.
b. Athena Websites, Marketing, Subscriptions, Social Media
You may provide Personal Information to the Company through our website “contact” page, to request product information or other resources such as product demos, webinars, downloads or documentation, or participate in the Company’s online forums or customer community. Personal Information gathered from the forms you fill out on our websites is used in any of the following ways:
- To provide you with information about our products and services and select third party products, including product alerts, releases, upgrades and patches
- To ask you to participate in surveys about products, services, news and events
- To allow you to download products, access webinars or product demos
- To access customer support portals or participate in a Blog
- To aggregate broad demographic information to understand general user trends
- To enable our compliance with export control and other laws and regulations
We may make use of Personal Information that we collect to help us administer the website and/or for marketing purposes. We may send you information about products that might be of particular interest to you. In addition to product updates, promotional and informational e-mails that we send to users from time to time, we may, on occasion, invite you to participate in a focus group, phone survey or send you postal mail .
On occasion, we may offer customers and website users the opportunity to participate in third party or co-branded promotions, sweepstakes or special programs. The use or transfer of any Personal Information provided for such purposes may be subject to additional terms.
The Internet is a global environment and using the Internet to collect and process data can involve the transmission of data on an international basis. By browsing our website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge our processing of data in this way.
The Company’s websites contain links to other websites. Portions of our website may make chat rooms, forums, blogs, message boards, and/or news groups available to you. Any information that you disclose in these areas could be made public. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose any Personal Information. When you have used these links to leave our website, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Policy. You should review the data protection and privacy statements applicable to such websites.
Our websites use cookies. Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your hard drive.
You may always opt-out of receiving marketing communications by sending us an e-mail communication.
If you do not wish us to make use of your Personal Information in this way, please email
c. Other legitimate business purposes
We may also collect and use Personal Information when it is necessary for other legitimate purposes, such as to help us conduct our business more effectively and efficiently, for example, for general IT resourcing on a global level and information security/management.
d. Legal purposes
We also may use your personal information where we consider it necessary for complying with laws and regulations, or to exercise or defend the legal rights of the Company.
The Policy was last updated on June 6, 2026