MatchAwards.com

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 14, 2026

MatchAwards INC (”Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. (“AIT”), takes your privacy seriously. We are committed to protecting any data we collect. By using our products and services, you agree to the use of the data that we collect in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to enable you to understand what personal information of yours is collected, how and when we might use or share your information, and how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information and make choices about the way your information is collected and used. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy.

1. WHO WE ARE

AIT provides internet-based services including web hosting, domain name registration, and related products and services (the “Services”), to businesses, individuals, non-profit organizations, and others.

2. WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS

The information that AIT collects in connection with the Services is hosted on servers located in the United States (U.S.), unless otherwise provided, and may be processed or accessed inside or outside of the U.S. by us or our service providers. By using the Services, you freely and expressly give AIT your consent to export your information and data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy covers how AIT treats personal information that AIT collects and receives, including information related to your use of the Services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable (such as your name, address, email address, or phone number) that is not otherwise publicly available (“Personal Data”).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that AIT does not own or control or to persons that AIT does not employ.

3. INFORMATION COLLECTION

Personal Data

AIT collects Personal Data when you register with AIT, when you use Services, when you visit AIT pages or the pages of certain AIT partners, and/or when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. The Personal Data we collect depends on the type of Services, support, or sales inquiry you have initiated with us, and may include your name, address, telephone number, fax number and email address, dates of service provided, types of service provided, payment history, manner of payment, amount of payments, date of payments, domain name, credit card or other payment information. The financial information will only be used to bill you for the Services you purchased. If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider. When transferring personal information, a security icon will appear in your browser.

Cookies and Tracking

Your Internet browser has the built-in facility for storing small text files – “cookies” – that hold information which allow a website to recognize your account. We use cookies to save your preferences and login information and to provide personalized functionality. We may use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information for statistical purposes to improve the Services we provide and to manage our telecommunications networks. More specifically, we use different types of cookies for different purposes: (i) “required cookies” are necessary for our website to work properly, (ii) “performance cookies” allow us to analyze how visitors use our website so we can measure and improve the performance of our website, (iii) “functional cookies” allow us to remember choices you may have made on our website, and (iv) “advertising cookies” are used to present ads that are relevant to your interests. We may utilize cookies to track referrals from internal and external affiliates and advertising campaigns. We may also use a third party service provider to send emails that you have agreed to receive. Pixel tags and cookies may be used in those email messages to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to enable us to provide more focused marketing communications to you. You can reject cookies by changing your browser settings but be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on matchawards.com

Customer Surveys

We may periodically conduct customer surveys. Participation in customer surveys is voluntary. However, AIT encourages our users to participate in these surveys because they provide us with important information that helps us improve the types of Services we offer and how we provide them to you. Your Personal Data, if provided, will remain confidential, even if the survey is conducted by a third party service provider on our behalf.

Social Media

Our website may include social media features. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets may be hosted by a third party or directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature. Data and Information Submitted to Third Parties on Our Network. This Privacy Policy does not apply to data or personal information that may be submitted to, or collected by, third-party websites hosted by AIT or to domain names registered by AIT. Such websites and domain names are not owned or controlled by AIT. You should independently evaluate the privacy policies of such third-party websites before submitting data or personal information to them.

4. INFORMATION USE

Personal Information

The information we collect is used for billing and to provide Services and support to our customers. We may study this information to determine our customers’ needs and to promote certain products and services or additional support. We may also generate non-identifying and aggregate profiles from information that our customers provide during registration (such as the total number of customers in a given category). This aggregated and non-identifying information may be used to promote advertisements that appear on our website and in connection with our services.

We take reasonable precautions to prevent unauthorized access to your information. Accordingly, we may require you to provide additional forms of identity should you wish to obtain information about your account details. AIT may also use the information you provide to email AIT’s monthly newsletter to the primary contact e-mail on file or to contact you about other products or services that we think may be of interest. You can always “opt-out” from such monthly newsletters or promotional advertisements.

Log Files

AIT uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our site and servers, track access, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. However, it is possible that personal information about a customer may be included in the log files due to the normal functions of IP addresses and Web browsing.

Customer Surveys

We may use the contact and other information provided to follow up with customers who respond to our customer surveys to help resolve issues internally or with our third party partners. For example, AIT may contact customers based on their survey answers or to highlight certain changes we made in response to customer feedback.

5. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

Partners and Sponsors

Some of our products or services are offered or promoted to our customers in conjunction with a partner or sponsor, or another brand or company from an affiliate or subsidiary company within our corporate family. We may share your information with these parties to offer the Services or to facilitate your use of additional functions, features, or amenities with your MatchAwards account. (i.e., one of our partners may provide services to you based on links that you access from within a control panel).

We may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from users to potential partners, reputable third parties and other another brand or company from an affiliate or subsidiary company within our corporate family. We will only share your information with third parties that agree to maintain your information in confidence and to use it solely for purposes of providing the Services as agreed to by AIT. Our use of anonymized data is not restricted by this Privacy Policy.

Service Providers

We may transfer (or otherwise make available) your Personal Data to third parties that help us provide Services or provide Services on our behalf. For example, we may use service providers to authorize and process payments, administer surveys, or run promotions. Your Personal Data may be maintained and processed by our third party service providers in the United States or in other jurisdictions. Our service providers are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes.

Online Advertisements

We do not share Personal Data about individual customers with advertisers. We may display online advertisements, and we may share aggregated and non-identifying information about our customers that we collect through the registration process or through online surveys and promotions with certain advertisers. In some instances, we use this aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver tailored advertisements.

Customer Surveys

We may share customer information obtained from customer surveys within AIT and our corporate family, and with trusted third parties to develop or provide products and services that we believe would be of interest to our customers.

Legal Reasons

We may access, preserve and share Personal Data about customers with companies, organizations, governmental entities or individuals outside of AIT if we believe, in good faith, that the law requires us to do so. This may include, but is not limited to, responding to subpoenas, court orders or other legal processes (such as law enforcement requests). We may also access, preserve and share information about customers as necessary to: (i) establish or exercise AIT’s legal rights or defend against any legal claim including threatened claims involving AIT based on the anonymity of a domain name; (ii) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected fraud or other illegal activities; (iii) prevent death or serious physical harm to any person; or (iv) investigate violations of AIT’s Terms of Service.

Testimonials

If you submit a testimonial to AIT via email, verbally or via web form, then you agree that we may publish your testimonial, together with your name and any logo that is associated with your project, on our website or any other marketing material that AIT produces as we may determine in our sole discretion. You further agree that we may edit the testimonial and publish edited or partial versions of the testimonial. However, we will never edit a testimonial in such a way as to create a misleading impression of your views. You may terminate this license by giving to us 30 days’ written notice of termination.

6. DATA RETENTION

We will retain your Personal Data for as long as long as you maintain an account or as otherwise necessary to provide you the Services. We will also retain your Personal Data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Where we no longer need to process your Personal Data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, we will delete your Personal Data from our systems.

Where permissible, we will also delete your Personal Data upon your request, as further described in the Your Data Options section of this Privacy Notice.

7. CONSENT

CONSENT

In the U.S., you typically provide consent when you receive notice of this Privacy Policy. This section addresses the legal basis for processing your Personal Data if you reside outside the U.S.

Processing Personal Data Where Consent Not Obtained

In certain cases, separate consent is not required including:

To perform a contract including rendering order or use of the Services, provisioning of Service or providing Personal Data to service providers for provision of the Services.
To comply with legal obligations including laws, regulators, court orders, or other legal obligations, or pursuant to legal process.
For AIT’s legitimate Interests including operating our business and providing Services (i.e., to communicate with you regarding the Services, to send you customer surveys, to assist in or investigate suspected illegal or wrongful activity, to protect and defend AIT’s rights or the rights or safety of third parties, to develop, provide, and improve our Services, to enforce our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy, or third party agreements.

Matters That May Require Consent

In cases where AIT is not already authorized to process the Personal Data under applicable law, we may ask for your consent to process your Personal Data, including for:

Marketing (i.e., we may ask for your consent to contact you by telephone, SMS, post and/or email about other offers, products, promotions, developments or services which we think may be of interest to you and for other marketing purposes)
Research
Use of Cookies

Withdrawing Consent for Data Use (EU only)

You may at any time withdraw the consent you provide for the processing of your Personal Data for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy by contacting us at legal@ait.com provided that we are not required by applicable law or professional standards to retain such information.

8. Your Data Options

General Data Options

You can correct, update, or edit your MatchAwards Account Information at any time by accessing your account at https://matchawards.com. If you no longer desire our Services, we will endeavor to provide a way to remove your personal data in our records. In most cases, this can be achieved via the customer’s MatchAwards account at https://matchawards.com or by emailing us at legal@ait.com. You can delete your MatchAwards account by visiting our Account Settings page.

Opt Out

By default, you will receive invoices, any system updates, AIT newsletters and other mailings. You are able to opt out of newsletters and mailings by using the unsubscribe link in any promotional email or as otherwise provided in the communication. Please note: you cannot opt out of receiving important system notifications or emails about your account.

Public Forums

Please remember that any information you may disclose or post on public areas of our websites or the Internet, becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public areas. To request removal of your personal information from our website or testimonials, contact us at legal@ait.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know why we are unable to do so.

9. DATA CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

AIT uses technical security measures to prevent the loss, misuse, alternation or unauthorized disclosure of information under our control. AIT uses security measures including physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. All sensitive information is collected on a secure server. When we ask customers or users to provide financial information (such as a credit card number), that data is protected using Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) technology. We limit access to Personal Data to employees who we believe reasonably need access to that information in order to provide Services to you or in order to do their jobs.

10. CHILDREN

Our website is not directed towards children, and we do not seek to collect any Personal Data from children. If we become aware that personal information from a child under the age of 13 has been collected, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

AIT may update this policy. We reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and in any manner. However, if we plan to materially change how we plan to use previously collected personal information, we will provide you with advance notice prior to the change becoming effective and an opportunity to opt-out of such differing uses. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your AIT account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

12. QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

Questions

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please email us at legal@ait.com.

Concerns

AIT encourages individuals covered by this Privacy Policy to raise any concerns about our processing of Personal Data by reaching us at our contact information.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc.
Attn: Legal
421 Maiden Lane
Fayetteville, NC 28301
E-mail: legal@ait.com
AIT will endeavor to resolve any concerns.

MatchAwards in ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants

You can use MatchAwards inside AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude without a MatchAwards account. When you do, the assistant sends our server the request it builds from your conversation: which MatchAwards tool to use and its inputs (for example a NAICS code, a state, a keyword or an opportunity id). We use those inputs only to look up public opportunity and award data and send it back. We do not receive your name, email address or chat history, and we do not use cookies here.

What we record for each request, and why. To prevent abuse and to count usage, our server keeps a usage log. For each tool call it records:

the time, the tool used, whether it succeeded and how long it took;
your network address shortened to its network block (the first three parts of an IPv4 address, or the first 48 bits of an IPv6 address), never the full address;
the app's user agent (the name it sends to identify itself).

For each day it also counts requests per network block, request type, and the app's self-reported name and version. When a request comes from ChatGPT's published network addresses, we also store a scrambled form of the anonymous user identifier ChatGPT provides, made with a secret key, so we can count distinct ChatGPT users. We cannot turn it back into the identifier, and we cannot link it to you.

What our assistant server never records: your search inputs (keywords, codes, ids), the content of requests or replies, your full network address, or any other data the assistant sends. The MatchAwards web app's request logs record the public-data lookups our server makes (path and query, no user identity) and are kept for about an hour, never longer than until the next deploy.

Short-lived data. To apply rate limits, the server holds two things in memory for about a minute: your full network address (an IPv6 address shortened to its first 64 bits), and a keyed scramble of the ChatGPT identifier. Neither is ever written to disk. Usage totals (counts per tool and per app type, and counts of distinct users over the last hour and day) are kept in memory only and reset when the server restarts.

How long we keep it. Usage-log entries are deleted after 180 days. Server log lines (time, request path, status, duration and a scrambled client key, with no addresses or content) are kept until about 30 MB of newer lines replace them, usually a few weeks.

Sharing. We never sell these records or share them with third parties. Results you receive come from public sources (SAM.gov, state procurement portals, Grants.gov, USAspending, USAJOBS) and job boards, and link back to them.

Your choices. Questions and deletion requests: support@matchawards.com. Because we keep no account, name or full address for these requests, we usually can't find records that belong to one person. If you tell us roughly when and from which app you used MatchAwards, we will look.

Your conversation itself is handled by the AI assistant you use, under its own privacy policy.