Last updated August 31, 2026.
Ascend Group LLC operates this website. If you have any question about this policy or about information we hold, email contact@ascend-co.com.
If you fill in the contact form we receive your name, email address, company, the buyer type you selected, and your message. If you sign up for our perspectives we receive your email address. We use this to reply to you and, where you have asked for it, to send you our written guides. We do not sell it. The calculator is anonymous. Your answers and the range they produce are recorded without your name, your email address, or any identifier that ties the entry back to you or to your browsing on this site. We look at those answers only in aggregate, to understand which questions are useful and to improve the tool.
With your consent we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and move through this site. Google Analytics sets cookies and processes data including your approximate location, device and browser, and the pages you view. Information collected by Google Analytics may be transferred to and stored by Google. You can read more in Google's privacy policy.
With your consent we also use HubSpot, our customer relationship system, which sets a cookie identifying your browser so that if you later get in touch we can see which pages brought you to us. You can read more in HubSpot's privacy policy.
Neither of these loads until you accept cookies on the banner shown on your first visit. If you decline, no analytics or marketing cookies are set and the forms on this site still work normally. To change your choice, clear this site's data in your browser and reload the page.
We keep enquiries for as long as we are in contact with you and for a reasonable period afterwards. You can ask us to delete your information at any time by emailing contact@ascend-co.com.
If we change how we handle information we will update this page and the date at the top of it.