Privacy
Policy
Last Updated: February 1, 2009
Edskilling.com strives to offer its visitors and members the many
advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and
personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable Information
(your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number) subject
to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will never sell, barter, or
rent your email address to any unauthorized third party.
Skilling Institute knows that you care how information about you is
used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully
and sensibly. By visiting any of the sites offered by Skilling Institute,
you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
What Personal Information About Customers Does Skilling Institute
Gather?
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you
enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. We use the information
that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests,
providing our services and communicating with you.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we
use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information
when your Web browser accesses our sites. Examples of the information
we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address
used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection
information such as browser type and version, operating system, and
platform; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) click stream to,
through, and from our Web site, including date and time. We use IP
addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
What About Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's
hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize
your browser. Besides using the information as described above, Skilling
Institute utilizes cookies to control the flow of the ordering processes
by maintaining the state of your online transactions. Some of our
business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers).
However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Does Skilling Institute Share the Information It Receives?
Yes, we do share information but only as described below. Otherwise
we will not provide your personal information without your consent.
Advertisers: We will share aggregated demographic
information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked
to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Partners: We partner with other parties to provide
specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will
share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the
third party to provide these services.
Agents: We engage other companies and individuals
to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include processing credit
card payments, providing marketing assistance, providing customer
services, sending postal mail and email to you, removing repetitive
information from customer lists, and analyzing data. These persons
have access to personal information needed to perform their functions.
These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable
information that you provide to Skilling Institue for any secondary
purposes.
Service Providers: We engage other companies and
individuals to perform enhanced services on our behalf. For example,
we have engage third parties to provide free electronic mail services
to our members/customers. In addition, certain of our enhanced services
such as our Web Site Generator require that we contact Internet directories
and various search engines on your behalf. Many of our service providers
have access to personal information needed to perform their services.
These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information
except for the purpose of providing these services.
Business Transfer: As we continue to develop our
business, we might sell or buy businesses or their assets. In such
transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred
business assets. Also, if Skilling Institute or all or substantially
all of its assets were ever to be acquired, customer information will
of course be one of the transferred assets.
Compliance: We release account and other personal
information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with
law; enforce or apply our Services Agreement and other agreements;
or protect the rights, property, or safety of Skilling Institute,
our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other
companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission
by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information
you input and the information we may send to our agents.
Skilling Institute has gone to great lengths to ensure your information
is securely obtained and held in compliance with the Card Holder Information
Security Program. For example, we encrypt your credit card number
before it is stored in our database. This ensures that no one may
access your credit card from our system.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to
your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished
using a shared computer.
What Information Can I Access?
Skilling Institute gives you access to certain information about you
for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating
that information. To view or change this information, log-in to your
account. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the
prior version for our records.
Links
Sites provided by Skilling Institute contain links to other sites.
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every
web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Children
Skilling Institute does not sell services for purchase by children.
If you are under 18, you may use our services only with involvement
of a parent or guardian.
Conditions of Use, Policies, and Revisions
If you choose to visit Skilling Institute, your visit and any dispute
over privacy is subject to this Policy and our Terms and Conditions,
including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application
of the law of the state of Arizona and/or Nevada . If you have any
concern about privacy at Skilling Institute, please send us a thorough
description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly.
This Policy and the Terms and Conditions will change also, and use
of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy
in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of
our policies, terms and conditions, unless you have instructed us
not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent
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