The Center for Economic and Industry Research, LLC Privacy Committment The Center for Economic and Industry Research, LLC ("The Center") provides you with the tools and information to help strengthen your relationships. Our relationship with you begins at our Web site KeyValueData.com. We want you to feel confident in this relationship. In this light, we are committed to ensuring that while you are visiting our Web site, you feel that the information you share is safe and secure to the fullest extent possible by The Center.
Our Commitment to Privacy Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and services with the highest level of integrity in communicating with you. The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.
Information Collected by The Center When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide In order to experience the full benefit that The Center offers such as The Center tutorials, premium content, tools and services, we ask you to register to become a member. During this member registration process, we will ask you for personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, zip code, country, gender, birth date, age, member name and password. In addition, you may choose to provide The Center.
The Center uses the information it gathers for several purposes, such as to understand more about our audience's interests, to communicate with you and to give you a better experience when visiting by personalizing content, tutorials, services and email messages (more details below).
The Center also uses this information to offer new tutorials, content and services as well as developing offers that The Center believes are more relevant and valuable to you.
2. Web Site Use Information When you visit The Center and interact with the services and tools that reside there, The Center and third parties with whom The Center has contracted to provide services to The Center may collect information on your actions. The Center utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" and your IP address to collect information about how The Center is used. Information gathered through cookies and your IP address may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE CENTER THROUGH COOKIES AND IP ADDRESS
Cookies Our site uses a feature of your browser to set a "cookie" on your computer. Cookies are small packets of information that a site's computer stores on your computer. The Center can then read the cookies whenever you visit The Center. The use of cookies on The Center provides the ability to:
These cookies allow us to use the information we collect to customize your CEIR experience so that your visit to CEIR is as relevant and as valuable to you as possible.
You may modify your browser preference to provide you with choices relating to cookies. You have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies you may be unable to use The Center services that require registration in order to participate or will have to login each time you visit The Center.
IP Address Your IP address is a number that is assigned by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to your computer to identify its location. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We also sometimes use IP addresses to communicate with members and subscribers and possibly even ban those members who are not complying with our Terms of Service.
USE OF INFORMATION The majority of information collected by The Center is used to create aggregated portraits of the The Center audience, portraits which present anonymous statistical demographic information. This aggregated information is used, among other things, to determine trends and needs, and also to supply market research to potential advertisers and partners to help them understand whom the The Center audience is. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable.
Due to the personal nature of much of the content and services of the site, the information you have provided may be used to help guide to you content, tutorials, services and products that may server to provide you with a more fulfilling experience while visiting The Center.
SUBSCRIPTION REGISTRATION Many areas of The Center are reserved for The Center subscribers who have registered with us; for example, tutorials, mentor program, chats, message boards and subscriber only premium content.
HOW WE PROTECT AND SECURE YOUR INFORMATION The Center has numerous security measures in place to protect you from the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, including your personal information, tutorial test results, personal growth plans, and credit card information All of your member information, requires use of your password. We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone.
Information Security. The Center utilizes encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of customer information. Our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
INFORMATION SHARING POLICY The Center does not sell or otherwise share personally identifiable information with third parties without your consent except in the following instances: (i) unless required by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (ii) as deemed necessary, in The Center's discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of The Center, a member or third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or (iii) in the event The Center is required to transfer personally identifiable information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets or stock of The Center or its affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In addition, The Center reserves the right to allow access to its systems to third parties providing necessary technical services when such access is required in order to provide those services and to provide your personally identifiable information to third parties who provide services on behalf of The Center, provided that such third parties are bound by CEIR’s Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING COMPANIES Some or all advertising on The Center is served by third party advertising companies, which deliver a cookie to you so the ads you see can be tracked and ensures that you are not shown the same ad too many times. Since the third party advertising company only tags your computer with a number, they know nothing about who you are. The Center does not provide these third party advertising companies with any personally identifiable information. However, these companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to CEIR and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
NOTICE OF NEW SERVICES AND CHANGES Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to The Center, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an email request at The Center.
ORDER FORMS AND TRANSACTIONS WITH E-COMMERCE PARTNERS AND ADVERTISERS The information provided via the order form in The Center on line store is secured via SSL Encryption. The information provided in that order form, as well as the items ordered, will only be shared with the designated fulfillment partner to the extent the information is needed to successfully complete the order and they may not use this information for any other purpose.
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS AND REMINDERS The Center offers registered subscriber electronic newsletters on a variety of topics. If you choose to subscribe to any of these newsletters, currently the only information you will be required to provide is a valid email address, except in the case of certain newsletters where you may also be required to provide certain non-personally identifiable information that enable The Center to customize the newsletter with topics of interest to you. In order to receive these newsletters you must opt-in to receiving them. Generally, The Center does not share mailing lists from its electronic newsletters with third parties. However, in some situations, The Center may share its newsletter mailing lists with third parties who provide newsletter and/or reminder fulfillment services on behalf of CEIR. In these instances, such third parties will be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. Additionally, The Center may provide third parties with a list of The Center members and visitors who have opted-in to receiving additional information from third parties.
In those instances where you opt-in to subscribe to a newsletter through a third-party email service or advertiser or partner, the email address information sometimes will be located on the third party's server. In those cases, any information you provide is subject to that entity's Privacy Policy, not this one. Some of our partners' and advertisers' sites require that you specifically opt-out from receiving their newsletters. As a result, to stop receiving them you will need to affirmatively opt-out from the third party newsletter.
CHAT ROOMS/MESSAGE BOARDS/BULLETIN BOARDS/MENTOR FORUMS Throughout The Center various public forums such as chat rooms, message boards, "ask the expert" areas and various question and answer areas are available to you as a registered The Center subscriber.
Please remember that any information you disclose in these public forum areas becomes public information and is immediately accessible on The Center, so it is important for you to exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal personal information in these areas. The Center may decide to utilize the content of Q&A's, interactions with experts, and/or chat room and message board content throughout The Center and in promotions in order to enhance The Center's editorial, advertising and public relations efforts.
SURVEYS AND POLLS Our surveys ask for opinions on various issues and very often these surveys and polls are sponsored by or associated with The Center advertisers and partners. Occasionally, we may request demographic information (like zip code, age or gender). Most information obtained through surveys and polls is aggregated and used internally or shared with advertisers and partners only in the aggregated form. In the event personally identifiable information is requested as part of surveys or polls about any The Center subscriber, such personally identifiable information is never provided to third parties without your consent. In these instances you may expressly choose to receive information from a sponsor, in which case your information is provided to that sponsor only. Some survey answers may be added to your member profile (so that we can better provide you with content, ads and offers that are most appropriate for you).
LINKS TO PARTNER AND ADVERTISER SITES The Center contains links to advertiser and partner websites. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such non-CEIR websites, and we do not control the practices of any of our advertisers or partners to whom we are linked. In order to participate in the partner and/or advertiser supplied services and tools you may be required to provide personally identifiable information to the advertisers and partners whose tools and services you have chosen to interact with. Each advertiser and partner will request different information from you.
The information you provide via links to co-branded pages, co-branded sites, third party sites or tools may be shared with advertisers and partners on an aggregated basis and in these instances your permission will not be requested since no personally identifiable information will be shared or provided to these third party sponsors or advertisers. The Center will, however, use commercially reasonable efforts to contractually require all such third party advertisers and partners to agree not to use any non-personally identifiable information about you, in conjunction with other sources of information, or otherwise, to identify you.
If you have additional questions about how one of our advertisers, partners or sponsors use information about you, we urge you to contact them directly.
THE CENTER OPT-IN/OPT-OUT POLICY Upon registration or from time-to-time, you may be asked to indicate whether you are interested in receiving information from us about special offers or news about our sites and advertisers. You will also be provided with the opportunity to opt-in to receive offers directly from select companies other than The Center. If you do choose to receive these communications by means of an opt-in, we will occasionally send you an email message that matches your request(s). You may, of course, always choose not to receive any of this information from us. We currently provide the following opt-out opportunities:
CHANGE/MODIFY/ARCHIVED INFORMATION The Center provides you with the ability to access, correct or change certain information in your member registration profile at any time, including contact information or other information you've provided to us. However, you cannot currently change your member name although you may re-register and choose a new name. Please be advised that CEIR currently archives information it collects on its members and visitors.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES We will not make new use of any personally identifiable information which The Center gathered from individual members or visitors prior to any such significant change in our Privacy Policy without first obtaining the member's or visitor's consent for any new uses. In instances where we ask for your personally identifiable information and we tell you the data we are collecting on that page will be shared with third parties, and in cases where a member, visitor or subscriber to the The Center opts-in to share his/her information with third parties, those disclosures and opt-ins will override anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy. In addition, The Center reserves the right to make non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that will not affect The Center's use of a user's personally identifiable information at any time without any notice to you other than posting any such changes in a revised Privacy Policy on the The Center Web site. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be sure you are familiar with the most current version. The Policy will include the most recent date in which any revision has been made.
CONTACT INFORMATION If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or anything else about The Center, you can contact us at (800) 246-2488.