This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 27, 2006.
1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
ConsultantsGalore.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to help you in understanding how this site collects, uses and protects the personal information you provide to ConsultantsGalore.com when you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing ConsultantsGalore.com, you acknowledge and fully understand ConsultantsGalore.com’s Privacy Policy and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Policy.
2. PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES
Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in [Insert Name of Company] services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
When you visit this site you may provide ConsultantsGalore.com with two types of information: personal information you actively choose to disclose (“Active Information”) through making a purchase or contacting ConsultantsGalore.com., and information collected in a way not visible to you, on an anonymous basis as you and others browse this site (“Passive Information”).
Active Information
Visitors to our website can register to purchase services. When you register, we will request some personal information such as name, address, email, telephone number or facsimile number, and other relevant information. ConsultantsGalore.com may use your information to contact you via email to notify you of products and services we believe may be of interest to you. If you are purchasing a service, we will request financial information. Any financial information we collect is used ONLY to bill you for the services you purchased. If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider. For other types of registrations, we will ask for the relevant information.
If you choose to contact us via email or telephone, ConsultantsGalore.com may retain that information also.
We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:
• To fulfill your service requests for services.
• To protect ourselves from liability,
• To respond to legal process or comply with law, or
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company.
Passive Information
Cookies:
ConsultantsGalore.com may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality..
ConsultantsGalore.com reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into ConsultantsGalore.com a site that relies on third-party cookies).
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings, then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
Web Server Logs:
When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
• Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address
• The kind of browser or computer you use
• Number of links you click within the site
• State from which you accessed the site
• Date and time of your visit
• Name of your Internet service provider
• Web page you linked to our site from
• Pages you viewed on the site
4. USE OF WEB BEACONS OR GIF FILES
ConsultantsGalore.com web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow ConsultantsGalore.com to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. ConsultantsGalore.com may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. ConsultantsGalore.com prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
5. SECURING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE INFORMATION
We use Secure Socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of the information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. The information you provide to us is stored securely. We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to prevent un authorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Active or Passive Information. Other communications you may have with ConsultantsGalore.com through email may not be secure, unless ConsultantsGalore.com has informed you in advance that secure measures are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with ConsultantsGalore.com through these means, you are assuming the risk of doing so, and ConsultantsGalore.com asks that you not submit or post sensitive information through these means.
6. ACCESSING WEB ACCOUNT INFORMATION
We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable information in your web account file is correct and current. You may review this information by contacting us by sending an email to our support attendant –CS@ConsultantsGalore.com.
7. CHOOSING TO OPT OUT OF INFORMATIONAL EMAILS
If you desire not to receive information (“Opt-out”) about products or services we believe may be of interest to you, please send an email to: CS@ConsultantsGalore.com with “Remove from List” in the subject line.
8. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
ConsultantsGalore.com has the discretion to occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
9. CONTACTING US
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Policy, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Policy and/or our general practices, please contact us at CS@ConsultantsGalore.com.
ConsultantsGalore.com will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question.