This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices
for The Entrepreneurship Centre.
Information Collection and Use
The Entrepreneurship Centre, is the sole owner of the information
collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this
information to others in ways different from what is disclosed
in this statement. The Entrepreneurship Centre collects information
from our users at several different points on our website.
Registration
If you are required to register to use a certain portion of
this site, this information is used to contact the user about
the services on our site for which they have expressed interest
and to ensure quality input is received from quality sources.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive
containing information about the user. This site uses cookies
to enable the shopping functions and to improve the usability
of the checkout process. Cookies are in no way used to store
sensitive information, and the information stored in cookies
is never shared with others.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our
site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access
to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site,
track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Sharing
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.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that we at The Entrepreneurship Centre 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.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to any newsletter or similar E-Mail
service, we may ask for contact information such as name and
E-Mail address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests
is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice
whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested
may include contact information (such as name and shipping address),
and demographic information (such as postal code, age level).
Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award
prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring
or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a
friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name
and E-Mail address. The Entrepreneurship Centre will automatically
send the friend a one-time E-Mail inviting them to visit the
site. The Entrepreneurship Centre stores this information for
the sole purpose of sending this one-time E-Mail. The friend
may contact The Entrepreneurship
Centre to request the removal of this information from our database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’
information. When users submit sensitive information via the
website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to
enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or
social security number), that information is encrypted and is
protected with the best encryption software in the industry
- SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock
icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator
and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to
un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also do everything in our power to protect
user-information off-line. All of our users’ information,
not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted
in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform
a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer
service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable
information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers
when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter
their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore,
ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are
added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the
importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure
our customers’ information is protected.
If you have any questions about the security at
our website, you may contact
us.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes
(such as your postal code), or if a user no longer desires our
service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update
or remove that user’s personal data provided to us.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of
having their information used for purposes not directly related
to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For
example, our user profile form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism
so users who register for and The Entrepreneurship Centre services, but don’t
want any marketing material, can keep their E-Mail address off
of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter
or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving
these communications by modifying their profile in a password
protected area of the site. This is currently not an issue on
this site, but may be in the future.
Users of our site are always notified when their
information is being collected by any outside parties. We do
this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether
they should proceed with services that require an outside party,
or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated
at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of
an E-Mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we
use their information in this different manner. We will use
information in accordance with the privacy policy under which
the information was collected.
