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Privacy
Trade
Cert Limited respects your privacy and is
committed to protect the personal information that you
share with us. Generally, you can browse through
our website without giving us any information about
yourself. When we do need your personal
information to provide services that you request or
when you choose to provide us with your personal
information, this policy describes how we collect and
use your personal information:
1. Information Collection
Personal
information means any information that may be used to
identify an individual, including, but not limited to,
a first and last name, email address, a home, postal
or other physical address, other contact information,
title, birth date, gender, occupation, industry,
personal interests, other information when needed to
provide a service you requested.
When you
browse our website, you do so anonymously, unless you
have previously indicated that you wish Trade Cert
Limited to remember your login and password.
We don't automatically collect personal information,
including your email address. We do log your IP
address (the Internet address of your computer) to
give us an idea of which part of our website you visit
and how long you spend there. But we do not link
your IP address to any personal information unless you
have logged in to our website. Like many other
commercial websites, the Trade Cert Limited
website may use a standard technology called a
"cookie" to collect information about how you use the
site. Please go to "Cookies and Tracking
Information" below for more information.
Trade
Cert Limited collects personal information when
you register with Trade Cert Limited for a
Trade Cert Limited account, when you use
certain Trade Cert Limited products or
services, when you register to attend a seminar or
participate in an online survey, when you ask to be
included in an email or other mailing list, or you
submit an entry for a sweepstakes or other promotions,
or when you submit your personal information to
Trade Cert Limited for any other reason.
From time to time, Trade Cert Limited
receives personal information from business partners
and vendors. Trade Cert Limited only
uses such information if it has been collected in
accordance with acceptable privacy practices
consistent with this Policy and applicable laws.
Access to
certain Trade Cert Limited web pages requires
a username and a password. The use of those web
pages, and the information or programs downloadable
from those sites, may be governed by a written
agreement between your employer and Trade Cert
Limited or one of our partners. Unless you
request deletion of your personal information as
specified below, your personal information may be
retained by Trade Cert Limited to verify
compliance with the agreement, log software licenses
granted, to track software downloaded from those
pages, or track usage of other applications available
on those pages.
Notice
When personal information is collected, we will inform
you at the point of collection the purpose for the
collection. Trade Cert Limited will not
transfer your personal information to third parties
without your consent, except under the limited
conditions described under the discussion entitled
"Information Sharing and Disclosure" below.
If you
choose to provide us with your personal information,
we may only transfer that information, within
Trade Cert Limited or to Trade Cert Limited's
third party service providers with your permission.
Upon receiving your permission, we may transfer your
information across borders and from your country or
jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions
around the world.
We will
always give you the opportunity to "opt out" of
receiving direct marketing or market research
information. This means we assume you have given
us your consent to collect and use your information in
accordance with this Policy unless you take
affirmative action to indicate that you do not
consent, for instance by clicking or checking the
appropriate option or box at the point of collection.
In some cases, when applicable, we will provide you
with the opportunity to "opt in." This means we
will require your affirmative action to indicate your
consent before we use your information for purposes
other than the purpose for which it was submitted.
2. Cookies
and Tracking Technology
A cookie is
a small data file that certain Web sites write to the
hard disk drive of your computer when you visit them.
A cookie file can contain information such as a user
ID that the site uses to track the pages you've
visited, but the only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself.
A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read
cookie files created by other sites. Some parts
of Trade Cert Limited's website use cookies
to track user traffic patterns. We do this in
order to determine the usefulness of our website
information to our users and to see how effective our
navigational structure is in helping users reach that
information.
If you
prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our
website, you can set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your
browser alerts you to its presence. You can also
refuse all cookies by turning them off in your
browser, although you may not be able to take full
advantage of Trade Cert Limited's website if
you do so. In particular, you may be required to
accept cookies in order to complete certain actions on
our website. You do not need to have cookies
turned on, however, to use/navigate through many parts
of our website, except access to certain of Trade
Cert Limited's web pages which may require a
username and password.
3.
Information Collected
Trade
Cert Limited uses information for several general
purposes: to fulfill your requests for certain
products and services, to personalize your experience
on our website, to keep you up to date on the latest
product announcements, software updates, special
offers or other information we think you'd like to
hear about either from us or from our business
partners, and to better understand your needs and
provide you with better services. We may also
use your information to send you, or to have our
business partners send you, direct marketing
information or contact you for market research.
4.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Because
Trade Cert Limited is a global company, your
personal information may be shared with other
Trade Cert Limited offices or subsidiaries around
the world. All such entities are governed by
this Privacy Policy or are bound by the appropriate
confidentiality and data transfer agreements.
Your
personal information is never shared outside Trade
Cert Limited without your permission, except
under conditions explained below. Inside Trade
Cert Limited, data is stored in controlled
servers with limited access. Your information
may be stored and processed in Ireland, the United
Kingdom or any other country where Trade Cert
Limited, its subsidiaries, affiliates or agents
are located.
Trade
Cert Limited may send your personal information
to other companies or people under any of the
following circumstances: when we have your
consent to share the information; we need to share
your information to provide the product or service you
have requested; we need to send the information to
companies who work on behalf of or in association with
Trade Cert Limited to provide a product or
service to you (we will only provide those companies
the information they need to deliver the service, and
they are prohibited from using that information for
any other purpose); or we want to keep you up to date
on the latest product announcements, software updates,
special offers or other information we think you'd
like to hear about either from us or from our business
partners (unless you have opted out of these types of
communications). We will also disclose your
personal information if required to do so by law, to
enforce our Terms of Use, or in urgent circumstances,
to protect personal safety, the public or our
websites.
5. Your
Ability to Review and Delete Your Account and
Information
You may
request deletion of your Trade Cert Limited
account or any of your personal information held by us
by sending an email to
privacy@tradecert.com.
6. Data
Security
Your
Trade Cert Limited account information is
password-protected for your privacy and security.
Trade Cert Limited safeguards the security of
the data you send us with physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures. In certain areas of our
websites, Trade Cert Limited uses
industry-standard SSL-encryption to enhance the
security of data transmissions. While we strive
to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure
the security of the information you transmit to us,
and so we urge you to take every precaution to protect
your personal data when you are on the Internet.
Change your passwords often, use a combination of
letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure
browser.
7. Children
and Privacy
Our websites
do not target and are not intended to attract children
under the age of 13. Trade Cert Limited
does not knowingly solicit personal information from
children under the age of 13 or send them requests for
personal information.
8. Third
Party Sites
Trade
Cert Limited's website contains links to other
sites. Trade Cert Limited does not
share your personal information with those websites
and is not responsible for their privacy practices.
We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies
of those companies. Our website may contain
links to websites operated by other companies.
Some of these third-party sites may be co-branded with
a Trade Cert Limited logo, even though they
are not operated or maintained by Trade Cert
Limited. Although we choose our business
partners carefully, Trade Cert Limited is not
responsible for the privacy practices of web sites
operated by third parties that are linked to our site.
Once you have left our website, you should check the
applicable privacy policy of the third party website
to determine how they will handle any information they
collect from you.
9. Changes
to this Privacy Policy
Trade
Cert Limited will amend this policy from time to
time. If we make any substantial changes in the
way we use your personal information we will make that
information available by posting a notice on this
site.
If you have
questions or concerns about our collection, use, or
disclosure of your personal information, please email
us at
privacy@tradecert.com.
This
document was last updated March 26, 2007
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