- Privacy Policy
- Your privacy is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
- We will never rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
- We will never share your contact information with another user, without your consent.
- Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology.
- Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.
- Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:
- What personally identifiable information of yours is collected.
- How the information is used.
- With whom the information may be shared.
- How you can access and change your Account information.
- What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected.
- How to contact us.
- Registration:
- In order to become a user, you must first create an account on this web site. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information: name, email address and choose a password. This may be set up for you by your chapter representative.
- Profile Information:
- Once a user, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your contact information and skills. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself in the system.
- Cookies & Log Files:
- Like most web sites, Expert Software Consulting uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows Expert Software Consulting to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site.
- One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set once you've logged in to your account. The next time you visit the web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to enter your user name or password before logging in to the service. Another type of cookie, called a "session" cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.
- Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information may be used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.
- Children:
- Expert Software Consulting does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the website. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@expertsoftwareconsulting.com.
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
- Information Use
- Expert Software Consulting is an online service dedicated to helping people more effectively connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by Expert Software Consulting from the site (such as, by way of example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by Expert Software Consulting. This information can be utilized by Expert Software Consulting in such manner as Expert Software Consulting, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
- Communications:
- Expert Software Consulting will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. These include a series of up to five welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from Expert Software Consulting related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another user in your network sends you an opportunity. Expert Software Consulting may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please send a request to customer_service@expertsoftwareconsulting.com.
- Customized Content:
- Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site.
- Information Sharing
- Sharing Information With Third Parties:
- Expert Software Consulting takes the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services. For instance, we use a credit card processing company to bill users for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.
- We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users’ activities on the site, please email customer service.
- Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Combined Services:
- Expert Software Consulting partners with other online services to give you the combined results of both services. Whenever we offer such combined services it will be your choice to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be passed from Expert Software Consulting to the partner if you choose to use the combined service.
- Communications Between Users:
- Many emails you initiate through Expert Software Consulting, will list your email address and name in the header of the message. Other communications that you initiate through the website will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal contact information. Your contact information will only be shared with another user if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other.
- Legal Disclaimer:
- It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
- You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your account, at any time by logging in to your account and editing the information on your Profile page.
You can also close your account. If you close your account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to
prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the Expert Software Consulting Privacy Policy that you have previously agree to.
To request that we close your account and remove your information from the service, please send your request to customer_service@ExpertSoftwareConsulting.com. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with Expert Software Consulting under your name.
You will receive a response to requests sent to customer_service@ExpertSoftwareConsulting.com within three business days of our receiving it.
- Security
- In order to secure your personal information, access to your data is password-protected, and sensitive data is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and our web site. To protect any data you store on our servers we also regularly audit our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and we use a tier-one secured-access data center.
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Expert Software Consulting may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
- Questions or Comments
- If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@expertsoftwareconsulting.com.
