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Last updated on 06/08/2006 - This privacy statement covers the site www.eDesignations.com
The Professional Realty Institute has created this Privacy Policy to
demonstrate our company commitment to privacy and so that you, as a visitor
to eDesignations.com ("web site"), will be aware of the uses made of
information that may be generated as a result of you using our web site. |
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What information is generated when you visit eDesignations.com?
Comments Feature
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Personal Information Disposal
Contests
Surveys
Use of Cookies
Choice/Opt-Out
Types of emails sent from eDesignations.com
Corrections/Updates
Security
Links to Other Sites
Testimonials
Legal
Disclaimer
Changes to Privacy Policy Statement
Contacting our Web Site
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What information is generated when you visit eDesignations.com?
Depending how you use our web site, certain types of personal and
non-personal information may be generated and collected. For example,
you may give us your name or email address when you complete a registration
screen, respond to a questionnaire or submit an e-mail to us. We also
collect personal information offline via fax, phone and mail which is
the way we register students for our classes. Unless we receive your
approval to do otherwise, any personal information provided to us will
only be used by us to fulfill the stated objective for which the information
was requested or collected. Example, if information, that you are providing
is to change your email address, we will update the information and
not provide it to others.
For QuickStart™ registrations, we collect full contact information as well as credit card information and DRE license #. We use this information so we may process class registration payments. We also collect information on the comments page of our site, http://www.edesignations.com/comments.asp. We collect "Subject" of the comment, the comment itself and the name, email, phone and fax numbers. We collect the contact information, so we may respond to submitted comments.
Other types of information that may be generated and collected when you
use our web site is information that we consider non-personal in nature.
For example, we may collect the name of the domain from which you access
the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America
Online account); the date and time you access our site or and the Internet
address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site. We use
this information solely to measure the number of visitors to the different
sections of our Web site and to help us make our Web site more useful to
visitors.
3rd Party
The body of the e-PRO registration page (http://www.edesignations.com/ePRO/Register/signup.htm),
although has the look and feel of the eDesignations Web site, is operated
by Internet Crusade. Professional Realty Institute does not collect any
information. All information including credit card capturing is done by
Internet Crusade on their website. Please refer to Internet
Crusades privacy policy if you have questions about how your information is being used.
Please be aware that for a seamless experience the url may still indicate you are on www.edesignations.com when entering your information for e-PRO; however, you are actually submitting your information directly to www.epronar.com as indicated above.
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Comments Feature
Like most sites on the Internet, our web site contains a feature that
allows you to contact us with your comments or questions. Not surprisingly,
we call this feature Comments. To use this feature, there is a
link at the bottom of each page on our Web site which you can click onto.
When you do click this link, a screen will prompt you to provide us with
certain information, such as your first and last name, email address, phone
and fax number and your address, including your city and state.
The information collected through the "Comments" feature is
used solely to investigate and respond to your inquiries. We may also use
the information you provide to update our records.
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Information Sharing and Disclosure
The Professional Realty Institute, Inc. will not give, sell, trade or rent your
personally identifiable information to anyone other than course information
to the California Association of REALTORS(R) who maintain their members'
educational history and to the California Department of Real Estate who may
request verification of student attendance at one of our
courses. Also, to service providers working on our behalf and any legal process as defined below.
Service Providers
We use an outside credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
We use a third party: AuthorizeNet to provide credit card processing on our site. When you register for the QuickStart™ program, we will share your credit card information as well as billing address as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
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Personal Information Disposal
The Professional Realty Institute, Inc. handles customer personal information
in accordance with the State of California assembly bill 2246, which
requires all businesses to take all reasonable steps to destroy customer
or client records containing personal information that we no longer need.
Professional Realty Institute, Inc.
principally ensures the privacy of a customer's
personal information contained in records by arranging for the
destruction of the records by shredding.
Our objective is to comply with the State of California assembly bill 2246
and to protect clients' privacy and prevent identity theft.
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Contests
We may from time to time run contests on our
web site. If our contests
require you to provide personal or demographic information, we will not use
this information for any purpose other than to complete the contest and
update our records. All contests are run internally.
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Surveys
We may from time to time create and use surveys on our
web site. Most
surveys are simple "click box" surveys where you click a box on
the screen to indicate your response. However, we may from time to time ask
you for your name, email address or demographic information. If a survey
does ask you this information, we will not use it for any purpose other than
to complete the survey, compile statistics and update our records. All surveys are run internally.
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Use of Cookies
What is a cookie? A cookie is a data file that is created and stored on
your computer's hard drive when you visit a web site. The typical purposes
of a cookie is to make your use of the web site easier and more convenient
and to assist the web site in tracking your use of the site. For example,
a cookie may save the registration information, passwords, purchases or
preferences that you create when using a web site so you do not have to
reenter this information. Cookies may also tell the web site which areas
of the site are popular and which are not. Cookie technology is used by
most major web sites and is considered an industry standard for the
Internet.
Our web site uses cookie technology to verify user information. We do not use cookies to link to any personally
identifiable information. We use cookies to differentiate new versus
returning website visitors. Also,
most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer,
you may set your browser so that it refuses cookies or alerts you when
cookies are being created on your hard drive. You should be aware though
that by not accepting cookies, you may impair your ability to use certain
shopping or password protected areas of web sites.
Some of our business partners like Internet Crusade use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by eDesignations.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties.
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Choice/Opt-Out
Our web site provides you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
email communications from us. We hope you find the information contained
in our communications useful. To exercise your opt-out privilege, please
email us at support@edesignations.com with the subject line: "unsubscribe"
or write us at: 909 East Green Street, Pasadena CA 91106, Attn: eDesignations.com
Web Developer. Remember, you may rejoin at any time by emailing us at
support@edesignations.com with the subject line: "subscribe".
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Types of emails sent from eDesignations.com
TeDesignations.com sends out three types of emails. We send out promotional emails promoting the various educational courses that we offer. We also send out newsletters to current students, faculty and state associations. You can opt out of these emails. Please see the Choice/Opt-Out section. We also send out emails providing receipts as well as reminders of registered courses. These emails you are not able to opt out of since they are necessary for us to effectively provide our educational services.
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Corrections/Updates
If there is information you would like corrected or updated,
please feel free to email us at: support@edesignations.com
or write us at: 909 East Green Street, Pasadena CA 91106, Attn: eDesignations.com
Web Developer.
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Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). [To learn more about SSL, follow this link.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at support@edesignations.com.
Security is discussed at our
regularly held staff meetings. Access to data is limited. All workstations
have password protected logins. Web security is reviewed on a semiannual
basis.
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Links to Other Sites
In many areas of our web site, we have included links to other Internet
sites which we feel add to or improve the quality of our web site. While we
hope you find these links helpful, we cannot assume responsibility for the
privacy practices or the content of any linked site. Therefore, we encourage
you to investigate and determine the privacy policy and practices of any
linked site prior to providing information to the linked site.
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Testimonials
If you submit a testimonial to this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of this website, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in your testimonial. Typically your name and job title are displayed.
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Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every
effort to preserve your privacy we may need to disclose personal information
when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is
necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or
legal process served on our Web site.
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Changes to Privacy Policy Statement
With the ever-changing environment of the
Internet and to maintain our ability to improve the quality and safety of
our web site, we reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any
time. If there are any substantial changes made to our privacy policy, we
will post a prominent notice on our website stating that the privacy policy
has been updated. If we are going to use
your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that
stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have
a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different
manner. As you use our web
site, we encourage you to periodically check back with this statement for
changes that we may make.
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Contacting our Web Site
If you have any questions about this Privacy
Policy, the practices of our web site, or your dealings with our web site,
please feel free to email us at: support@edesignations.com
or visit our comments page at www.edesignations.com/comments.htm
or write us at: 909 East Green Street, Pasadena CA 91106, Attn: eDesignations.com
Web Developer you may also call us at 888.785.4800 or fax
at 626.229.0789.
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