Purpose
This policy demonstrates the Sales Education Foundation's commitment to privacy and security, as well as discloses all procedures related to information gathering and dissemination practices. The following discloses information gathering and dissemination practices for Sales Education Foundation (SEF) web site and associated media.
Scope
This policy is intended to cover salesfoundation.org.
Definitions
For the purposes of this policy, "us", "we", and "our" refers to the Sales Education Foundation and/or SEF employees, both as representing the aforementioned web-site covered by this policy; "you" and "your" refers to you as an individual user of such a web-site.
Policy
Information SEF Gathers and Uses
The majority of public information and services on our web site are offered without the gathering of any personally identifiable information from you.
Information Provided by You Directly to Us
The gathering of personally identifiable information by our web site is required in certain instances. Those instances may include: logging-in and/or customizing a site; purchasing products or services; submitting certain online forms for registration, application, or related activities; or contacting us. You will always be aware when we are gathering your personally identifiable information, as you will be entering and/or submitting that information through an online form and/or similar method. Your personally identifiable information may be used by us to provide information and services.
In all such instances, personally identifiable information is provided and used within appropriate guidelines, and only to the extent to which it is necessary in your ability to use our web-site, and/or for us to provide you with information, services and marketing. Your personally identifiable information may be used by us to provide information, services and marketing.
Information Gathered from You Passively by Us
The SEF web-site passively gathers information about you. Such passive gathering may not be readily noticeable to you, and may include, but not be limited to: IP Address, domain from which you access the Internet, individual pages accessed within the SEF web-site, access and session times, environmental variables such as web browser, platform, and operating system, the URL from which you came, the URL you visit when leaving. This information is gathered and analyzed to enhance our web site, detect problems, determine trends, maintain security, and overall, to assist us in improving the offering of information, services and marketing. This information is generally non-personally identifiable, however, may be combined with personally identifiable information to better provide information, services and marketing.
Cookies
To enhance the information and services provided, our web site utilizes "cookies."
Cookies are small text files we place on your computer, associated to your computer's web browser. These cookies do not and will never contain personally identifiable information; however, information stored in these cookies may be linked to personally identifiable information gathered in a manner as previously indicated.
As you browse the Sales Education Foundation site, advertising cookies may be placed on your computer so that we can understand what you are interested in. Our display advertising partners then enable us to present you with advertising on other sites based on your previous interaction with Sales Education Foundation.
Information Disseminated by Us to Strategic Partners and Others
In certain instances, we may disseminate to strategic partners and others outside SEF both non-personally and personally identifiable information for research, presentation, and/or to provide information, services and marketing. In such instances information will be provided only to the extent to which it is necessary in our ability to provide information and services, and/or the ability of our strategic partners and others to do the same.
Security
To protect the loss, misuse, theft, or otherwise unauthorized accesses of personally identifiable information, as well as the overall integrity of all information and services offered, our web sites and associated systems maintain stringent security measures.
We take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect personally identifiable information and associated systems. In certain instances, such as when logging-in and/or when you provide credit card information in the purchasing of products or services, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology may be further employed to protect your personally identifiable information.
Although we take appropriate measures to protect personally identifiable information, we can not guarantee that this information will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy.