Generally we gather two types of information Personal Information and anonymous information. We collect Personal Information when you manually enter it into any online form available on the Site. In order for you to take full advantage of the Site, we encourage you to provide your Personal Information to us. Providing your Personal Information is, however, voluntary. You may choose not to provide us with your Personal Information by simply not entering it on the Site. However, if you choose to provide it, we gather Personal Information when a user like you voluntarily signs up for an account with the Site and voluntarily participates on the Site, which may include among other things, liking, commenting, sharing, or posting content or entering contests, take surveys or polls, providing ratings, posting ads or listings, or buying any goods or services we market. When you purchase any good or service on the Site, we will gather your payment information and retain your order information as a convenience to you. Additionally we gather information about users who visit the Site who have either not signed up for an account or who have not logged in.
We may also use “cookies” and your Personal Information to enhance your experience on the Site and to provide you with personalized offers. A cookie is a small data file placed on your computer’s hard drive that contains information that allows us to track your activity on the Site. The cookie itself does not contain any Personal Information; however, if you provide us any Personal Information the cookie may act as an identifier to tie your Personal Information to your IP address or computer. You may choose to delete cookies from your computer’s hard drive at anytime or to disable cookies on your computer. If you delete cookies that relate to the Site, we may not be able to identify you upon your return to the Site. Additionally, if you disable your computer’s cookies, you may not be able to access certain features of the Site that require that cookies be enabled. The Site’s cookies cannot be used to read data from your hard drive and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other websites. Additionally, our cookies cannot be used as a virus, Trojan horse, worm, or any other malicious tool that could impair your use of your computer. Our cookies are used to help us better understand how you and other users use the Site so we can continue to provide a better, more personalized user experience on the Site. We also share website usage information about our Site with those interested in running targeted promotional campaigns on the Site. For this purpose, we and our advertisers track some of the pages that you visit on the Site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs).
Additionally, we use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These advertising companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, visit http://www.networkadvertising.org. Google, as a third party advertising provider, uses a cookie known as the “Dart cookie” to serve ads. Google’s and DoubleClick’s use of the DART cookie enables them to serve ads to you based on your visit to the Site and other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google advertising privacy policies.
We collect anonymous and Personal Information about you to constantly improve the features, offerings, and content that we provide through the Site; to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; to determine how you use and respond to the features, offerings, and advertisements on the Site; to fulfill orders and communicate with you regarding orders or support issues.
We do not sell or rent your Personal Information without advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Your Personal Information data we collect is available: (1) to you after you sign up for account; (2) to our employees who access and manage this information for legitimate business purposes such as customer service, marketing or billing purposes; (3) to our service providers for purposes of providing functions or services related to your account; and (4) limited Personal Information is made available to other authenticated users on the Site in connection with your profile with whom you have agreed to share your information.
We reserve the right to release your information in the event that (i) we believe you have used the Site in violation of the Site’s rules or to carry out unlawful acts, (ii) the information is subpoenaed or otherwise required to mitigate our liability in a lawsuit or other legal process, (iii) TrainLife or one of its Affiliates, is sold, acquired, or merged with another company, or substantially all of our assets or the assets of one of our Affiliates are acquired, or (iv) when we deem it essential or appropriate.
Within our company your Personal Information may only be accessed on a “need to know” basis by employees who must access that information to supply products or services to you to do their jobs and to fulfill on requests that you have made through the Site. Additionally, we have instituted physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that meet federal regulations to protect your Personal Information. However, no data transmissions over the Internet, are guaranteed to be completely secure, so there is a slight chance that Internet transmissions containing your Personal Information may be intercepted by others. There is no way for us to ensure the privacy of your information before it arrives at the Site or after it leaves the Site.