What information does Professional Excellence collect from our users and how do we collect it?

Professional Excellence only contacts individuals who specifically request that we do so or in the event that they have signed up to receive our newsletters and updates. Professional Excellence collects personally identifying information from our users during online registration and through forms that can be filled out on this site. Generally, this information includes name and e-mail address for registration to receive our news and updates and name, postal address, and contact information when corresponding with us. All of this information is provided to us by you.

How do we use this information?

This information is used for internal marketing and correspondence purposes only. Professional Excellence does not sell, exchange, or release your personal information (name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit data, etc.) Your information is not shared with any other third party or company outside of correspondence and contact management purposes.

What are cookies/clear GIFs and how do we use them?

Cookies: Like many other sites, our Site utilizes standard technologies called "cookies" and clear GIFs to collect information about how our Site is used. A cookie is a small data text file, which a website stores on your computer's hard drive (if your web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you to us. Cookies were designed to help a website recognize a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie cannot be read by a website other than the one that set the cookie. A cookie cannot pass on a computer virus or capture any of the Personally Identifiable Information that resides on your computer. Clear GIFs: At times, we work with third-party service partners that employ clear GIFs (also known as pixel tags, single pixel GIFs, web beacons or action tags) for our benefit to help us measure how people are using our website. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of our users. The main difference between the two is that clear GIFs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Clear GIFs are not tied to your Personally Identifiable Information and only track the visitor traffic and behaviour to and on our Site. Clear GIFs can "work with" existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same website or organisation. That means, for example, that if a person visited "www.companyX.com", which uses an advertising company's clear GIF, the website would match the clear GIFs identifier and the advertising company's cookie ID number, to show the past online behaviour for that computer. This collected information can be shared with the advertising company. We may, at times, provide such information to our third-party service partners, but that information can only be used by our partner for our benefit and never includes personally identifiable information.

How do we store your information?

Your information is stored at the list server that delivers Professional Excellence email newsletters. Your information can only be accessed by those who help manage those lists in order to deliver e-mail to those who would like to receive Professional Excellence newsletters. All of the newsletters that are sent to you by Professional Excellence include an unsubscribe link in them. You can remove yourself at any time from our newsletters by clicking on the unsubscribe link. You can also contact us at office@ProfessionalExcellence.co.uk  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to change your information at any time.

Disclaimer

This policy may be changed at any time at Professional Excellence discretion. If we should update this policy, we will post the updates to this page on our website. This policy was revised April 16, 2010. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy please direct them to office@ProfessionalExcellence.co.uk  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  

Data Protection Notice

Professional Excellence takes its responsibilities regarding the protection of personal privacy very seriously.

You can rest assured that any personal data that you may be asked to reveal in order to use some of the features that are or will become available on any of Professional Excellence Web sites will be held and processed in accordance with the requirements of the 1998 Data Protection Act.

In each case where you may be invited to submit personal data, such as an e-mail or postal address or a telephone number, you should find a clear statement of:

- the purpose for the data being held
- what data will be held
- a contact name, e-mail address or telephone number to use should you - wish to check or amend the data held, or request the deletion of that data
- whether any of the data will be disclosed to any third party, and if so, to whom

If, after reading such a statement, you choose to submit any personal data, you are thereby giving your consent for that data to be held and processed for the stated purpose or purposes.

If you find that such information is not available, or if you feel that it is unclear or inadequate, please contact the appropriate author (if given), or e-mail Professional Excellence at: office@professionalexcellence.co.uk  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

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