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(Last updated December 26, 2003)

Any reference to 'you' or 'your' is in reference to a customer, not a prospective customer. PassCertificationExams.com collects no personally identifying information about you except when specifically and knowingly provided by you.

PassCertificationExams.com has established this Privacy Policy consisting of good business principles with regard to your personal information.  PassCertificationExams.com will occasionally update this Privacy Policy.  When it does, PassCertificationExams.com will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Privacy Policy so you can determine if a change has occurred.  For changes to this policy, PassCertificationExams.com will also notify you by placing a notice on its web site home page.

1.    Accountability

PassCertificationExams.com supports the right of personal privacy and corporate security on the Internet.  PassCertificationExams.com will never sell or market names, email addresses, or any other privileged information about you.  PassCertificationExams.com collects, at time of your registration, sign-on, or purchase at any of its web sites, certain “personal information” (information that personally identifies you) such as your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number, and your computer hardware, IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses.

PassCertificationExams.com has implemented this Privacy Policy to protect your personal information and to respond to any inquiries and complaints.  The Privacy Policy also provides that PassCertificationExams.com will use appropriate contractual means to establish a comparable level of protection for personal information which is sent for processing by third parties on PassCertificationExams.com’s behalf.  PassCertificationExams.com has designated responsibility for your personal information to its Privacy Officer, who ensures compliance with the principles in this Privacy Policy.  Other PassCertificationExams.com individuals may be delegated to act on behalf of the Privacy Officer.

2.    Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

PassCertificationExams.com collects and uses personal information for the following Identified Purposes:

(a) to understand your needs regarding PassCertificationExams.com’s products and services;

(b) to revise, develop, and provide new products and services for you;

(c) to communicate with you, and to inform you of updates and additional products and services available from PassCertificationExams.com and its affiliates;

(d) to allow you to access secured private areas of PassCertificationExams.com’s web site;

(e) to personalize some of our web page displays, services, and products for you;

(f) to bill accounts and maintain payment records;

(g) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request;

(h) to respond to a legitimate claim that you are violating the rights of any third party;

(i) to protect the services, products or rights of PassCertificationExams.com; and

(j) to identify and resolve technical problems concerning PassCertificationExams.com’s products and services.

PassCertificationExams.com also uses non-identifiable personal information for its business analysis, operational, marketing, and other promotional purposes.  If we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only provide those companies the information we need for them to have for our Identified Purposes.

3.    Consent for Collection, Use or Disclosure

By registering for or purchasing PassCertificationExams.com products and services, you give consent to PassCertificationExams.com to collect, use, and disclose personal information under this Privacy Policy.   PassCertificationExams.com will normally seek your consent for any new uses and disclosures of your personal information, either at the same time it collects the personal information or after it has been collected but before it is used or disclosed for a new purpose.  In certain circumstances however, PassCertificationExams.com will not be required to inform and obtain your consent, such as investigation of a breach of an agreement, violation of laws, an emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened, or the collection of a debt.

You may withdraw such consent for collection, use, and disclosure at any time, on prior written notice, provided that PassCertificationExams.com may on such withdrawal suspend or terminate its products and services to you.

4.    Limited to the Collection of Personal Information

PassCertificationExams.com limits its collection of personal information to only that information which is necessary for our Identified Purposes.  PassCertificationExams.com does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

When you visit the PassCertificationExams.com web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the PassCertificationExams.com web site previously.  PassCertificationExams.com uses cookies to determine which products and services you have already purchased so that PassCertificationExams.com does not provide redundant information to you, and to track PassCertificationExams.com sales made to other customers referred by you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program.  If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the PassCertificationExams.com web site, you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, experience a personalized visit, subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the PassCertificationExams.com web site, or be compensated for affiliate commissions.  It will also cause redundant exposure to previously viewed material, which may waste your time.  If you haven't registered with our site, we may place a cookie on your system to help provide a more personalized experience.  This cookie identifies you as a unique user by means of a tracking ID.  However, if you have not voluntarily registered on our site, we cannot link that ID with personal information about you such as your name or e-mail address.  Such cookies do not have the ability to gather information from your computer and transfer it to us, and we do not wish they did.

5.    Disclosure, Processing and Retention

PassCertificationExams.com does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else except when the Identified Purposes require PassCertificationExams.com to disclose the personal information to:

(a) an agent of yours;

(b) agents of PassCertificationExams.com acting on its behalf for the Identified Purposes;

(c) a public authority, to avoid or minimize danger to life or property; and

(d) a third party to which disclosure is required by any law, regulation, legal process or government request.

Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or in any other country in which PassCertificationExams.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or agents maintain facilities.  By using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.  PassCertificationExams.com abides by the “safe harbor” framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

After your account becomes inactive, PassCertificationExams.com will keep your personal information only for those purposes which are established by law, and for archival record purposes.

6.    Accuracy of Personal Information

PassCertificationExams.com will use reasonable efforts to keep your personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate decisions based on such information.  You are responsible for informing PassCertificationExams.com about changes to your personal information.  PassCertificationExams.com will update personal information when necessary to keep it accurate or else provide you with the facility to make such updates.

7.    Security Safeguards

PassCertificationExams.com will use reasonable efforts to protect personal information against loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, or modification through security measures that depend on the level of sensitivity of the information.  Methods of protection include organizational measures (contract provisions, security clearance, limiting access to need-to-know PassCertificationExams.com personnel), technological measures (passwords, encryption), and physical measures (locked file storage, safe deposit boxes).  PassCertificationExams.com will control personal information disclosed to authorized third parties by entering into agreements which contain confidentiality provisions and restrictions on use and which limit the amount of information disclosed to only that which is needed for our Identified Purposes.

8.    Publication of Policy

This Privacy Policy, and all updates to the Privacy Policy which may be made from time to time, are published and made available to you at www.PassCertificationExams.com/privacy.html.  It is your obligation to periodically check this PassCertificationExams.com web site for Privacy Policy updates.

9.    Access to Personal Information

PassCertificationExams.com will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review the personal information in your file, in understandable format, either by direct access or upon request to the Privacy Officer made by you after providing sufficient identification.

If PassCertificationExams.com is not able to provide access to some aspect of your personal information, it will provide reasons for denying access such as: that by doing so would likely reveal personal information about a third party, or that it is confidential commercial information or attorney–client privileged communications, or that the information relates to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual.

You have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information be amended as appropriate, and PassCertificationExams.com will promptly correct such personal information or provide the means for you to do so directly.

10.    Compliance

PassCertificationExams.com wants to ensure that its Privacy Policy meets your needs.  If you feel that the Privacy Policy needs improvement, or believe that PassCertificationExams.com is not following its Privacy Policy, please contact the Privacy Officer.

PassCertificationExams.com will investigate your suggestions and complaints concerning the PassCertificationExams.com Privacy Policy.  If a complaint is found to be justified, PassCertificationExams.com will take appropriate measures to resolve the complaint including, if necessary, amending its policies and procedures.  You will be informed of the outcome of the investigation regarding your complaint.


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