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Privacy Practices
PRIVACY POLICY
ManagementVitality is committed to protecting your privacy. The
following policy describes how we collect, store, use and distribute
information about our website users.
OUR GOAL AND WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU
Our goal is to provide a comprehensive set of learning tools to
assist in the attainment of knowledge regarding the Adizes Methodology.
These learning tools are interactive and are customized for each
individual, based upon personally identifiable information provided
by the individual. Without customization and the ability to personalize,
we could not identify a participant in our on-line courses each
time they logged on to the website (because we would not have the
ability to identify their account from session to session) and the
participant would have to redo each lesson and repeat any assessments
each time they returned to our website. Information such as your
user name, password and e-mail address allows us to differentiate
you from other users and maintain your personalized version of the
website. In addition, some features available on our website could
not be properly utilized without personalized information.
We may also ask you to share other, voluntary information with
us from time to time, for example, in the form of surveys or questionnaires.
This information allows us to improve the learning tools and the
website. We may use this type of information to compile aggregate
statistics about our users, sales, traffic patterns and related
website information. Please remember that unless we advise you otherwise,
this type of information is optional and you do not have to enter
it to enjoy our website.
We will never give our marketing partners information about a specific
website users (excepting those third party agencies providing credit
card processing, fraud detection and order fulfillment services),
but we may provide them with information such as how many website
users have purchased a certain product or participated in a specific
on-line course.
If you are a registered member of our site (which means you are
taking or have taken on-line courses) we will provide your contact
information to Adizes Associates in your home country. The Adizes
Associates work in partnership with us to offer course participants
more intensive follow-up sessions or more indepth coaching off-line.
You may be contacted by an Associates in your home country to let
you know about upcoming seminars, courses, resources or other opportunities
related to the Adizes Methodology. These Associates will not contact
you for other, unrelated purposes and they won't share your contact
information with anyone else, unless you authorize them to do so.
In order to notify you about new features or special offers or
important functionality changes to the website, we will need your
e-mail address.
To properly process your online order we will require your name,
e-mail address, mailing address, credit card number and its expiration
date. We will provide this information to third parties, such as
credit card processing and order fulfillment and fraud detection
agencies or as otherwise required to enable us to fulfill your online
orders or to provide refunds or credits for purchases that you have
made.
If you use our recommendation service to e-mail the website information
or an article from the website to a friend, you will need to provide
us with your friend's e-mail address. We will automatically send
this person a one-time e-mail, attaching the information or the
article, inviting them to register with us. We will not use these
e-mail addresses for any other purpose.
From time to time we may employ third parties to help us improve
our website. These third parties may have limited access to databases
of website user information or registered member information solely
for the purpose of helping us to improve the website or the learning
tools and they will not be able to use the information about our
users or registered members for any other purpose.
HOW TO CONTROL THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US OR ON THE WEBSITE
If you do not wish to receive e-mail or other correspondence from
us outside of the necessary contact we need to be able to make with
you when you are taking online classes, for example, if you do not
want to be contacted by an Adizes Associate in your home country,
simply indicate your preference when you are asked to provide the
information. We may disclose personal information in some limited
circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you when
we collect the information, such as in the terms of use for a new
service or on line course. For example, if we're going to give personal
information to a co-provider of an on-line course, we'll tell you
that before you sign up for the on-line course, so that you can
decide whether or not to sign up. If you want to correct or change
any information we have about you or opt out of any programs, please
go to our Feedback Page. However, you
can always use postal mail to make your request to:
Privacy Coordinator
ManagementVitality Inc.
c/o LaBarge Weinstein
333 Preston Street,
Suite 1100,
Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1S 5N4
Tel: 001 (613) 231 3000
Fax: 001 (613) 231 3900
Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for us to update your information. While
you are a participant in the on-line classes, your e-mail address
will be accessible to instructors and other classmates. The learning
experience cannot take place without collaboration on message boards
and in e-mail. If you would like to guarantee no further contact
with past classmates, please use a free e-mail address that you
can discard or only use for these classes.
The information you post in message boards is available to others
outside of the website. Please remember that whenever you disclose
personal information publicly, you may receive unsolicited messages
from other parties in return.
SECURITY
While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to
us, and you do so at your own risk. What does this mean? You must
protect yourself. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy
of your passwords and/or any account information. We recommend that
you do not share your passwords with anyone. We will never ask you
for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited
e-mail. Also, if you are using a computer that others have access
to such as one in a computer lab, Internet cafe or public library,
always remember to log out and close your browser window when leaving
our web site.
The Internet is not a secure medium of communication and privacy
cannot be ensured. We cannot assume any responsibility, nor will
we be liable, for any damages you or a third party may suffer as
a result of the transmission of any information that you make to
us through the Internet, or as a result of any Posting or Communication
made via this web site.
COOKIES
We use cookies to facilitate the login process for you across multiple
applications on the website. When you register with us, we assign
a unique user id to you, and we place a cookie on your computer
that will remind our system of that user id in other areas of the
web site, or next time you visit the web site. This cookie allows
you to access all of your personalized areas of the web site without
having to log on multiple times. If you choose to log out, this
cookie we set in registration will be deleted and we will then set
another cookie like it on your computer next time you log in.
Please note: Nothing in a cookie allows anyone to identify you
individually. Your computer is assigned a number and that number
is tracked using the cookie. This number is only meaningful in the
context of our secure database system and your personalized version
of our website.
We also use cookies to log your activity on the web site. Everything
we learn from these logs will be used to enrich your experience
on our web site. It will help us understand what you like and don't
like, so we can focus our energies more effectively and provide
you with a better website.
IMPORTANT EXCEPTIONS
We may disclose your information to a third party without your
consent if we have reason to believe that disclosing this information
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against
someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either
intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other
website users or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
We may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that
such disclosure is required by and in accordance with the law.
We may also disclose your information in connection with a corporate
re-organization, a merger or amalgamation with another entity, or
a sale of all or a substantial portion of our assets provided that
the information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes
permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information.
OUTSIDE PARTIES AND SITES
Through ManagementVitality you may be introduced to a variety of
third-party vendors and web sites. For example, you can review the
products offered by the vendors included on our web site. The privacy
policies of these third parties are not under our control and may
differ from ours. The use of any information that you may provide
to any third party, or the use of "cookie" technology by any third
party, will be governed by the privacy policy of the operator of
the web site that you are visiting. If you have any doubts about
the privacy of the information you are providing on another web
site, we recommend that you contact that web site directly for more
information and review its privacy policy.
YOUR CONSENT
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of
your information as we've described in this policy.
CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
If we find it necessary or desirable to change our privacy policy
in the future, we will post changes as soon as they go into effect
so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how
it would be used, and under what circumstances we would disclose
it. Any change to this policy will become effective on the date
the change is posted. You can determine this date by looking at
the date in the lower right hand corner of this web page. We recommend
that you print a copy of this policy for your reference and revisit
this policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes.
Your continued use of the Web Site signifies your acceptance of
any changes.
LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK
If you have any questions or comments about your
privacy and ManagementVitality, please let us know on our Feedback
page.
Last updated
February 28, 2001
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