eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® is committed to protecting your privacy and developing
technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This
Statement of Privacy applies to eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® Web
site and governs data collection and usage. By using eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute®
website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® collects personally
identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work
address or telephone number when you register to gain access to the content.
There is also information about your computer hardware and
software that is automatically collected by eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute®. This information
can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and
referring Web site addresses. This information is used by eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® for
the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to
provide general statistics regarding use of eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® Web site.
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® is
not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® and eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® collects and uses your personal
information to operate the eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® Web site and deliver the services
you have requested. eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® also uses your personally identifiable
information to inform you of other products or services available from
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® and its affiliates. eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® may also contact you
via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of
potential new services that may be offered.
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® does not sell,
rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® keeps
track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute®,
in order to determine what eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® services are the most popular.
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® Web sites will
disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so
by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a)
conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute®; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute®, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your
online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by
a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to
your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a
web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary
purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The
purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a
specific page. For example, if you personalize eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® pages, or
register with eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® site or services, a cookie helps
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as
billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® Web site, the information you previously provided can be
retrieved, so you can easily use the eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® features that you
customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web
browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser
setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you
may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® secures your personal information from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® secures the
personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a
controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is
transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption,
such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® is protecting
your information.
Contact Information
eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® welcomes your comments
regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® has
not adhered to this Statement, please contact eLearning Portal, The Retail Owners Institute® at
theroi@retailowner.com. We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.