Privacy Statement

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.