Atlanta's
Home Inspectors Business School
Privacy
Policy
Our
Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy
was developed as an extension of our commitment
to combine the highest-quality products and services
with the highest level of integrity in dealing with
our students, clients and partners. The Policy is
designed to assist you in understanding how we collect,
use and safeguard the personal information you provide
to us and to assist you in making informed decisions
when using our site and our products and services.
This statement will be continuously assessed against
new technologies, business practices and our customers'
needs.
What
Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our
Web site you may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you knowingly choose to disclose
that is collected on an individual basis and Web
site use information collected on an aggregate basis
as you and others browse our Web site.
Personal Information
You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to
purchase products or services from us or our partners,
you may need to give personal information and authorization
to obtain information from various credit services.
For example, you may need to provide the following
information:
- Name
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Credit card number
- Home and business
phone number
- Other personal
information (i.e. mother’s maiden name)
Privacy
and security Issues
If you are a AHIBS
Web site user, bank account and other financial
information will NEVER be revealed to anyone whom
you have paid or who has paid you through AHIBS
PayPal Adminstered Payment Center.
Other than the above
we will not disclose any such information outside
of AHIBS. except: To fraud prevention and money
laundering agencies when required to do so by law,
Or as required by law or regulation. Otherwise we
will keep information about you completely confidential.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal standards to
guard your information.
Email
Information
In addition to providing
the foregoing information to our partners, if you
choose to correspond further with us through email,
we may retain the content of your email messages
together with your email address and our responses.
We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance
of information received by mail and telephone.
Web
Site Use Information
Similar to other
commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard
technology called "cookies" (see explanation
below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server
logs to collect information about how our Web site
is used. Information gathered through cookies and
Web server logs may include the date and time of
visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web
site, and the Web sites visited just before and
just after our Web site. This information is collected
on an aggregate basis. None of this information
is associated with you as an individual.
How
Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking,
we use personal information for purposes of administering
our business activities, providing customer service
and making available other products and services
to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally,
we may also use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new
services and special offers we think you will find
valuable. The lists used to send you product and
service offers are developed and managed under our
traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard
the security and privacy of our customers’
personal information. As a customer, you will be
given the opportunity, at least once annually, to
notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that
allows Web servers to recognize the computer used
to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of
data that are stored by a user’s Web browser
on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember
what information a user accesses on one Web page
to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web
site by the same user or to use the information
to streamline the user’s transactions on related
Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move
from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial
transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make
your online experience easier and more personalized.
How
Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser
software tools such as cookies and Web server logs
to gather information about our Web site users’
browsing activities, in order to constantly improve
our Web site and better serve our customers. This
information assists us to design and arrange our
Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to
continually improve our Web site to better meet
the needs of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect
important business and technical statistics. The
information in the cookies lets us trace the paths
followed by users to our Web site as they move from
one page to another. Web server logs allow us to
count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate
our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not
use these technologies to capture your individual
email address or any personally identifying information
about you although they do permit us to send focused
online banner advertisements or other such responses
to you.
Sharing
Information with Affiliates
From time to time
you may notice offers from outside companies advertised
on our Web site. We take measures to select product
or service providers that are responsible and afford
privacy protections to their customers. However,
we cannot make any representations about the practices
and policies of these companies.
Sharing
Information with Strategic Partners
We may enter into
strategic marketing alliances or partnerships with
third parties who may be given access to personal
information including your name, address, telephone
number and email for the purpose of providing you
information regarding products and services that
we think will be of interest to you. In connection
with strategic marketing alliances or partnerships,
we will retain all ownership rights to the information,
and we will not share information regarding your
social security number or other personal financial
data.
Notice
of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we
may also use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new
services and special offers we think you will find
valuable. As our client, you will be given the opportunity
to notify us of your desire not to receive these
offers by clicking on a response box when you receive
such an offer or by sending us an email request
at info@atlhomeinspectors.com
Do
We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate
information about our customers, sales, Web site
traffic patterns and related Web site information
to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but
this information will not include personally identifying
data, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy
Policy.
What
About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information
when legally compelled to do so, in other words,
when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires
it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What
About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible
for the practices employed by Web sites linked to
or from our Web site nor the information or content
contained therein. Often links to other Web sites
are provided solely as pointers to information on
topics that may be useful to the users of our Web
site.