RSands Consulting, LLC Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to RSands Consulting, LLC (“RSands Consulting”). This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that RSands Consulting collects, and the ways in which RSands Consulting uses that personal information.  As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number or email address. By accessing the Websites or Services as defined in this site’s Terms of Use, you are accepting and agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information Collection

RSands Consulting may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

  • Your name, company, email address, telephone number, physical address, or other information you provide when you contact us using the Contact form, through email, or when you call us, in order to answer your questions regarding the site, and RSands Consulting’s service offerings.
  • Your name, email address, and possibly your website or blog URL, Twitter ID, or other connection information about you, when you sign up to receive newsletters, join a webinar or online conversation, submit comments to posts, participate in discussions, sign up for or purchase tickets for an event, or register to establish a user account.
  • Additional personal information you may provide to RSands Consulting in the course of doing business with us and participating in our site.

Please help RSands Consulting keep your personal information accurate. If your information changes, please update it on the site, or send us email with the changes.

Using Personal Information

RSands Consulting may use your personal information to:

  • Administer the Website and Services, including improving our marketing efforts, analyze site usage, enhancing the site and service offerings.
  • Personalize the Website and Services for you;
  • Enable your access to and use of the Website and Services;
  • Publish information about you on the Website in conjunction with your participation;
  • Deliver products or services that you download or purchase;
  • Send you marketing communications which you have chosen to receive.

Where RSands Consulting discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

RSands Consulting will not disclose your email address on the Website, publicly accessible via the Internet, without your explicit permission. In most cases there would be no need to disclose your email address in conjunction with any features of the Website or Services, however there may be certain features such as email forums and lists in which your email address would be visible to other participants who have registered for user accounts to access those features. Features of the Website or Services that disclose your personal information will be labelled, and RSands Consulting will take reasonable steps to warn you about information you will disclose by using a feature or participating in a discussion or forum.

When you purchase event tickets, products or services through the Website, your payment information may be handled by a third party site such as PayPal or EventBrite. RSands Consulting is careful to choose third party payment and ticketing services with a good reputation and record of handling personal information securely. However, when you purchase such items through the RSands Consulting Website, your personal information is sent to, handled by and stored by those third-party payment websites in accordance with their respective privacy policies and terms of use. You should read and understand the privacy policy and terms of use of any website you use to in conjunction with purchase you make on the RSands Consulting Website.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, RSands Consulting may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing Your Data

RSands Consulting, and our hosting provider, WestHost, has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information that RSands Consulting stores and controls. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. Third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We will post a reasonably prominent notice to the Websites if any such security breach occurs.

Children

The Website is not directed at children under the age of 13. Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent. Our Terms of Use specifically prohibit anyone using our Website from submitting any personally identifiable information about persons under 13 years of age. Any person who provides their personal information to RSands Consulting through the Websites represents that they are 13 years of age or older.

Third-Party Sites

The Website may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.

Special Note to International Users

The Website is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States which does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and other regions. By providing your personal data you consent to:

  • the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy; and
  • the transfer of your personal data to the United States as indicated above.

Changes and Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

Questions?

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info -at- rsandsconsulting.com.

Effective Date: January 24, 2010.

Credits

This privacy policy is based on a precedent created by employmentlawcontracts.co.uk and published by freenetlaw.com.
 It is also uses elements derived from the privacy policy of Creative Commons, found at http://creativecommons.org/privacy, and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.