This policy is applicable to all current and future Élan Guides' websites and services.
Élan Guides is committed to respecting your privacy. Any personal information you provide while visiting this website is confidential, and only used for the purposes described below.
This policy establishes how Élan Guides collects, uses, discloses and manages your personal information.
In order to access certain parts of our website, and to avail certain services and offerings, Élan Guides may ask you to provide some personal information. If you choose not to provide your personal information, you can still visit our site, but you will not be able to join it, or be able to use certain services.
The information you submit will be used by us for communication and contact, to fulfill your requests, to respond to your queries and to offer other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
Our site's "Register" page requires you to give us 'personally identifiable' information which includes your name, telephone number and any other information that is connected with you personally. Additionally, you may have to submit more details such as your credit card information, physical address (street address, city, state, zip code and country), daytime phone, course selection, educational background, date of birth, and gender. These details can help us provide you with information or services you have requested or send you information about our products and services. The details we ask for may vary with the services you request.
We use the personal information you provide us to tailor the content, services, and advertising on our Web sites to your current and future needs. Moreover, the information we collect on an aggregate basis is not used to identify you in any way.
Information Sharing:
We may share the information you provide when you register on elanguides.com with any other Élan Guides sites or services, our partners, relevant companies or selected third parties.
Élan Guides may also disclose your information in special cases when we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact, restrain or bring legal action against someone who may be causing (intentionally or unintentionally) injury to or interference with the rights of elanguides.com and other elanguides.com visitors or members.
Furthermore, Élan Guides.com may disclose your information when we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so.
Log Out Option:
If you do not want Élanguides.com, our partners, or selected third parties to contact you, you have the option of 'opting out' at any time. You can access all your personally identifiable information and edit it at any time via your, "My Account" page.
You can also request not to receive communications from third-party companies that offer a product or service that we think would be of value to you. If you object to such communications for any reason, you may:
- Request us directly via our 'Contact Us' page or
- Do it yourself by modifying your member information online.
If you wish to terminate your relationship with us and wish for us to delete your information from our database, please contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator at the Contact Us page with the relevant subject heading and provide your account name (your email address) and elanguides.com password.
Cookies:
In common with most professional online services, we use cookie-technology for our user's convenience in order to speed up the navigation process. Cookies are small text files written to your computer's browser to store your preferences. This piece of information identifies you and therefore avoids the time-consuming process of checking your details against our user database every time a new page is requested.
It is important to note that:
- We never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer
- Cookies do not take information from your hard drive, delete files or contain viruses
- Cookies are small files (100s of bytes) and do not pose a disk space problem
- If you choose, you can change your web browser to disable storage of cookies. However, some features of our website will not work properly or may be considerably slower for you.
- We use cookies to understand website usage and to improve the content and offerings on our website.
Information Security:
The security of your personally identifiable information is of paramount concern to us. We have physical, electronic and managerial procedures in place to assist us in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.
Unfortunately, since no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure, we can not ensure the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all liability and responsibility for any Damages you may suffer due to any loss, unauthorized access, misuse or alteration of any information you submit to this website.
Élanguides.com accounts are all password protected so that only authorized members are permitted to access them. We recommend that you keep your password confidential.
Remember to sign out of your account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This ensures that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if your computer is accessible to others.
IP Address:
Your Internet Protocol ("IP") address is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university.
Élanguides.com collects IP addresses for the purposes of:
- System administration
- To report aggregate information to our partners
- To audit the use of our site.
We may use IP Addresses to identify a visitor in exceptional cases such as if we feel that our policies or terms of use are being violated.
Public Forums:
Élanguides.com makes numerous public forums, such as chat rooms, blogs, message boards, and news groups, available to its users. Despite the fact that many of these forums are password-protected and not accessible to the general public, it is, nevertheless, important to keep in mind that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. Hence you should be cautious whilst disclosing any personal information.
Our chat rooms may be monitored by a moderator. Moderators have the discretion to delete comments and content that is considered inappropriate or profane.
Contact Us:
If you have any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy or website, you may contact Us via our 'Contact Us' page.
Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability:
This web site and the content on it ("Content") are provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, omissions, completeness and delays.
Except as may be expressly stated on the web site, Élan shall not be liable for any special, direct, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential damages of any kind in any way due to, resulting from, or arising in connection with the use of or inability to use this web site or the Content.
The contents of this site could include inaccuracies or typographical errors.
Changes to this Privacy Policy:
Please note that Élan Guides may make improvements, deletions, amendments or other modifications to the Content on this web site at any time without prior notice. You are advised to review this policy periodically. Your continued use of our site indicates your consent to this privacy policy and any amended versions of it.
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