Helping Protect Privacy at ProfessorIt.com
June 13, 2007
At ProfessorIt.com we are committed to helping protect your privacy, and to providing .how to. video content that helps people get things done.
In general, we will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you. For example, personal information is requested when you are asked to submit content for the Web Site.
The amount of personal information you are required to supply will normally be limited to that which is necessary to supply the service. If other information is requested, it will be labeled as optional.
On the ProfessorIt.com Web Site we provide you with links to sites and services operated by other companies or organizations. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of those sites and services that you choose to visit, so that you can understand how they may collect, use, and share your personal information. ProfessorIt.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or practices of sites and services controlled by other companies or organizations.
Use of Your Personal Information
The personal information we collect from you will be used by ProfessorIt.com to monitor and administer oversight of content and submissions. This may include using the personal information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with important information about the service that you are inquiring, including updates and notifications.
- To make a site or service easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the site or service to your particular interests or preferences.
- To improve the service and to provide excellent service to users.
Except as described below, ProfessorIt.com does not transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent.
ProfessorIt.com may disclose personal information 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 ProfessorIt.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of ProfessorIt.com and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of ProfessorIt.com employees, users of ProfessorIt.com services, or members of the public.
Personal information collected by ProfessorIt.com may be stored and processed in the United States.
Controlling and Accessing Your Personal Information
Nevertheless, ProfessorIt.com does believe that you should be able to exercise control over how the personal information you provide will be used. If you provide personal information to ProfessorIt.com for one purpose, you will be able to opt-out of that personal information being used for other unrelated purposes.
Please be aware that the choices you make in one context will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to ProfessorIt.com in the context of other, separately operated, ProfessorIt.com products, sites, or services.
Security of Your Personal Information
ProfessorIt.com is committed to helping protect the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a e-mail addresses or usernames and passwords) over the Internet, we help protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use of Cookies or Web Beacons On ProfessorIt.com Sites
Many ProfessorIt.com Web pages 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 or your computer, 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. For example, if you personalize an ProfessorIt.com web page, or register with an ProfessorIt.com, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as contact addresses, and so on. When you return to the same ProfessorIt.com web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. Some cookies contain personal information others allow the Member or User to be anonymous. These cookies allow you to customize your membership, allows ProfessorIt.com to provide specific content and information, allows ProfessorIt.com to introduce and monitor the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, as well as to monitor, track, and chart other information.
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. However, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the sites or services you visit.
ProfessorIt.com Web pages may also contain electronic images known as "Web beacons" -sometimes called single-pixel gifs-that allow ProfessorIt.com to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information. They are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about Web site usage. ProfessorIt.com may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners, to help us determine the effectiveness of their Internet advertising campaigns.
Contact Information
At ProfessorIt.com, we're working hard to help protect your privacy, while delivering a .how to. video instruction service. If you have questions about these policies, please contact us by e-mail or postal mail:
ProfessorIt.com
3835R E. Thousand Oaks Blvd.
Ste #432
Westlake Village, CA 91362
legal@ProfessorIt.com
If you have questions about the data collection practices of the ProfessorIt.com
Web Site, please use the contact information contained in the privacy statement.