Privacy Policy

Effective April 14, 2009

Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the CertificationMap.com website. On some pages, you are prompted for information.

The types of personal information collected at these pages include:

• Information you provide – When you sign up for a CertificationMap account or other service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, etc.).
• Log information – When you use CertificationMap services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
• Uploaded content – When you voluntarily choose to upload any personal information or audio, textual or video content on any area of the Website, this information is made publicly available and may be collected by other users of the Website.
• User communications – When you send email or other communication to CertificationMap, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
• Links – CertificationMap may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search functions, customized content and advertising.

The Way We Use Information
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

• To personalize your experience (your information helps us better respond to your individual needs)
• To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
• To send periodic emails
• To alert you to products and services that may be of interest to you.
• To provide information about our MAT@USC program, upon your request.

Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. CertificationMap loads all information collected from its users directly into its Customer Relationship Management (“CRM”) provider, Salesforce.com, which employs firewall protected server authentication and data encryption to ensure that your data is safe, secure, and available only to registered users in the CertificationMap organization.

Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Third Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Data Integrity
CertificationMap processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and Updating Personal Information
When you use CertificationMap services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information.

Enforcement
CertificationMap regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or CertificationMap’s treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at CertificationMap 30 East 23rd Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10010. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is CertificationMap’s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between CertificationMap and an individual.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). CertificationMap recommends that you periodically review this Privacy Policy for any updates and/or changes. Please be aware that any and all rights that CertificationMap has to use your personal information will come from the Privacy Policy in effect at the time you information is submitted.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date at the top of this page.

Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please email info@certificationmap.com.