Privacy Policy

The owner (“Ryan Shulman”) of www.umatology.com ("Web Site"), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets forth how we handle information we obtain from you and learn about you when you visit our Web Site.

Some of our pages contain links to other sites. These other sites may have information practices different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. Additionally, the website may from time to time offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in that activity. Ryan Shulman has no control over these third parties’ privacy practices.

This Privacy Policy addresses the following:

The information we collect;
The third parties that are provided access to your information
The choices that are available to you regarding how the information is used and to whom it is disseminated;
Your rights to access and correct or update your personally identifiable information; and
Our pledge to have reasonable security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control.

WHAT INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED

Personally Identifiable Information

In order sign up for website membership, a user will be required to provide his or her name, address, phone number, date of birth, e-mail address and additional vocational data. We also ask registrants to provide information on their career interests. This information is used to further develop our materials and services. This information is NEVER released to any third parties.

From time to time we may offer online contests; surveys; or polls on the web site. This information is also only used to further provide data for development of further materials.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

A "cookie" is a small text file that a web site can place on your computer's hard drive. The cookie transmits this information back to the web site's computer that, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. The website may use cookies to help us recognize you when you come back to our site. We may also use cookies to help us track traffic on our site. This information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner. This will help us better tailor our site and provide you with offers that we think may be of interest to you. We do not link cookie information to personally identifiable information.

IP Addresses and Environmental Variables

The website may also collect information through IP addresses or environmental variables. An "IP address" is a number used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to you. "Environmental variables" include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our web site, type of Web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the web site you left to visit Umatology.com, the names of the pages you visit while at our web site, and the Internet address of the web site you then visit. We collect all of this information to allow us to detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on the web site. This information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner.

How information May Be used

Occasionally this information may be stripped of identifiable information and raw data used for promotional purposes. E.g. percentages of users whoused our product receiving interviews etc. No user will have personal or identifiable information published without prior expressed permission.

Third Party Links

This web site may contain links to other sites. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OF SUCH OTHER SITES. Please read the privacy policies of all web sites with your child to determine the web sites’ information collection and use policies. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected when you visit the web site.

Profiling

We do not merge personally identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information. If we do ever decide to merge data, we will give you the opportunity to opt-out of this sharing. We may, however, develop a non-identifiable profile on you based on the pages within our site that you visit.

CHOICE

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our web site so you will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under circumstances we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by way of an e-mail. You will then have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy in effect at the time that the information was collected.

Choices Available to the User, Including Access & Accuracy

The web site provides the following choices regarding the use of your information.

You may set your browser to: (1) inform you when cookies are being set before a cookie is stored; (2) not accept cookies at all; and (3) erase all cookies from your hard drive. However, if you choose to reject or erase cookies, your ability to navigate our site may be limited.

SECURITY

We take every precaution to protect your information from inadvertent disclosure and intrusion by third parties. Our credit card processing information is not stored and processing occurs through a secure 128 bit server run by a professional third party gateway provider. We do however keep a record of the transaction identification code and invoice numbers to assist with accounting requirements.

Due to the considerable costs involved in creating, running and maintaining the Website and its contents (including online tests and resources), we have invested in a copy protection system that shields our materials from digital theft. This requires the downloading of a web browser plug-in. This plug-in is free of charge and is available from the provider’s website. A link is provided on the pages which engage this protection. This plug-in invokes some limitations on the browser to ensure the safety of our materials. To exit from the pages with this plug-in simply click on the clearly marked EXIT link. We thank you for your understanding in this matter.

ACCESS and MODIFICATION

This website provides a useful internal mail system. This system is available as a tool to further assist the learning and development of new skills. It's abuse will not be tolerated and any actions deemed irresponsible or malicious will result in termination of access to the website for the user.

Editing or Deleting Your Account Information.
We provide you with the ability to edit the information in your user account information that you provided to us in registration by using your personal page configuration area. You may request deletion of your user account by contacting our webmaster. Content or other data that you may have provided to us and that is not contained within your user account, such as posts that may appear within our forums, may continue to remain on our site at our discretion even though your user account is deleted. Please see our Terms of Use for more information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy.
We may make changes to this Policy from time to time. We will notify you of substantial changes to this Policy either by posting a prominent announcement on our site and/or by sending a message to the e-mail address you have provided to us that is contained within your user settings.

NO GUARANTEES.
While this Privacy Policy states our standards for maintenance of Data and we will make efforts to meet them, we are not in a position to guarantee these standards. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in disclosure of data. As a consequence, we disclaim any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of Data.