Privacy Policy
By accessing this or any other website that is being operated by KnowledgeDrift.com, including all of its divisions, subsidiaries, and related entities (collectively, the KnowledgeDrift.com), you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, whether you are a “Visitor” (meaning you are here to simply browse KnowledgeDrift.com sites) or you are a “Member” (meaning you have registered with any of the KnowledgeDrift.com websites). The term “User” refers to a visitor or a member. “You” also refers to you as a visitor or a member.
This policy is for describing the information collection, usage, and dissemination practices of KnowledgeDrift.com, its affiliates, and subsidiaries, (collectively referred to herein as “the COMPANY”) and it applies to the COMPANY’s collection, usage, storage, and disclosure of information by the COMPANY on its sites. If you register as a member and accept all terms, select the “Accept” button. If you are unwilling to be bound by these terms, kindly select the “Do Not Accept” button, and the registration process will not continue. If you choose the “Do Not Accept” button or you are otherwise not willing to be bound by terms and conditions of the privacy policy of this website, you will not be authorized to register.
This privacy policy is incorporated into and is subject to KnowledgeDrift.com terms of usage. Prior to selecting the “Accept” button, you should print off or save a local copy of the agreement for the purpose of saving a record for yourself. If you do not wish to register but wish to continue browsing the website as a visitor, your continued use of the services will be deemed acceptance of the said terms. If you do not agree with this privacy policy, kindly refrain from providing any information or make use of any of the services or products offered or provided on any of the websites referred to in this privacy policy.
The COMPANY may change any terms of this privacy policy at any time and for any reason after providing notice to you, including by posting notice of the change to KnowledgeDrift.com site or by sending you an email of the update.
The COMPANY is not responsible for the information collection or privacy practices of its Clients or other Third Party websites or applications. This privacy policy applies exclusively to information practices related to our websites. Although this website contains links to other websites, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those, or any other sites. If you click on a link to another website you should carefully read their privacy policy.
Personal Information Collected On This Website
No personally-identifiable information is collected on KnowledgeDrift.com sites from Visitors that browse the KnowledgeDrift.com sites for information. Members’ personally-identifiable information collected on a KnowledgeDrift.com website is gathered on our “register here” pages. This information includes name, address, email address, phone number, age, gender, and other information that is necessary for the system to provide you with the information as per your request.
The personal information a member submits to the KnowledgeDrift.com site remains property of the member, but by submitting that information to the KnowledgeDrift.com Site, you, as a member, grant the COMPANY the right to use that information for the purposes disclosed below.
No Information Collected from Children
The KnowledgeDrift.com sites are websites for the general audience and are intended to be used by adults. The COMPANY does not knowingly collect, solicit, or attract information from or about children. KnowledgeDrift.com sites are not intended for children, and the COMPANY does not want to collect any personally-identifiable information from users who are aged 13 or below. The safety of children is very important to the COMPANY, and the COMPANY strongly recommends that parents review this Privacy Policy and understand its terms and conditions, so that KnowledgeDrift.com sites are used only by persons above 13 years of age.
How We May Use Your Personal Information
The COMPANY may use a Member’s personal information to provide the requested services. This is inclusive of services that display customized advertising and content. We may transfer, sell, disclose, or lease a Member’s personal information to third party businesses and to other entities affiliated with the COMPANY. In addition, we may join with other businesses to bring opportunities to our Members. This means we may use personal information to provide promotional offers to Members by means of email advertising, direct mail marketing, online banner advertising, telephone marketing, and package stuffers, among other possible uses (collectively, “Promotions”). Third party businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including reference and lookup, data enhancement, suppression, and validation. We may also use such information for content improvement and feedback purposes. The COMPANY may also use personal information for audit, research, and analysis to operate and improve our technologies and services. We may also disclose personal information to the extent necessary if the COMPANY is sold or acquired or otherwise deemed necessary or appropriate.
Legal Proceedings
The COMPANY may disclose a Member’s personally identifiable information pursuant to a subpoena or judicial or administrative order, where required by law, or at our sole discretion, where we deem necessary to protect the safety of any individual or the public or to prevent the violation of rights of the COMPANY or any third party.
Email and Unsubscribe Policy
As explained above, the COMPANY uses a Member’s personal information to send Promotions by email to individuals and companies including clients of the COMPANY. The COMPANY may maintain separate email lists for different purposes. If you wish to discontinue receiving email messages from the COMPANY: The COMPANY’s unsubscribe process impacts only the future delivery of electronic mailings disseminated by the COMPANY on its own behalf. A Member should also note that unsubscribing from the COMPANY’s electronic mailings will not automatically unsubscribe the Member from any third party’s businesses. Since third party businesses maintain separate databases from the COMPANY, a Member will need to unsubscribe from each source individually, if desired.
Wireless Addresses
If the email address provided by the Member to the COMPANY is a wireless email address, the Member agrees to receive messages at such address from the COMPANY or its business associates (unless and until the Member elects not to receive such messages by following the instructions in the unsubscribe portion of this policy). Members understand that a Member’s wireless carrier’s standard rates apply to these messages.
Security
The COMPANY uses industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our reasonable control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected on KnowledgeDrift.com sites in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. Further, while we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining this information.
Financial Information
We may, in certain cases, collect credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and other related information, such as the expiration date of the credit card (“Financial Information”). This Financial Information is submitted to us, and such Financial Information is encrypted and protected with SSL encryption software. We will use the Financial Information for purposes of processing and completing the purchase transaction, and the Financial Information will be disclosed to third parties only as necessary to complete the purchase transaction. This information will not be sold or distributed to third parties in any way.
Anonymous Information Collected On This Website
We record anonymous data such as traffic logs, number of visits or clicks on a given page, pages viewed or links to our site. We use IP addresses and cookies for gathering website statistics. We also store IP addresses on our server in the event that a KnowledgeDrift.com site should become corrupted and it becomes necessary to discover the cause of this corruption.
We aggregate this anonymous data as part of managing, maintaining, and reporting on use of our KnowledgeDrift.com sites. We may share this anonymous data with third parties for the limited purpose of reporting on use of any KnowledgeDrift.com site, or to comply with applicable law. We do not rent, sell, or share any anonymous data collected on this website with third parties for marketing purposes. None of this anonymous data is linked to personally-identifiable information, and we make no attempt to link IP addresses to the individuals who visit this site.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Info Collected Using Technology
We currently use cookie and web beacon technology to associate certain Internet-related information about an individual with information about the individual in our database.
Third Party Advertising
We use third party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our KnowledgeDrift.com site and sites upon which we advertise. These third party advertising companies use information about your visits to our KnowledgeDrift.com sites and the sites upon which we advertise, to serve COMPANY ads to you. In the course of our advertisements being served to you, these companies may place or recognize their own unique third-party cookies on your browser. In addition, we may use web beacons, provided by some of our third-party advertising companies, to help manage our online advertising. These web beacons allow us to recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users to our website.
Cookies
Cookies are chunks of data created by a web server, delivered through a web browser, and stored on your computer. They provide a means for websites that you visit to keep track of your online patterns and preferences, as well as identify you as a return visitor. Cookies make the personalization of your web experiences possible, so that you do not need to re-enter your information from scratch upon each visit to a given website.
[Individuals who use the KnowledgeDrift.com site need to accept cookies in order to use all of the features and functionality of the site].
Web Beacons
A web beacon is programming code that can be used to display an image on a web page. It can also be used to transfer an individual’s unique user identification (often in the form of a cookie) to a database and associate the individual with previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows us to track certain websites an individual visits online. Web beacons are used to determine products or services an individual may be interested in, and to track online behavioral habits for marketing purposes.
Usage Tracking and Log Files
The COMPANY tracks information related to the electronic mailings and web pages viewed by members, as well as the hyperlinks clicked by members, while viewing our emails or visiting our websites. Log files are used to track and monitor member usage.
IP Address
We collect your IP (Internet Protocol) address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer this KnowledgeDrift.com site. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. Your IP address is also used to help identify you during a particular session and to gather broad demographic data.
Links To External Websites
Our emails and websites may contain links to external websites not owned or operated by the COMPANY (“Linked Sites”). You will be taken to external websites if you click on these links. Your information may be passed from the COMPANY’s database to the external website, and/or external database, for your convenience (e.g., your information may be used to pre-fill a form at a destination website). You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such Linked Sites, and this privacy policy does not apply to such Linked Sites. Consequently, the operators of Linked Sites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on the KnowledgeDrift.com site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies on the Linked Sites. The company disclaims all responsibility or liability for the actions of, privacy practices of, or information contained on or collected via linked sites.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
If any changes to this privacy policy are unacceptable to you, you must discontinue using the KnowledgeDrift.com site. Notice of the changes sent to you coupled with your continuing use of the KnowledgeDrift.com site will be evidence of your assent to the new terms of the privacy policy. The COMPANY is not responsible for the information collection or privacy practices of its clients or other third party websites or applications. This privacy policy applies exclusively to information practices related to our websites. Although this website contains links to other websites, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those, or any other sites. If you follow a link to another website you should carefully read their privacy policy.
