Stop Theft Class Privacy Policy
Stop Theft Class or StopTheftClass.com ("Website") is the sole owner of the information collected on its website. Website collects personally identifiable information from our customers and potential affiliates at several different points on our website. We will deny requests for marketing, scholastic, demographic, or other information requests from entities that could derive commercial or social benefits from such data if you are an original customer of our company. But in the cases where you are being referred to us by a third party, we may provide the personal identifiable information requested by them. We will not use or sell this information to promote products or services unrelated to this course or in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
Third Parties
We may share your personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. These services may include, but are not limited to, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These third parties may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on our website, or as required by law.
Registration
In order to use this website, customers must first complete the registration form. During registration customers are required to provide personal information (such as name, address, driver's license number, email, and phone number). This information is used to communicate with the customers regarding the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is also required for the customers to provide demographic information and unique identifiers in order for us to authenticate the customers taking our course and prevent fraudulent use. Personal information is stored indefinitely on a secure database. Following any state required record retention period of time, typically five years, a customer may request that their personal information be purged from the database.
Payment
We request information from the customers though our electronic payment submission form. Here customers must provide contact information (like name and billing address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the customer. We will never provide this information to any third party except for the reasons expressly stated above.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track customer’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for our exclusive use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Occasionally we may need to disclose aggregate statistics from our logs, that do not contain personally identifiable information, when dealing with service providers, affiliates, or business partners.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s browser containing information about the user. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to sign in with his or her user information, thereby saving time while on our site. In addition to our own cookies, some third party cookies may be set. These cookies are for marketing and statistical analysis only, these third party data cookies do not contain any personal information. If a user rejects any cookie, they may still use our site. This will not limit the user from any portion of the site. For this purpose our persistent cookies are tied to personal information, but do not contain or expose your personal information to others. We accumulate and report anonymous, aggregate, statistical information on our website usage to a third party vendor for website usage analysis, but this does not contain any personally identifiable information about you.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our customer’s information. When customers submit sensitive information via the website, the information is secured both online and offline.
When our registration/order form asks customers to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is secured using industry leading encryption software. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the top of Web browsers such as FireFox, Chrome or Safari becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked, or open, when you are browsing a non-secure page.
While we use HTTP encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect customer information offline. All of our customer’s information, encompassing more than the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to regain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customer’s information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
Special Notifications
Website courses are designed to generate email notifications at certain intervals throughout the course. These emails are exclusively related to the products and services offered through Website, and may be in conjunction with services subscribed to by the customer.
Information Requests
You have the option to receive a newsletter or special offers from Website. These are items related to Website programs and products only. By signing up, your email address is stored in our database so we may send you these items. Each item sent by Website will contain a link for unsubscribing, if you no longer wish to receive these items.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Website stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at www.stoptheftclass.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Any company wishing to do business with Website has the options of requesting information. The company may supply their information which is emailed to our sales department where we will contact the company further to offer programs and products specialized for their services.
Correcting/Updating Personal Information
If a customer’s personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code), we provide a way to correct or update that customer’s personal data provided to us. This can be done on the "Member" page within the course, or by contacting us.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email or by posting a notice on our website for 30 days.