Privacy Policy
Effective Date: November 6, 2009
Celect.org respects the privacy of our users and has developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe for you, as an individual who is a user of Celect.org or our services the information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website. By using our website, you are consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.
Information we collect
We may collect personal information that can identify you such as your name and email address as well as other information that does not identify you. When you provide personal information through our website, the information may be sent to servers located in the United States and possibly to other countries.
- Information you provide. We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our website or provide to us in some other manner. This includes identifying information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. We also may request information about your interests and activities, your gender and age, and other demographic information.
- Information about others. We may also collect and store personal information about other people that you provide to us. For example we may store your personal information and the personal information of others who you believe may be interested in our services through our site.
Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information. We use various technologies to collect information from your computer and about your activities on our site. We automatically collect information from your browser when you visit our website. This information includes your IP address, your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us (see “Cookies” below), and the referring website address.
Cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record keeping purposes. If you select the “remember me” function when signing in to your organization’s website through Celect.org we will assign your computer one or more cookies to remember your log-in information. Otherwise, we generally do not use cookies on Celect.org.
How we use information
We may use information that we collect about you to:
- deliver the information and services that you have requested;
- manage your account and provide you with customer support;
- perform research and analysis about use of, or interest in, our services;
- communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us or other third parties;
- enforce our terms and conditions; and
- manage our business.
If your personal information is submitted through our website when applying for a position with our company, the information will be used solely in connection with considering and acting upon your application. We may retain your personal information for a period of time, but only for the purpose of considering your application for current or future available positions.
Sharing your information
Personal information. We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. We may share personal information in the following situations:
- Authorized service providers: We may share your personal information with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling information and demonstration requests, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, supporting our website functionality. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
- Other Situations. We also may disclose your information:
- In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
- When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
- In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Aggregated and non-personal information. We may share aggregated and non-personal information we collect under any of the above circumstances. We also may share aggregated information with third parties, including advisors, and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. This information does not contain any personal information and may be used to improve and enhance distribution of our services.
Third-party websites
We may have links on our website where you may click to access other websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. For example, if you click on a link to one of the organizations we sponsor on our website, you may be taken to a website that we do not control. These third-party websites may independently solicit and collect information, including personal information, from you and, in some instances, provide us with limited information about your activities on those websites. We recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites you visit by clicking on the “privacy” link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting.
Your choices
- You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our website because such information may be required in order for you to ask a question, access your organization’s website or obtain a demonstration.
- At any time you can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional emails or newsletters from us by sending an email to remove@celect.org and requesting you be omitted from any further contact via email or physical mail. You also will be given the opportunity, in any commercial e-mail that we send to you, to opt out of receiving such messages in the future. It may take up to 10 days for us to process an opt-out request. We may send you other types of transactional and relationship e-mail communications, such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
- Under our Do Not Call policy you may instruct us not to call you for marketing purposes by sending an email to remove@celect.org and requesting you be omitted from any further contact via telephone. We will implement your instructions within 30 days. We have policies and procedures in place and train our employees to honor your request. Please not that we may still need to call you for servicing or other non-marketing purposes.
How we protect your personal information
We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions.
Access to your personal information
We limit the information we collect and retain to what we reasonably believe we need for the purposes for which we use it as described in this policy. You may review the personal information we have collected about you on Celect.org or otherwise by contacting us at the address or email address listed at the bottom of this policy. You may request that we correct any incorrect information and that we delete your information if you are no longer obtaining services from us
Organization Web Site Hosting
When we provide web site hosting services to organizations, the web sites may allow significant data collection activities, such as member profiles, message boards, picture and video posting, payment processing and other activities. We collect this information in our capacity as the hosting entity and store it on secure servers. We do not use this information for any purpose other than to provide the hosting services. We use appropriate safeguards to protect this information from unauthorized access and loss and only authorize employees and contractors to access this information if they need to do so to support the services we provide to the organizations.
Children’s privacy
Our website is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
Visiting our websites from outside the United States and Canada
This Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on our website from residents of the United States and Canada. If you are visiting our website from outside the United States or Canada, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or Canada where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this privacy policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will prominently post notice of the changes on our website. You should check our website from time to time to learn about any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our information-handling practices, or if you would like to request information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please contact us by e-mail or postal mail as follows:
Contact Information
If you have any questions with respect to this Agreement, this website, or about Celect.org or VComm Canada, wholly owned subsidiaries of Optimum Interactive USA Ltd. (OTC: OPTL.PK), please email us at info@celect.org, call us at 888-88Celect, or send a letter to: 4600 Campus Drive, Suite 106, Newport Beach, CA 92660.
