Introduction
This site is owned and operated by International Business Academies, LLC (IBAL). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At the IBAL, we want to make your online experience satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy policy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. IBAL, may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are satisfied with any changes. This policy is effective from July, 2007.
All the information we collect from you will be for statistical and demographic purposes only. The demographic or other information will be used for internal algorithms and procedures to facilitate search, social networking or other features. We may share this information with consultants that we hire to help us. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. IBALNET.com may disclose personal information to comply with the law or legal process, to protect or defend the rights or property of IBALNET.com or others, to enforce the Terms and Conditions of this privacy policy as well as to respond to claims that the content(s) of a communication(s) violates the rights of another.
Business Transfers
Information about our users, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the unlikely event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company. We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information, for business reasons, such as providing advertisers with demographic information necessary to define the audience of IBALNET.com.
Information We Collect
When you visit our IBALNET.com site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and non-personally identifiable information about web site use that is collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site. Personal Information You Choose to Provide This is the information you voluntarily submit to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our blogs, message boards, forums or communities, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys.
Credit Card Transactions Information
If you order a product or a service which would require a payment by a credit card, you will be required to provide us your Credit Card information among with its billing name and address. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We will only use this information for the purposes of this transaction, and will not store this information on our server or use it for any other purposes.
Registration Information
When you register to be a member of IBALNET.com, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts, you will provide us your valid e-mail address and demographic information about yourself, such as your zip code, age, gender. This demographic or other information will be used for internal algorithms and procedures to facilitate search, social networking or other features. We may occasionally send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting. During registration you are required to supply a username, password, and valid email address. We will send you an e-mail when you create your account, to verify your address. Your registration email address is collected to have an address to send you lost password notifications. Also, collecting email addresses serves as a way to limit abuse of the system, in that we only allow accounts to remain active when the email address has been verified. Your registration email address is not displayed publicly. You may provide us information about your firm or company, and your branches, or offices that you may choose to make available for other registered and/or unregistered users.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
Electronic newsletters
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration. We will never share newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
"E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide his or her email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
Non-personal Web Site Use Information
Non-personal information is information we collect through this web site that does not identify you as an individual person.
Cookies
Similar to other commercial web sites, IBALNET.com utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" and web server logs to collect information about how our web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our web site. Additional information may be placed in this cookie in order to allow IBALNET..com to function properly. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information.
IP Addresses
In addition, the IBALNET.com also records your IP address.