Privacy Policy
Van Hees Consulting Limited understands that your privacy is important to you. We
are committed to protecting the privacy of your personally-identifiable information as
you use this website. This Privacy Policy tells you how we protect and use
information that we gather from you. By using this website, you consent to the terms
described in the most recent version of this Privacy Policy. You should also read our
Terms of Use to understand the general rules about your use of this website, and
any additional terms that may apply when you access particular services or materials
on certain areas of this website. "We," "our" means Van Hees Consulting Limited and
its affiliates. "You," "your," visitor," or "user" means the individual accessing this site.
PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our Privacy Policy identifies how we treat your personal and non-personal
information.
WHAT IS NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW IS IT COLLECTED AND
USED?
Non personal information is information that cannot identify you. If you visit this web
site to read information, such as information about one of our services, we may
collect certain non-personal information about you from your computer’s web
browser. Because non-personal information cannot identify you or be tied to you in
any way, there are no restrictions on the ways that we can use or share non-
personal information. What is personal information and how is it collected? Personal
information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name,
mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. We may collect
personal information from you in a variety of ways:
- When you send us an application or other form
- When you conduct a transaction with us, our affiliates, or others
- When we collect information about in you in support of a transaction, such as credit card information
- In some places on this web site you have the opportunity to send us personal information about yourself,
to elect to receive particular information, to purchase access to one of our products or services,
or to participate in an activity.
ARE COOKIES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES USED TO COLLECT PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
Yes, we may use cookies and related technologies, such as web beacons, to collect
information on our web site. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by
a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to
your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a
web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes
of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a
cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For
example, if you register with us, a cookie helps Van Hees Consulting Limited to
recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of
recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses,
and so on. When you return to the same Van Hees Consulting Limited website, the
information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the
features that you customized. A web beacon is a small graphic image that allows the
party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain information about the
viewer of the web page, web-based document or e-mail message, such as the type
of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web
beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be
very small and invisible to the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as
part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML based content, can act as a web
beacon. We may use web beacons to count visitors to the web pages on the web
site or to monitor how our users navigate the web site, and we may include web
beacons in e-mail messages in order to count how many messages sent were
actually opened, acted upon or forwarded.
Third party vendors also may use cookies on our web site. For instance, we may
contract with third parties who will use cookies on our web site to track and analyze
anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members.
Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis.
These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor
experience, to manage our site content, and to track visitor behaviour. We may also
contract with a third party to send e-mail to our registered [users/members].
To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, the
third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of Van Hees
Consulting Limited is used solely by or on behalf of Van Hees Consulting Limited
and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. From time to time
we may allow third parties to post advertisements on our web site, and those third-
party advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served by the third party.
This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information collected from you by third
party ad servers. We do not control cookies in such third party ads, and you should
check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their
use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad. We will not share your
personal information with these companies, but these companies may use
information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide
advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of
interest to you, and they may share your personal information that you provide to
them with others.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if
you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Van Hees Consulting Limited websites you visit.
HOW DOES Van Hees Consulting Limited USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Van Hees Consulting Limited may keep and use personal information we collect
from or about you to provide you with access to this web site or other products or
services, to respond to your requests, to bill you for products/services you
purchased, and to provide ongoing service and support, to contact you with
information that might be of interest to you, including information about products and
services of ours and of others, or ask for your opinion about our products or the
products of others, for record keeping and analytical purposes and to research,
develop and improve programs, products, services and content.
Personal information collected online may be combined with information you provide
to us through other sources We may also remove your personal identifiers (your
name, email address, social security number, etc). In this case, you would no longer
be identified as a single unique individual. Once we have de-identified information, it
is non-personal information and we may treat it like other non-personal information.
Finally, we may use your personal information to protect our rights or property, or to
protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, and to comply with a law or regulation,
court order or other legal process.
DOES Van Hees Consulting Limited SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH
OTHERS?
We will not share your personal information collected from this web site with an
unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this
Privacy Policy. In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal
information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our
behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for
the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorize them to keep, disclose
or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services
we asked them to provide.
We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction
with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of
transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service
vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may
provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal
information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control
how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how
they use your personal information before they collect it.
If you submit a review for a third party (person or business) using our Facebook Fan
Review Application, during the submission process we ask your permission to gather
your basic information (such as name and email address) which we then share with
the third party for whom you are submitting the review. We may be legally compelled
to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search
warrant, law or regulation.
We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting
web site visitors who violate our rules or engage in behaviour, which is harmful to
other visitors (or illegal). We may disclose your personal information to third parties if
we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect
someone’s health, safety or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court
order or other legal process. As discussed in the section on cookies and other
technologies, from time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements
on this web site.
If you share information with the advertiser, including by clicking on their ads, this
Privacy Policy does not control the advertisers use of your personal information, and
you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn
about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION USED FOR COMMUNICATIONS?
We may contact you periodically by e-mail, mail or telephone to provide information
regarding programs, products, services and content that may be of interest to you. In
addition, some of the features on this web site allow you to communicate with us
using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may
send you a response via e-mail. The e-mail response or confirmation may include
your personal information. We cannot guarantee that our e-mails to you will be
secure from unauthorized interception.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational
security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse,
alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and third party vendors have
access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required
to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot
guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal
information.
LINKS
This site contains links to other sites that provide information that we consider to be
interesting. Van Hees Consulting Limited is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of such web sites.
PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS
This site may provide public discussions on various business valuation topics.
Please note that any information you post in these discussions will become public,
so please do not post sensitive information in the public discussions. Whenever you
publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by
others. We are not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who
collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the web site. Van Hees
Consulting Limited does not agree or disagree with anything posted on the
discussion board. Also remember that you must comply with our other published
policies regarding postings on our public forums.
HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, AND/OR DELETE PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable
information that you submit to the web site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing
lists or any registrations on the web site. To do so, please either follow instructions
on the page of the web site on which you have provided such information or
subscribed or registered or contact us at ger@goodsecurityawareness.com
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Van Hees Consulting Limited will not intentionally collect any personal information
(such as a child’s name or email address) from children under the age of 13. If you
think that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13,
please contact us.
CHANGES
Van Hees Consulting Limited reserves the right to modify this statement at any time.
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be listed in this section, and if such changes
are material, a notice will be included on the homepage of the web site for a period
of time. If you have any questions about privacy at any websites operated by Van
Hees Consulting Limited or about our website practices, please contact us at:
ger@goodsecurityawareness.com