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We at The Academy of Market Intelligence (AMI) take your privacy very seriously.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Our company is committed to preserving your trust and confidence. Because your privacy is important, we have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate this commitment. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
We collect no information about our users that is not supplied voluntarily through web forms or email. We may at times collect anonymous tracking information to gauge usage patterns and the popularity of specific areas of our sites. As with all other information, this information is kept confidential for use only by employees of AMI.
At Academy of Market Intelligence, we take the privacy and security of our registered users and subscribers seriously. We are committed to protecting the personal information you choose to share with us. Accordingly, we have adopted the following privacy policy, based on the principles of notice, choice, access and security in the collection and use of all information regarding our customers and their activities at AMI and our related sites.
AMI’s privacy policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to current law or government regulation.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will never ask you for personal information, or your credit card number, for example, except when you place an order. At that time, we will provide a secure connection and require you to submit only the information needed to complete and fulfill your order. Only authorized employees will have access to this information. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone, nor share it in any other way, unless required to by a law enforcement agency that takes the proper steps to require it. Please note that personal information does not include your mailing address.
MAILING ADDRESS
When you give us your mailing address, we will use this information to fulfill your order or subscription and to send you information on other products that may suit your interests. If you do not want us to send you this other information, please contact us on this website.
EMAIL ADDRESS
When you subscribe to The Academy of Market Intelligence via email, your email address is placed in a database and used to send your request. We will not sell, rent, or otherwise share your email address with anyone.
Any email you send to The Academy of Market Intelligence is considered confidential unless you tell us otherwise. We will not add your name to our email list without your permission. If your inquiry is about an order or subscription, our customer service staff will ask you to verify your identity by confirming information already in your record.
USE OF YOUR IP ADDRESS
An IP or Internet Protocol address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. It is a unique identifier for a computer or device on a network like the Internet. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad information to help us better serve you.
COOKIES
Cookies are small files placed on your computer by a web page when you visit it. They can be used to store all sorts of useful information to make your next visit easier and more convenient, but some people are uncomfortable not knowing what information is in a cookie.
AMI may use cookies only to compile statistics on the use of the various pages on our site as to how many people visit each page and build a statistical tracking record for site use. We do not store or collect any personally identifiable information.
A cookie is a small piece of information that is stored by your Internet browser software on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are commonly used to facilitate secure website connections via a unique user name and password, so that you can buy things in an online store and access services that are in password protected areas of a site. They also may be used to facilitate automatic log-in as to you can save your own user name and password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit. Cookies are used to authenticate website users and keep track of the user session. They allow us to better analyze our site’s traffic patterns and to provide improved content, throughput, advertisements, products and services. They help us to refine and enhance the visitor registration process and add personalization features to customize the site to your needs. Cookies also help identify information that we may need to better serve you should there be any problems with your use of this site. This kind of information may include the web browser you use, the type of computer, the operating system, the Internet service providers, and other similar information. This information is used for various personalization features. We may share this information with our partners, suppliers, and other third parties so that they can better serve you too. We may sometimes display advertisements on this site from companies outside of our own. These ads may contain their own cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our website, cookies received with electronic ads are collected by these other companies, and we do not have access to this information. Select customer data may be shared with the advertising companies.
COLLECTION AND USE OF DATA
Our site’s registration form requires users to give us contact information such as name and email address, unique identifiers, and demographic information such as sex or age. We use this information to enhance the site so that it can offer you a more personalized experience. We also use the information to communicate information about our company, promotional material such as contests, questionnaires and surveys, and promotional material from some of our partners. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by using the tool explained in the Updating and Removal of Data section below. Unique identifiers are collected to verify the user’s identity, for use as account numbers in our record system, and for other purposes. Demographic profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the user experience, showing you content that is most likely to be of interest to you, and displaying the content according to your preferences.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
As an active viewer of AMI, you may receive third party advertisements. These offers are paid advertisements provided by our external partners or external advertisers. Third party advertisements may or may not indicate that the sender is AMI, or a name that uses similar terms. If you click on these offers you will be proceeding under the terms of that third party advertiser’s privacy policy. Offers will be sent from AMI; thus, AMI is not responsible for the content of these advertisements. AMI makes no guarantee or warranty about what is advertised, and no coupon or special AMI offer will be valid with these third party advertisements at any time.
LINKS TO WEBSITES OUTSIDE OF THIS ONE
This site contains links to other sites outside of our own network. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content or policies of such websites.
CUSTOMER ORDERS AND INFORMATION
Our site uses order forms for customers to request information, products and services. Contact information from the order form is used to send orders, communicate information and promotional material from our company and partner companies. Financial information that is collected is used to charge or bill you for products and services ordered. Individuals who do not have an acceptable Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express credit card are not permitted to make purchases online.
If any unauthorized use of your credit card occurs as a result of your credit card purchase from AMI, simply notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures. If, through no fault of your own, your credit card company finds credit card fraud as a result of your credit card purchase from AMI but does not waive your entire liability for unauthorized charges, AMI will not be liable to reimburse you for the remaining liability, up to a maximum of fifty U.S. dollars $50.00 per card. You can also take steps to secure your personal information. When you are finished at AMI, sign off the AMI site and close your browser window. This helps to ensure that someone else cannot pose as you online. This is especially important if you are at a computer that is accessible to others in a public place, such as a library, a school or your office.
SECURITY
The security of your information is of concern to us. When you place orders on this site, your information is transmitted using a secure technology. Furthermore, we have implemented industry standard security mechanisms and procedures to protect data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. While we are focused on the security of your information, no security is 100% effective and we cannot promise and you should not expect, that your information will remain secure in all circumstances.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We share the information that you provide to us in the following circumstances:
1. Service Providers. From time to time we may share information with companies and individuals who provide servicing, administrative, marketing and other services for us, or on our behalf. These services may include fulfillment centers, mailing houses, event providers, and customer support organizations.
2. Affiliates. From time to time we may share information with our affiliates. These include companies that we own or control, companies that own or control us, or companies that are owned or controlled by the same companies that own or control us. Such information may be used by our affiliates to promote their products and services to you. Where such information sharing occurs, our affiliates will follow the terms contained in this policy.
3. Third Parties. From time to time we may share your contact information with third parties so that they may promote their products and services to you.
4. Law Enforcement. We may cooperate with reasonable requests for information from law enforcement agencies. As a result, we reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we reasonably believe to be unlawful, or that we reasonably believe may aid a law enforcement investigation into unlawful activity. In addition, we reserve the right to release your information to law enforcement agencies if we determine, in our sole judgment, that either you have violated our policies, or the release of your information may protect our, your, or another person’s rights, property or safety.
5. Other Persons As Permitted by Law. We may share your information with others as required by, or permitted by, law. This may include sharing your information with governmental entities, or third parties in response to subpoenas, court orders, other legal process, or as we believe is necessary to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims that have been brought against us, or possible legal claims that we determine in our sole discretion might be brought against us.
6. Transfers. In the event that all, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired, your information will be transferred to the acquiring company.
MERGER OR AQUISITION
AMI a dynamic nonadvisory publisher. As our business continues to develop and grow, it is possible that we might sell or buy other publishers, advisory services, products, or assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the unlikely event that AMI or a substantial part or all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
ADVERTISING
AMI may feature several services that are co-sponsored by other web sites. One example of such a feature is the quote service. Additionally, our site contains links to other web sites, including those of advertisers. We are not responsible for the claims or representations made by advertisers or sponsors. While these co-sponsored activities, banner ads and links originate on AMI, we do not operate them. For example, if you click on a link or banner advertisement, that click takes you out of AMI to either the service or ad provider's site. These other sites may use cookies, collect data, or solicit personal information from you. Since we do not have control over the privacy practices or the content of these sites, we recommend that you check their privacy policies before giving out any personal information through AMI access to or maintain any information collected by our co-sponsors or advertisers.
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We hope this Privacy Statement has explained what we do with the personal information that we collect from you, our views and practices regarding personal information and how they affect you as you use our features and services, and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. We make no promises. We will try our best to protect and honor your privacy rights and request.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
This site supplements the information that you provide with information that is received from third parties. For example, your address may be run against the U.S. postal service database in an effort to correct any typographical errors, so that the publications you seek will indeed arrive at the right location.
UPDATING AND REMOVAL OF DATA
You may have your name removed from our email marketing lists at any time, by visiting the AMI website and adjusting your communication preferences. Please read the information in this area very carefully so that you do not inadvertently discontinue the receipt of materials that you actually do wish to receive.
NOTICE
If we are legally required to notify you about a security incident we will either notify you by email, writing, or phone at our discretion.
CONTACTING THE WEBSITE
If you have any questions about this statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with AMI, please contact us on the website.
CHANGES AND CLARIFICATIONS
We reserve the right to modify, amend, or clarify this policy at any time by posting a revised privacy policy on our website.
