REVISED AND POSTED AS OF: July 4th, 2009
Blue Dragon Consulting, LLC is committed to protecting your
privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website.
This policy outlines our personal information handling practices for
both online and offline data. If you give us personal information, we
will treat it according to this policy.
This policy covers the Blue Dragon Consulting corporate
website and is applicable worldwide. Some of our subsidiaries or
programs may have their own, possibly different, policies. We encourage you to read this privacy policy and those of all
websites you visit.
We will always tell you before we collect
any Personal Information and inform you of the purpose of the
collection. “Personal Information” is any information that can be used
to identify an individual, and may include, but is not limited to,
name, email address, postal or other physical address, credit or debit
card number, title, occupation, and other information required to
provide a service, deliver a product, or carry out a transaction you
have requested. Some of the reasons we collect your Personal
Information include:
We will only use your Personal Information
in the way we specified when it was collected. We will not subsequently
change the way your Personal Information is used without your consent.
Some of the ways we may use your Personal Information include:
- To process your orders and deliver the products and services that you have ordered.
- To keep you up to date on the latest product announcements,
software updates, software upgrades, system enhancements, special
offers, and other information. This may occasionally include
information from other technology companies about products and services
that can add value to your network.
- To provide support and assistance for our products and services, including the provision of security patches.
- To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content.
- To provide the ability to contact you, and provide you with shipping and billing information.
- To provide customer feedback and support.
- To conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better
products and services to our customers and end users. Your completion
of any questionnaires is voluntary.
- To support recruitment inquiries.
- To understand more about you, so we can personalize newsletters and
websites to your preferences. For example, allow you the opportunity to
request specific information on products and services that may be of
interest.
- To allow you to forward information to another individual such as a
friend or co-worker. Blue Dragon Consulting does not store the personal information of
the third party. We collect the information for the sole purpose of
sending a one-time email. If you choose to use our referral service to
inform a colleague or friend, we will only ask for a contact name and
email address.
- To meet any contract obligations.
We need your help in keeping the Personal
Information you have shared with us accurate and up to date. Please
notify us of any changes to your Personal Information.
You may also make these updates or request deactivation of your Blue Dragon Consulting account by sending an email to privacy@bluedragon-consulting.com.
Non-personal or Anonymous information collection
In some instances, Blue Dragon Consulting may collect
non-personal (aggregate or demographic) data through cookies, web logs,
and web beacons. This information is used to better understand and
improve the usability, performance, and effectiveness of the website.
Please read the “Cookies” section below for more information.
In addition, by using some of our products
or services, anonymous network information may be transmitted back to
us such as: the health of a products and the types of devices attached to
the network
The Sharing of your Personal Information
We do not sell or rent your Personal
Information to third parties for marketing purposes unless you have
granted us permission to do so.
We may share your Personal Information
within Blue Dragon Consulting or any of our worldwide subsidiaries for purposes of data
processing or storage.
We may also share your Personal Information
with business partners, service vendors, authorized third-party agents
or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction,
including processing orders, processing credit card transactions,
hosting websites, hosting event and seminar registration and providing
customer support. We only provide these third parties with the minimum
amount of Personal Information necessary to complete the requested
service or transaction, and the third parties are not permitted to use
your Personal Information except for limited purpose of completing the
requested service or transaction.
We may respond to subpoenas, court orders,
or legal process by disclosing your Personal Information and other
related information, if necessary. We also may choose to establish or
exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We may collect and possibly share Personal
Information and any other additional information available to us in
order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal
activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to
the physical safety of any person, violations of the Blue Dragon Consulting terms of use,
or as otherwise required by law
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While navigating the Blue Dragon Consulting web site you may
be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third-party
supplier, not on BlueDragon-Consulting.com. This is usually done to host special
events.. When information is collected on behalf of Blue Dragon Consulting exclusively, the Blue Dragon Consulting privacy policy will be referenced on the
site and will govern how your information is used. For other, non-Blue Dragon Consulting
sites, the site owner’s privacy policy will be referenced. It is Blue Dragon Consulting's practice to require such suppliers to handle information in a
manner consistent with Blue Dragon Consulting's privacy and security policies.
We will ask for your consent before we use
or share your information for any purpose other than the reason you
provided it or as otherwise provided by this policy. In order to let us
know your preferences, we will require an action on your part, such as
checking the appropriate option, to indicate your consent.
Personal Information Security
Blue Dragon Consulting is committed to protecting the
Personal Information you share with us. We utilize a combination of
industry-standard security technologies, procedures, and organizational
measures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure.
When we transfer sensitive personal data
(for example, credit card information) over the Internet, we protect it
using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
While we strive to protect your Personal Information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit.
We recommend that you take every precaution
in protecting your Personal Information when you are on the Internet.
For example, it is important change your passwords often, use a combination of letters
and numbers when creating passwords (create strong passwords), and make sure you use a secure
browser. Please visit the NSA Guides website for more tips for using security features when connected to the Internet using a router.
The Use of Cookies
As do many websites, Blue Dragon Consulting uses
technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, which allow us to make
your visit to our website easier, more efficient and more valuable by
providing you with a customized experience and recognizing you when you
return.
A cookie cannot read personal data off your
hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites; indeed, the only
Personal Information a cookie can contain is information you supply
yourself. Accepting the cookies used on our website may give us access
to information about your browsing behavior, which we may use to
personalize your experience and track user traffic patterns, and to
merge this info when you choose to register. We do this in order to determine the
usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how
effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that
information. You may browse most of Blue Dragon Consulting's website without accepting
cookies from Blue Dragon Consulting; however, some website functionality may be lost by
disabling cookies on your computer. Other Blue Dragon Consulting web pages, particularly
those which require a login and a password, require cookies and cannot be
used when you have disabled cookies in your browser.
In addition, Blue Dragon Consulting uses web beacons in
conjunction with cookies to understand user behavior. Web beacons are
simply a convenient way of gathering basic statistics and managing
cookies, and do not give away any extra information from your computer.
Turning off your browser’s cookies will prevent web beacons from
tracking your specific activity.
If you prefer not to receive cookies while
browsing our website or via HTML-formatted emails, you can set your
browser to warn you before it accepts cookies or refuse the cookie when
your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all
cookies by turning them off in your browser.
Data retention
Blue Dragon Consulting will not retain your Personal
Information longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which
it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations(Federal, State & Local).
Linked websites
Our websites may provide links to other
third-party websites which are outside our control and not covered by
this policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on
these (and all) sites you visit.
Newsgroups/forums
If you participate in a Blue Dragon Consulting discussion
forum or chat room, you should be aware that the information you
provide there will be made broadly available to others, potentially
inside or outside Blue Dragon Consulting, who have access to that discussion forum or
chat room. Also, please recognize that individual forums and chat rooms
may have additional rules and conditions. Each participant’s opinion on
a forum or chat room is his or her own and should not be considered as
reflecting the opinion of Blue Dragon Consulting.
Children’s Privacy
Blue Dragon Consulting does not knowingly collect Personal
Information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have
collected Personal Information on a child under the age of 13, we will
immediately delete that data from our systems.
**Blue Dragon Consulting encourages parents and
guardians to go online with their children. Here are a few tips to help
make a child’s online experience safer:
- Teach children never to give Personal
Information (such as name, address, phone number, school, etc.) unless
supervised by a parent or responsible adult.
- Know the sites your children are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
- Look for website privacy policies. Know how your child’s information is treated.
Please visit the FTC’s website for more tips on protecting children’s privacy online.
The Transfer of Personal Information
We may transfer your Personal Information
to Blue Dragon Consulting in the US, to any Blue Dragon Consulting subsidiary worldwide, or to third
parties acting on our behalf for the purposes of processing or storage.
Questions or Comments?
Should you have any privacy-related questions or comments related to this privacy policy, please send an email to privacy@bluedragon-consulting.com
Policy updates
Blue Dragon Consulting may change or amend this privacy statement from
time to time, and at any time. We will post a notice whenever this
privacy statement is materially changed. Your continued use of the Blue Dragon Consulting website after any change will signify and confirm your assent to
those changes.
Last update: July 4th, 2009
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