Privacy Policy
Introduction
Thank you for visiting Garbrook.com. Garbrook Knowledge Resources, Inc. (“Garbrook”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy of any personally identifiable information that we may collect from you as you use this website. This notice describes our privacy policies. By visiting Garbrook.com you are confirming your agreement to our privacy policies as described in this Privacy Policy. You should also review our Terms of Use for more information about the policies governing your use of this website.
Information We Collect
Garbrook collects and stores personally identifiable information on certain areas of this website when users register, request information or a response, sign up for events, apply for jobs, or participate in user posting areas, such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys. Such personally identifiable information may include your name, address, age, date of birth, sex, company or school affiliations, education level, email address, telephone numbers and information about your interests and activities. You may elect not to provide certain types of information, but that may result in your being unable to use certain features of this website. We may also collect and store personally identifiable information about other people that you provide to us. We may combine the personally identifiable information that we receive from different sources.
We may also automatically collect and store certain types of non-personally identifiable information when you visit a page of this website. For example, we may use “cookies” to obtain information when you access this website. Such information may include your IP address, your browser type, the date and time of your visit, the operating system of your computer and the domain name of your internet service provider and is used to facilitate access to this website and to personalize your online experience. Utilities are available from third parties to help you visit websites anonymously, but use of such utilities may also result in your being unable to use certain features of this website.
If you post information about yourself or others, or communicate with others using this website, we cannot control who reads your postings or what they do with the information you provide. We encourage you to use caution in posting personal information.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Garbrook uses your personally identifiable information to fulfill your requests for information, to process your requests to participate in events, and to review and consider any employment related inquiries that you may submit. We may keep any of your personally identifiable information on file and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes. We may also use personally identifiable information in analyzing the behavior of users of this website in order to measure interest in specific items posted on this website. In addition, we may use your email address to contact you about items posted or to be posted on this website that we think may be of interest to you or to ask you to participate in activities such as surveys. At any time, you may choose to no longer receive emails from Garbrook by contacting us.
We will not share any personally identifiable information that you provide to us except (i) for the purposes that you provided it to us, (ii) with your prior consent, (iii) as may be required by law as we reasonably deem necessary to protect Garbrook or others from injury or loss, (iv) with other persons or entities with whom we contract to provide services in connection with this website or our other business activities. If we do share personally identifiable information with a third party, we will, to the extent practical, require that the recipient protect such information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy but we cannot guarantee how such a third party will use personally identifiable information.
We may use non-personally identifiable, summary or aggregate information that we collect to improve the design and content of this website and to enable us to further enhance your experience with Garbrook. We may also share such aggregate information with third parties. Personally identifiable information that you provide is an asset of Garbrook which may be included in assets transferred to an acquirer if Garbrook is acquired by a third party.
Links to Third Party Websites
We may provide links to websites of third parties as a service to users of our website. In addition, some of the content appearing to be on this website may in fact be supplied by third parties. We cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection and privacy practices of such third-party web sites, which may differ from those Garbrook’s policies with respect to this website.
Access to and Correction of Personal Information
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally identifiable information that you have provided to us through this website. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on this website. To do either of such things, please either follow the instructions on the page of this website on which you have provided such information or registered, or contact us.
Security
Garbrook has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Garbrook personnel are provided access to personally identifiable information, and such personnel are required to treat such information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally identifiable information.
Children’s On-Line Privacy Protection
Garbrook understands the importance of protecting the privacy of children, especially in an on-line environment. This website is not intentionally designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and Garbrook will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.
Consent; Modification
By using this website, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by Garbrook in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. Your visit to this website and any dispute concerning privacy will be subject to the provision of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Garbrook reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. You agree that your visits to, and use of, this website will be subject to and bound by the then current version of this Privacy Policy. The form of our Privacy Policy in effect from time to time will apply to all information that we have collected.
Contact our Privacy Department
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Last Updated: March 28, 2008.
