This privacy statement provides notice of the standards and terms under which Blue Penguin Consulting protects the privacy of information supplied by visitors to sites on the World Wide Web that are owned and operated by Blue Penguin Consulting. This privacy statement provides notice of our information collection practices and of the ways in which your information may be used. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically to review this information.
A. Personally-Identifiable Information:
Blue Penguin Consulting typically receives specific data about its website visitors only when such information is provided voluntarily, such as when our visitors request information, purchase or enroll for services, open a customer support inquiry ticket, or send us e-mail. Of course, some of these activities require that you give us information, such as when you make a purchase, use a credit card to pay for services, or request certain types of information. When you provide personally-identifiable information to Blue Penguin Consulting through one of our websites, it will be used to fulfill your specific request. You may request that Blue Penguin Consulting not use your information by sending an e-mail to privacy@bluepenguinconsulting.com. However, Blue Penguin Consulting reserves the right, in its discretion, to send you bulletins and other important information about your Blue Penguin Consulting services. Blue Penguin Consulting will not, however, sell or trade your personally-identifiable information unless we are authorized or legally required to do so, or in the case of imminent physical harm to the visitor or others. On those Blue Penguin Consulting sites where you may provide Blue Penguin Consulting with credit card or other ordering information via the web, Blue Penguin Consulting protects and secures this information by employing commercially customary web-based security and encryption protocols, examples of which include Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Secure Electronic Transaction (SET). On those sites where you voluntarily offer any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like, Blue Penguin Consulting will treat that portion of the information as non-confidential and nonproprietary and, except as otherwise expressed in this privacy statement, Blue Penguin Consulting assumes no obligation to protect such information from disclosure.
B. Non Personally-Identifiable (Generic) Information:
In general, Blue Penguin Consulting gathers some generic information automatically. Generic information does not reveal the identity of the visitor. It usually includes information about the Internet address assigned to your computer, the number and frequency of visitors, and the Blue Penguin Consulting sites visited. Blue Penguin Consulting gathers this information for the limited purpose of determining customer service and website needs. We accomplish this by using certain technologies, including "cookies" (a technology that can be used to provide the visitor with tailored information about Blue Penguin Consulting services). Blue Penguin Consulting does not combine information collected in this way with any personally-identifiable information. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie and you can refuse it; this may however reduce functionality of certain website features.
C. Your Blue Penguin Consulting hosted website, server, bulletin boards, forum, Third-Party Sites:
Information that you disclose in a public space, including on any blog, bulletin board, chat room, or website Blue Penguin Consulting may host for you as part of your Blue Penguin Consulting services, is available to anyone else who visits that space. Blue Penguin Consulting cannot safeguard any information you disclose in these locations. Additionally, Blue Penguin Consulting websites contain links to sites that belong to third parties unrelated to Blue Penguin Consulting. Blue Penguin Consulting cannot protect any information you may disclose in these sites and recommends that you review the privacy policy statements of those sites you visit.
D. Exceptions and Limitations:
Notwithstanding the foregoing and in compliance with applicable laws, Blue Penguin Consulting (i) cooperates fully with state, local, and federal officials in any investigation relating to any content (including personal or private electronic communications transmitted to Blue Penguin Consulting) or purported unlawful activities of any user of the Service, and (ii) takes reasonable measures to protect its proprietary rights. For the limited purposes of accomplishing such cooperation and measures and in compliance with applicable laws, Blue Penguin Consulting may be required to disclose personally identifiable information. In addition, Blue Penguin Consulting may elect to monitor the areas of communication of any kind (i) to satisfy any law, regulation, or government request; (ii) if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate Blue Penguin Consulting; or (iii) to protect the rights or property of Blue Penguin Consulting or others.