Last Updated on: May 28, 2018
Transcription Certification Institute is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletters, and those providing contact information. In addition, Transcription Certification Institute is opposed to unauthorized commercial e-mail delivery, otherwise known as spam. Please read the following Privacy and Spam Policy to understand how your personal information is treated. From time to time, Transcription Certification Institute may offer new information or services that may affect this policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy and Spam Policy, please send an e-mail to info@transcriptioncertificationinstitute.com or call (949) 654-7897 during our business hours of 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time Monday through Friday.
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or e-mail address. For example, you may voluntarily submit personal information to Transcription Certification Institute by leaving a comment on our blog, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. In addition, upon making certain purchases described herein, we may ask you to create a user profile, which would allow you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.
Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.
Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access Transcription Certification Institute. For example, when you use Transcription Certification Institute, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using Transcription Certification Institute, such as links clicked.
Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by Transcription Certification Institute. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website.
The following list includes examples of specific ways we collect personal information from our website visitors and the type of information collected:
Electronic Newsletter: To register online for our electronic newsletters, we request the following required information: (i) name, and (ii) e-mail address. The provision of an e-mail address is mandatory in order to receive our newsletter.
Contact Forms: To contact Transcription Certification Institute for the purposes of evaluating or engaging our services or to answer your questions, we utilize numerous forms throughout our site. Required information varies depending on the form and at most includes (i) name, and (ii) e-mail address. The provision of this information is mandatory in order to receive a response from Transcription Certification Institute. The provision of the remaining information requested on the registration form is optional.
Online Purchases: When you purchase a product from Transcription Certification Institute, we utilize a third-party online shopping system, which is described more fully below. To process your payment, certain standard required information includes address and credit card information. Transactions are secured via SSL encryption and credit card details will never be e-mailed. Credit information is purged from our systems on a regular basis.
Transcription Certification Institute may use your personal information in the following ways:
Transcription Certification Institute will not share, rent, or sell your personally identifiable information with third-parties. We may, however, share your information with third-parties when we are authorized to share such information.
Additionally, Transcription Certification Institute may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policy. Transcription Certification Institute currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Tracking: Transcription Certification Institute uses various marketing tools that help us create a better user experience for people visiting our site. These tools allow us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns, clicks, and allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We use or may sometimes use the following third-party service providers for tracking:
Google Analytics: Privacy Policy
Remarketing: Transcription Certification Institute uses remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google and Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network and via social networks. This means you may see an ad for one of our products or services as a result of visiting our website. In addition, Transcription Certification Institute uses custom audiences based on e-mails of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Facebook. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us. We use the following third-party service providers for remarketing:
Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here
Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here
Adroll: Opt-out of Adroll remarketing here
Newsletters: Transcription Certification Institute uses Aweber as its e-mail service provider. Aweber collects contact information, distributes our newsletter, and tracks actions you take that assist us in measuring the performance of the website and newsletters. Upon subscription, Aweber also tracks the pages you visit on the website.
Our newsletters contain tracking pixels. This pixel is embedded in e-mails and allows us an analysis of the success of our newsletters. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an e-mail and which links within the e-mail you click. This behavior is not passed to third-parties. All data submitted at the time of subscription to our newsletter is stored on Aweber’s servers. Here’s the link to Aweber’s privacy policy. At any time, you may be removed from our newsletter list by clicking on the unsubscribe button provided in each e-mail.
Purchases: Transcription Certification Institute uses 1ShoppingCart to service payments for some services. 1ShoppingCart processes orders, tracks orders, and affiliate activity. 1ShoppingCart collects personal information such as your name, e-mail address, address, and payment information. All data entered into 1ShoppingCart is stored on 1ShoppingCart’s site.
All payments processed through 1ShoppingCart use PayPal Payflow. This service stores your name, amount of your purchase, and payment details on their site. PayPal Payflow is governed by PayPal’s Privacy Policy.
Upon making a purchase through 1ShoppingCart, you will receive e-mail confirmations to the e-mail address you provide during your purchase.
Surveys: Periodically, we may invite you to complete a voluntary survey. All surveys are completed through Survey Monkey. All survey responses may be submitted anonymously and only your IP address is stored. You may voluntarily enter your name and e-mail address. All data submitted through Survey Monkey is stored on their servers and is subject to the Survey Monkey privacy policy.
Contact Information and Website Support: We offer multiple ways to contact Transcription Certification Institute, including contact forms, e-mails, and chat. If at any time, you attempt to contact us through a contact form, the information you provide will be stored on our servers. If you use the chatbot feature, it will be stored on our servers.
Comments: Transcription Certification Institute uses Wordpress to make it easy for you to leave comments on blog posts. It is hosted on our servers.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in Transcription Certification Institute’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your e-mail address(es) or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through Transcription Certification Institute to third-parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
If you create a user profile on Transcription Certification Institute, the Transcription Certification Institute blog or the Transcription Certification Institute job board or leave a comment on Transcription Certification Institute, certain information may be publicly visible.
Transcription Certification Institute uses cookies to: store visitors’ preferences; record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit; ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads; or customize our content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
At any time, you may prevent the setting of cookies by the website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of Transcription Certification Institute may be entirely usable.
If we change our Privacy and Spam Policy, we will post those changes on this privacy page. You may check this page at any time and note the last date of update for comparison.
Opt-out: You may opt-out of future e-mail communications by following the unsubscribe links in our e-mails.
Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to info@transcriptioncertificationinstitute.com
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to Transcription Certification Institute. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy and Spam Policy.
Transcription Certification Institute is strongly opposed to spam. We will only send e-mail to users that have explicitly requested to receive an e-mail from Transcription Certification Institute. Examples may include:
Transcription Certification Institute contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Transcription Certification Institute is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy and spam policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy and Spam Policy applies solely to information collected by Transcription Certification Institute.
If you have any further questions or comments regarding the Transcription Certification Institute website or this Privacy and Spam Policy, you may contact info@transcriptioncertificationinstitute.com
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our site.
