USGCLS has created this privacy policy statement in order to demonstrate
our firm commitment to our users' privacy. The following statement
discloses our information gathering, use and dissemination practices
for the USGCLS website. Your use of the USGCLS service and/or website
signifies your agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree
with the terms of this policy, please do not use the USGCLS website
and/or service.
Collection of Personal Information.
When you visit the USGCLS web site and/or use the USGCLS service, you may be
asked to provide certain personally identifiable information ("Personal
Information") about yourself and/or your family members, such as name,
e-mail address, physical address, educational level, telephone number, gender, place and date of birth, photographs, and
credit card or other payment information.
USGCLS does not sell, share, or rent Personal
Information to third parties except as specifically provided herein. You may
review and revise any Personal Information we have about you by sending a
request to service@usgcls.com. The following is a general description of the Personal
information we gather:
Qualification Verification Tool: we do not collect
any Personal Information. The information entered while using the tool is not
stored on our servers after you leave the site.
Registration Wizard: we
collect the information required by the US Government in order to submit the
application. This includes among other things the name, gender, date of birth and place of birth, marital status, educational level and photographs of you and
your family members, and your physical address. In order to create an account
for you and process your order, we also collect your email address, phone number
and credit card information.
Send this page: we collect your email address
and the email address of your friend(s).
Additional information may be collected from time to time for specific service provision and/or marketing related services.
Information Usage As explained above, the Personal Information we collect is used
mainly in order to create your application and process your order, or to enable
other services available on the site. We may also use this information to notify
customers about products or services and special promotions offered by
USGCLS, or any of its affiliates. From time to time, we may also share your
Personal Information with trustworthy unaffiliated third parties, who offer
products or services that we feel may be of interest to you. See the "Opt-Out
Process" section below if you would prefer that we do not share your Personal
Information with unaffiliated third parties.
We may collect and use
information that is not Personal Information to improve and enhance your
experience on the USGCLS web site. For example, we may use certain preferences
you provide to tailor your experience at our site, such as showing you content
and sending you notices concerning products and services that may interest you.
We may also share this information with other unaffiliated third parties, such
as advertisers interested in advertising on the USGCLS web site, in an
aggregate, anonymous form, which means that the shared information will not
contain nor be linked to any personally identifiable information about you or
any other person.
We may release account and other personal information
when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our
Terms of Use; or protect
the rights, property, or safety of USGCLS, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with law
enforcement or other government officials and other companies and organizations
as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection
with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other
activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
We
will never share your credit card information with an unaffiliated third party
without your consent.
Opt-Out Process
If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third
parties, you can send us an email at optout@USGCLS.com.
Cookies
"Cookies" are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer by a web
site for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your communication and
interaction with that web site. Almost all web sites use cookies for these
purposes. We may use cookies to save your sign-in information (only if you ask
us to do so) so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, to
customize your visit to the USGCLS web site, and for other purposes to make your
visit more convenient.
At times, some of our third party advertisers or
their ad serving and tracking providers may place cookies on your computer
system when you select their ad banner and some of our content providers or
partners may also place cookies on your computer system when you visit those
portions of our USGCLS site over which they have control. We have no control
over these third party cookies and we do not receive the data collected by those
cookies. In addition, we reserve the right to supplement the cookie data which
we collect from you with information collected by cookies set by third parties
on our behalf in order to understand how you use the Internet and what products
are of interest to you. The information that we receive from these unaffiliated
third parties is only anonymous, non-personally identifiable information.
Internet Protocol (IP) Address
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, administer
our Web site and enhance the security of the Service. For our internal purposes,
we gather date, time, browser type and IP address of all visitors to our site.
We keep this information for system administration, for web server load
balancing, to report aggregate information to our advertisers and for our
internal security audit log. Your IP address may also be used to help identify
you for the duration of a session and to gather broad, aggregate demographic
information. Consent to Processing
By providing any Personal Information to this site, you fully understand and
unambiguously consent to the collection, usage and processing of such
information.
Other Sites
Our sites or newsletters may contain links to other sites. Other sites may also
reference or link to our sites. Any links to our site or from our site are not an indication of any endorsement, affiliation or other relationship and should not be viewed as such. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices, terms or the content of such other sites and we advise you to check
their privacy policies and terms as well.
Your Acceptance of this Policy
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove
portions from this policy at any time. Your continued use of the service and/or the site following
the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes. However,
in the event there is a material change in our data collection, use or
disclosure practices, we will obtain a new consent.