Nelson Jordan understands that your privacy is important to you. We are
committed to protecting the privacy of your personally-identifiable information
as you use this website. This Privacy Policy tells you how we protect and use
information that we gather from you. By using this website, you consent to the
terms described in the most recent version of this Privacy Policy. You should
also read our Terms of Use to understand the general rules about your use of
this website, and any additional terms that may apply when you access
particular services or materials on certain areas of this website. “We,” “our”
means Nelson Jordan and its affiliates. “You,” “your,” visitor,” or “user”
means the individual accessing this site.
PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our Privacy Policy identifies how we treat your personal and
non-personal information.
WHAT IS NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW IS IT
COLLECTED AND USED?
Non personal information is information that cannot identify you. If you
visit this web site to read information, such as information about one of our
services, we may collect certain non-personal information about you from your
computer’s web browser. Because non-personal information cannot identify you or
be tied to you in any way, there are no restrictions on the ways that we can
use or share non-personal information. What is personal information and how is
it collected? Personal information is information that identifies you as an
individual, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone
number, and fax number. We may collect personal information from you in a
variety of ways: • When you send us an application or other form • When you
conduct a transaction with us, our affiliates, or others • When we collect
information about in you in support of a transaction, such as credit card
information • In some places on this web site you have the opportunity to send
us personal information about yourself, to elect to receive particular
information, to purchase access to one of our products or services, or to
participate in an activity.
ARE COOKIES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES USED TO COLLECT
PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Yes, we may use cookies and related technologies, such as web beacons,
to collect information on our web site. A cookie is a text file that is placed
on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs
or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and
can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to
save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have
returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with us, a cookie
helps Nelson Jordan to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as
billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Nelson
Jordan website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so
you can easily use the features that you customized. A web beacon is a small
graphic image that allows the party that set the web beacon to monitor and
collect certain information about the viewer of the web page, web-based
document or e-mail message, such as the type of browser requesting the web
beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the
time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be very small and invisible to
the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or
e-mail, including HTML based content, can act as a web beacon. We may use web
beacons to count visitors to the web pages on the web site or to monitor how
our users navigate the web site, and we may include web beacons in e-mail
messages in order to count how many messages sent were actually opened, acted
upon or forwarded.
Third party vendors also may use cookies on our web site. For instance,
we may contract with third parties who will use cookies on our web site to
track and analyze anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our
visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an
anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help
us to improve the visitor experience, to manage our site content, and to track
visitor behaviour. We may also contract with a third party to send e-mail to
our registered subscribers.
To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail
communications, the third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third
party on behalf of Nelson Jordan is used solely by or on behalf of Nelson
Jordan and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. From
time to time we may allow third parties to post advertisements on our web site,
and those third-party advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served
by the third party. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information
collected from you by third party ad servers. We do not control cookies in such
third party ads, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers
and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology
before linking to an ad. We will not share your personal information with these
companies, but these companies may use information about your visits to this
and other web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other
sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you, and they may
share your personal information that you provide to them with others.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting
to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not
be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Nelson Jordan websites
you visit.
HOW DOES NELSON JORDAN USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Nelson Jordan may keep and use personal information we collect from or
about you to provide you with access to this web site or other products or
services, to respond to your requests, to bill you for products/services you
purchased, and to provide ongoing service and support, to contact you with
information that might be of interest to you, including information about
products and services of ours and of others, or ask for your opinion about our
products or the products of others, for record keeping and analytical purposes
and to research, develop and improve programs, products, services and content.
Personal information collected online may be combined with information
you provide to us through other sources We may also remove your personal
identifiers (your name, email address, social security number, etc). In this
case, you would no longer be identified as a single unique individual. Once we
have de-identified information, it is non-personal information and we may treat
it like other non-personal information. Finally, we may use your personal
information to protect our rights or property, or to protect someone’s health,
safety or welfare, and to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other
legal process.
DOES NELSON JORDAN SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH
OTHERS?
We will not share your personal information collected from this web site
with an unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise
provided in this Privacy Policy. In the ordinary course of business, we may
share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services
or functions on our behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal
information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we
will not authorize them to keep, disclose or use your information with others
except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.
We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it.
If you submit a review for a third party (person or business) using our
Facebook Fan Review Application, during the submission process we ask your
permission to gather your basic information (such as name and email address)
which we then share with the third party for whom you are submitting the
review. We may be legally compelled to release your personal information in
response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law or regulation.
We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and
prosecuting web site visitors who violate our rules or engage in behavior,
which is harmful to other visitors (or illegal). We may disclose your personal
information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to
protect our rights or property, protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, or
to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process. As
discussed in the section on cookies and other technologies, from time to time
we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on this web site.
If you share information with the advertiser, including by clicking on
their ads, this Privacy Policy does not control the advertisers use of your
personal information, and you should check the privacy policies of those
advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other
technology before linking to an ad.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION USED FOR
COMMUNICATIONS?
We may contact you periodically by e-mail, mail or telephone to provide
information regarding programs, products, services and content that may be of
interest to you. In addition, some of the features on this web site allow you
to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a
response from us, we may send you a response via e-mail. The e-mail response or
confirmation may include your personal information. We cannot guarantee that
our e-mails to you will be secure from unauthorized interception.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and
operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information
from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and
third party vendors have access to your personal information, and these
employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential.
Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will
not obtain access to your personal information.
LINKS
This site contains links to other sites that provide information that we
consider to be interesting. Nelson Jordan is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such web sites.
PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS
This site may provide public discussions on various business valuation
topics. Please note that any information you post in these discussions will
become public, so please do not post sensitive information in the public
discussions. Whenever you publicly disclose information online, that
information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for
any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users
disclose in any such forums on the web site. Nelson Jordan does not agree or
disagree with anything posted on the discussion board. Also remember that you
must comply with our other published policies regarding postings on our public
forums.
HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, AND/OR DELETE
PERSONAL INFORMATION?
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any
personally-identifiable information that you submit to the web site. You may
also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the web site. To do
so, please either follow instructions on the page of the web site on which you
have provided such information or subscribed or registered or contact us at nelson@nelson-jordan.com.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Nelson Jordan will not intentionally collect any personal information
(such as a child’s name or email address) from children under the age of 13. If
you think that we have collected personal information from a child under the
age of 13, please contact us.
CHANGES
Nelson Jordan reserves the right to modify this statement at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be listed in this section, and if such changes are material, a notice will be included on the homepage of the web site for a period of time. If you have any questions about privacy at any websites operated by Nelson Jordan or about our website practices, please contact us at: nelson@nelson-jordan.com.