PRIVACY POLICY UPDATED DECEMBER 27th, 2011
General Overview
Please read these terms of use carefully as they contain important information regarding your legal rights, remedies and obligations. these include various limitations and exclusions, and a dispute resolution clause that governs how disputes will be resolved.
Excell PDT, LLC (“Excell”), the publisher of the professional truck driving training videos sold on www.truckervideos.com (the “Web Site”). Excell is deeply committed to protecting the privacy of the Web Site’s users.
Accordingly, we strictly adhere to all industry guidelines, and will continue to review and improve our privacy policy and procedures to ensure the safety and protection of consumer information. This Privacy Policy presents our privacy policy, including Excell’s privacy practices for our Web Site. Below is information regarding Excell’s commitment to protecting the privacy of Internet users.
This Privacy Policy, effective December 27th, 2011, is designed to help you, the user, understand how Excell (“us”, “we”, or “our”) collects and then uses the personal information you provide us when signing up as a new “student”. We do this so you can make informed decisions both when deciding whether to become a student and when using this service.
By accessing and/or using this web site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We would like to thank you for using Excell’s Web Site—a Web Site that takes each user’s privacy rights seriously. If you have any questions concerning the network’s Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@excellpdt.com.
ABOUT EXCELL
Excell is a video tutorial educational company that maintains and administers this Web Site. The intent of this Web Site is to educate professional truck drivers in areas where we believe the industry fails to adequately educate its drivers.
To enhance each student’s experience, we request personal information to identify, keep records of, and maintain communication with students who participate in the instruction course. This information is to process billing and confirm that students have taken one or more instructional videos and passed the subsequent examination(s).
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit this web site, you provide us with two broad types of information: web site information collected by us through your interaction with this web site; and personal information you knowingly and voluntarily disclose to us when signing up as a student and through the continued use of this service (collectively the “User Content”).
First, when you or any student signs on to this service, we collect your IP address, your browser type, and certain information from your browser using “cookies”. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a computer that is tied to information about the user. You can easily remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you wish to disable this feature. To confirm that you are logged into the service, we use session ID cookies that immediately terminate once you close your browser.
Second, when signing up as a student to this Web Site, and during your student period, we collect several pieces of personal information to enhance the network including your first name, last name, email address, password, location, street address, city, state, postal code, employer, state issuing your driver’s license, and driver’s license number.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
Although we do not anticipate children under the age of 16 using this Web Site, we do not foreclose the possibility that a child of such age may wish to educate themselves regarding professional truck driving strategies BEFORE THEY ARE ISSUED A VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE BY ONE OF THE FIFTY STATES.
This privacy policy is provided in conformity with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). COPPA requires that we notify parents and legal guardians and obtain consent from parents and legal guardians before we collect, use and/or disclose personal information from children under thirteen (13) years of age.
If parents or legal guardians have any questions regarding their child’s use of this Web Site, they may contact us at the address, phone number or email address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
The personal information we collect from children under thirteen (13) years of age, and the manner in which we use such information, is identical to the collection and use of any other member’s information. Please refer to sections entitled “The Information We Collect” and “How We Use the Information” for a detailed discussion of how we collect and use personal information from all members, including children under thirteen (13).
As a means of verifying parental consent, we may require that verification be given to us in one of two ways. First, we may require permission by email from what we are told is the parent’s email address. Thereafter, we will respond to that email address to verify that we have received such permission. Second, we may require that the parent consent by providing us with their full name, a valid credit card number and an expiration date. We will not charge your credit card. We will merely use the information to confirm your consent and once verification is or is not made, we will immediately destroy such information.
We do not require any additional information from children under thirteen (13) other than the minimum amount of information we need in order for the child to participate. Parents may review the personal information we collect on that parent’s child by mailing a request to us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy. The parent, after reviewing such information from us, may have it deleted and/or refuse to allow further collection by sending us an email using the password sent with the physical file that we mail to you.
CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
Once a student signs up for the service, the information we collect is permanent. However, a student my correct their information by emailing us at info@excellpdt.com or by purchasing an additional item from the Web Site and updating their information at that time.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION
We collect the personal information listed above so that we can provide you with personalized features and an enhanced and efficient Web Site experience. You understand and acknowledge that copies of your User Content may remain viewable in cached and/or archived pages, even after your information has been removed.
When you sign up as a student, you create your own profile. Your profile information, including your name, is saved in a secure database controlled by Excell. On occasion, we may use your name and email address to send you notifications about the Web Site’s new services, products, promotional items, merchandise, and transactions involving your accumulated points. Generally, you may opt out of such emails by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the email. However, the Web Site expressly reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
The Web Site may provide third parties with information contained in your profile for data gathering purposes. We believe that this information gathering allows each student to get the most out of the Web Site’s benefits, including but not limited to, providing your information to third party’s in the trucking industry to be notified of services that you may be interested in.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES
This Web Site may share your information with a limited number of third parties. Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, the network does not disclose personal information to any third party unless the network believes that disclosure is necessary to: enforce the Web Site’s Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement; protect the Web Site’s rights; coincide with legal requirements (ex: responding to a subpoena, search warrant, or any other legal process served upon Excell. We will not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that the law enforcement information and/or private litigant request meets the applicable legal standards; protect the safety of its students; or enhance each student’s educational experience.
The Web Site may provide services jointly with other companies and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that service.
Excell expressly reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires the rights to that information as a result of the sale of Excell, the sale of a substantial portion of its assets to that successor in interest, or and/or licensing of personal information to a third party
THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING
Advertising may appear on this Web Site and may be delivered to students by one of our web advertising partners. Those web advertising partners may download cookies to your computer that allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. The web advertising partners may also use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1x1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. As a consequence, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads you, or others using your computer, clicked on. The purpose of this information is to allow an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will interest you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by our network only and does not cover the use of cookies by any third-party advertiser.
This Web Site may contain links to other sites, including links posted by you or other members. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. As such, we encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every web site they visit after clicking on these third-party links. This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected in the use of our network and this web site.
SECURITY
Each student’s account is secured by a member-created password. The Web Site employs reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict the access to member information only to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff.
Note: We cannot guarantee the security of each member’s account information as unauthorized entry or use, software or hardware failure, and other uncontrollable factors may compromise the security of each member’s personal information at any time. The Web Site does, however, consider security of each member’s personal information a priority and we take reasonable security steps to protect that information.
Disclaimer of Liability for Unauthorized Viewing of Personal Information
You post User Content, as described above, on this web site at your own risk. Despite our reasonable efforts to keep your User Content inaccessible to those not authorized to view it, be aware that no perfect security measure(s) exist to insure impenetrability. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained in this Web Site. Consequently, we cannot and do not guarantee that the User Content you provide to this Web Site will not be viewed by unauthorized individuals.
CHANGES IN THE PRIVACY POLICY’S TERMS OF USE, NOTICES, AND REVISIONS
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use Agreement at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we do make changes, we will post those changes and indicate at the top of this page the Privacy Policy’s new effective date.
Through this process, users and students will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and who we may disclose it to. Each user and student is bound by any change to this Privacy Policy if he or she uses the site after said changes have been posted. If, however, we change this Privacy Policy so that we are using personal information in a manner materially different from the manner as stated at the time of collection, we will notify the students here, by email, or through notice on our home page.
Your use of this Web Site and our network, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use Agreement and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We strongly encourage you to refer to this Policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand the most current Privacy Policy terms. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
CONTACTING THIS WEB SITE
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, the practices of this web site, or your dealings with this web site, please contact us at info@excellpdt.com.
