It’s possible to browse the Defensive Driving School Online without submitting any Personally Identifiable Information (“personal information”) at all, but if you choose to take advantage of some of our products and services, you may be asked to provide information such as a user name and password, your full name, e-mail address, phone number or address, and for certain e-commerce transactions your credit card information. Whenever we ask for this kind of information, we strive to provide a link to this Privacy Policy to help you understand how your personal information will be used before you decide whether to disclose it. 

In addition to the personal information you choose to submit, our systems are set up to gather certain anonymous data to help us to better understand how the Defensive Driving School Online is being used and how we can improve it. This automatically gathered data includes your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, statistics about how visitors navigate through the Defensive Driving School Online and information provided through the use of “cookies”.

As you visit the Defensive Driving School Online, be aware that third parties may at times be able to gather information from and about you. For example, third party advertiser servers, companies that place advertisements on the Defensive Driving School Online and companies offering products or services through the Defensive Driving School Online may use cookies to collect and use information about you and may collect information that you submit. In these cases, the third parties will use such information according to their own privacy policies that may differ from our Privacy Policy.

In addition to using your personal information as set forth below, note that we may disclose the information that we collect about you when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, to us or to others, and may also disclose such information when we believe that the law requires it, such as identifying (but not limited to) violations of our Terms of Use.
We may link information collected from you through various means, including information collected automatically and through the use of cookies and purchase information, or other personal information you provide to help us offer content, advertisements, products and services that we believe will be of interest to you, and this information may also be shared among the Electronic Marketing Services Sites. In addition, we may share this information, with our current and potential advertisers so they can present advertisements more effectively.

We may also use the information we collect to select which names to provide to a particular third party in order to present you with products and services that we believe will be of interest to you, but we will not disclose this type of information, other than your Contact Information (information that provides a means of contacting you), to any such third party.

Electronic Marketing Services may use anonymous data automatically gathered by our servers so that we can understand how to make the Defensive Driving School Online more convenient and useful to our audience. This information may also be shared among the Defensive Driving School Online and used for similar purposes. In addition, we may share this information, in aggregate form, with our current and potential advertisers or marketing allies so they can try to present advertisements and content more effectively. We may also use aggregate information to share information with the public regarding products, services, content or tools that may of interest to them.

If we sell off a division, merge with another company or spin off a business, your information may be included in such a transaction. 

Whenever personal information about you is stored on our computers, that information is password-protected from unauthorized access or use. In addition, this information is kept only on servers that are located behind a firewall, which makes their contents inaccessible to outside users.

Since your financial information is especially sensitive, we take special care to keep it secure. We will only transmit or ask for this information over secure Internet connections, using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, the currently accepted standard for online security, and security keys. In addition, we require password authentication from any third parties you’ve authorized to receive this information. Finally, your credit card number and financial information are rarely stored on our servers, as most orders are processed by our marketing allies providing the service or product requested. While this means you may have to enter this information more than once, we believe the added security is worth the extra effort. In those instances where we store such data, we protect the data on secure servers and transmit the information using secure Internet connections.

Of course, we appreciate your help in safeguarding the integrity of your own and others’ privacy. We hope you’ll use common sense whenever you disclose personal information over the Internet. Just as importantly, we encourage you to let us know immediately if you suspect that the information you share with us is being used in any way contrary to this Privacy Policy. Finally, unfortunately no data transmission over the Internet or the storage of information on servers can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and while we strive to protect your personal information (as described herein), we cannot guarantee or warrant its complete security.

This Privacy Policy only applies to the Defensive Driving School Online. The Defensive Driving School Online contain links to sites operated and maintained by third parties over which we have absolutely no control. Please be aware that these sites may collect information about you, and operate according to their own privacy practices that may differ from this Privacy Policy. Remember that once you’re outside the Defensive Driving School Online, any information you submit is outside of our control. 

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date first written and may be updated and modified from time to time by us in our sole discretion. If we choose to update or modify this Privacy Policy, such updated or modified policy shall become effective upon its posting on the Defensive Driving School Online. Accordingly, we encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy and the Defensive Driving School Online in order to keep apprised of our current privacy practices. If you do not agree to any provision of this Privacy Policy, or any update or modification thereto, please do not use the Defensive Driving School Online.

 
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