LCA PRIVACY POLICY
In order to use some areas of this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest.
Order
We request information from the user on our secure order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customers orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the userís hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates.; For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. Log Files We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
All email from the LCA contains opt-out instructions, except personal business correspondence, and instructor emails to students which is part of their course. Newsletter subscribers, members, ecourse students, board members, sponsors, event attendees, certified members, inquiries and suppliers may from time to time receive email announcements from the LCA. The LCA does not send spam. All email lists maintained by the LCA are opt-in lists or lists of members and students which the LCA has a business relationship with, or those who have made inquiries to the association. The LCA does not rent, sell, or transfer it’s lists to any third parties for the purposes of sending unsolicited commercial email. Anyone wishing to be permanently removed from our email lists can make that request to: (admin@legalcareerassociation.com your name and email address will be removed within 7 business days.
Additionally, the LCA requires its members to abide by all state and federal laws regarding email, and will revoke the membership of members found in violation of those laws or unethical business practices.
We use an outside credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services, as well as an outside service bureau to maintain our lists. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we the LCA are not responsible for the privacy practices or other policies or business practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site. Please report links that are broken or point to sites engaged in spam or other unethical practices to our administrative department at: admin@legalcareerassociation.com
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – SSL.While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Google, Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just browsing. While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices, every quarter, as well as any time we improve protocols.