Privacy Statement

Your privacy on Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection

The primary purpose of the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection is to provide a forum for our alumni to stay in touch with the company and other alumni. We want you to feel secure when visiting our site and are committed to maintaining your privacy when doing so.

The Acumen Solutions Alumni Web Site is a private site available to only Acumen Solutions alumni and employees. Please do not give out your username or password to anyone. We also ask that you be sensitive to others and not disclose personal information on individuals in the directory to anyone.

The following provides an overview of how we protect your privacy during your visit.

What information does the Acumen Solutions Connection Alumni gather?

The Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection collects information in several ways: Some personal information is gathered when you register. When you set up your profile, we ask for your name, home address, email address, and employer. Once you register, you are given an Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection user ID and password and are able to take full advantage of the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection's offerings.

We may also ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you fill in your personal profile, apply for a job, or when you send us news about you. If you contact the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection we may keep a record of that correspondence. The Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Completion of these surveys is voluntary. Wherever Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection collects personal information we include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

What are cookies and how does Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection use them?

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Generally, we use cookies to:

(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our services.

(2) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.

(3) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection's site you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content that you and other users will see on our sites.

Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection does not currently collect IP addresses for system administration, but may do so in the future.

How does the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection use this information?

acumensolutionsalumni.com's primary goal in collecting personal information is to maintain a personal connection with you and to allow you to maintain a connection with other alumni.

Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection uses contact information to communicate periodically with you about event invitations and publications we feel might be of interest to you. We will only contact you regarding these offerings if you have given your explicit permission for us to do so during the registration process. We may also use data for other purposes, which we would describe to you at the point we collect the information.

Who is collecting information?

When you are on the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection, unless it is specifically stated otherwise.

Please be aware that Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those Web sites linked to Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection are not covered by this privacy statement.

With whom does the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection share my information?

As a general rule, the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Use Agreement for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.

Other: the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection's Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection's rights or property, other Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. The Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

How do I update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

You may edit your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection Account Information and your public Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection Profile at any time by using your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection ID and password.

Your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in not being able to access any members-only area of the Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection. You may send a request to delete your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection account in an email to alumni@acumensolutions.com. Please include your name, username, and password.

Residual information will remain within our archive records.

What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?

We use contact information to communicate periodically with you about event invitations and publications we feel might be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such mailings, please contact us at alumni@acumensolutions.com.

Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests. The foregoing not withstanding, we reserve the right to transfer data in connection with sale or disposition of all or part of our business

What about sensitive personal data?

We generally do not seek to collect sensitive personal data through this site. If we do seek to collect such data, we will ask you to consent to our proposed uses of the data. We may also collect some sensitive personal data incidentally. By providing us with unsolicited sensitive personal data, you consent to our using the data subject to applicable law as described in this notice. The references to "sensitive personal data" are to the various categories of personal data identified by European and other data privacy laws as requiring special treatment, including in some circumstances the need to obtain explicit consent. These categories comprise personal identity numbers, personal data about personality and private life, racial or ethnic origin, color, nationality, political opinions or convictions, membership of political parties or movements, religious, philosophical or other similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health or handicap, genetic code, addictions, gender, sexual life (including sexual orientation), pregnancy, property matters or penal or criminal conviction or record (including where a pardon has been granted).

What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

Your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection account information is password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection account information by using your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection ID and password.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection account and close your browser window when you have finished your use of the site. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

What else should I know about my privacy?

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on the discussion boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

 

Additional Information:

If Acumen Solutions Alumni Connection ever changes this privacy policy, we will post any changes on this page, so that you are always aware of the information that we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to alumni@acumensolutions.com.