PLEASE NOTE: If you are under 18 years of age, you must have a parent or guardian accept the User Agreement and Privacy Policy on your behalf before you can be registered as a member of Cognitra.

 ***Your privacy is important to us. You should carefully read our Privacy Policy described below before deciding to become a Member of Cognitra.***

Privacy

Please note that certain information, statements, data and content (such as photographs) which you may choose to provide might, or are likely to, reveal your gender, ethnic origin, nationality, religion and/or sexual orientation, and that you are providing all such information, statements, data and content in full acknowledgment thereof and under your sole responsibility. By providing such information to us, all of which is optional, you are hereby expressly giving your informed consent to the processing by us of such “sensitive” data.

Policy Changes

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. By continuing to use the Cognitra website after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on the Cognitra website, you are consenting to the changes.

Cognitra Access and/or Use is Accepting Privacy Policy

Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personal information may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. By using or accessing Cognitra, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

European Member

When a Member who is located in the European Union chooses to post Profile Information that will be publicly disclosed, that Member is responsible for ensuring that such information conforms to all local data protection laws. Cognitra is not responsible under the EU local data protection laws for Member-posted information.

Post at your own Risk

You post user Content (as defined in the Cognitra User Agreement) on the Cognitra Site at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of user Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your user Content.

Links

Cognitra contains links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected and used by Cognitra.

Security

Personal information you provide will be secured with industry standards and technology.

Personal Information Provided by You

The purpose of the Cognitra website is to permit users to voluntarily provide information about themselves for the purposes of developing, maintaining and enhancing a network of contacts. You willingly provide us with certain personal information, which we collect in order to allow you to benefit from the Cognitra website. If you have any hesitation about providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on the Cognitra website or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the user Agreement, you should not become a member of the Cognitra learning community.

Collection of Information

 Cognitra is involved in the collection of the following information:

• When you register an account to become a Cognitra member.
• When you add to your profile with further information about yourself or your private contacts. Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Cognitra web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave Cognitra. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the Cognitra service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.
• If you participate and/or post on the Cognitra website, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to provide there can be read, collected, or used by other users. Some of this information could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Cognitra is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit on the Cognitra website.
• We use cookies and other technologies to recognize you, customize your experience and may use to serve advertisements in the future.
• Cognitra may collect information through the Cognitra website in order to, among other things, accurately categorize and respond to a customer’s inquiry and deliver appropriate service levels.
• Cognitra uses 3rd party website analytical software called Google Analytics. Please refer to this software at Google Analytics
• Third party applications (such as widgets) created by third party developers may also be available on the Cognitra Site. Third party applications are small bits of software, often with interactivity, that can be installed into Members’ profiles or shared with other users. However, Cognitra does not control the third party developers, and cannot dictate their actions. When a Member engages with a third party application, that Member is interacting with the third party developer, not with Cognitra. Cognitra encourages Members not to provide profile information to the third party’s application unless the Member knows the party with whom it is interacting.

Use of Information

Cognitra uses the collected information in the following ways:

• Administer your account with us and customize the service we provide to you.
• To send you service or promotional communications through email and notices on the Cognitra website.
• We may provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of our services to third parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate, including to prospective advertisers on Cognitra.
• Enable you to share your information and communicate with other members, or provide (usually at your option) your personal details to third parties offering combined services with Cognitra.
• As a member, you may receive requests to participate in marketing activities such as polls, surveys, sweepstakes, newsletters, ideas and suggestions, and contests by Cognitra. If you participate in these activities offered through the Cognitra website, the information you provide may be visible to others accessing or using the Cognitra website.
• We may offer products and services jointly with other companies on Cognitra. We may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that product or service.
• We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the Cognitra Site, to send out email updates about Cognitra, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities.
• It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, such as responses to civil or criminal subpoenas, or other requests by law enforcement personnel. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, subpoena, or other legal process or request to Cognitra brought in any country throughout the world, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Contact Cognitra

If you have any questions or comments please contact us.