PUBLIC SITE & INFORMATION WE OBTAIN

Anyone can access the MICE Training and Technology Public Web Site without identifying themselves or giving a password. Those accessing the MICE Web site are not identified by name.

A special script is installed on our web server that allows us to track visitors by country of origin, method of access (as in dsl, dialup, and so forth), and type of browser used. This assists us in designing a site that is accessible to all types of visitors internationally.

The script also shows us how visitors enter our site (referring site link or search engine) and from what page you left the site. This assists us in recognizing weaknesses in our page design and site layout.

The information that we collect in our statistics log is used internally and is never shared with a third party. We use these logs to enhance our site by either making our pages easier to navigate, enhance browser support and/or improve communications with foreign visitors.

The IP address used when accessing the site is also logged. This may be the IP address of your router, your Internet Service Provider (ISP), or your own private IP address. While some IP addresses can identify you specificially, MICE never uses IP addresses logged on our general site for any marketing or identification purposes.

At no time is your e-mail address, name, or any other personally identifiable information ever given to us or our access logs when entering our site in general. The exceptions to this are our Member's Only section, and our eLearning Portal as described below.

STUDENTS & COURSE REGISTRATION
eLearning Portal

MICE Training & Technology™ will be applying for accreditation as a legal, online technical/trade educational facility. For that reason, we must adhere to certain federal and state guidelines in terms of our students.

Among those requirements is the Privacy Act as it relates to and for educational institutions. We are restricted from sharing student information, files, and grades from any party other than the student.

All information you share with us for registration of our courses as a course participant is kept confidential.

MEMBERS ONLY SITE & INFORMATION WE OBTAIN

Subscription members of our Member's Only site are required to log in and a login script is maintained to insure that only paying and/or otherwise registered members are accessing the secured area.

As described on the sign-up form for the Member's Only site, users have two options for gaining access to exclusive content not available to the general public. The first option is to register for free, giving us a legitimate name and mailing address for our marketing list AND checking the box giving us permission to use your US or other country mailing address for all marketing purposes including list sales. This allows us to recover some of our costs of maintaining the web site while you access our content for free.

The second option is to pay for the Member's Only access with a membership fee. When this option is chosen, your information is not added to our marketing list and will not be given to any third parties for marketing purposes.

Whether you choose the first or second option, your e-mail address is always kept private. We never sell or give your e-mail address to third parties.

The information collected by our login script is:
User Name (which must match a registered user)
User IP Address (which must match home or work IP address of registered user)
Access Date and Time
Logout Date and Time
No other identifying information or tracking is gathered.

Your password is stored in an encrypted, secured database. MICE, nor any of our staff can access those passwords. If you lose your login name or password, only the script can send you the information to the e-mail address you registered under.

The access logs and any identifiable information is kept by MICE exclusively. After reviewing access information, which is checked monthly, these logs are destroyed.

COOKIES

There are a variety of cookies that web sites use and not all of them are bad. This portion of our privacy policy explains the type of cookies we do, and do not use.

Tracking Cookies: MICE uses cookies for the purposes of tracking advertising click-throughs. The referral link has our identification embedded in the URL to track your visit to the affiliates site. A cookie is used that identifies MICE as the referring web site so that we may make a commission off any purchase you make through our affiliates. This cookie is safe to delete from your PC whether you purchase something from our affiliates or not.

Some of our current affiliates are:
Cathy Goodwin (Career Coach)
TrendMicro (Security Software)
ZoneAlarm (Security Software)
Net Nanny & Anonnymizer (Security Software)
Journey Ed (Student Software)
Tiger Direct (Electronic Equipment)
PayPal (Electronic Payment)
Nero (CD/DVD Burning Software)
Amazon.com (Books and Consumer Goods)

Visitor or Session Cookies: There is a cookie placed on your computer when adding a comment to our Blog or any other area of the site where you are allowed to post content. This prevents people from multiple submissions. This cookie is also safe to delete.

A cookie is used to track your shopping experience. If you save something to your shopping cart and delete your cookie, your cart will not be available when you return and you will have to reorder upon the next visit. Once you've completed the order, the cookie can be safely deleted. Please note that your method of payment, your credit card number, and any other financial information is not saved in the cookie - it just stores your shopping cart identification number at the time of your visit.

A counter or session cookie may also appear on your machine indicating that you visited our site. If you do not delete the cookie, it tells our server logs that you are a repeat visitor when you return. If you delete the cookie, you will just be recognized by our server logs as a new visitor instead of a repeat visitor. You may, if you wish, safely delete session cookies.

To browse without cookies, you can configure your browser to reject all cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

VISITOR REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

Our site has been growing and in order to enable secure access for clients and students, we collect visitor names and other information to help us identify those visitors with secure access permissions.

We only collect personal information that you choose to provide voluntarily when using or registering with the MICE site.

"Personal information" includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name or e-mail address; and, in the case of license agreements, your name and company name. While you can browse our site without registering, you will need to register in order to take advantage of certain features, such as: accessing secured download files, obtaining software or books, requesting updates or promotional offers, and obtaining access to our Member's Only section or our paid online courses.

MICE will, on occasion, ask you to voluntarily submit information about other people. For example, you might be asked to submit a person's e-mail address to inform them about a newsletter, survey, special offer or contest offered on mice.org. The type of personally identifiable information that may be requested about other people may include the person's name and e-mail address. mice.org may use this information to inform them about a newsletter, survey, special offer or contest. However, all such requests will be voluntary and you will be told in advance of giving this information what it is being used for. We will use the information for the stated purpose and that purpose only.

Once used for the purpose described in the offer, MICE deletes the e-mail address and other information you provided. We do not engage in SPAM and we support the CAN SPAM Act.

In keeping in compliance with our Code of Ethics, MICE Training & Technology DOES receive compensation (either financially or through reciprocal links) from most of the recommended or affiliate links on our site. We will provide any interested client with information regarding the compensation when it may conflict with the interest of the client.

MICE™ also supports many companies that we are not compensated for because we believe in the products or services they offer. These non-compensated endorsements are indicated as such.

At no time do we share our visitor information or login information with any other source, including our partners or affiliates. When we are going to obtain your mailing address for marketing purposes, we will inform you and let you choose.

INFORMATION AND SECURITY

We take appropriate steps to protect the information you share with us from being seen or accessed by unauthorized users. When you contact us for information about our services and you transmit your name, business location and text, they are transmitted to us by way of our web host provider.

When submitting credit card information through our shop, you are guaranteed secure access when you see the https:// at the beginning of the checkout URL. If you do not see the https:// or the lock at the bottom of your screen (also indicating a secure access), please notify us immediately at (847) 458-4245. Do not provide any credit card information on this site - or any site - when you are not insured of a secured access!

Credit card information is obtained through our secured access login and once your order is retrieved, the information is deleted. We do not store credit card information on our hosted web server, nor on our company PCs.

When the information is obtained from our host provider, it is kept securely on our premises. Only authorized MICE personnel have access to any data collected.

MICE will never ask you for your credit card information or passwords via e-mail. If there is a problem, we will call you or we will send you an e-mail requesting you log back in to our secure server to process your transaction. DO NOT give any person claiming to represent MICE™ your credit card information via e-mail. It is NOT our policy.

If a person claiming to represent MICE contacts you by phone and requests personal information, ask for their name. Hang up and dial our number: 847-458-4245 requesting the person to verify that they are in fact, a MICE representative.

The security of your personal information is very important to us and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. MICE uses firewalls and has security measures in place at its physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our web site.

MERCHANT SERVICES

MICE Training and Technology™ is a confirmed, registered merchant with PayPal in order to accept Visa and MasterCard payments. PayPal no longer requires you to start an account. Your choice to save your payment information for future transactions is optional.

MICE abides by all terms set forth by this company and those of Visa and MasterCard issuers in order to maintain the highest level of security in the prevention of fraud and identity theft.

Purchases made through PayPal are done so under the terms and agreement with PayPal.

We are currently investigating the Google® Shopping Cart and will update this policy if we choose to add that to add this option to our shop.

Clicking Through To Advertisers or Outside Links

If you click on an advertisement or outside link, you leave the MICE Training & Technology web site. Each advertiser is responsible for their own online privacy and/or terms of use policy. Advertisers have the option of using their cookies for direct marketing E-mails. MICE™ does not accept any responsibility for user privacy in "click-through" advertising or links that are not a part of the mice.org web domain.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from mice.org to another web site, the MICE Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy are no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including any site that has a link on mice.org, is subject to the rules and policies of that site. We encourage you to read the rules and policies of the sites you visit to further understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.

YOU CHOOSE

If you choose to receive them, MICE may periodically send you e-mail messages describing updates, new features, or promotional offers related to this web site. You can choose to stop receiving this e-mail at any time. Simply follow the instructions included at the very bottom of each e-mail, or send an e-mail to our webmaster stating your request.

If you do not explicitly choose to receive informational e-mails, the only e-mail messages you will receive from MICE will be to respond to e-mail inquiries that you send us.

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS & E-COURSES

Our subscription list for newsletters and e-courses are a double opt-in list. By that we mean, you have to choose to sign up by entering your e-mail address and clicking the submit button. (Single Opt-in) You will then receive an e-mail confirmation with a link you will need to follow in order to confirm that it was your desire to subscribe. (Double Opt-in)

Each e-mail correspondence in all newsletters and e-courses contain an unsubscribe link at the bottom. You may click that link at any time to unsubscribe from the newsletter or e-course.

Due to the nature of our site address, it is occasionally spoofed by spammers. If you receive a spam mail allegedly from mice.org, please forward it to:

POLICY ISSUE DATE & CHANGES

This Privacy Policy was originally posted in August 2001 and has been modified according to the date time-stamped in the lower right hand corner at the end of this statement.

MICE reserves the right to change, modify or amend this policy at any time. Also, please read the mice.org Terms of Use.

MICE™ takes privacy matters very seriously, and intends to stay at the forefront of privacy policy and protection matters. We will occasionally update our privacy policy and we will post those updates on this page. You are responsible for revisiting this page to review our privacy policy updates.

If you wish to be notified of changes to this policy, use the free Change Detection monitor at the upper right of this page.

QUESTIONS?

If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at or by calling (847) 458-4245. We will address your issue to the best of our ability.