Grant Professionals Certification Institute is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Grant Professionals Certification Institute Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Grant Professionals Certification Institute website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Grant Professionals Certification Institute collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Grant Professionals Certification Institute also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Grant Professionals Certification Institute. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Grant Professionals Certification Institute for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Grant Professionals Certification Institute web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Grant Professionals Certification Institute public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Grant Professionals Certification Institute does not read any of your private online communications.

Grant Professionals Certification Institute encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Grant Professionals Certification Institute so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Grant Professionals Certification Institute is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Grant Professionals Certification Institute and Grant Professionals Certification Institute family of web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Grant Professionals Certification Institute collects and uses your personal information to operate the Grant Professionals Certification Institute web site and deliver the services you have requested. Grant Professionals Certification Institute also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Grant Professionals Certification Institute and its affiliates. Grant Professionals Certification Institute may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Grant Professionals Certification Institute does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Grant Professionals Certification Institute may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Grant Professionals Certification Institute may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Grant Professionals Certification Institute, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Grant Professionals Certification Institute does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Grant Professionals Certification Institute keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Grant Professionals Certification Institute, in order to determine what Grant Professionals Certification Institute services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Grant Professionals Certification Institute to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Grant Professionals Certification Institute web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Grant Professionals Certification Institute or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Grant Professionals Certification Institute; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Grant Professionals Certification Institute, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information

Grant Professionals Certification Institute secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Grant Professionals Certification Institute secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Grant Professionals Certification Institute will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Grant Professionals Certification Institute encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Grant Professionals Certification Institute is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Grant Professionals Certification Institute welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Grant Professionals Certification Institute has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Grant Professionals Certification Institute at info@grantcredential.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

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