Last updated 19 February, 2008
Information Impact and IQ Team Member Privacy Statement

INFORMATION IMPACT International is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. The privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.infoimpact.com. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Diane English by email (Diane@infoimpact.com) or phone (+1-615-837-1211). If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addresses, you should then contact TRUSTe http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url=.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.

Information Impact International and www.infoimpact.com subscribe to the following privacy policy:

• Confidentiality and privacy:
  • Information use.  We pledge to you that we will honor your privacy and will not use any information you provide against your wishes. We use customer contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company, newsletters, seminar brochures and information management and information quality ideas, etc. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings [see 'opt-out' option]. We use data such as job title, function, industry type for aggregation to better understand our customers base. We will send you or notify you of Information Impact Newsletters, and will only send you announcements about new content updates to our web site, about information management and information quality education events that we sponsor or cosponsor or for required communications such as change of address. Should you receive anything from us you do not consider value adding and wish us to no longer notify you, simply return reply and request us not to contact you. [see 'opt-out' option].
  • Information collected.  Our site's registration form requires you to give us contact information (such as name, address, email address) and unique identifiers (member ID).
  • Customers typically buy products (books, seminar places, etc.) with credit cards. Their credit card information is collected on a secure server and is kept under the strictest confidence.
  • Business partners and information use.  We will not sell, lease or give information you have provided us to other parties. Information Impact has relationships with other organizations, such as having a contractual business partnership with an organization, such as being a co-sponsor of an educational event or with the IAIDQ where Larry English is the Co-Founder. From time to time we may provide only the data required to provide a mailing such as name and address (no other data, such as job title, industry code, etc. will be provided) to such partners only for the following purposes and with the following conditions:
    • For communicating a jointly sponsored education event or educational announcement, and
    • Within a confidentiality or privacy agreement with that business partner or to a bonded mail house under a single use agreement for the purposes stated above. We will not authorize our partners or any other organization to send you unsolicited information.
  • Opt Out. If at any time you do not want to be contacted by these partners or by Information Impact, you may email us at Diane@infoimpact.com and let us know that you do not want to receive these types of electronic mailings, snail mailings or both. We will promptly remove you from these mailing lists.
  • Web hosting service. Our web hosting service has access to our database as the information is stored on their premises. They have signed a nondisclosure agreement with Information Impact stating they will not use or sell your information for any purposes and will abide by all terms of this privacy policy.
  • IP address and member ID use.  Your IP address and your member ID are used to help identify you. We log your IP address for system administration purposes. IP addresses are logged to track customer sessions. This gives us information about which parts of our site are most visited, how long members stay in a particular area of the site, etc. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, so that, even though a customer session is being tracked, you will remain anonymous.
  • Cookies.  We use cookies for the sole purpose of automatically filling in your contact details in subsequent forms, preventing the need for you to have to reenter the data. No personally identifiable information is collected, used, saved or shared from cookies on our web site.
  • Changes to our privacy policy. If there is a need to update our privacy policy, we will notify you by way of a note on our home page so you may read the privacy policy and determine if the changes meet your needs as a valued customer of our web site.
  • Notification of Changes. If, at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usage practices that affects your Personally Identifiable Information, we will notify you by email of the relevant changes. At the time of this message, you will be able to opt-out of this information usage by sending a message to Diane@infoimpact.com. You should also check this posted privacy statement for changes.
    
    
• Security:
  • The security of your personal information is important to us. We certify that when you enter ANY information (credit card information, name and address, etc.) on our Newsletter, Seminar, or Conference Registration Forms or Order Forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) so that unauthorized persons may not intercept, read or access it. For details about SSL click here.
    
  • No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure, however. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email to us at Diane@infoimpact.com
    
• Information Quality:
  • We certify to you that the information contained here is correct, honest and current as of the date of update. Any information we have not been able to verify or audit, has been identified with a descriptive notation.
  • The www.infoimpact.com site links to other selected web sites that contain pertinent information about information management and information quality. We cannot certify the accuracy or currency of the information, nor can we be responsible for the privacy practices of those web sites. We do review the web sites for relevance and "general" quality of the information provided. We may place a disclaimer on sites that do not meet a minimum level of integrity. If you find a significant level of nonquality on any site we link to, please notify us at infomgr@infoimpact.com, so that we may investigate and put out a disclaimer or remove the link.
  • If you visit any co-branded pages from our web site and execute any kind of financial transaction or submit additional information to that site, that partner will be the collector of that information. Any information given to this partner about you is not shared with us except in the aggregate.
    
    
• Surveys:
  • Our site requests information via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
    
    
• Public Forums:
• This site makes forums, book reviews, testimonials and message boards available to its High IQ Team members. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. We ask you to abide by the IQ Team Member code of ethics in providing information.
  
  
• Opt-Out option:
  • If you want to opt out after you have registered, you may remove your record yourself by clicking the "remove your profile" link in the IQ Resources section and your information will be removed from our database. Please allow approximately 48 hours for your information to be purged from the database. ?
  • If you do not want to receive mailings from us, you may use any of the following options: ? Send us an email to Diane@infoimpact.com. ?
    • Send us a fax at 615-837-8804. ?
    • Return an email sent by us, requesting, please remove from your mailing list
    • Send mail to us at:
          Information Impact International, Inc.
          871 Nialta Ln, Suite, 100,
          Brentwood, TN 37027 ?
    • Call us at 615-837-1211
      
      
• Correcting/Updating Records:
  • You may directly update or correct any of the information you have given us as a registered High IQ Team member. Click the "profile administration center" link in the IQ Resources section and choose "modify profile info." Change any information you like and it will update our database. ?
  • If you do not want to directly change or modify any of the information you have given us, you may use one of the following options: ?
    • Send us an email to Diane@infoimpact.com
    • Send us a fax at 615-837-8804
    • Send mail to us at:
          Information Impact International, Inc.
          871 Nialta Ln, Suite, 100,
          Brentwood, TN 37027 ?
    • Call us at 615-837-1211
      
      
• Legal Disclaimer:
  • We make every effort to preserve your privacy, however, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
  
  
• Contacting the Web Site:
  • If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

    Diane English
    Information Impact Int'l Inc.
    871 Nialta Lane, Suite 100
    Brentwood, TN 37027
    Diane@infoimpact.com

• Business Transactions:
• In the event Information Impact International, Inc. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.