Skills Converged 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 Skills Converged Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Skills Converged website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Skills Converged collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Skills Converged 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 Skills Converged. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Skills Converged for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Skills Converged Web site.

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

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

Use of your Personal Information

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

Skills Converged does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Skills Converged 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, Skills Converged 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 Skills Converged, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Skills Converged does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

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

Skills Converged 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 Skills Converged or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Skills Converged; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Skills Converged, or the public.

Skills Converged uses MailChimp as marketing automation platform. If you register on our site, you will be added automatically to our newsletter service which is handled by them. You acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.

Your financial details

To protect your privacy and increase your security online, Skills Converged does not store your financial details, such as credit card numbers and related details, on its servers. The credit card data entered into the forms are passed to and handled by our e-commerce provider e-junkies and payment processors such as PayPal who will use the data to process the transactions.

Use of Cookies

The Skills Converged Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Skills Converged pages, or register with Skills Converged site or services, a cookie helps Skills Converged to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Skills Converged Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Skills Converged features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Skills Converged services or Web sites you visit.

This site uses Google Analytics remarketing codes and logs when users view specific pages or take specific actions on this website. This will allow Skills Converged to provide customised advertisement across the internet based on your specific interests. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to Skills Converged website. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertisement from us in the future you can opt out using the opt-out form provided by Google.

Security of your Personal Information

Skills Converged secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Skills Converged 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

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

Contact Information

Skills Converged welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Skills Converged has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Skills Converged at support@skillsconverged.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.