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Please Read the Business Reality simulation Terms and
Conditions.
Statement of Privacy and Data Protection Policy
Business Reality was designed to help professionals and students come
as close to the reality of business save living it. We attempt to reduce
the many years of business into as short a time possible to help you
avoid the mistakes made in real life. This Statement sets out our
policies and practices and informs you what you can do if you believe
that we have fallen short of them. By clicking the preceding button, you
agree to Business Reality using the data entered in the following
manner.
Nature, Purpose, Privacy, and Use of Information
Our site asks users to provide general contact information, such as
name, company, university, professor’s name and/or email address. This
information will be used to identify and communicate with you, and to
provide you with relevant information about our products or services.
Information about you may be held in the form of a Profile that may
include information about a person's current position, career history,
expertise, decisions made, or personality profile. Information is
collected from you directly when you enter data into the simulations.
Some basic information about you (your current position, contact
information, etc.) may be collected initially from your employing
institution, membership organization, or university that may provide you
with access to Business Reality services. Your data may be made publicly
available only in general form to those individuals doing academic or
other types of research. Business Reality may make the information
available to foundations and other research-commissioning organizations
in both the public and private sectors. These organizations use the
information in a variety of ways to 'map' current research. As a further
protection for the privacy of individuals, Business Reality may restrict
access to contact information and/or require that any approaches to
individuals be managed through Business Reality so that Business Reality
can be assured that they are appropriate. However, once you and/or your
institution have been identified through Business Reality it is possible
that contact information could be readily obtained from other sources.
Therefore, Business Reality cannot accept responsibility for the
approaches that you may receive as an indirect result of using any of
the products associated with Business Reality. Business Reality may use
personal information to third parties for commercial solicitations.
Business Reality may act as an agent on behalf of commerce partners or
others to forward marketing communications that we believe are relevant
and appropriate to the activities of users. Business Reality may use
your information to identify and communicate with you, and to provide
you with relevant, desired information about products or services and to
help us determine how to continually improve our site. Additionally, we
may gather anonymous aggregate personal information that may be used by
Business Reality or shared with selected partners and third parties.
This aggregate data helps us to determine how our users use various
features of the site. Any information uses not delineated by this
document are implicitly agreed to by the user unless not agreed to by
the above mentioned agreed to button click.
Online Purchases
When you use your credit card to purchase access to Business Reality
products or simulations we will store this information. Credit card
transactions take place solely on servers that offer a higher level of
security. The transactions are handled by a third-party financial
institution, which receives the credit card number and other
person-identifying information in order to verify the credit card number
and to process the transaction. Only authorized Business Reality
employees have access to this information, in a manner consistent with
or exceeding industry standards. Please note that if you make a purchase
from our site of goods or services provided by a third party, the
information obtained during your visit to these areas, such as your
credit card number and contact information, is provided to the merchant
of record. These merchants have separate privacy and data protection
practices. Business Reality has no responsibility or liability for their
actions.
Choice
Business Reality will upon written, paper, request remove any information
that you request us not to disclose. Business Reality provides a number
of e-mail services. You can opt out of such mailings by modifying your
selections. In addition, all periodic mailings contain instructions on
how you can prevent further mailings of that type from being sent to
that address. If there is any change in the purposes for which Business
Reality has collected the information we hold about you, you will be
notified in advance and you will have the option of withholding your
information from that use or of deleting your information as
appropriate.
Data Transfer
Business Reality provides institutions with the facility to download
profiles of Business Reality users at that institution for use by the
institution itself. Other than this permitted use, Business Reality
prohibits its users from downloading multiple profiles or portions of
the database. Business Reality also prohibits the transfer of any
portion of the database to a third party for any purpose other than
agreed upon by Business Reality.
Security
Business Reality uses all reasonable means to ensure the security of the
data held on its servers from loss, misuse, unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration or destruction. Business Reality uses multiple
levels of security including username/password authentication, domain
restriction, and institutional verification. Employees are made aware of
the privacy policy and are notified of any changes in the policy. We use
your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to
administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to gather broad
demographic information. We use cookies to deliver content specific to
your interests and to temporarily save your password to provide easy
access to our products and services.
Data Integrity and Access
Business Reality will only publish information about you that has been
verified and authorized and where permitted by local regulations, by
your employing institution, university, or membership organization.
Business Reality will respond promptly to any request you may make to
have information about you removed or amended. If you request that your
information be deleted in its entirety from the database, Business
Reality will remove your information immediately from public access, but
the information may be retained for up to 3 months for internal
administrative purposes before final deletion from all Business Reality
systems. At certain institutions or membership organizations a senior
administrator has access to update records on behalf of members or staff
at that institution or organization. This capability is normally used to
perform global edits. For example, when the names of departments are
changed, a university administrator will have the ability to change the
department names automatically for that university. Business Reality
cannot independently verify the information provided by users.
Complaints
Any alleged breach of the policies set out in this document should be
reported in the first instance to: B-reality, 112 W Poplar, Cobden,
IL 62920. Persistent failure by Business Reality to comply with its
published policies can be notified to the US Department of Commerce,
which has powers to take action under US law on the grounds that
persistent failure would constitute an unfair or deceptive practice.
This site contains links to other sites and is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
By clicking the Submit button below you are stating that you agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions detailed above
**Registering Does Not
obligate you in any way to adopt the Business Reality Simulations**
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