The Vickie Milazzo Institute respects your concerns about privacy.
As we continue to develop our website and implement new technologies our Privacy Policy
will evolve. We encourage you to refer to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis in order
to stay informed regarding our most current policy. The Institute reserves the right to
amend or change this Privacy Policy, at the Institute's sole discretion, from time to time
or at any time without prior notice. Any changes in this policy will be posted on this
page.
This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for . When you visit
our website you can expect to be notified of:
If you have questions or concerns regarding this
statement, you should contact
via email.
Information Collection
The Institute collects information about Inside Every Woman (IEW)
readers, clients, members and website visitors in three primary ways, each of which is
discussed below:
- The information you provide when registering for a purchase, either
by phone, email, US Mail or fax, includes general facts necessary for the Institute to
complete your order. This includes your name, mailing and shipping addresses, telephone
numbers, credit card numbers and email address. This information is stored in a secure
location separate and distinct from this Website.
- The information you provide when you register to receive Inside
Every Woman (IEW) email from the Institute consists of only your name and
email address and any optional information you wish to include. The Institute uses this
information only to respond to your submissions and to send the Institute's FREE Inside
Every Woman Ezine, gifts and informational emailing. This information may be shared to
facilitate delivery of the above. To register for email from the Institute, please .
You should expect no more than a
maximum of six Ezines, gifts and/or informational emailings per month. The
Institute does occasionally make our customer list available to carefully selected outside
companies when we believe their products or services may be of interest to you. To be
removed from the email database once you have begun receiving the Inside Every Woman
Ezine, gifts or emailing from the Institute you will need to use the "modify or
remove" link included at the bottom of all email from the Institute.
- The information you provide when you register to receive
informational mailings from the Institute consists of your name, mailing address,
telephone number(s) and may include your email address. The Institute uses this
information only to respond to your submissions and to send the Institute's IEW
informational mailings. The Institute does occasionally make our customer list available
to carefully selected outside companies when we believe their products or services may be
of interest to you. To register to receive informational mail from the Institute, please .
- To discontinue receiving informational mail from the Institute or to
request not to have your information shared with third parties, please call the Institute
at 800.779.0774, or send an email stating that you wish to stop receiving informational
mail from the Institute to
and be sure to include your name, email address and U.S. postal mailing address or send a
letter including the same information to the Institute at 5615 Kirby Drive, Suite 425,
Houston, TX 77005. We will do our best to comply with your request. Please note that many
promotions and mailings are completed well in advance, so you may continue to receive some
offers after you ask us to stop sharing your information. We appreciate your patience in
giving us time to carry out your request. To discontinue receiving informational mail from
those carefully selected outside companies, please contact those companies at the phone
numbers and addresses provided in their mailings and be sure to include your name, address
and U.S. postal mailing address.
- If you wish to confirm and/or update the validity of the information
you provided when you registered to make a purchase or to receive informational mailings
from the Institute, simply call the Institute at 800.779.0774 during the Institute's
regular business hours. One of our representatives will be happy to assist you in
reviewing, updating and confirming your information.
- Certain pages within the Institute's IEW secure shopping
cart may be "framed" within a page that has the look and feel of the Institute's
site but is in fact hosted on a secure server by an agent of the Institute. Any personal
information collected in that process is only done so for the purpose of completing a
purchase as part of the secure shopping process. This information is directed to the
Institute and is not shared by the agent collecting such for the Institute.
Information Disclosure
The Institute does not disclose any private communications that are directed to the
Institute or to the website, including email, chat, bulletin/message boards, or other
communications to the Institute, except to comply with valid legal processes issued by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such as search warrants, subpoenas or court orders, to
protect the Institute’s rights and property, or during emergencies when we believe
physical safety is at risk. Please be aware that any comments posted to chat or
bulletin/message boards are available to any part viewing such chat or bulletin/message
boards.
The Institute occasionally makes our customer list available to carefully selected outside
companies when we believe their products or services may be of interest to you. In the
event of a sale or transfer of ownership of the Institute, or a substantial portion of its
assets, customer information, including personal information, will be transferred to the
acquiring entity. In the event of any such transfer, the Institute will, to the extent
allowed by any agreement(s) relating to such transfer, notify you in accordance with the
"Notification of Changes" provisions below.
Other than as discussed above, and to advisors to, and consultants with, the Institute,
any such information is not, and will not, be released to third parties unless required by
law or by a court of reasonable jurisdiction.
Information Use
The Institute’s ISP/servers automatically gather information about the areas you
visit on our Website as well as referring URLs, IP addresses, ISPs and/or domains as well
as other similar information routinely collected by ISPs as "traffic data" from
log files. This information is retained by the Institute's ISP/servers and is disclosed
only to the Institute. The Institute does use the information generated from traffic data,
log files and navigational data in an aggregated form to understand how our visitors and
members are using our website, to analyze trends, to administer the site and to make
improvements to the website. Other than advisors to, and consultants with, the Institute,
any such information is not, and will not, be released to third parties unless required by
law or by a court of reasonable jurisdiction. We do not track where you go once you leave
the Institute’s website.
Information regarding the types of products and services you purchase from the Institute
is recorded by the Institute. This is true of purchases made online, through mail order
and telephone order, or seminar sales. This information is used by the Institute to
develop statistical information in order to determine what sort of products and services
are most useful to our clients, students and customers. We also use this information to
make offers to you for other products or services that we believe you may find useful. You
may choose to not receive marketing offers from the Institute. Please see the above policy
for more information on removing yourself from our marketing lists. Other than advisors
to, and consultants with, the Institute, any such information is not, and will not, be
released to third parties unless required by law or by a court of reasonable jurisdiction.
Cookies
The Institute uses "cookies" on its website. A cookie is a piece of data stored
on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is no
way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our website, and a visitor
may use our website even if the visitor rejects the cookie. The Institute simply uses
these cookies to understand how our visitors and members are using our website, to analyze
trends, to administer the site, and to make improvements to the website. Other than
advisors to, and consultants with, the Institute, any such information is not, and will
not, be released to third parties unless required by law or by a court of reasonable
jurisdiction. If you choose to reject this cookie you will not notice any
difference in our website.
Exceptions
There are several exceptions to the Institute’s privacy policies. These are as
follows:
- The Institute will release specific information to comply with valid
legal processes such as search warrants, subpoenas or court orders, issued by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
- To protect the Institute’s rights and property in the sole
discretion of the Institute.
- During emergencies when, in the sole discretion of the Institute, we
believe physical safety is at risk.
Security
The Institute uses state-of-the-art technology to keep your personal information as
secure as possible both online and offline. Each of the Institute’s employees must
comply with the Institute’s privacy policy. Only authorized employees of the
Institute are permitted to gain access to your personal information and such access is
limited by need. All employees of the Institute are required to acknowledge that they
understand and will comply with the Institute’s privacy policy. Employees who violate
our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
The Institute uses the industry's highest standard of data encryption and positive
identification technology to ensure that your online purchasing experience is safe and
secure. Security measures are triggered automatically when you enter our shopping cart.
Your order will be submitted only if your computer and our server are communicating in a
secure mode.
We employ the industry's most stringent security technology to encrypt sensitive
information, including your contact information and credit card number. If you prefer to
complete your order by phone rather than online, please call us at 800.779.0774 between
8:30am and 4:30pm Central Standard Time.
Before your order and personal information are transmitted to the Institute, your browser
will make a positive identification that communication is being conducted with the
Institute’s servers. While on a secure page the lock icon on the bottom of Web
browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as
opposed to unlocked (or open). Only upon authentication of a secure connection to the
Institute’s servers will your order be processed online. This authentication by your
browser takes place when you enter the shopping cart, before your order is actually
submitted to the Institute.
Your encrypted information is automatically transferred via a secure connection to a
secure server that is not accessible to anyone online. Your order is then processed
internally; no one but our order processors will have access to your information.
None of our readers, students, clients, members or website visitors has ever reported
fraudulent use of a credit card as a result of purchases made on this website or from the
Institute. In the event that your credit card is used to make a purchase online without
your authorization and your credit card issuer holds you liable, the Institute will
reimburse you for the liability you incur for unauthorized use, up to a maximum of fifty
dollars ($50). You must notify your credit card issuer of the unauthorized use in
accordance with its reporting rules and procedures in order to qualify for this
protection. Our customer service representatives will do all they can to resolve such
situations quickly with the least amount of inconvenience to you.
Tell A Friend
If a website visitor elects to use the Institute's referral, or "tell a friend,"
service to inform a friend about our website, we will ask you for the friend's name and
email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting them to
visit the site. We collect and temporarily store this information solely for the purpose
of sending your friend this one-time email. Your friend will not be added to the
Institute's database and your friend will not receive any further email from the
Institute.
"Contact Us" Information
Information received from you via the "Contact Us" form and portion of this
website is used solely to identify you to the Institute to aid us in answering any
questions that you may have. Unless you request otherwise, the information you provide is
not used by the Institute for any purpose other than answering your inquiry(ies) or as
described above.
Links
Any links or bookmarks that connect this website to any other website or web page are
provided as a courtesy to the users of this website. The Institute assumes no liability or
responsibility for the content, accuracy, completeness or compliance with applicable
federal, state, local or international laws regarding any content appearing on any such
linked or bookmarked website. The Institute is not responsible for the creation and
administration of privacy policies of other websites. We recommend that you be aware when
you leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that
collects personally identifiable information.
Notification of Changes
If at some point in the future there is a change to our information usage practices that
affect your personally identifiable information, the Institute will notify you by email of
the relevant changes. At the time of that message you will be able to opt-out of this
information usage by sending an email including your full name, email address and U.S.
mailing address to .
Within 48 hours of receipt of this email the Institute will remove you from our U.S. mail
database. This information is only requested in order for us to facilitate removal from
our U.S. mail database. If you are also receiving the Inside Every Woman Ezine,
gifts or IEW updates from the Institute, you will need to use the "modify or
remove" link included at the bottom of all such email in order to be removed from the
email database. In the event that the Institute makes changes to this privacy policy, the
Institute will post such changes on this page. You should occasionally check this posted
privacy policy for changes.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement, please address them to the
Institute, in writing, at the following addresses:
via email:
via U.S. mail:
Inside Every Woman Webmaster
Vickie Milazzo Institute
5615 Kirby Drive, Suite 425
Houston, Texas 77005-2518
via fax: 713.942.8075
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