Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 22, 2005
HI Training, LLC. dba the National Institute of Building Inspectors ("NIBI")
strives to develop innovative services to better serve our students. We
recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our
services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy
outlines the types of information NIBI may gather when you enroll in the NIBI
Online Campus, as well as some of the steps that are taken to safeguard it. We
hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing the personal
information that is needed to provide you access to the NIBI Online Campus.
Identifying Information
The following principles apply to the ”personally identifying information” that
you provide, as well as the “non-personally identifying information” that is
automatically available or gathered when you visit the NIBI website or take a
NIBI Online course.
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Personally Identifying Information
Personally identifying information is information that individually identifies
you, such as your name, physical address, and email address. It also includes
information related to credit cards or checking accounts.
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For access to the NIBI Online Campus, you must provide personal information
(including your name, address, email address) in order for us to create a
Student ID so that you can register for in courses in our Online Learning
Program.
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To register for a course, you must provide payment information before we can
provide the service. We may request and you may provide credit card information
which is maintained in encrypted form on secure third party servers.
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Non-Personally Identifying Information
NIBI collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes
available when connected to our website. This information includes your
Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of
your access, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.
For instance, upon your first visit to the NIBI Online Campus, a cookie is sent
to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small
file containing a string of characters, which is used to improve the quality of
our service. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can
reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. However, some NIBI Online features or services may not function properly
without cookies.
Information Sharing
We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other
companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such
information in any of the following limited circumstances:
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We have your consent.
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We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole
purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf, such as
credit card transaction services. When this is done, it is subject to
agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our
instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
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We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that
access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary
to protect the rights, property or safety of NIBI, its users or the public.
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We may share the information submitted under your account among our affiliated
companies services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to
improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account
information to other individuals or non-affiliated companies, except in the
limited circumstances described in this Policy or with your consent.
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We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the
United States or any other country in which NIBI or its agents maintain servers
or facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your
information among these facilities, including those that may be located outside
your country.
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We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the
number of users who take a particular course or the average grades of a student
who have taken a course.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
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We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who
need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our
services.
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We provide a means through your the Student Log-in menu for you to update and
correct your personally identifying information. We also have access to this
information and can edit it if needed.
Links
The sites displayed as links in the NIBI Online Courses are developed by
individuals over whom NIBI exercises no control. These sites may place their
own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
Information on access to links may be automatically recorded as part of the
browser sharing information and collection of non-personally identifying
information.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We expect most
such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant.
Regardless, we will post those changes on this page.
If you have any additional questions, for more information about our practices
regarding specific information or services that are not covered in this Privacy
Policy, please feel free to contact us at any time at
nibiinfo@nibi.com or by contacting the NIBI Online Program Student
Administrator.
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