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Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) Privacy Policy

Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) is committed to protecting your privacy and earning your trust. The Home Inspection Training Center does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. This policy discloses the privacy practices for The Home Inspection Training Center Web site. We use the information we collect about you from The Home Inspection Training Center Web site to process orders and maintain a relationship with you throughout the use of our products and services. This policy explains how your personal information is protected. It is our intent to give you as much control as possible over your privacy and personal information and the use we make of it in our business. This policy is subject to change, so please check back from time to time to stay informed.

What kinds of personal information does Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center collect?

In general, you can visit The Home Inspection Training Center on the Web without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We ask for information from you in several ways from different parts of our Web site:

• We ask for personal information from you when you become a registered user of a trial version of Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center Software or E-Learning Course Sample. You are required to register to receive a user ID and password to be able to access and try out the features of The Home Inspection Training Center. At that time, Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) asks for certain required information such as your name, e-mail address, and other information to process and fulfill your request. We also request certain other optional information that will help us meet your personal training needs. We will let you know what information is optional, and you decide whether or not you want to provide that information.
• In the course of using our site, we automatically track certain information about you. This information includes what type of browser you are using. This information may include the URL that you just came from and the next URL you go to, regardless of whether these URLs are on our Web site or not. It also includes your IP address. Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) uses this information to identify demographic trends that may be used to provide information tailored to your interests.
• We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to help us refine and improve the design and layout of our site and the user experience.
• If you send us personal correspondence, such as e-mails or letters, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We also periodically ask users for feedback that we use to improve our service and products and add new features. If you respond to these requests, we may keep a record of your response.
• We also collect IP addresses for system administration and training center program monitoring.

How does Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) use my information?

We collect personal information to help us provide you a high quality user experience, and to aid Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) in understanding our customers better. Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others.

• The personal information you choose to give us allows Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) to process and fulfill your request for a free trial. We would also use that information should you choose to order our products and services to process and fulfill your order and notify you of your order status.
• We use the personal information you give us to provide you with up-to-date information about Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) products and services.
• We may use the information we collect to notify you from time to time about important functionality changes to the Web site, new Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) services and products, and special offers we think you will find valuable.
• When you provide us with personal information to enter a contest or promotion sponsored by Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) or its partners, we use this information to administer the contest and notify winners. We store all information relating to such contests and promotions.

Who collects information?

When you supply personal information on a Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) site, you share that information only with Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) unless you are specifically told otherwise. If a company other than Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) is gathering or maintaining your personal data from our Web site, you will be told before it is collected or transferred. You can always choose not to share the information.

When companies other than Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) sponsor promotions, data collected on the site in connection with these promotions may be shared with the sponsor. Once again, if this is the case, you will be notified before the data is collected or transferred, and you can decide not to participate. Most of these promotions are limited to United States or North American residents.

If you leave our Web site using links to go to other third party Web sites, those third parties may gather information about you. This privacy policy does not cover the practices of those businesses.

Does Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center share my information?

Other than as stated in this policy, Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) does not disclose any of your personal information to third parties without your permission.

Business Partners and Sponsors: Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but you will be notified beforehand and will be able to choose not to share your information. Many promotions give you the chance to request additional information from the sponsors. When you ask for more information, you give Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) permission to send your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. Much of the time, only your e-mail address will be shared. You will be notified if more information will be shared, and you can choose not to share the information.

Other Situations: Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) also may disclose your information where disclosure is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with our rights or property rights, the users' rights, or others’ rights. In the same way, Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) will disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is required by law or to comply with a legal process served on Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) or its Web site. We may disclose your personal information in the good faith belief that we must act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC), its Web site, or the public.

Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) will also reserve the right to disclose any required information to State Licensing Boards or Agencies in order to protect the status of Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) or ensure program approval. Student testing and scores received during the online academic section of the program may be shared as required by specific State Agencies.

We may use your personal data in the following ways: for the purpose for which you specifically provided the personal data, for example, to attend one of our classes, or to deliver the results of class exams and assignments, or to respond to a specific inquiry; to send surveys or questionnaires so that we can learn more about our customers' needs and interests; to provide you with information via e-mail about new products or services that we think might interest you.

Do I have a choice about how my information is gathered, used and distributed?

Yes. When you register as a Student or Client with Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC), you can choose to receive newsletters, information, and e-mails from Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC). If you change your mind, you can simply call to update your account information on our Web site so that the information will not be sent. It's your choice. If you receive an unwanted e-mail from Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) you have the option to unsubscribe.

Some of our promotions may request your e-mail address so that you can receive periodic updates about the status of the promotion. When you participate in these types of promotions, you will automatically receive promotion-related e-mail; however, you can choose the no-e-mail option that some promotions offer.

You can make decisions about cookies. You can modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you decide to reject all cookies, you cannot participate in Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) services that require registration to participate.

We will notify you any time we want to transfer the data we have collected or share it with a third party, and you always have the option to forbid the transfer.

What security measures does Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) take to protect me?

Your Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) account information and profile are password-protected so that you are the only one who has access to your personal information. You can edit your account information and profile by using your logon name and password. We recommend that you follow these guidelines to protect yourself:

• Do not tell anyone your password. If your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
• Do not respond to unsolicited e-mail by giving your password, even if the e-mail claims to be from us. Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) will never ask you for your password in this way.
• When you are done using Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC), sign out of your account and close your browser window.

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we are committed to protecting your personal information, Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you send to us (or from our online services) and you do so at your own risk.

How does Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) protect your credit card and financial information?

We are committed to protecting the privacy of your credit card and financial account information. We do not sell, trade, or rent your financial or credit card information. We do not make this information available to anyone without your permission. When you enter credit card information on our Web site, we transmit the information in encrypted format, using industry standard, secure socket layer (SSL) encryption.

What are cookies and how does Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) use them?

Parts of our learning management system use “cookies” so that it can immediately recognize a user and then ascribe different permissions associated with functionality in the system. A "cookie" is a chunk of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. Your browser settings must be set to accept cookies before you can login or customize. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to refuse them. Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) does not use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. This policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers on our Web site.

Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) uses cookies to:

• Locate your name and account information when you log in to your account so that you can access your profile. When you log in, the cookie is set, and when you sign-out, the cookie is modified.
• Estimate the size of our audience. Each browser that accesses the site is given a unique cookie, which is used to calculate how many people return to our Web site, compare the number of registered and unregistered visitors, and use customer interests and behavior to target our advertisements.
• Measure the traffic to various areas of the Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) Web site. This research helps us understand the ways in which our customers are alike and the ways in which they differ. We may use this information to personalize the information and design in our Web site.

LEGAL NOTICE

Note: All information Contained in our Training Programs is protected by Copyright, Registered Trade Marks, Trade Marks, and or Intellectual Property laws. No information can be copied, transposed, shared, viewed, or downloaded without express written permission from Gregory Enterprises, The Home Inspection Training Center and or Thomas S Gregory and or Bonnie T Gregory.

Terms of Use: I agree to personally view the Gregory Enterprises' Home Inspection Courses and personally answer the required quiz questions. I understand that levels of education, background and experience vary in the field of home inspection. I will not use or misuse the provided information to levels of inspection beyond my personal education, background, experience or held licenses. I will not perform or provide services based on the information in the provided courses that require other State Licenses unless I hold these licenses. The Home Inspection Training Center, Gregory Enterprises assumes no liability related to the course material or the use of the course material.

The provided courses, online course materials, classroom course materials, Text book content, inspection procedures, field training procedures, and other training materials are property of The Home Inspection Training Center, Gregory Enterprises. It is understood that all content is protected intellectual property laws. I understand and agree that I can not use these courses for any other purpose than to obtain my personal Pre-Licensing or Continuing Education experience and or credits to obtain or maintain home inspector licensure. I will not share, copy, download, sell, transfer, teach, or use these courses in any way except to obtain personal knowledge or course credits to obtain or maintain home inspection licensure. I understand that I am purchasing the right to review and read these course materials and that the courses and all contained photographs, reporting statements, inspection procedures, and information remain property of The Home Inspection Training Center, Gregory Enterprises.

If I copy and or infringe on the rights of The Home Inspection Training Center, Gregory Enterprises in any way, I understand that Gregory Enterprises:The Home Inspection Training Center, Gregory Enterprises will pursue legal actions to recover losses. Misuse of this program could also result in the denial of the right to attend future courses, revoked Course and Program Credits, and forfeiture of any fees paid to the Home Inspection Training Center or Gregory Enterprises. The Home Inspection Training Center and Gregory Enterprises reserves the right to refuse or deny use of this program to any person if it is suspected that the course material will be misused, copied or stolen. I confirm that I am not currently and I will not become or become affiliated with any software company, home inspection software company, home inspection company and or home inspection training program in a manner as to provide training or other products to home inspectors. Any product or service developed using Gregory Enterprises intellectual property, any training materials and or information gained from training materials will be considered as derivative works will be considered as property of Gregory Enterprises.

I promise to be honest and honorable as I continue with this program and view the courses for my personal use only to obtain or maintain home inspection licensure. I understand the purpose of Pre-Licensing and Continuing Education is to inform and enhance the knowledge of persons desiring to become a home inspector or for existing home inspectors. I personally agree to meet the Pre-Licensing and Continuing Education requirements as I obtain my pre-licensing training an or CE credits. I have read and understand the entire honor code and the Gregory Enterprises : The Home Inspection Training Center (THITC) Legal and Privacy Notice.

Disclaimers

The information contained or obtained from this website, or any website owned by Gregory Enterprises is provided to you "as is," for your informational purposes only, without any representation or warranty of accuracy or completeness of information or other warranty of any kind, including any implied warranty of quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. In no event will Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages for use of this website, any e-learning information, any textbooks or written document or reliance upon any information or material accessed via it or any other hyper linked website including, but not limited to, damages arising from loss of profits, failure to pass licensure exam, failure to properly perform a home inspection, delayed business plan interruption, business interruption, personal injury, or loss of data, even if Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory is expressly advised about the possibility of such damages, to the fullest extent allowable by law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties and representations, so the above exclusions may not apply to you.

The material on this Website including e-learning and e-books could contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. The information will be changed, updated and deleted without notice. Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory may make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the programs described in this material at any time without notification. Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory does not warrant that this Website will operate uninterrupted or error free or that problems will be corrected. Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory does not warrant that this Website is compatible with your computer equipment or that this Website or its server is free of errors or viruses, worms or "Trojan horses" and Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory are not liable for any damage you may suffer as a result of such destructive features. Additionally, Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory makes no representations or warranties whatsoever about any other Website which you may choose to access through this Website. Links provided by Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center to such Websites are provided solely for your convenience and should not be deemed to imply that Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center; Thomas S Gregory; and or Bonnie T Gregory endorses those Websites or any content therein.

Submitting information to Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center.

Please see our privacy policy for general information. Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center does not desire to obtain, receive, or collect confidential or proprietary information from you through this Website unless you have another written agreement or contract with Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center related to the sharing of such information. If decide to submit information through our non-client question form, the information will be protected as outlined in our Privacy Policy. If additional limitations are required, you must specify the conditions before requesting information or comments.

Collection and Use of Personal Data

Personally Identifying Information. When you register for our Training Programs, Purchase Programs, Products, or other materials, use or Expert Help service, or otherwise request information from Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center, we will use our registration and online forms to collect personally identifying information such as your name, address, e-mail address, and credit card information. This information is considered "personal data.” In addition, if you send us an e-mail or communicate with us off-line, we may collect the personal data that you voluntarily provide us at that time. The information will be used and protected as outlined in our Privacy Policy

Links, Frames, and Meta tags

You not may link to the home page of the Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center site unless written permission is granted.

No User or Person shall be allowed to frame the content of Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center sites. You may not use Meta tags or any other "hidden text" that incorporates our name, copyrights or service marks without our express written consent.

Links to Other Web Sites

The Gregory Enterprises; The Home Inspection Training Center sites may contain links to other web sites. This User Agreement and Privacy Policy do not apply to these other Web sites. Be sure to read the user agreements, security and privacy policies that govern your use of these other Web sites at their personal privacy or legal notices.

Your Specific California Privacy Rights

A business subject to California Civil Code section 1798.83 is required to disclose to its California customers, upon request, the identity of any third parties to whom the business has disclosed personal information within the previous calendar year, along with the type of personal information disclosed, for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.

If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to:
Gregory Enterprises
The Home Inspection Training Center
2579 Eric Lane, Unit BC
Burlington NC 27215
Fax: 336-228-1256
E-mail: gregoryengineers@cs.com
Please note that under California law, businesses are only required to respond to a customer request once during any calendar year.