Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to Continuing Education Inc; therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws on data privacy protection and data security. We hope the policy outlined below will help you understand what data Continuing Education Inc may collect, how Continuing Education Inc uses and safeguards that data and with whom we may share it.

Personal data
Through our Web sites, Continuing Education Inc will not collect any personal data about you (e.g. your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), unless you voluntarily choose to provide us with it (e.g. by registration), respectively, provide your consent, or unless otherwise permitted by applicable laws and regulations for the protection of your personal data.

Purpose of Use
When you do provide us with personal data, we usually use it to respond to your inquiry, process your order or provide you access to specific information or offers.

Purpose Limitation
Continuing Education Inc will collect, use or disclose personal data supplied by you online only for the purposes disclosed to you, unless the disclosure:

   > is a use of the personal data for any additional purpose that is directly related to the original
      purpose for which the personal data was collected,
   > is necessary to prepare, negotiate and perform a contract with you,
   > is required by law or the competent governmental or judicial authorities,
   > is necessary to establish or preserve a legal claim or defense,
   > is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as willful attacks on Siemens
      information technology systems.

Communications or Utilization Data
Through your use of telecommunications services to access our Web site, your communications data (e.g. Internet protocol address) or utilization data (e.g. information on the beginning, end and extent of each access, and information on the telecommunications services you accessed) are technically generated and could conceivably relate to personal data. To the extent that there is a compelling necessity, the collection, processing and use of your communications or utilization data will occur and will be performed in accordance with the applicable data privacy protection legal framework.

Non-Personal Data Collected Automatically
When you access our Web sites, we may automatically (i.e., not by registration) collect non-personal data (e.g. type of Internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the Web site from which you came, number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed). We may use this data in order to monitor the attractiveness of our Web sites and improve their performance or content.

Children
Continuing Education Inc will not knowingly collect personal data from children without insisting that they seek prior parental consent if required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal data about a child to the extent permitted by law, to seek parental consent pursuant to local law and regulations or to protect a child. The definition of "child" or "children" should take into account applicable laws as well as national and regional cultural customs.

Security
To protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access, Continuing Education Inc uses technical and organizational security measures.

Links to Other Web Sites
The Continuing Education Inc Web site contains links to other Web sites. Continuing Education Inc is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites.

Questions and Comments
Continuing Education Inc will respond to reasonable requests to review your personal data and to correct, amend or delete any inaccuracies. If you have any questions or comments about the Continuing Education Inc Data Privacy Protection Policy (e.g. to review and update your personal data), please click on "Contact" on the main page of this site, and send your questions using the Email form. As the Internet matures, so will our Data Privacy Protection Policy. We will post changes to our Data Privacy Protection Policy on this page. Please check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.