PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy governs the manner in which The Court Reporting Academy (TCRA) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users of the TCRA website. This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by TCRA .

Our goal is to provide you with a safe and secure experience. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by TCRA. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Information Provided by this Website

The information on this Website has been provided by TCRA for informational purposes. TCRA endeavors to supply accurate materials on this website, however TCRA does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of such materials. TCRA shall not be liable to you, or any third parties, for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages, losses, costs, liabilities or expenses allegedly arising out of or in relation to you access (or inability to access), use of or reliance on any information contained on this website.

What information do we collect and how do we collect it?

We will only collect information where we need to do so to provide our service to you. If we ask you for anything that is not necessary but may be helpful, we will indicate that it is optional that this is provided to us. You are not required to provide us with your personal information. However, if you don’t, or we can’t otherwise collect your personal information, it may affect our ability to engage with you.

  • Personal Data: While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: your email address, first name and last name, phone number, address, state, province, ZIP/postal code, city & usage data.
  • Cookies: A cookie is a small text file that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through the Web browser. Cookies enable the sites or service providers to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to identify the data about our site traffic and interaction so that we can personalize the content that you see on our Website and offer better site experiences. We may make agreements with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors.
  • Automatic Information and Log Data: We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website Through cookies and other automated means, Web servers may log information such as IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your device type, operating system type, mobile device identifier, browser type, domain, and other system settings, the name of your ISP or mobile carrier. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.
  • Course Registration: When you sign up for any TCRA’s courses or services, we ask you for information relevant to the service being requested, which may include your credit card or other payment information. If you choose to make a payment online, you will be redirected to a third-party host who will process the transaction. TCRA neither receives nor retains any of your credit card or other payment information.

How do we use your information?

We use the Personally Identifiable information you provide to us along with Automatically Collected Information we receive to customize our Website. We use the information we collect about you to establish your account and provide the Services; provide customized content to you; communicate with you through email and phone, send you emails to inform you about our features and services; promotional messages and web analytics data, provide feedback to third party businesses; and take action regarding unlawful or harmful activities, contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you or provide our products and services you have requested or purchased from us.

Additionally, we may use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with us through the Service
  • To attend and manage your requests to us
  • We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. TCRA will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Security

The security of your information is very important to us, but please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. As a result, whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you send to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Updates to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on our Website, by a blog post, by email, or by any method we determine and will be identified at the top of the Privacy Policy page of the site by its Effective Date.