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Privacy Policy

Last modified: March 22, 2016

Introduction

CTD Network LLC d/b/a CPATrend (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.cpatrend.com (together with any mirror or redirected websites, our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On our Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates); or
any third party (including our affiliates), including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on our Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Minors

Our Website is not intended for children under eighteen (18) years of age. No one under age eighteen (18) may provide any information to or on our Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under eighteen (18) years of age. If you are under eighteen (18), do not use or provide any information on our Website or on or through any of its features, or register on our Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under eighteen (18) without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under eighteen (18) years of age, please contact us at either: legal@CPATrend.com or 118-35 Queens Blvd., Suite 1610, Forest Hills, NY 11375.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

by which you may be personally identified, such as name, company name, physical address, billing address, e-mail address, telephone and/or facsimile number, website address, referral source, time zone you are located in, tax classification, social security number or taxpayer identification number, billing or payment information and any other identifying information we deem necessary (“Personal Information”);
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through our Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (such as Google Analytics).

Information You Provide to Us.

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our services, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research and business development purposes.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “Posted”) on public areas of our Website (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are Posted at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data and other communication data that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals.

We also may use these technologies (like Google Analytics) to collect information about your online activities over time. Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that you can set in most web browsers. You can opt out of this tracking by turning off this feature for a given browser using your Do Not Track browser setting. We honor Do Not Track because we are committed to providing you with meaningful privacy choices. When you have DNT enabled, we may still use information about Website visits for analytics and measurement purposes, like counting the number of users that have visited a particular webpage on our Website.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Better improve our products and services.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

End User Information

We do not collect personal information about your end users. However, we do use cookies to track anonymous traffic data about your end users. When end users who visit member affiliate sites click on the advertisement(s) they have chosen to display, we may utilize cookies and/or web beacons to track such end users activities. In certain circumstances, we may use cookie-less tracking methods to track such end users.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Some aspects of our Website are served by third-parties, including servers and website hosting services. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account, including account termination notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
To track your compliance with the Terms and Conditions of the Website.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us at any time stating your request. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our affiliates as necessary to provide you the services of the Company.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use (http://www.cpatrend.com/terms.html) and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address used by the Company to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out by using the unsubscribe function in the delivered email or by contacting us at any time by stating your request. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out only applies to promotional offers from the Company, and would not preclude us from contacting you for other reasons, such as billing and service-related matters.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into our Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also contact us at any time to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use (http://www.cpatrend.com/terms.html).

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. Any payment transactions will be processed utilizing our financial institution’s secure platform, which includes the encryption of such payment transactions using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website.

Third Party Hosting

We may contract with a third party to maintain and host the Website. Therefore, any information you submit, including personal information, may be placed on and stored in a computer server maintained by such third party host. You agree that the Company is not liable for any breach of security due to the accounts or inactions of the third party host.

Third Party Links

The Website may contain links to third-party websites (“Third Party Websites”). Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of Third Party Websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Website and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personal information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by the Website.

Your Employees

Your acceptance of the terms of this policy, in their entirety, shall extend to your employees, contractors, agents and representatives, if any. You agree that any of your employees, contractors, agents or representatives that access your account, or visit the Website within the scope of their employment or other relationship with you agree to the terms of this policy.

International Transfer of Data

As part of your use of our Website, we may transfer information that we collect about you and your end users, including personal information, to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you or your end users are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring information and permitting the transfer of information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. You consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and the use and disclosure of information about you and your end users, including personal information, as described in this policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at either: legal@CPATrend.com or 118-35 Queens Blvd., Suite 1610, Forest Hills, NY 11375.