Who we are:

Our website address is https://seeponline.com and it belongs to the “Society of Elevators & Escalators Professionals (SEEP)” which is the world’s first exclusive virtual community for Vertical Transportation Professionals. We offer FREE resources and services to our members, including mentoring, career services, resources, and knowledge sharing.

Preamble:

Your privacy is critically important to us. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us in any form while operating our website. Our Privacy Policy applies to the entire site, pages, posts, and discussion forum. This policy explains, how we handle the data, and personal information collected on this website. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through this website and does not apply to our collection of data or information from other sources. This Privacy Policy, together with the community guidelines posted on our website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website.

Depending on your activities when visiting our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions (as and where needed).

Who we share your data with:

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be automatically included in the reset email. We take extreme caution in all our communications with site visitors, guests, and clients and fully respect your privacy & confidentiality, and take full responsibility for protecting your personal information/data (in the form of Membership Registration, Volunteering, Jobs Portal, Website Contact page, Reviews or Comments section). Our team members never disclose or exchange customers’ personal information or data with a third party under any circumstances.

Where we send your data:

Site visitors’ posts and comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Your personal data will be used to process your requests, and queries, support your experience throughout this website, and for other purposes described in this policy.

What rights do you have over your data:

SEEP members, who posted in the community forum, or have left comments, can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Members’ posts and comments:

When members leave comments in the community forum or articles, we collect the IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. Your data is not shared with any third party in any form. Such personal data is only used to support your experience throughout this website.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment or post.

Media:

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies:

To enrich and streamline your online experience, SEEP may use “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising, and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

SEEP uses cookies to identify and track visitors, their usage, and their website access preferences but such data is never disclosed.

SEEP members and visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the SEEP website, with the drawback that certain features of the SEEP website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to SEEP‘s use of cookies.

If you log in to our website you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment or post. These cookies will last for one year. You can erase such cookies anytime from your internet browser on both desktop and mobile devices.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites:

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long do we retain your data:

If you post in the community forum or leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Only approved member can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Website Visitors:

Like most website operators, SEEP collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available.

Such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The purpose of collecting non-personally identifying information is to make the user experience better.

SEEP also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users who leave comments, post in forums, or anyone sending messages through the contact page.

Under any circumstances, we don’t disclose such data to anyone except if there are some legal requirements initiated by the authorities.

Information Security:

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, therefore everyone is advised to be cautious while sharing any sensitive information on our website.

SEEP will not provide, rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone at any cost.

Advertisements:

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies.

These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer.

This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.

This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by SEEP and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites:

Our Service may contain links to external sites 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 and the terms and conditions 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, products, or services.

Use Google AdSense for monetization:

SEEP does not intend to generate personal profit by using Google AdSense monetization. The only purpose is to meet the financial requirements of our website’s operating cost.

Google may use cookies to serve ads based on users’ usage and behavior and any such data collection is following SEEP Privacy Policy as well as Google’s Privacy Policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page,

You may opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin. Other than to SEEP executives, we may disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests.

If you are a registered member of https://seeponline.com and have supplied your email address,  we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date about SEEP’s policies, guidelines, and new initiatives, especially FREE events, seminars, and training.

If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

SEEP takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics:

SEEP may collect statistics about the website traffic and behavior of visitors to its website for improvement and learning purposes, but such data/information is not published publicly or provided to anyone.

Affiliate Disclosure:

This site does not use affiliate links and does not earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Privacy Policy Changes:

Although most changes are likely to be minor, SEEP may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SEEP’s sole discretion without compromising the privacy and confidentiality norms and standards. Such changes will be announced through our announcement section as and when needed.

SEEP encourages members and visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact us:

Your satisfaction, privacy & comfort is our top priority.

Thanks for your visit. If you have any further concerns about privacy and confidentiality matters, please do not hesitate to contact us through our contact page.

Best regard,

SEEP Management