Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critical. Our policy is simple.

We do not use, sell or share any of your private information that is stored at bercert.com. Safeguarding your personal information and privacy is of the utmost importance to us. We employ strict procedures for protecting our members data and other sensitive information we collect from members.

Sensitive data is kept in a secure location

We store all sensitive data such as member and client details, phone numbers, addresses etc. in a highly secure environment hosted by hostek.com (Privacy Policy), a secure hosting solution provider. The data security methods used are industry standard for those companies wishing to impose the strictest security standards. If you are not satisfied with the policies of Hostek.com, please do not use BerCert.com.

Information We Collect From You and About You

We collect personal and business related information from you while you use the site, and most of this collection occurs during registration. Some information is required and some is optional, some will remain private and some will be displayed to other users (B.E.R. Forum). We always let you know which is which. Additional information may be gathered during your subsequent use of the site, whenever you choose to provide it. Certain personal information must be supplied during the member registration processes, as indicated below, in order to (a) enable registered users to login to the site, (b) determine certain business logic rules (used for the member within normal use of the site), (c) verify members identity, and (e) guard against potential fraud. This basic personal information includes:

  • Your name (member registration)
  • Your email address (member registration)
  • Your address (member registration)
  • Your telephone number (member registration)

    Finally, we collect information about your computer and your visits to our web site, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit, and page views through the use of log files. We use this aggregated information in the administration of our web site to improve its usability and to evaluate the success of particular marketing/advertising campaigns, search engine optimization strategies and other marketing activities. We use non-identifying and aggregated information to help optimize our web site based on the needs of our users. No personal or personally identifiable information about any individual user is collected or will ever be distributed to third party organizations for any purpose, including marketing.

    Communications From Our Site

    When you register on our site you will receive emails that confirm specific actions you requested. You will receive notifications confirming your registration and the successful verification of email addresses. You will also receive progress updates on the status of your account if requested. These are notifications that you can opt in or out of receiving, such as daily reminders. We will also send you responses to any emails you send us. From time to time, we will also send user surveys and requests for user feedback regarding user experience and site operations. The completion of these surveys or requests for feedback is strictly voluntary. If you do not wish to receive these surveys or user feedback emails, you may opt out by writing to ino@bercert.com.

    How and When Your Information Is Shared With Other Parties

    Information is shared with other parties in the following ways:

    Never, unless required to do so by law or for the purposes of limiting fraud. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

    If you use our B.E.R. Forum on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of this forum, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in this forum. The only personal information we display on the forum is a 'nickname' which you choose to identify yourself in the B.E.R. Forum during the registration process.

    Links to Other Sites

    We may offer links to partners' sites. We make the decision to provide links to these sites based on the quality of information provided at the time the links are enabled, and we make every effort to monitor the continuing quality of content provided on these sites. However, these external sites are not subject to this privacy policy. Further, BerCert.com has no control over the content of these sites. Please consult the privacy policies on these sites before you provide them with any of your personal information.

    Session time-outs

    We employ session time-outs to protect your account. You will be logged out of the site automatically after a specified period of inactivity. This time-out feature reduces the risk of others being able to access your account if you leave your computer unattended.

    We May Make Changes to This Policy

    As technologies, laws and user needs change, our site and its features will also change. This policy may be updated from time to time as such needs dictate, and we will always communicate these changes to you by posting them on this web site and/or by notifying you via email in the event of any substantive or material changes.

    For further information please contact info@bercert.com.