Ortman Consulting is committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Ortman Consulting  Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Ortman Consulting website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Ortman Consulting collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, company, address or telephone number.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Ortman Consulting. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Ortman Consulting for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Ortman Consulting   Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Ortman Consulting message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Ortman Consulting does not read any of your private online communications.

Ortman Consulting   encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from our site so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Ortman Consulting is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Ortman Consulting Web site.

Use of your Personal Information

Ortman Consulting collects and uses your personal information to operate the Ortman Consulting web site and deliver the services you have requested.  Ortman Consulting also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Ortman Consulting. Ortman Consulting may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Ortman Consulting does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Ortman Consulting may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Ortman Consulting   may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Ortman Consulting, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Ortman Consulting does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations.

Ortman Consulting keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Ortman Consulting, in order to determine what Ortman Consulting services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within Ortman Consulting to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Ortman Consulting web site will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Ortman Consulting or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Ortman Consulting; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Ortman Consulting  , or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Ortman Consulting web site uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Ortman Consulting  pages, or register with Ortman Consulting site or services, a cookie helps Ortman Consulting to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Ortman Consulting  web site, the information you provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Ortman Consulting features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Ortman Consulting services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Ortman Consulting secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Ortman Consulting  secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Ortman Consulting will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Ortman Consulting encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Ortman Consulting is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Ortman Consulting  welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Ortman Consulting has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at info[at]ortmanconsulting.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.