For purposes herein, PHD, Inc and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies are collectively referred to as "PHD." This web site and its subsidiaries web sites are owned and operated by PHD, Inc ("PHD"). PHD may collect personal and non-personal information on any of their Sites. We have created this Privacy Statement in order to describe and explain to users our practices concerning information collected from users of these Sites. If you have any questions or concerns in connection with PHD's information collection practice summarized in this Privacy Statement, please send an email, with the subject heading "Privacy Statement Question" to cs.requests@phdinc.com. In the email, please state your questions or concerns.

PHD is committed to providing services to our customers and visitors to our site in compliance with applicable laws and regulations in general and data privacy laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Privacy Act (CCPA) in particular.

We seek to partner with our customers and users to help them understand how we achieve data privacy compliance while still enabling our Clients and users to benefit from the use of our services available on this web site.

Our Site is currently designed to inform interested users about PHD's products and services and to collect certain contact information from such users (including but not limited to name, email, street address and phone number). The submission of personal information is voluntary but required to use certain portions of the Sites effectively. We may use the personal information that users provide us for various purposes including:

  • provide user accounts to allow users to navigate the sites without having to re-enter preferences or passwords
  • to contact a user about the products or services available on this Site as well as other products or services that we think may be of interest. This includes sharing information with our third party partners or our affiliated companies;
  • by use of surveys to obtain feedback on our products, our web site, or on other aspects of our business that impact a user as a PHD customer;
  • to send promotional materials;
  • to provide our free email newsletter

 

We do not sell or disclose personal information about our website visitors but we reserve the right to disclose or otherwise share information that users provide us on this Site with third party partners or our affiliated companies for promotional or other purposes. Also, we may use a third party service provider to collect, process, store, or otherwise handle information on our behalf.

During your visit to our Web site even if you do nothing but browse, read pages, or download information, we do gather and store certain information about your visit to help in our sales and marketing efforts. Some of the information automatically collected and stored includes the following:

  • The Internet Protocol (IP) Address and domain name used. This address is a numerical identifier assigned either to your Internet service provider or directly to your computer.
  • The Internet Protocol Address is necessary in order to direct Internet traffic to you. This address may be translated to determine the domain name of your service provider (e.g. companyxyz.com or yourschool.edu)
  • The type of browser and operating system you are using
  • The date and time you visited this site
  • The web pages or services you accessed at this site
  • Referring web page.

 

The information we automatically collect or store is logged and used by PHD to improve the content of our web services and to help us understand how people are using our services. PHD analyzes this information to determine how our Web site is being used, so that we may continually improve the site's usefulness to the public.

Cookies are very small text files stored on your computer by your web browser. Some areas of our web site places a cookie on your computer to recognize your preferences and in some cases reduce the number of times you need to enter your personal information or your password. This website also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (Google Privacy Policies) and other third party services which use javascript and cookies to help us analyze how visitors use the site.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. If cookies are refused, you will still be able to use our website, and anonymous data will still be collected in our internal transaction logs. But certain features and functions of the web sites may not be available to you. By accepting cookies, you consent to the processing of data in the manner and for the purposes set out in this privacy notice.

As a convenience to visitors, our Web site may contain links to other public or private entities' Web sites. PHD is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. It is recommended that users read the individual privacy policy statements of each Web site they visit.

If we later change our Privacy Statement, we will post a new privacy statement on this Site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.