RtHE Consult Limited ("RtHE Consult" or "we") understands that your privacy is important to you. RtHE Consult is committed to protecting the privacy of your personally-identifiable information as you use this Site. The scope of RtHE Consult's commitment is described in this Privacy Policy. By submitting information, you agree to RtHE Consult's use of such information as described herein. Please see our Terms of Use for more information about our general on-line terms and policies.

What personally-identifiable information is collected?

RtHE Consult collects personally-identifiable information on certain areas of the Site when users register for different purposes, request publications or other information, sign up for conferences and events, apply for jobs, and participate in user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums, and surveys). The personally-identifiable information collected may consist of information that you provide, such as your name, physical address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. For recruiting purposes, the information collected may include any other personally-identifiable information that you include on your resume. In addition, RtHE Consult may collect certain information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address, browsing pattern on the Site, click stream data, HTTP protocol elements, and the status of cookies placed on your computer by RtHE Consult.

How may RtHE Consult use my personally-identifiable information?

RtHE Consult uses your personally-identifiable information to fulfill your requests for information, to process your requests to participate in conferences and events, to evaluate any job applications or other employment-related inquiries that you may submit, and for such other purposes as you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes. RtHE Consult also uses personally-identifiable information to perform standard statistical analyses of user behaviour in order to measure interest in specific areas and information posted on our Site. RtHE Consult uses personally-identifiable information collected from cookies and IP addresses as described below.

How are cookies used?

A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, thereby giving yourself a chance to decide whether to accept it, or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser. If you accept a cookie from the Site, you will be permitted access to certain pages of the Site without having to log in again each time you visit.

RtHE Consult uses cookies to identify you and your interests and to track your use of the Site. We also use cookies to control access to certain content on our Site and to process any subscription requests that you make with us.

To administer our Web site and for research purposes, RtHE Consult may also contract third parties to track and analyse anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, to manage our site content, and to track visitor behaviour.

RtHE Consult may also contract a third party to send e-mails to our registered members. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, the third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of RtHE Consult is used solely by or on behalf of RtHE Consult and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis.

Are IP addresses used?

RtHE Consult also logs IP addresses, or the location of computers on the Internet, to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Site, and to serve content based on your IP address.

Registration, newsletters, and alerts

By signing up for any of our newsletters or alerts, you agree to receive on occasion other correspondence from RtHE Consult or its agents. This type of information is shared externally only in anonymous, aggregated form for generalised user analysis or to enable third party agents to send e-mails to you on our behalf. You will be contacted by e-mail or otherwise only by RtHE Consult or it agents.

We ask for your e-mail address at registration. We will send e-mails to this address to confirm your registration, if you opt in to any of our newsletters or alerts, and if you request that we contact you for any other reason. In addition, we may contact you regarding your account status. If you sign up to receive any of our newsletters, alerts, or surveys, you may on occasion receive other correspondence from RtHE Consult. Your e-mail address will not be shared with any third party other than an agent who has agreed to send e-mails on our behalf.

The Site may also include a feature that enables RtHE Consult to send links to its content through e-mail at our users' request. The e-mail address(es) that you supply in connection with this service will be used only to send the requested content. They will not be stored or reused for any purpose.

Is personally-identifiable information disclosed to third parties?

RtHE Consult shall not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates of RtHE Consult) without your consent, whether for such third parties' marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. RtHE Consult may provide access to your personally-identifiable information to third party vendors engaged by RtHE Consult to provide services related to the Site; provided that such vendors will first agree to maintain the strict confidentiality of such information. RtHE Consult may also be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities without express user consent as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the Terms of Use of or any other terms on this Site, including but not limited to a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through this Site, RtHE Consult may disclose personal user information to affected parties and legal authorities.

Links to third-party sites

RtHE Consult may provide links to third-party Web sites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by RtHE Consult of the third party, the third party web site, or the information contained therein, and RtHE Consult shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

Surveys

If you participate in a survey, all of our research results are reported as totals or in other aggregated form, and no information about you as an individual respondent is made public.

User forums

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you may disclose that may appear on this Site. You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. RtHE Consult is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the Site.

How can I access, change, and/or delete information?

You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the Site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the Site on which you have provided such information or subscribed or registered or contact us at RtHE Consult Limited, Business Support Department, 10 Birch Close, East Airport, Accra, 233, Ghana.

Security

RtHE Consult has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized RtHE Consult personnel and third party vendors are provided access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, RtHE Consult cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not obtain access to your personally-identifiable information.

Transborder hosting and transfer of information

Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to RtHE Consult offices or personnel, or to third parties, located in different countries, and the Site may be viewed and hosted by RtHE Consult or its vendors in different countries, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. By using the Site and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.

Children

RtHE Consult understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site is not designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and RtHE Consult will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under this age.

Consent; changes to privacy policy

By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on May, 2012.