Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://cnei.edu and CALIFORNIA NURSES EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to CALIFORNIA NURSES EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE include https://cnei.edu and CNEI. The CNEI website is a Higher Education site. By using the CNEI website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, CNEI may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

First and Last Name
Mailing Address
E-mail Address
Phone Number
Student ID
If you purchase CNEI’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
CNEI may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

Age
Gender
Race
Religion
Household Income
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through CNEI’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of Personal Information

CNEI collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

CNEI may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from CNEI and its affiliates.

Use of “Do Not Track”

Please exit the website if you choose to use “Do Not Track.” cnei.edu and contact the school via phone at 760-416-5955. cnei.edu reserves the right to track users on the website. To have any information destroyed in regards to cnei.edu please contact the school at 760-416-5955.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

CNEI does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. CNEI 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 transferred to the third party. CNEI may share data with trusted partners to help 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 to CNEI, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

CNEI may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 CNEI or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CNEI; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CNEI,
or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

CNEI may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within CNEI, in order to determine what CNEI services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within CNEI to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by CNEI. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the CNEI website.

Use of Cookies

The CNEI website may use “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 CNEI pages, or register with CNEI site or services, a cookie helps CNEI 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 CNEI website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the CNEI features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the CNEI services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

CNEI secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. CNEI uses the following methods for this purpose:
• SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Children Under Thirteen

CNEI does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Disconnecting your CNEI Account from Third Party Websites

You will be able to connect your CNEI account to third party accounts. BY connecting your CNEI account to your third party account, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you tc others (in accordance with your privacy setting on those third party sites). if you do not want information about you, including PERSONALLY identifying information, to be shared in this manner, do not use this feature. You may disconnect your account from a third party account at any time. Log into the 3rd party page

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe from Third Party Communications

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of CNEI by contacting us here:
– Email: info@cnei.edu
– Phone: 760-416-5955

E-mail Communications

From time to time, CNEI may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from CNEI or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from CNEI, you may opt-out of such communications by info@cnei.edu.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

CNEI reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.