Automotive Management Institute

Automotive Management Institute ("AMI") has created this privacy statement to demonstrate its commitment to full disclosure of the information collection and use practices applicable to this website. This privacy statement discloses what information we collect via this website and how we use it.

Information Collection and Dissemination
General Principles

• In general, you may visit this website without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.
• As you browse our website, the site collects the IP address of your computer and clickstream data (information that site users generate as they move from page to page and click on items) and this data is aggregated with usage data from all site visitors.
• Some portions of this website may require you to give us personally identifiable information, such as your name, job title, company, physical mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers (Personal Information) and, if applicable, financial information such as your credit card information (Financial Information), for, without limitation, (i) to register for attendance at certain AMI conferences and events; (ii) to obtain access to certain online content and functionality; and (iii) to purchase educational materials. If you communicate with us by e-mail, post messages to any of our chat groups, bulletin boards or forums, or otherwise complete online forms, surveys or contest entries, any information provided in such communications may be collected as Personal Information.
• If you elect to provide us Personal Information, we use it primarily to deliver the service you requested.
• If you submit Financial Information, we use that information primarily to verify your credit and collect payments for your purchases, orders, registrations etc.

Information Sharing
We share your Personal Information with AMI's affiliates and partners and third parties licensed to access your Personal Information by any of the foregoing. We do not rent lists compiled from the Personal Information (including e-mail addresses) gathered from this website.

Except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy, we will keep your Personal Information and your Financial Information private and will not share it with third parties. However, we reserve the right to release information about visitors, including Personal Information and Financial Information, when release is appropriate to comply with the law, to enforce our Terms of Service, or to protect the rights, property or safety of this website, the public or AMI.

Aggregated information
We sometimes provide aggregated usage or tracking information collected from this website to third parties.

Information on Children
As a business-to-business company, we do not knowingly collect information from children. Online registration and web site usage is restricted to adults who are professionally engaged in the businesses we serve.

Third-Party and Affiliated Links: Our websites contain links to external websites including suppliers, advertisers and affiliates. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the content of, or information gathered by, these other websites. We do not endorse any of these websites or the products or services associated with such websites merely because they are linked to our website.

Cookies
A "cookie" is a string of data sent by a website to a user that is inserted in a file of the web browser of the user visiting the site. AMI uses temporary, session-specific cookies to ensure visits to its website are smooth and customized for the visitor. Such cookies allow us to provide a visitor's browser with information tailored to the visitor's preferences and needs. AMI also uses permanent or persistent cookies that remain on a visitor's computer after the visitor leaves an AMI website.

If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in the browser's settings. However, disabling the cookie support function of the browser may prevent our website from functioning properly in your web browser and you may not be able to use fully all of the site's features and information.

We use advertising companies to develop banner ads for our website. These ads may contain cookies. These companies collect cookies sent to your browser through the banner ads and we do not have control of, or access to, this data.

Opt-out Option
Visitors to this website can decide whether they want to receive targeted promotional information from AMI. On the visitor registration pages, prospective visitors can choose to request AMI not to e-mail them advertising and promotional information. Should visitors accept promotional email from AMI, any email they receive will include instructions on how to be removed from AMI's promotional email list.

Your California Privacy Rights
California's "Shine the Light" law, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83, permits our users who are residents of California to request and obtain from us, once per year, free of charge, information about the Personal Information and Financial Information, if any, that we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information includes a listing of the categories of personal information that was shared, and the names and addresses of the third parties with whom we shared the information.

If you are a California resident, and would like to make such a request, please submit your request, in writing, to:

Toni Slaton, executive director
Automotive Management Institute
8190 Precinct Line Road, Suite 100
Colleyville, TX 76034-7675

Security and Encryption
This website takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect your information. We use SSL encryption technology on the portions of our website that accept Financial Information and we use a secure server to encrypt Financial Information transmitted between your browser and our server. As a result, data you submit to our website, such as credit card and payment information, is transmitted securely over the Internet.

Exceptions
Whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties online - for example in chat rooms or on message boards - AMI has no ability or obligation to prevent third-party access to such information and AMI undertakes no responsibility to keep such information private.

Notification of Changes
AMI reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this privacy policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on the website. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the website.

Your Acceptance of these Terms
By using our website, products or services, you signify your acceptance of the terms of the AMI Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of the AMI Privacy Policy, please do not use the website, products and/or services and exit the site immediately.