When you access our Website, THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS PRACTITIONERS ALLIANCE will learn certain information about you during your visit. How we will handle information we learn about you depends upon what you do when visiting our site.

If you visit our site to read or download information on our pages, we collect and store only the following information about you:

1. The name of the domain from which you access the Internet
2. The date and time you access our site
3. The Internet address of the website you used to link directly to our site.

If you identify yourself by sending us an e-mail containing personal information, then the information collected will be solely used to respond to your message.

The information collected is for statistical purposes. THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS PRACTITIONERS ALLIANCE may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS PRACTITIONERS ALLIANCE uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS PRACTITIONERS ALLIANCE will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us, nor will such information be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

One of the cookies we use is essential for parts of the site to operate and has already been set (see ‘Essential site cookie’ below). A second cookie (see ‘Content Management System cookie’ below) is set on a small number of users’ machines, depending on the browser they use, when they arrive at our site. We do not use this cookie for any purpose and are working with the suppliers of our Content Management System to remove it or find another solution. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work.

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Content Management System cookie

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Simply checks to see if your web browser can support JavaScript, this cookie is removed from your computer when you close your web browser. this does not contain any personal information.

Content Management System cookie

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This cookie is called a session cookie and checks to see if you are logged into the site.  It does not contain any personal information.

Content Management System cookie

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These cookies are used to translate site interface.

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Click here for an overview of privacy at Google

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Search engine

The search engine on our website is designed to be as powerful and easy to use as the popular search engine Google. The search is made possible by a piece of hardware (a search ‘appliance’) supplied by Google that is plugged into our server and continuously indexes the content on our site. All search requests are handled by the appliance and the information is not passed on to any third party, including Google.