The Magellan Group is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to The Magellan Group website and governs data collection and usage. By using The Magellan Group website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

The Magellan Group collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Magellan Group may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that maybe automatically collected by The Magellan Group. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information may be used by The Magellan Group for the operation of and to provide general statistics regarding use of The Magellan Group website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through The Magellan Group public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The Magellan Group does not read any of your private online communications.

The Magellan Group encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from The Magellan Group so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Magellan Group is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of The Magellan Group and/or The Magellan Group family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

The Magellan Group may collect and use your personal information to operate The Magellan Group website and deliver the services you have requested. The Magellan Group may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Magellan Group and its affiliates. The Magellan Group may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

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

The Magellan Group does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The Magellan Group website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 The Magellan Group or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Magellan Group; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Magellan Group, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Magellan Group Web site 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 The Magellan Group pages, or register with The Magellan Group site or services, a cookie helps The Magellan Group 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 Magellan Group website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use The Magellan Group 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 Magellan Group services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

The Magellan Group secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Magellan Group secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. 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 Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

To the Members of The Magellan Group:

Private membership clubs, like other social organizations, may choose to publish membership directories for the convenience of their members, for use in personal and individual member-to-member communication. Some of the information contained within this site is shared only with other members of The Magellan Group, through private password access. The information that members choose to share with each other in this membership directory may be of a confidential nature, and is shared with other members in the spirit of encouraging social interaction and personal communication. Members are asked to respect the confidentiality of fellow members when using this private directory, by not disclosing their user name or password to others. Members who have access to this private directory should not use the addresses, phone numbers or email addresses of fellow club members for communications or solicitations of a commercial or political nature.

Changes to this Statement

The Magellan Group will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Magellan Group encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Magellan Group is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The Magellan Group welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy, which is effective December 1, 2007. If you believe that The Magellan Group has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Magellan Group at info@magellanleadershipgroup.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.