Legal Policies

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When visiting our website, your Web browser may produce pop-up advertisements. These advertisements were most likely produced by other websites you visited or by third party software installed on your computer. RITM BRMO does not endorse or recommend products of services for which you may view a pop-up advertisement on your computer screen while visiting our site.

Exit Notification/Disclaimer Policy

• Links with this icon () indicate that you are leaving a  RITM BRMO website.
• The link may lead to a non-government site, but it provides additional information that is consistent with the intended purpose of a government site.
• The BRMO , RITM and HSP cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal site.
• Linking to a non-federal site does not constitute an endorsement by BRMO, RITM or  HSP  or any of its employees of the sponsors or the information and products presented on the site.
• You will be subject to the destination site’s privacy policy when you follow the link.

Image Disclaimer

Many of the images used on this website are solely owned and proprietary property of RITM BRMO. There maybe other images and other models or platform of  data representation obtained by the lecturers whose rights are preserved and protected by individual lecturers, institutions which they are affiliated or group of verified platforms and accredited sites. These images are intended in the interest of education and not for commercial value and must not be distributed, copied, printed, improved, altered or used beyond the scope of the intention of the intent they are used   without the proper permission from the author or recognizing the reference sited by the author or recognizing  RITM BRMO, as a reference.

Please credit RITM BRMO and the individual photographer if his/her name is given. If used in electronic media, please link back to the RITM BRMO site.

These images are all intended to the scope where they are used and must not be used other than the  purpose/s where they have been conceived. Other intents and scope of applications by the original authors and references on these images not   aligned in the interest of BRMO, RITM and HSP are sole discretion of the authors and the references and are not affiliated in scope  of interests to BRMO, RITM and HSP. 

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed in public comments are those of the authors and do not represent the official positions of the BRMO DOH  or the Philippine  Department of Health.

Policies

NonDiscrimination Notice

The RITM BRMO complies with applicable government civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. RITM BRMO does not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

Guidelines for Public Comments

The RITM BRMO may have sites, social media profiles, blogs, and applications allow for the posting of public comments. Posted comments must directly relate to the information and/or topics of discussion on those sites, blogs, and applications.

We encourage and welcome your comments. However, we request that this be done in a respectful manner, and we retain the discretion to determine which comments violate our comment policy. We also reserve the right to hide, remove, and/or not allow comments to be posted.

We do not discriminate against any views, but we reserve the right to hide or delete comments that contain:

• Misleading or false information, including links to sites containing misleading or false information
• Personally identifiable information, such as personal information , home or business addresses, e-mail addresses, or phone numbers;
• Threats of harm or violence
• Profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity, including images of or links to such material
• Nudity in profile pictures or images shared in comments;
• Defamation to a person or people;
• Name calling and/or personal attacks;
• Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product or promote commercial websites or services;
• Comments that infringe on copyrights;
• Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile.

Repeated violations of the RITM BRMO comment policy may cause the author, user or to be blocked.

Comments will be addressed as soon as possible. We trust the community to ignore personal attacks and negative speech or respond politely.

This comment policy is valid for all discussions on any RITM BRMO managed forum.

RITM BRMO Virtual Programs Code of Conduct

RITM BRMO is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all training participants and BRMO Biorisk Management Academy Team. All participants, including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, BRMO committee members, Biorisk Management Academy Team, service providers, and all others are expected to abide by this Virtual Programs Code of Conduct. This Policy applies to all RITM BRMO meeting-related events, use of virtual programs including those sponsored by organizations other than RITM BRMO but held in conjunction with RITM BRMO events, on public or private platforms.

RITM BRMO has zero-tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment, including but not limited to sexual harassment by participants or our staff at our meetings. If you experience harassment or hear of any incidents of unacceptable behavior, RITM BRMO asks that you inform Plebeian B. Medina, Project Leader at plebiemed@yahoo.com. so that we can take the appropriate action.

Unacceptable Behavior is defined as:

• Harassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form.
• Disrespectful behavior including written/verbal abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, BRMO staff member, service provider, or other meeting guest.
• Cheating and leakages.
• Unauthorized distribution and propagation (recording) of training content, materials and examinations.

• Examples of verbal abuse include, but are not limited to, verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces or in presentations, or threatening or stalking any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, BRMO DOH staff member, service provider, or other meeting guest.

• Disruption of presentations during sessions,  or at other events organized by RITM BRMO throughout the virtual meeting. All participants must comply with the instructions of the moderator and any RITM BRMO virtual event staff or instructional information in virtual training programs.
• Presentations, postings, and messages should not contain promotional materials, special offers, job offers, product announcements, or solicitation for services. RITM BRMO reserves the right to remove such messages and potentially ban sources of those solicitations.
• Participants should not copy or take screen shots of Q&A or any chat room activity that takes place in the virtual space.

RITM BRMO reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund, in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and RITM BRMO reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting, virtually or in person.

Complaints or Concerns

If an attendee or member of RITM BRMO Biorisk Management Academy Team has a report or concern with RITM BRMO including but not limited to, the conduct of Biorisk Management Academy Team Members, Contributor, Sponsors, BRMO Staff, or attendees , they  may contact RITM BRMO through phone at 88072628 local 299 or email at brmo@ritm.gov.ph 

Privacy Policy

RITM BRMO (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://www.brmoacademy.com and related websites or services (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://www.brmoacadmey.com/legal-policies

Definitions

Service

Service is the https://www.brmoacademy.com

Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from that data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller

Data Controller means the natural or legal person (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) who determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

Data Processors (or Service Providers)

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject (or User)

Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected
Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

* Email address

* First name and last name

* Phone number

* Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

* Birthdate

* Profession

* Professional License Number

* Educational Information

* Work experience

* Level of job responsibilities

* Work Addresses

* other related information required in the practice and compliance to virtual training program requirements

* Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the manage profile link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and to hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

* Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

* Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

* Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

* Advertising Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

Use of Data

RITM BRMO uses the collected data for various purposes including, but not limited to:

* To provide and maintain our Service

* To notify you about changes to our Service

* To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

* To provide customer support

* To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service

* To monitor the usage of our Service

* To detect, prevent and address technical issues

* To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

* To provide a track record for your virtual trainings  for continuing professional education  credits for individual license  renewal to a professional group or government regulatory body

RITM BRMO may process your Personal Data because:

* We need to perform a contract with you

* You have given us permission to do so

* The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights

* For payment processing purposes

* To comply with the law

Retention of Data

RITM BRMO will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

RITM BRMO will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your  province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

RITM BRMO will take all reasonably necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, RITM BRMO may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

RITM BRMO may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

* To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please send a written request to our data protection officer.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within the manage profile section of the RITM BRMO website. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time when RITM BRMO relies on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processor we work with is PayPal. Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

* By email: brmo@ritm.gov.ph

* By visiting this page on our website: https://www.brmoacademy.com

* By phone number: 88072628 loc 299

* By mail: brmo@ritm.gov.ph