Privacy Policy

Protecting privacy is always a MTI priority.  To underscore our fundamental commitment to privacy and our belief that good privacy is good business, we have adopted an online privacy policy which applies to each of our websites: www.mtinspections.com ("MTI website"), www.mygisa.com ("myGISA"), and https://portal.mygisa.com/portal ("myGISA Portal").

This policy reflects and implements, in an online setting, our corporate privacy principles and Fair Information Practice Principles of notice, choice, access, security, and accountability. These sites are not directed at children. 

These websites are operated by Midwest Technical Inspections, Inc. • P.O. Box 127 • Bloomingdale, Illinois 60108 • United States of America • 800.451.5621 • If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy and security policies, please .

Personally Identifiable Information

The following statement will help you understand how MTI collects, uses, and safeguards the personally identifying information you give us when you use this website to order products / services, inquire about job openings, or otherwise communicate with us. We define "personally identifiable information" as information — such as name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address — that can help to locate or identify individuals. "Personally identifiable information" also includes credit card information. Protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information is important to us.

Information We Collect

When you browse this website, you browse anonymously, unless you purchase a product, or send us employment information or e-mail. This site may collect non-personally identifiable information. For example, as you browse this website we may collect information about your visit, but not about you personally. Via web server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, etc. We do not share aggregated data about our visitors with any third party. We do not collect or store any personal information — such as your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address — unless you knowingly and willingly provide it. When you place an on-line order for products, we collect only information — such as name, company affiliation, mailing address, title, primary job function, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and credit card issuer, account number, and expiration date — necessary to fulfill the transaction you requested. We may use the personal information you provide for product purchases and to respond to your inquiries and suggestions. We may use and share all of this information, subject to applicable law, with our subsidiaries and affiliates. We may display employment opportunities on this site. If you choose to submit your resume or other information through our website, we use that information only in considering your application for employment. We will share the information only with employees involved in making hiring decisions. We may also submit the information to our subsidiaries and affiliates for their use in considering your application for employment. MTI keeps employment application information strictly confidential, and does not sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose any personally identifiable employment application information that you directly provide, except as required by law. We do not permit other persons, companies or entities to collect personal information through our website.

Information You Provide

Should anyone visiting the MTI website respond to MTI by sending information, including data, questions, comments, or suggestions, such response shall be non-confidential, and MTI shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute said information to others without limitation. Further, MTI shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing products incorporating such information.

Information Use and Consumer Choice

Any personal information you submit to us is done so willingly as described above. The information collected by this website is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), and for the administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our websites. We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to complete a transaction that you requested. If you decide that you do not want to receive further emails regarding your inquiry from MTI, or if you wish to know the nature of the information we have on file for you, you may contact us. Please be aware that we may be unable to delete your historical information and the information of former customers from our records.

Access and Correction

As an information company, we know the importance of accurate data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information collected through this website. Furthermore, we believe that the individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and accurate. Upon request, we will give you access to your personal information that you submit through this website for as long as we maintain that information in a readily accessible format. We permit you to review the personal information you submit to us, and to correct inaccurate information. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our website. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy and security policies, please contact us.

Cookies

The MTI website, uses cookies under the Automated Ordering page. This is outlined in a help file at this page. Cookies may be “turned-off” at the user’s discretion. Cookies remain for 7 days. Our other sites use Cookies to aid with site entry (user name, not password) and Cookies within the application, during a session, to make the website function. No personal data is collected from the device used.

Security

The security of customer information is very important to us, and we take a number of steps to safeguard it. After receiving your personally identifying information, we maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect it from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, loss, or destruction. We limit access to those employees who assist us in providing the services you order. We also require that third parties to which we disclose personally identifying information adhere to this policy and establish information security procedures. When you purchase a product / service, you may elect to transmit your information to us through a secure Internet connection.

Retention

We reserve the right to retain personally identifiable information collected through this site for the length of our business relationship with you. In some cases, we will retain the information for a longer period if required to do so by law, regulation, or the Individual Reference Services Group Industry Principles.

Onward Transfer

We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested. Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.

Policy Changes

We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the website. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email, when possible. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our website notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Terms of Use

Please refer also to our Terms of Use for further information on your rights and remedies regarding this website.