Privacy Policy
The Rational (“The Rational,”) values its users' privacy. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") will help you understand how we collect and use personal information from those who visit our website or make use of our online facilities and services, and what we will and will not do with the information we collect. Our Policy has been designed and created to ensure those affiliated with The Rational of our commitment and realization of our obligation not only to meet, but to exceed, most existing privacy standards.
General Statement on Privacy, Personal Data, and Communications
When you visit the Website or communicate with The Rational by signing up with your email, you are communicating electronically. You consent to receive communications from The Rational electronically. The Rational will communicate with you by email or by posting notifications on the Website. You understand and agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that The Rational provides electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
User Provided Information
The Rational does not collect any Personal Information (information that uniquely identifies you, such as your name, address, email address, and telephone number) except when such information is knowingly provided to The Rational by you. Personal information may be transmitted as part of a form submission or in connection with other activities or services made available on the Website.
Your Consent
Any personal identification information retrieved by The Rational must be voluntarily submitted by you. The Rational does not knowingly collect or maintain any Personal Information from children under the age of 13, and no part of this website is designed with the purpose of attracting such children.
Use of Your Personal Information
We use your Personal Information for the purposes for which it is submitted (such as to reply to your emails and inquiries, or to contact you with important information, required notices, and marketing promotions).You may opt-out of receiving electronic communications (other than those required by applicable law, rule or regulation) from The Rational at any time. In all of our electronic communications, you will be given the opportunity to opt out of receiving future communications. You may also opt-out by sending an email to hello@therationalonline.com providing the contact information we are using to communicate with you, such as your email address.
Disclosure of Information to Non-Affiliated Third Parties
The Rational will not sell or market Personal Information collected on this Website to non-affiliated third parties for their marketing purposes, unless we have your consent.
Links to Other Websites
From time to time, the Website may contain links to other websites that are not controlled and/or maintained by The Rational. Please be aware that these other websites may have different privacy policies which may subject you to different privacy practices. Access to and use of such other websites is at your own risk. By providing such links, The Rational shall not be deemed to endorse, recommend, approve, guarantee or introduce any third parties or their services or products, or any facts, views, advice, information, promotions and/or products found on such websites. The Rational is not responsible for the content contained on any such websites, or for the failure of any product or service offered for sale or advertised on any such websites or for any damages that may result therefrom. Copyrights in the materials or information on the linked websites are owned by other organizations. Moreover, such other websites may have privacy policies or terms of use that differ from those of the The Rational’s Website and/or may provide their users with less security than the The Rational website.
Terms & Conditions
Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms") carefully and ensure that you understand them. These Terms represent the entire understanding between The Rational and you regarding your use of this Website and supersede any prior statements or representations. The Website is designed to allow users to communicate with and learn more about The Rational.
Acceptance of Terms
By using this Website, you signify your acceptance of all terms, conditions, and responsibilities of this agreement in exchange for our agreement to provide you with the information, content, and other benefits of visiting the Website. Please kindly refrain from using the Website should you not agree to all or any of these terms.
Use of this Website
Access, distribution, and/or use of this Website is subject to all applicable laws and regulations. To the extent that access, distribution and/or use of this Website would be deemed illegal by applicable law, such access, distribution and/or use is prohibited. Each time you visit any area on the Website and/or register for any interactive functionality of the Website, you are deemed to have accepted these Terms and the Website’s Privacy Policy. The Rational may terminate your right to access and/or use this Website at any time.
Intellectual Property Rights
All Website content, design, text, graphics, and interfaces; the collection, selection, and arrangement thereof; and all works (collectively referred to as the “Material”), is protected under various intellectual property laws and owned or controlled by The Rational, or used with permission of the owner(s) of such Material. The display of Materials at this Website does not imply that a license of any kind has been granted to you.You have the right to view, electronically copy, and print in hard copy portions of the Website for the sole purpose of personal use. Any other use of materials on the Website, including modification, distribution, or reproduction, in whole or part, without the prior written permission of The Rational, is strictly prohibited. Any unauthorized access to, use or copying of this Website and/or the Materials may subject you to liability under applicable law, and may result in legal action.
Linking to the Website
You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part without our express written consent.
Not Authorized to Perform Data Mining
You are not authorized without the prior written permission of The Rational to use any computer code, data mining software, "robot," "bot," "spider," "scraper" or other automatic device, or program, algorithm or methodology having similar processes or functionality, or any manual process, to monitor or copy any of the web pages, data or content found on this Website or accessed through this Website. You also may not engage in the mass downloading of files from this Website; use the computer processing power of this Website for purposes other than those permitted above; flood this site with electronic traffic designed to slow or stop its operation; or establish links to or from other websites to this Website.
Not Authorized to Use This Website for Commercial Purposes
Users are not authorized to sell, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, publicly perform, report or otherwise prepare derivative or second hand works based on any of The Rational’s material in any way for any public or commercial purpose without express approval by The Rational. Thus, you are not authorized to (i) resell or make commercial use of this site or its contents; (ii) create, reproduce and/or distribute any materials derived from the content provided on this Website. In the event of breach of any of these Terms, your permission to use The Rational material will automatically terminate and any copies made of The Rational’s material must be immediately destroyed.Any unauthorized use of The Rational’s material may violate state and federal criminal laws, infringe copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy or publicity, and communication regulations and statutes.
Copyright Infringement Policy
The Rational values intellectual property and respects the intellectual property rights of others, and will remove materials on its Website that infringe the copyrights of others. If you believe that your copyrighted material has been infringed by material contained on this Website, then please email hello@therationalonline.com and include the following:(i) a physical or electronic signature of the owner of an exclusive right that is being infringed or of a person authorized to act on behalf of such owner;(ii) identification of the copyrighted work(s) that is (are) allegedly being infringed;(iii) identification of the materials that are causing the infringement and that are to be removed, along with sufficient information to allow The Rational to locate such materials;(iv) contact information (i.e., name, address, email address) sufficient to enable The Rational to contact you;(v) a statement to the effect that you have a good faith belief that the complained of use of the material was not authorized by the owner of the copyright, its agent or the law; and(vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly being infringed.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York of the United States of America, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
Limitation of Liability and Use Disclaimer
The Rational endeavors to make sure that all information and data it originates on the Website is accurate. The Rational is not responsible for any damages or loss related to the use of this Website or related to your reliance on any outdated version of these Terms, including, but not limited to any outdated version of our Privacy Policy.
Changes to the Privacy Policy and the Terms
From time to time, this Privacy Policy and these Terms may change. We reserve the right to make changes without prior individual notice. Such changes are effective upon posting. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy and these Terms will indicate your acceptance of those changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or complaints concerning any of the policies set forth in these Terms & Conditions or the Privacy Policy, please visit the contact page or reach out to us at hello@therationalonline.com.
Last updated: May 2, 2020