Last Modified: August 26, 2020
ƽ has created this policy statement to help users of this website (“Website”) understand how we collect, use, and protect information about them. The term "user" in this policy statement refers to visitors of the Website. The term "collected information" refers specifically to information collected from the Website.
Information Collected
For each visitor to this Website, we collect the user's IP address and certain information about the user's equipment (e.g., type of browser, screen resolution, support for Java). We do not automatically record other user-specific, personal information. Such personal information (e.g., email address, telephone number, photographic image) is recorded only when volunteered by the user (e.g., when a user registers for a meeting, purchases a product, responds to a survey, or completes or revises a user profile). Highly sensitive personal information, like credit card, Social Security number, passport, biometric data, and bank account numbers, that you may provide in relation to a transaction with ƽ is never recorded by or stored in ƽ’s IT systems.
Technologies used to gather information
ƽ employs several technologies including but not limited to cookies, web beacons, browser cache technologies, locally stored objects, statistical identifiers, clear gifs, embedded scripts and similar means.
Use of Collected Information
ƽ's primary objective in collecting user information is to provide superior services and benefits to members and customers. In furtherance of that objective, ƽ may use information we collect from you to: provide you with services, products, resources, events, surveys, awards, support, and benefits, and information about same; provide advertisements that are more likely to be of interest to you; measure and improve our services and operations (including IT systems); protect our legal rights, contractual rights, and the safety, privacy, and security of other users and the public; send advocacy communications and voter information; and to comply with laws and requests from public and government authorities. Collected user-specific information is normally incorporated into ƽ's general database of members and other contacts. While ƽ does not sell user-specific data to third parties solely for ƽ’s commercial gain, ƽ does share information about members and other contacts in that database with third parties from time to time, such as when we provide attendees of an ƽ event with a registrants list or share committee rosters with members and chapters. Sometimes, the sharing may be partially for commercial purposes, such as when we provide membership lists (possibly including contact information) to companies with which ƽ has an established business relationship (such as “affinity partners” so that they may directly market to ƽ members about the products or services they offer at an ƽ-member discount). In some cases, user information is automatically shared with third parties by virtue of ƽ’s use third-party-provided technology, such as meeting registration software. ƽ makes efforts to prevent unaffiliated third parties from using your information for ƽ-unauthorized purposes but cannot control, and is not responsible for, the privacy practices or other conduct of such parties.
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