Wright City Area Chamber of Commerce Privacy Policy
Overview
Effective: March 01, 2007
The
Wright City Area Chamber of Commerce is committed to protecting and respecting
your privacy. Protection of your data is
something we consider very important. The Wright City Area Chamber of Commerce
is committed to the standards outlined below so that visitors to this site can
feel secure in the knowledge that their personal data is properly managed.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact the
chamber office.
This document discloses the privacy
practices for The Wright City Area Chamber of Commerce including:
Table of Contents
1. Information We Collect.
Our primary goal in collecting
personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient,
and personalized experience while using our services. This allows us to
provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to
customize our service to make your experience easier and quicker.
Using the Site's web server log files, we use IP addresses to analyze
trends, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information. This information may include the URL that you just came from
(whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether
this URL is on our site or not), what browser and operating system you are
using, your IP address etc.
In addition, we reserve the right to use cookies on certain pages of our
site. We may also offer certain features that are only available through the
use of a cookie. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted
to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Most
cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically
deleted at the end of a session. The other type of cookie we use is a
'persistent' cookie. This stays on your hard drive and we use this to
automatically identify who you are. We use this cookie so that you do not need
to log in manually every time you visit the site if you are a registered user.
The cookie itself contains no personally identifiable information but it does
pass an ID to our server which allows us to tie the cookie to your personal
information. We do this to allow us to let you know on the homepage what has
changed on the site since your last visit. We also use the cookie to track how
often you visit the site so we know who our most loyal users are. You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that
case you will not be able to use certain features on our site. Some of our members
may use cookies in their advertisements on our site. These are used to monitor and
evaluate the value of their advertisement.
We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy
statement covers the use of cookies by The Wright City Area Chamber of Commerce
only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Surveys & Contests. From time-to-time our
site may request information from users via surveys, contests or for a
particular service (e.g. newsletter). Participation in these surveys or
contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or
not to disclose this information. Information requested will include contact
information (as supplied to the site during registration) and supplementary
information on your professional interests, opinions and preferences (e.g.
choice of software, working practices, opinions on industry issues, feedback on
the web site). We will use the contact information to notify winners. We will
not publish winners' details on the site though on request we will provide
details of any winners' name and organization. If the survey or contest has a
sponsor then we will share information given by entrants with the sponsor.
2. Our Use of Your Information.
We use personally identifiable information
about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically
analyze site usage, to improve our content and to customize our site's
content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site
and better tailor it to meet our users' needs.
We use your e-mail address to send you newsletters or other
communications you have requested from the Site. Out of respect for our users
we offer an opt-out (see 3. below).
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we
obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to resolve any
disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we
may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes.
3. Opt-Out of Email Communications
If at any time, you wish to no
longer to receive any e-mails from this site you can stop them coming by contacting
the Chamber office.
4. Our Disclosure of Your
Information
Unfortunately, due to the existing
regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private
communications and other personally identifiable information will never be
disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to
disclose information to the government or third parties under certain
circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access
transmissions or private communications. We can (and you authorize us to)
disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other
government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate,
in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property
infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal
liability.
As a general proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable
information about you to any third party.
Advertisers. We do aggregate personally
identifiable information and disclose such information in aggregate to
advertisers and for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these
situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be
used to personally identify you.
Legal Requests. The Wright City Area Chamber of
Commerce cooperates with law enforcement inquiries and other third parties to
enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights. Local,
and international law enforcement agents can request and may receive your
personally identifiable information.
Suppliers and Other Service Providers. From
time to time we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate
our services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from you
(such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for
us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service
Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional.
5. Reviewing and Changing Your
Personally Identifiable Information
You can at any time review and
change the information you submitted during registration by contacting the
Chamber office.
You can at any time ask to see and have removed any information that we have
stored on you. We will retain in our
files information you have requested to remove in some circumstances, such as
to resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems. Further, such prior information
is never completely removed from our databases due to technical constraints and
the fact that we back up our systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all
of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our
databases in response to your requests that it be removed.
6. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly
discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and
disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose
your information to other parties, whether they are other members of the Site
or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use
or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.
7. Security
On the Wright City Area Chamber of
Commerce site we use best endeavor to safeguard the confidentiality of your
personal identifiable information but we do not use encryption (such as SSL) or
firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet.
This is because we do not believe that the personal information we currently collect
warrants such measures and the accompanying loss of speed experienced. You
should be aware that "perfect security" does not exist on the
Internet.
8. Changes to Privacy Policy
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, prior to making such
changes. 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, before changes go into effect, on
our web site 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.
9. Downloadable Software Disclaimer
This privacy policy covers only
information that is collected through this Web site, and does not cover
information that may be collected through software used to download data posted
on the site.
10. Physical Mailing Address
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The Wright City Area Chamber of
Commerce 21 N. Stringtown
Rd. Foristell, MO 63348 636-745-7855 |