Privacy Policy

Collecting

You do not have to provide any personal information to visit the publicly accessible areas of our website. We use IP addresses to gather broad demographic information for internal reporting and to make website improvements for our visitors’ benefit. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

“Cookies” are employed to help facilitate previous visitors’ ability to log in and fill out forms more efficiently. In addition, constituents may choose to log-in with their email and password to access additional content and manage their accounts, which are secure. You can still use our website if you do not accept the cookies, but you may be unable to use certain cookie-dependent features.

Sharing

We share the broad demographic information of our website visitors with our funders.

We share the name, title, org, phone, and email address of our members (excluding our EU customers) and institute attendees (excluding our EU customers) with our Corporate members.

We rent postal-only mailing lists of our members (excluding our EU customers) and institute attendees (excluding our EU customers) according to the agreement that can be read here.

Security

We have appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. Any credit card information and billing address received from customer purchases are always encrypted.

Links

This website contains links to other websites. While we make efforts to choose our links carefully, we cannot take any responsibility for the content of linked websites, or for the privacy policies of websites to which we link. Since we do not control these websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on third party websites prior to any use.

Changes of Policy

If we amend this privacy policy from time to time, we will post announcements on the website notifying our visitors. Please review all revisions to our policy. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify our constituents by e-mail.