IPSO respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us. We would like to share with you the following principles that govern our privacy practices.
The Information We Collect
Throughout this policy, we refer to information that personally identifies you as Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information. IPSO collects your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information so that we can respond to your requests, which may include, for example, answering your questions, adding you to email lists, or registering you for events.
Personal Information is any information that can identify you as an individual, such as your name, postal or email address, phone number, occupation, or personal interests. Sensitive Personal Information is any information that would permit access to your financial account, including account number, credit or debit card number, in combination with any required security code, access code or password.
If you give us Personal Information about somebody else, such as a spouse or work colleague, you must have that persons permission to do so.
In many instances, you may browse the IPSO website anonymously.
Access to certain IPSO web pages, services and activities requires a login and a password. It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your login and password information.
You may choose to give us Personal Information in a variety of situations, including when you:
register with IPSO for an account on IPSO websites;
use certain IPSO services;
register to attend a seminar;
participate in an online survey;
ask to be included in an email or other mailing list; or
when you submit your personal information to IPSO for any other reason
From time to time, IPSO receives personal information from our business partners and vendors. IPSO only uses this information if it has been collected in accordance with privacy practices consistent with this Privacy Statement.
Your Choice and Control
We will always tell you before we collect any Personal Information and inform you of the purpose of the collection. We will ask for your consent before we use or share your information for any purpose other than the reason you provided it. In order to let us know your preferences, we will require an action on your part, such as checking the appropriate option, to indicate your consent.
How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Like many websites, IPSO uses technologies, such as cookies, which allow us to make your visit to our website easier, more efficient and more valuable by providing you with a customized experience and recognizing you when you return.
A cookie is a small data file transferred by a website to your computers hard drive. IPSO website sends cookies when you visit it, request or personalize information, or register yourself for certain services. A cookie cannot read personal data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites; indeed, the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Accepting the cookies used on our website may give us access to information about your browsing behavior, which we may use to personalize your experience and track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information.
Cookies are typically classified as either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies do not stay on your computer after you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain on your computer until you delete them or they expire.
You may browse most of IPSOs website without accepting cookies from IPSO, however, some website functionality may be lost by disabling cookies on your computer. Other IPSO web pages, particularly those which require a login and password, require cookies and cannot be used when you have disabled cookies in your browser.
IPSO may also use customized links or other similar technologies to track email links that you click. We may associate that information with your Personal Information in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications. Each e-mail communication includes an unsubscribe link allowing you to stop delivery of that type of communication.
If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website or via HTML-formatted emails, you can set your browser to warn you before it accepts cookies or refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.
IPSO uses your Personal Information to respond to your requests, and to do so, we may need to share your information with others. In that case, we share only the information necessary to handle your request and obligate these other parties to limit their use of your Personal Information to fulfilling your request. In addition, we may use your Personal Information to contact you as part of our satisfaction surveys or for market research purposes, with your permission.
We will use your Personal Information to provide services you have asked for, to respond to callback requests, and to provide specific marketing materials you have requested. The third parties we may need to share your information with include our business partners (for instance, as part of a joint sales promotion or to pass sales leads to one of our distribution partners); service vendors; shipping companies; and postal and government authorities (such as Customs authorities).
We may also use your Personal Information to create anonymous data records or aggregations of data, to perform statistical analyses and for other purposes, by omitting or removing information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We will also disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law, to enforce our Terms of Use, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our websites.
Any Sensitive Personal Information that you provide will only be used to implement the specific activity or event it was submitted for and will then be destroyed.
Your Ability to Access, Update or Deactivate Your Information
Registered users may review and revise their Personal Information. You may request deactivation of your IPSO account or any of your Personal Information held by us by sending an email to
privacy@ipso-alliance.org
.
If you choose to deactivate your account, where permitted by law we will retain in our files some of your Personal Information to prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, enforce our Terms of Use, respect your opt-out preferences, and comply with legal requirements.
How We Protect Your Information
IPSO safeguards the security of the data you send us with industry-standard physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. When appropriate, IPSO websites use SSL-encryption to enhance the security of sensitive data transmissions. Inside IPSO, data is stored in controlled servers with limited access. Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where IPSO, its subsidiaries, affiliates or agents are located.
While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to us over an unsecured Internet connection. We therefore urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet.
Some ways to protect your personal data include changing your passwords often, using a combination of letters and numbers in passwords, and making sure you use a secure browser. In addition, be aware of phishing attacks, which attempt to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials. Phishers use 'spoofed' e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging sensitive personal information such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. IPSO will never send an email asking you to provide or confirm Sensitive Personal Information. If you receive a communication such as this, please immediately forward it to privacy@ipso-alliance.org and immediately delete it from your computer.
Children and Privacy
Our websites do not target and are not intended to attract children under the age of 13. IPSO does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 13 or send them requests for Personal Information.
Third Party Sites
IPSO's website contains links to third party websites, some of which may be co-branded with the IPSO logo. However, these websites are not operated or maintained by IPSO, and IPSO does not share your Personal Information with these websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. Your use of any third party website is at your own risk.
Although we choose our business partners carefully, IPSO cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to from our site. Once you have left our website, you should make a practice of checking the applicable privacy statement of the third party website to determine how they will use any information they collect from you.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
This document was last updated on September 16, 2008. IPSO may amend this privacy statement from time to time, and at any time. We will post a notice on our website home page for 30 days whenever this Privacy Statement is materially changed. Your continued use of the IPSO website after any change will signify and confirm your assent to those changes.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or concerns about our collection, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information, please email us at
privacy@ipso-alliance.org
.
