Our goal is to maintain an online experience that provides you with the information and resources that are most relevant and helpful to you.
Usage of this website indicates acknowledgement of the terms and conditions outlined below. Due to the nature of this website and its affiliates, the terms and conditions may be more stringent than the minimum required by law. If any user of this website is not in agreement with the terms on this page, they must cease usage of this website immediately.
General
The authors of this webpage and its content do not dispense medical or financial advice nor prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, financial, or medical problems without the advice of a physician or advisor. In the event you use any of the information in this text or in any media posted by or on this website, the authors assume no responsibility for your actions. This publication is not, and should not be construed to be, a solicitation of an offer to buy any investment or other security. The publisher cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information provided, nor guarantee the accuracy of any of its representatives. Users of this website should be of legal age in their country of residence.
By using this website, you agree to fully indemnify, defend, protect, hold harmless, and release it operators, officers, agents, and employees from and against any and all claims, loss, proceedings, damages, causes of action, liability, costs, or expense, including attorneys’ fees and witness fees, arising from, or in connection with, or caused by, any act, failure to act, or negligence of such indemnifying party, to the extent limited in accordance with the laws of the United States. This indemnification shall not be limited in any way, by any limitation on the amount or type of damages or compensation payable to, or for, the indemnifying party under workers’ compensation, disability benefits, or other employee benefit acts.
Privacy Settings
To view your privacy settings on this website, visit our Privacy Center. As most data on this website is transmitted with anonymized details, records requests may be unavailable for individual users. If a request for data records is submitted, but no data records exist for the requested profile, you may not receive a response to your request.
Privacy
This Privacy Policy has been written to describe the conditions under which this web site is being made available to you. The Privacy Policy discusses, among other things, how data obtained during your visit to this web site may be collected and used. By using this web site, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Policy. If you do not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, you are directed to discontinue accessing or otherwise using the web site or any materials obtained from it.
The process of maintaining a web site is an evolving one, and the Operators may decide at some point in the future, without advance notice, to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your use of the web site, or materials obtained from the web site, indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy at the time of such use. The effective Privacy Policy will be posted on the web site, and you should check upon every visit for any changes.
Children's Privacy
The Operators are committed to protecting the privacy needs of children, and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. The Operators do not intentionally collect information from minors, and the Operators do not target its web site to children. Users of this website should be of legal age in their country of residence.
Links to Non-Operators Websites
The Operators’ websites may provide links to third-party websites for the convenience of our users. If you access those links, you will leave the Operators’ website. the Operators do not control these third-party websites and cannot represent that their policies and practices will be consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Type of Information We Collect
Non-personal information is data about usage and service operation that is not directly associated with a specific personal identity. The Operators may collect and analyze non-personal information to evaluate how visitors use the Operators’ websites.
The Operators may gather aggregate information, which refers to information your computer automatically provides to us and that cannot be tied back to you as a specific individual. Examples include referral data (the web sites you visited just before and just after our site), the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. For example, when you request a page from one of our sites, our servers log your IP address to create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns and for purposes of system administration.
Every time you request or download a file from the web site, the Operators may store data about these events and your IP address in a log file. The Operators may use this information to analyze trends, administer the web site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use or for other business purposes.
Our site may use a feature of your browser to set a “cookie” on your computer. Cookies are small packets of information that a web site’s computer stores on your computer. The Operators’s web sites can then read the cookies whenever you visit our site.
The Operators’s web site also may use web beacons to collect non-personal information about your use of our web site, your use of special promotions or newsletters, and other activities. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our web site and selected sponsors’ sites; how many people open our emails; and for what purposes these actions are being taken.
Personal Information
Personal information is information that is associated with your name or personal identity. The Operators use personal information to better understand your needs and interests and to provide you with better service. On some of the Operators web pages, you may be able to request information, subscribe to mailing lists, participate in online discussions, collaborate on documents, provide feedback, submit information into registries, register for events, apply for membership, or join committees or groups. The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include name, address, phone number, e-mail address, user IDs, passwords, billing information, or credit card information.
Members-Only Websites
Information you provide on Operators’s membership applications is used to create a member profile, and some information may be shared with other of the Operators’s individual member representatives and organizations. Member contact information may be provided to other members on a secure web site to encourage and facilitate collaboration, research, and the free exchange of information among the Operators’s members, but we expressly prohibit members from using member contact information to send unsolicited commercial correspondence. The Operators’s members may be automatically added to the Operators’s mailing lists. From time to time, member information may be shared with event organizers and/or other organizations that provide additional benefits to the Operators’s members. By providing us with your personal information on the membership application, you expressly consent to our storing, processing, and distributing your information for these purposes.
How We Use Your Information
The Operators may use non-personal data that is aggregated for reporting about the Operators’s web site usability, performance, and effectiveness. It may be used to improve the experience, usability, and content of the site.
The Operators may use personal information to provide services that support the activities of the Operators’s members and their collaboration on the Operators’s standards and projects. When accessing the Operators’s members-only web pages, your personal user information may be tracked by the Operators in order to support collaboration, ensure authorized access, and enable communication between members.
To protect the integrity of user data, administrators may be unable to process deletion requests in a timely manner. Your data can be fully deleted by editing your profile and clicking the Delete button, or by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email sent from our address.
Sales and Affiliates
Credit card information may be collected to facilitate transaction. Credit card numbers are used only for processing payment and are not used for other purposes. Payment processing services may be provided by a third-party payment service, and a management company external to the Operators may provide support for the financial activities of the Operators. The Operators may share your personal information with its partners to facilitate these transactions.
Sections of our websites may contain links to services participating in affiliate programs, including the Amazon Services Associates Program. These are used to track outgoing links, clicks, or purchases, and our associates may receive advertising commissions as a result. In our efforts to comply with Federal Trade Commission guidelines, visitors should assume compensation is received for affiliate links on this website and its associated pages. Affiliate links should not be considered endorsements of any product or company.
Users and Forums
On some pages, anonymous users are allowed to post content and/or participate in forum discussions. In such a case, since no user name can be associated with such a user, the IP address number of a user is used as an identifier. When posting content or messages to a Operators site anonymously, your IP address may be revealed to the public.
If you are a registered member of an Operators’s website or email list, you should be aware that some items of your personal information may be visible to other members and to the public. The Operators’s member databases may retain information about your name, e-mail address, company affiliation (if an organizational member), and such other personal address and identifying data as you choose to supply. That data may be visible to other of the Operators’s members and to the public.
Please remember that any information (including personal information) that you disclose in public areas of our web site, such as forums, message boards, and news groups, becomes public information that others may collect, circulate, and use. Because we cannot and do not control the acts of others, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose information about yourself or others in public forums such as these.
Given the international scope of the Operators websites, personal information may be visible to persons outside your country of residence, including to persons in countries that your own country’s privacy laws and regulations deem deficient in ensuring an adequate level of protection for such information. If you are unsure whether this Privacy Policy is in conflict with applicable local rules, you should not submit your information. If you are located within the European Union, you should note that your information will be transferred to the United States, which is deemed by the European Union to have inadequate data protection.
If you do not want your personal information collected and used by the Operators, please do not visit the Operators’s web site or apply for membership of any of the Operators’ websites or email lists.
Accuracy of Member Information And Content
The Operators are committed to keeping the personal information of our members accurate. All the information you have submitted to us can be verified and changed. In order to do this, please email us a request. Your use of this website implies your acknowledgement of these terms and conditions.
Right To Anonymity
Registered members are permitted to use anonymous details and fictitious names, in the interest of their own protection. Users are prohibited from using another person’s name or likeness as their own.
Security
The Operators make every effort to protect personal information by users of the web site. No server, however, is 100% secure, and you should take this into account when submitting personal or confidential information about yourself on any web site, including this one. Much of the personal information is used in conjunction with member services such as collaboration and discussion, so some types of personal information such as your name, company affiliation, and email address will be visible to other the Operators’s members and to the public. The Operators assume no liability for the interception, alteration, or misuse of the information you provide. You alone are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please use care when use access this web site and provide personal information.
Updates to this Policy
The operators of this website are not required to provide users with updates to this policy. By continuing to use this website, users agree to the most recent version of these terms and conditions.
Opting Out
From time to time the Operators may email you electronic newsletters, announcements, surveys or other information. If you prefer not to receive any or all of these communications, you may opt out by following the directions provided within the electronic newsletters and announcements.
Copyright
The contents of this website and its affiliated pages contain materials that are protected by copyright law. They may not be copied without written permission, except in brief excerpts as allowed by fair use guidelines and for reasonable quotations in reporting.