Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 24, 2013

Introduction

TechAmerica is strongly committed to protecting your privacy. For this reason, we have developed this privacy policy to explain the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used when you visit the website http://www.techamerica.org (“Website”).

Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our policies and practices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy.

This privacy policy may change over time. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the privacy policy periodically for updates.

This privacy policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
In e-mail, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

This privacy policy does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

While we cannot control third parties’ collection or use of your information, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us. The following mechanisms provide you with control over our collection or use of your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising:

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

Promotional Offers from TechAmerica:

If you do not wish for us to use your information to contact you about products or services that may be of interest to you, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, the order form/registration form, by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile, or at any other time by sending us an e-mail stating your request to csc@techamerica.org. If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may also send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions.

The information we collect and how we collect it

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies and other tracking technologies that automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data, search queries, and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about the equipment you use to access the Website, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The automatically collected information is statistical data, and does not identify any individual. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

We may also collect personal information that you provide to us, including:

Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, company name, title, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, company information, credit/debit card information.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders.

You may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of those with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
To contact you about TechAmerica products and services that may be of interest to you.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account/membership, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide to us:

With your consent.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of TechAmerica’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use http://www.techamerica.org/terms-of-use, or other agreements.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of TechAmerica, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

The Way We Use Company Information

We maintain an Online Member Directory (http://www.techamerica.org/Members) which lists information on our member companies, including but not limited to company name, address, a description of that company’s products and services, demographic information such as DUNS number and EIN, revenue and employee information, and contracting experience. We also list the names, titles, email addresses, and phone numbers for member contacts who are listed as “executives” or “business/procurement contacts”. When submitting a company update, the company information is entered in our database and immediately viewable on the Online Member Directory. To correct or remove information, please email database@techamerica.org or call 202.682.9110.

Links to Other Sites

This Website maintains links to sites which are not maintained by us. The information you disclose to any such sites is not covered by this policy and we are not responsible or liable for the content, policies, actions, or omissions of such sites.

Links to third party sites are not intended to imply any endorsement by us of that site, its content, or its services. In the event we endorse a particular organization, we will clearly state our endorsement in conjunction with any link to that organization.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at webmaster@techamerica.org.

Our Commitment to Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All personal information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Any financial transactions will be processed using industry standard encryption.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

How to Access and Correct Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page at http://www.techamerica.org/My

You may also send us an e-mail at database@techamerica.org to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.

We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement, or cause the information to be incorrect.

Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use http://www.techamerica.org/terms-of-use.

To ask questions or to make any comments about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please contact us:

By Email: legal@techamerica.org.
By Phone: 202-682-9110
By Mail: 601 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, North Building, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004