Privacy Policy

(Last updated July 2008)

The following explains what we do to keep information about you and your organization private and secure. We manage this information to serve you and we want you to know that you have choices about how your information is shared. Please read this policy carefully and contact us if you have any questions.

What information do we collect about you?

We collect information from and about you when you register on our website, respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or participate in another feature of our website.

When you register, we may ask you for your name, the name of the organization with which you are affiliated, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, or other information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

Like many websites, we collect "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our website. Please read the section on "cookies" below for information about cookies and how we use them.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, surf our website, respond to a survey or other communication from us, or use some other feature of our website. Some examples of our uses:

To personalize your experience on our website and to help us identify and deliver the type of content and services most important to you.
To allow us to better respond to your service requests.
To quickly process your transactions.
To administer a survey or other site feature.

If you have opted to receive our e-mail newsletters or other IssueLab communications, we may send you periodic e-mails. If you would no longer like to receive e-mails from us, please refer to "How you can opt out, remove or modify information that you have provided to us?" below. Visitors who register or participate in other site features will be given a choice whether they would like to be on our e-mail list and receive e-mail communications from us.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety and security of your personal information. Your personal information is behind secured networks and only a few people have special access rights to such systems and we are required to keep your information confidential.

How do we use cookies?

Our website uses "cookies" to help personalize your online experience. A "cookie" is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

Each time you visit our website, we log certain information about your visit. Such information includes but is not limited to your IP address, domain name, the name of the web page from which you entered our website, which pages you visit on our website, and how much time you spend on each page. We use this information to monitor and improve our website and for internal analysis and, at our discretion, for certain other functions. In particular, we use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the website, and gather information for aggregate use. However, IP addresses are not linked to personal information.

We make limited use of cookie technology. We use temporary cookies to manage security during your online sessions. We use only random identifiers without any personal information.

Collected information may be gathered when you register for our services or when you respond to surveys or to other requests for information.

You can program your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies. However, without cookies you will not have access to many features on our web site such as surveys, video player settings, some downloads, or interactive polling.

About Third-Party Web Beacons.

We use third-party web beacons from Yahoo! to help analyze where visitors go and what they do while visiting our website. Yahoo! may also use anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to improve its products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Yahoo!, click here.

Do we disclose the information that we collect to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" does not include website hosting partners and other partners who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information to comply with the law, to exercise or defend our legal rights, to enforce our website policies, or to protect our or others' rights, property, or safety.

How are you protected on message boards?

We may offer message boards and interactive community events to you on our website. Please be aware that anyone may read your postings on a message board, in an interactive community event, or in a chat room. Furthermore, any information which you submit to be posted to a message board, in an interactive community event, or in a chat room, including your information from your account information page and Member ID, will be disclosed and available to all users of that message board or chat room, and is therefore no longer private. We cannot guarantee the security of information that you disclose or communicate online in public areas such as message boards, interactive community events, and chat rooms, and you do so at your own risk. We reserve the right to monitor the content of the message boards and to republish your postings from message boards, in an interactive community events, or chat rooms elsewhere on the internet or otherwise in any format.

Can third parties access your information?

Our employees, agents and contractors must have a legitimate business reason to obtain access to your personal information. We will only use your personal information for certain specific purposes such as to repair or reconfigure our system. Third parties have no independent rights to such data and have agreed to adhere to our Privacy Policy.

We may disclose personal information for certain other purposes. Such disclosures, include, but are not limited to, if we are required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with a legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our web site, (c) protect the personal safety or property of our web site users, the public or our employees, or (d) to exercise or defend our legal rights..

About Third-Party Web Beacons.

How do you access and correct your personal information? How do you opt out of further communications?

Please use the contact information provided to (a) correct or update any personal information in our database that you believe is erroneous, (b) opt-out of future communications from us, or (c) request us to make reasonable efforts to remove your personal information from our online database. You understand that it may be impossible to delete personal information entirely because of backups and records of deletions.

You may access or correct your personal information or opt out of further communications by e-mailing us at privacy@issuelab.org

Is your information protected in the event of changes in corporate structure?

If all or part of IssueLab or any of its affiliates are sold, merged or otherwise transferred to another entity, the personal information you have provided at this website may be transferred as part of that transaction or process. However, we will take steps to ensure that any personal information is used in a manner consistent with this privacy policy under which it was collected.

Be aware of third party websites.

Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to our website and not necessarily to the websites of partners, affiliates or third parties. Our website may be linked to other websites operated by third parties. Some of these third party sites may be co-branded and carry our name and logo along with the name of the third party even though the site is not owned or operated by us. As well, our website may carry advertisements from other organizations and companies. You may be required to accept additional policies prior to your use of links accessed through our web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third party web sites.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may occasionally amend this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the law as well as company and customer feedback. We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. In the event that we change our policy, all changes will be posted in this Privacy Policy. It is your responsibility to revisit this site periodically to view the current version of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please e-mail privacy@issuelab.org

Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms

Your use of our website constitutes consent to our privacy policy in effect at the time of your use. Please make sure that you read our Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions which apply to the use of our website.

State Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have additional privacy protections under some state laws. For example, certain state laws may restrict the types of information we may disclose about you, limit the parties with whom we may share such information, or require us to provide you with additional notices or opt-out rights. We will comply with applicable state laws before sharing nonpublic personal information about you. We may do this by sending a separate notice of those rights to you.

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