Thank you for visiting the CoSEIA website and reviewing our privacy statement. CoSEIA is committed to protecting the privacy of our members, viewers, and other contacts. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Any information you choose to provide on the website will only be used to provide or improve services. CoSEIA guards your privacy, appreciates your trust, and does not rent, share or sell its mailing/workshop/event registration lists.
Important note: Including your email address on websites does increase chances of a spammer using the emails (a lot of spammers have software that visits websites to scan for emails to pull and add to their database).
E-mails and Web Forms
Personally identifying information that you provide by e-mails or web forms will be used only for such purposes as are described at the point of collection (for example on a web form), such as: to send information to you; update your membership record; register you for a workshop or event, or; to respond to your questions or comments. If you provide contact information, CoSEIA staff or its contractors may contact you to clarify your comment or question, or to learn about your level of customer satisfaction with our services.
As part of our membership, we send out emails to our members using BinHost. We do not sell emails or information in any way. To unsubscribe from our emails, use the Unsubscribe button in the email received.
Any credit card information you provide for goods or services is secure and used only for your intended purpose. CoSEIA's website currently takes you to the PayPal website for all payment processing. Please see their security button at the top of http://www.paypal.com
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
During your visit as you browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit but not about you. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about the visit:
1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if a private Internet access account, or "aschool.edu" if connected from a university) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to a computer whenever it is surfing the Web) from which access to our web site is gained;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
3. The date and time of access to our site;
4. The pages visited and for how long; and
5. The address of the website from which the initial visit to http://www.coseia.org was launched, if any.
We use this information to make our site more useful to visitors and to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. The data that are collected are not connected to your personal information or identity.
Links to Other Sites
This Website contains links to other sites. CoSEIA is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, which may be different from the privacy practices described in this policy. We encourage you to become familiar with privacy practices of other sites you visit, including linked sites.
Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, CoSEIA uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 and 1030. Information also may be used for authorized law enforcement investigations. Except for the above purposes, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
Revisions:
We reserve the right to change or modify this privacy statement at any time. If we revise our privacy statement, we will post those changes on the homepage and other places so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
The term "members and customers" as used in this statement includes CoSEIA members, customers, or any individual or organization having contact or conducting transactions with the Association.
Cookies:
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of our website use cookies to 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.
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 accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do so.
