Site Policies
This document was last updated on August 19, 2010. 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMSThe Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing the website of the Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce, you acknowledge and fully understand the Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce's Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement. 2. PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIESRelated services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in the Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties. 3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE ITThe Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce collects certain information from and about its users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with Cookies. Web Server Logs. When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
Use of Cookies The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small 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. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality. The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website. Personal Information Users Visitors to our website can register to purchase products or services. When you register, we will request some personal information such as name, address, email, telephone number or facsimile number, account number and other relevant information. If you are purchasing a product or service, we will request financial information. Any financial information we collect is used only to bill you for the services you purchased. Financial information and email addresses will not be shared or sold to third parties for any purposes without your express permission. If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider. For other types of registrations, we will ask for the relevant information. You may also be asked to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online technical support and troubleshooting. We may also request your email address or postal address for the purposes of conducting a survey or to provide additional services, such as subscriptions to email newsletters or announcements of products. We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:
The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure. The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to transfer all such information in connection with the sale of all or part of Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce's capital stock or assets. We do not intend to sell, rent, or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third-party, without your consent. We may send email announcing new products or services related to the purchased products and service, but The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce will not send you email that you have not agreed to receive. 4. USE OF WEB BEACONS OR GIF FILESThe Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons sometimes also called single-pixel gifs that allow The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information. 5. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATIONThe Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. 6. SHIPPING & DELIVERYConfirmation for membership payments, event registration, and promotional contracts will be sent by email. The delivery of any physical items will be via US Postal Mail. 7. REFUNDSNo refunds will be offered for membership, events, and promotional contracts. 8. CURRENCYAll products/services are offered in U.S. $ dollars. 9. CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENTThe Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the updated date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
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