| LOMA's
Privacy Policy (www.loma.org)
LOMA is committed to maintaining your
confidence and trust, and accordingly maintains the following privacy
policy to protect all personal information you provide online. Below you
will find detailed information about the way that we collect your
information and how we use it.
What information does LOMA collect?
LOMA collects personal identifying information (such as your name and
e-mail address) at several different points on our Web site. For
example, LOMA will collect certain information when you enter a contest
or sweepstakes, fill out a survey, or complete registration/subscription
data for services or sections of our site requiring such information.
LOMA also collects billing information, including a credit card number
and expiration date, from visitors who pay for or register for LOMA
products and services online.
LOMA may track information about the visits to our Web site and
compile aggregate statistics that show the daily number of visitors to
our site, the daily requests we receive for particular files on our Web
site, and what countries those requests come from. These aggregated
statistics are used internally to better provide services to our
customers and may also be provided to others (such as our banner
advertisers). However, the statistics contain no personal information
and cannot be used to gather personal information about individual
visitors.
How is the information used?
LOMA may use information in the aggregate to create statistics
for marketing and promotional purposes. We may also use your information
to improve the content of our Web pages, notify you about updates to our
Web site, or contact you for marketing purposes. We may also provide
contact information in connection with LOMA meetings to organizations
that work with LOMA. The use of this information is limited to contact
in connection with the LOMA meeting. Out of respect for the privacy of
our users we present the option to not receive these types of
communications by providing an opportunity to "opt-out" of any
contact based on this information.
Like most organizations, we do provide LOMA conference participants
with a list of attendees and contact information for conferences they
attended.
LOMA may occasionally inform registered users and newsletter
subscribers about special deals, new products, and other third-party
product and service offers that we believe they will find useful or
interesting. LOMA registered users and newsletter subscribers are given
the option to choose whether they would like to receive such mailings
upon registration. At any time you can request that your information
not be used for such purposes by sending an e-mail request to LOMA at
webmaster@loma.org, using the header "Opt-out".
Who can see my information?
LOMA is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.
Internally, LOMA restricts access to personally identifiable information
to those employees who need the information in order to do their jobs.
These employees are committed to our privacy and security policies as a
condition of employment. Credit card information is not sold, shared, or
rented by LOMA to third parties.
LOMA may share certain personal contact information with third
parties solely for the purposes of distribution of information and LOMA
materials. However, as part of any order request, LOMA will be required
to process your credit information in order to receive payment. This
will require the exchange of your credit card information with a third
party, such as a bank.
If LOMA plans to use information collected from users in a manner
different from that stated at the time of collection, we will directly
contact users to obtain written or e-mail consent prior to using their
personal information.
Members Only Section
In order to use the Members Only section of this
Web site, a user must complete a registration form. During registration,
a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and
e-mail address or Social Security Number) and specific demographic
information needed by LOMA so that it can better meet our members'
needs. LOMA may place a "cookie" on the visitor's hard drive
in order to facilitate a user-friendly experience. Cookies are small
files that contain information a Web site uses for tracking purposes.
LOMA uses the cookie information it receives to improve the efficiency
of customer service for its Members Only section. LOMA may also use
cookies to enhance site content by compiling aggregate information about
what specific sections and pages users visit. LOMA does not collect or
make information obtained about any individual users available to third
parties.
This information is used to contact the user about the services on
our site for which they have expressed interest and to ensure that only
authorized employees of LOMA member companies have access to our Members
Only section. We send all new members a welcoming e-mail to verify
password and user name. Established members may also receive information
on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. At any time
you can request that your information, including your Social Security
Number not be used for such purposes by sending an e-mail request to
LOMA at webmaster@loma.org, using the header "Opt-out".
Links to other sites
Our Web site contains links to other sites. Please
be aware that LOMA is not responsible for the privacy practices of such
other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site
and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that
collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this LOMA Web site.
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