Privacy Policy - Highlights
Effective Date: May 2, 2025
Scope
The American Society of Safety Professionals (“we”, “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of our users, members, and customers. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we collect from you or that you provide when you visit or use our various websites listed below or our emails, social media, or other digital properties (collectively, “Websites”), or use our services (collectively, “Services”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Privacy Policy applies to the data collected by us, or those working on our behalf, through information you enter or from the imported data from authorized and approved sources. It does not apply to data collected through other websites, products, or services not approved by us.
Our Websites:
- assp.org (our main consumer-focused website)
- foundation.assp.org (our philanthropic division website)
- jobs.assp.org (our careers website)
- learn.assp.org
- safety.assp.org
- safetyfocus.assp.org
- assp.realmagnet.land
- professionalsafety.assp.org
- my.assp.org
We have separately set out the provisions that apply only to a particular website. The remainder of this Privacy Policy applies to all of our Websites.
Our Privacy Policy describes:
- How and why we collect your Personal Information;
- How your Personal Information is used and protected;
- When and with whom we share your Personal Information; and
- What choices you can make about how we collect, use, and share your Personal Information.
- How we store, use, transfer, and retain your Personal Information.
If you are a resident of or subject to data privacy laws or regulations of a country outside of the United States, please see the additional provisions at the end of this Privacy Policy. Below are some of the highlights of the Privacy Policy.
Personal Information
We collect your Personal Information (defined within) for various purposes, such as, but not limited to, corresponding with you, informing you about your account, security updates and product information, processing your application, providing you with services, processing your order, providing you with a subscription, or other purposes.
We may combine the information we collect from you with information obtained from other sources to help us improve its overall accuracy and completeness, and to help us improve our business and better tailor our interactions with you.
In addition, we may also collect information relating to your use of our Websites through the use of various technologies, including cookies.
Examples of Uses
- To create a user account.
- To fulfill your requests by us or by others involved in fulfillment.
- To contact you for customer satisfaction surveys, market research or in connection with certain transactions.
- To support products or services you have obtained from us.
- To share with our service providers who provide services to us in support of our business.
- To personalize your experience while you are on our Websites, make navigation easier, and for Website usage statistics.
- By us and selected organizations for marketing purposes.
Your Choices
When we collect information from you, other than cookies, you may tell us that you do not want it used for further marketing contact.
You may also turn off cookies in your browser.
You can view or edit your Personal Information online or contact us to do so. You can also contact us to delete your information completely.
You can also opt out from receiving certain communications from us by visiting our opt-in/out page.
Contacting Us
You may contact us using the Contact Information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Acknowledgement and Consent
By using or accessing our Websites or the Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies described in this Privacy Policy (and as updated from time to time), and you hereby consent that we may collect, use, and share your information as described herein. Certain of our Websites will require you to acknowledge your consent via a pop-up message and click-through box before you can proceed to that Website. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or our Services. Remember that your use of the Website and our Services is at all times subject to our Terms of Service (available at assp.org/terms (the “Terms”), which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any capitalized terms we use in this Privacy Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms.
Privacy Policy - Details
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
In email, text and other electronic messages between you and us.
When and where available, through mobile and desktop applications, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and us.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
We may also collect Personal Information from you through means other than our Websites. This may include offline collection, such as when you submit a paper application call or visit our office. It may also include emails that you send to us separate from our Websites. The Privacy Policy does not apply to Personal Information that you provide to us through means other than our Websites. However, if we combine the Personal Information we collect from you outside of our Websites with Personal Information that is collected through our Websites, the Privacy Policy will apply to the combined information, unless specifically disclosed otherwise.
Other than as stated herein, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by any third-party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on our website.
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information. This is information which may be connected to you specifically as the individual to whom the information relates. Such information may include name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, or any other information defined as personally identifiable information (or similar term) by applicable laws (“Personal Information”). Personal Information does not include your personally identifiable information that has been deidentified, pseudonymized, anonymized, aggregated and/or otherwise processed so as to be unidentifiable in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific individual (by reasonable means) without the use of additional information, and where such additional information is kept separate and under adequate security to prevent unauthorized re-identification of a specific individual such that one could not, using reasonable efforts, link such information back to a specific individual (the foregoing being referred to as “De-Identified Personal Information”).
We gather various types of Personal Information from our users, as explained in more detail below, and we use this Personal Information internally in connection with our Services, including to personalize and improve our services, to allow you to set up a user account and profile, to contact you and allow other users to contact you, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, to provide and improve the Services, and to analyze how you use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share some Personal Information with third-parties, but only as described below.
We are not responsible for the practices of sites linked to from the Services, and before interacting with any of these sites you are advised to review their rules and policies before providing them with any private information.
Individuals Under the Age of 18
As noted in the Terms, we do not knowingly collect, solicit or maintain Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register for our Services. If you are under 18, please do not send any Personal Information about yourself (such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address) to us. No one under age 18 should provide any Personal Information to or on the Services. In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information from our database. Please contact us if you have any concerns.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We’re constantly working to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time as well, but we will alert you to changes by placing a notice on our Website, or as part of communications involving as part of the Services, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
| Category | Specific Items of Personal Information |
|---|
| Identifiers | first and last name
user name (which may include first and last name)
email address
postal address
zip code
unique personal identifier, e.g.:
customer/account/user name or number
phone number |
| Demographic | birth date, national origin, country of residence
image and likeness |
| Commercial information | products/services purchasing history and tendencies
donation history |
| Internet or other electronic network activity; device information | Internet Protocol (IP) address, protocol, and/or sequence information
search queries
operating system and platform
browsing, session, interaction, and search history related to our Websites
cookies
pixel tags
browser type, language, and version
screen resolution
time and date of access to our Websites |
| Professional or employment information | email address that identifies a person; e.g., jane.r.smith@website.com (versus jrs@website.com)
employer, employment history, information from professional references, work experience |
As noted above, we collect Personal Information from a variety of sources for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We collect Personal Information from the following sources:
- From e-mail
- From our Websites' forms. Our Websites legitimately run under our auspices. All information sent to our Websites, if in an SSL session, is encrypted. We collect purchase information which we may later use to provide personalized marketing content.
- From Surveys
- From Membership Registration Forms
- Any other way you directly provide us with information
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Websites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Websites, including, but not limited to, traffic data, geolocation data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Websites.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, browser type, clickstream patters, the URL of the most recent website you visited before coming to our Websites, the amount of time you spent on our Websites, and the pages you viewed while on our Websites.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). For more information on how to opt-out of advertiser tracking mechanisms, please visit www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and may include Personal Information, but we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third-parties. It helps us to improve our Websites and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including, but not limited to, by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize and improve our Websites.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Websites.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies, flash cookies, web beacons, pixel tracking, GIF and/or IP address. Each of these is discussed below.
Cookie Notice and Policy
A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. It may contain certain data, including, but not limited to: the name of the server that has placed it there, an identifier in the form of a unique number, and, an expiration date (some cookies only). Cookies are managed by the web browser on your computer (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome). Different types of cookies which have different purposes are used on our Websites.
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential to allow you to browse our Websites and use its functions. Without them, services such as shopping baskets and electronic invoicing would not be able to work.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information on the use of our Websites, such as which pages are consulted most often. This information enables us to optimize our Websites and simplify browsing. Performance cookies also enable our affiliates and partners to find out whether you have accessed one of our websites from their site and whether your visit has led to the use or purchase of a product or service from our Websites, including the references for the product or service purchased. These cookies do not collect any information which could be used to identify you. All the information collected is aggregated, and therefore anonymous.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies enable our Websites to remember the choices you have made when browsing. For example, we can store your geographical location in a cookie so that the Websites corresponding to your area is shown. We can also remember your preferences, such as the text size, font and other customizable aspects of the Websites. Functionality cookies may also be able to keep track of the products or videos consulted to avoid repetition. The information collected by these cookies cannot be used to identify you and cannot monitor your browsing activity on sites which do not belong to us. It is possible that you will come across third-party cookies on some pages of sites that are not under our control.
You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting in your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Websites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Websites.
We also use cookies to implement tracking technology on our Websites. This allows us to display advertising that is tailored to you on our Websites which parts of our content interest you the most and which service categories you request. This tracking uses De-Identified Personal Information data (i.e., data that cannot be identified as being specifically associated with you) and does not use your Personal Information. We will not combine this data with your other Personal Information without your express permission. At any time, you can prevent the use of cookies like this in the future. To do so, if you email us, we can provide an opt-out cookie that you have to accept once. We also list our partners that are allowed to place cookies on our Websites. These also provide you with the option of preventing the use of cookies in the future. For more information, contact the relevant third-party provider.
Flash Cookies
Certain features of our Websites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Websites. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons
Pages of the Websites and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Pixel Tracking
In addition to using Cookies, the Websites may employ “pixel tracking”, a common process which may be used in connection with advertisements on other sites. Pixel tracking involves the use of pixel tags that are not visible to the user and consist of a few lines of computer code. Pixel tracking measures the effectiveness of advertisements and compiles aggregate and specific usage statistics. A “pixel tag” is an invisible tag placed on certain pages of websites that is used to track an individual user’s activity. We may access these pixel tags to identify activity and interests that may allow us to better match our goods, services, and other offers with your interests and needs. For example, if you visit our Websites from an advertisement on another website, the pixel tag will allow the advertiser to track that its advertisement brought you to the Websites. If you visit our Websites, and we link you to another website, we may also be able to determine that you were sent to and/or transacted with a third-party website. This data is collected for use in our marketing and research.
Meta Pixel
We incorporate “pixels” provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. on our Websites. This enables us to track user behavior after a user clicks on a Facebook ad and is redirected to our website. By doing so, we can assess the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes and sometimes retarget certain users. Please note that the data collected through this process remains anonymous to us, meaning we do not have access to personal information of individual users. However, Facebook stores and processes this data. Therefore, we are providing you with this information based on our current understanding. It is important to be aware that Facebook may associate this information with your Facebook account and utilize it for its own promotional activities, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy available here. You have the option to authorize Facebook and its partners to display advertisements on and off Facebook (see here). Additionally, a cookie may be stored on your computer for these purposes.
GIF
We may use tiny images known as clear GIFs to track behavior of users, including statistics on who opens our emails.
IP Address
Our servers automatically record certain log file information reported from your browser when you access the Services. These server logs may include information such as which pages of the Service you visited, your internet protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, and other information on how you interact with the Services. These log files are generally deleted after one week.
Posted Content
You also 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, “Content”). Your Content is posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your Content. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your Content will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. You agree to and do hereby grant us a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, and worldwide right to Use, modify, and perform any User Content we post to our Website. The term “Use” includes, but is not limited to, use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and make derivative works of the content.
Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Websites are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. First party and or third-party cookies may be used alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third-parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Analytics
We use, and some of our third-party service providers may use analytics services to help us understand use of our Services. Such service providers may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by us only and not the use of cookies by third-parties.
Google Analytics: We use, and/or some of our third-party Service Providers may use, Google Analytics or other analytics service to help us understand the use of our Websites and Services. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes data it collects to track and examine the use of our Websites to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
We use search engine and/or display network advertising in connection with our Website.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
To present our Websites and its contents to you. |
To provide you with information on products or services that you request from us. |
To provide you with customer service and support, or to provide services or process transactions that you have requested. |
To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices. |
To communicate with you regarding information, features or offers that we believe will be of interest to you. |
To send electronic publications to online subscribers. |
To respond to your questions or other requests. |
To contact you with regard to the Websites. |
To process any applications, changes to your account information, or process payments from you (including, but not limited to, membership dues and subscriptions, registration fees, voluntary contributions, examination fees, credential and designation fees, and payments, refunds and reimbursements for any products or services that you choose to purchase from us). |
To process other information or Personal Information that you submit through this Site. |
To ask for ratings and reviews of our Websites, services, and/or products. |
To contact you regarding a sweepstakes, contest or promotion in which you have participated. |
To notify you about changes to our Websites, our policies, terms or any products or services we offer or provide though it. |
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Websites. |
To provide access to restricted parts of our websites. |
To request your participation in surveys, focus groups, or other initiatives which help us to gather information used to develop and enhance our products and services. |
To determine eligibility for membership, credentials, designations, or volunteer opportunities. |
For registration, attendance, and management for events (e.g., webinars, conferences, meetings, distance learning, etc.). |
To evaluate your performance on continued learning courses and assist you in the tracking of your progress. |
For examination scheduling, administration and registration purposes. |
To serve relevant advertisements to you when you visit our Websites or other third-party sites (including social media platforms and Google). |
To enhance and improve our products and services, for example, by performing internal research, analyzing user trends and measuring demographics and interests. |
Internal purposes, such as website and system administration or internal audits and reviews. |
To comply with applicable law(s) (for example, to comply with a search warrant, subpoena or court order) or to carry out professional ethics/conduct investigations. |
For analyzing how the Service is used, diagnosing service or technical problems, maintaining security, and personalizing content. |
To de-identify, aggregate, anonymize, etc., your Personal Information or other data. |
To operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Service. |
To provide statistics about the usage levels of the Websites and other related information to reputable third-parties, but these statistics will not include information which will allow you to be identified. |
To manage donation history, transactions, and communications. |
To enhance our marketing and sales efforts in the form of mailing lists |
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it. |
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information. |
Social Media Plugins
We integrate social media application program interfaces or plug-ins (Plug-ins) from social networks, including Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Xing, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest and/or possibly other companies, into the Websites. In order to register as a user with us, you may have the option to sign in using your Facebook or other social media site (SMS) login.
For example, when you visit our Websites, the plugin creates a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. This allows Facebook to receive information about your visit to our Website with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while you are logged on to your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our Website to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our Website to your user account. Please note that as provider of the Website, we receive no notification about the contents of the transmitted data or their use by Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to assign your visit to our Website to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.
If you do so, you authorize us to access certain SMS account information, such as your public SMS profile (consistent with your privacy settings in SMS), your email address, interests, likes, gender, birthday, education history, relationship interests, current city, photos, personal description, friend list, and information about and photos of your SMS friends who might be common SMS friends with other users. Plug-ins may transfer information about you to the Plug-in’s respective platform without action by you. This information may include your platform user identification number, which website you are on, and more. Interacting with a Plug-in will transmit information directly to that Plug-in’s social network and that information may be visible by others on that platform. Plug-ins are controlled by the respective platform’s privacy policy, and not by our Privacy Policy. You can find the privacy policy for a platform on their website.
Retention of Your Information
Following termination or deactivation of your account, we may retain your profile information and all information posted to public areas of the Service. Following termination or deactivation of your account, we may retain your Personal Information and other data, but will maintain it as confidential according to the Terms, this Privacy Policy and as required by applicable law. We have the right to delete all of your Personal Information and other data after termination of your account without notice to you.
How We Share Your Information
Personal Information
We will never rent or sell your Personal Information to third-parties, other than as noted below under “Disclosure/Assignment of Your Personal Information”.
Disclosure to Service Providers
We may share your Personal Information with third-parties for the purpose of providing or improving the Services to you. We may share your Personal Information with third-parties who perform services on our behalf or on behalf of the owner of one of our properties. This includes, without limitation, third-parties that send communications, process payments, analyze data, assist with utility billing, provide credit checks, or collection services, provide marketing assistance, or create, host and/or provide customer service on our behalf. These third-parties may have access to Personal Information in order to provide these services to us or on our behalf. If we do this, such third-parties’ use of your Personal Information will be bound by obligations of confidentiality. We may store Personal Information in locations outside our direct control (for instance, on servers or databases located or co-located with hosting providers). Any Personal Information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Websites may, if posted, become available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy or website customization settings. To change your privacy settings on the Service, you may visit your account settings page. If you remove information that you posted to the Service, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other users have copied or saved that information.
Events
From time to time, we may run contests, special offers, or other events or activities (“Events”) on the Service together with a third-party partner. If you provide information to such third-parties, you give them permission to use it for the purpose of that Event and any other use to which you consent. We cannot control third-parties’ use of your information. If you do not want your information to be collected by or shared with a third-party, you can choose not to participate in these Events.
Required Disclosures
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose Personal Information to any third-party unless required to do so by law, court order, legal process, or subpoena, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates or partners, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to enforce our Terms (including for billing and collection purposes), take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our Websites; and (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our users or others.
It is likely that the identity and categories of such third-parties will change during the life of your account but, depending on your use of the Site, it is anticipated that your Personal Information will be disclosed to the following categories of third-party service providers who perform functions on our behalf. We require that our third-party service providers only use your Personal Information as necessary to provide the requested services to us and each service provider is subject to a set of terms consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Uses of Personal Information |
Hosting providers for the secure storage and transmission of your data |
Learning technology and online event providers for the delivery and improvement of web events and learning programs and the tracking of your progress |
Digital credential providers for the delivery of digital badges earned through your participation in learning programs |
Examination providers for the scheduling and delivery of credential and designation examinations |
Identity management providers for authentication purposes |
Database software providers for the management and tracking of your data |
Legal and compliance consultants, such as external counsel, external auditors, or tax consultants |
Marketing providers who send communications on our behalf regarding our products and services |
Payment solution providers for the secure processing of payments you provide to us |
Publishers and learning providers who develop products on our behalf |
Technology providers who assist in the development and management of our Websites properties |
Outbound call center providers, who may perform outreach on our behalf regarding our products and services |
Fulfillment and postal vendors for the fulfillment of our products and services |
Our volunteers or committee members who perform various functions on our behalf |
Survey and research providers who perform studies on our behalf |
Advertising partners, including social media providers, search engines and website display networks, for the delivery of targeted advertisements |
Unrelated third-party list renters for one-time mail or email approved by us. |
Marketing providers who may sell mailing lists. |
De-Identified Personal Information:
We may share De-Identified Personal Information with third parties for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law, including, but not limited to, the following. De-Identified Personal Information or non-Personal Information may be aggregated for system administration and to monitor usage of the Websites. It may be utilized to measure the number of visits to our Websites, average time spent, number of pages viewed and to monitor various other Websites statistics. This monitoring helps us evaluate how visitors use and navigate our Websites so we can improve the content. We may share De-Identified Personal Information or anonymous information (including, but not limited to, anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, IP address, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties in any way we choose and for any purpose. We may disclose, sell, rent, etc., your De-Identified Personal Information to third parties and we may receive valuable consideration for doing so.
Disclosure/Assignment of Your Personal Information: Your Consent
You consent to our disclosure of your Personal Information and other information to a potential buyer or other successor for the purpose of considering a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Websites users is among the assets transferred. You agree to and do hereby consent to our assignment, conveyance, or transfer (whether by contract, merger or operation of law) of rights to your Personal Information and other information, with or without notice to you and without your further consent.
Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.
- Your Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and a firewall and is only accessible by a limited number of persons and service providers who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
- In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
- Any payment transactions will be performed using our third-party payment processors or gateways, who will use appropriate security procedures designed to protect your information.
- Our Websites are scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our Websites safer.
- We may store, retrieve, access, and transmit your Personal Information in the US or in other countries.
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 the Websites or Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer or device and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by other users. We’ll never email you to ask for your password or other account information. If you receive such an email, please send it to us so we can investigate.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do use security measures designed to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to us or which we obtain. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Websites or used with our Services.
You agree that we are not liable for any damage arising directly or indirectly from any failure by you to maintain the security of your email or other accounts that directly or indirectly results in an unauthorized third party having access to such email or accounts or causes us to transfer funds based on instructions purporting to have originated from you (e.g., “wire transfer fraud” or “business email compromise” events).
Data Retention
The time periods for which we retain your Personal Information depend on the purposes for which we use it. We will keep your Personal Information for as long as your account is active, or as long as you are a registered member or account holder or user of our services or for as long as we have another business purpose to do so and, thereafter, for no longer than is required or permitted by law, or our records retention policy, reasonably necessary for internal reporting and reconciliation purposes, or to provide you with feedback or information you might request. This period of retention is subject to our review and alteration. The information we collect may be stored and processed in servers in the United States and wherever we and our service providers have facilities around the globe.
We may retain De-Identified Personal Information for as long as we deem appropriate.
What You Can Access
Through your account settings, you may access, and, in some cases, edit or delete certain types of information you’ve provided to us. The information that you can view, update, and delete may change as the Services change. If you have any questions about viewing or updating information we have on file about you, please contact us.
California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA”)
Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us annually for a notice identifying the categories of Personal Information which we share with our affiliates and/or third-parties for marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third-parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. See more at the CalOPPA website. To obtain information under CalOPPA from us, please contact us. Please note that not all information sharing is covered by CalOPPA, and we will only include in our response information relating to our sharing practices for covered information.
We may use technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). You can opt out of behavioral tracking on our Website by contacting us and learn how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
We have a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our Websites. Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy website page. You can change your Personal Information by contacting us.
Notices; Opting Out
By providing us with your email address (including by “following,” “liking,” linking your account to our Service or other services, etc., on a third-party website or network), you consent to our using the email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. You also agree that we may send you notifications of activity on the Service to the email address you give us, in accordance with any applicable privacy settings. We may use your email address to send you other messages or content, such as, but not limited to, newsletters, additions or changes to features of the Service, or special offers. If you do not want to receive such email messages, you may opt out by emailing us your request or updating your preferences in your account. Opting out may prevent you from receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements, special features, announcements, or offers. You may not opt out of Service-related emails.
You may be able to add, update, or delete information as explained above. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. You may request deletion of your account by emailing us.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, or for any other purposes, please contact us at privacy@assp.org. If you do not wish to receive screened third-party offerings via email or postal mail, please email us at privacy@assp.org.
Additional Information for U.S. Residents
Certain states in the U.S., including Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Oregon (as of the effective date of this Privacy Policy) provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights related to their Personal Information. Although some of these rights apply generally, certain rights will only apply to limited individuals or circumstances. To the extent that these laws apply, you may exercise the following rights:
Right to Know and Access Information - Note that much of the information you are entitled to know or access is disclosed in this Privacy Policy. With this said, you have the right to know about our information practices. You also have the right to access the categories of data we collect, with whom we share or sell that information, and, in some cases, what specific Personal Information we associate with you or your account.
Right to Data Portability - If you request a copy of your specific information then we will provide it in an easily accessible format.
Right to Deletion - You may request that we delete the information we have collected about you. Depending on the applicable law, in some cases we are required or permitted to retain your information, even if you validly requested we delete or erase it.
Right to Correct Information - You may request we correct or rectify inaccurate information we have collected about you.
Right to Opt out of Targeting Advertising, Sales, or Profiling - You may opt-out of our use of your Personal Information for targeted advertising, sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. At this time, we do not engage in these activities.
How to Exercise Rights under U.S. Privacy Laws
A U.S. resident wishing to exercise any rights under this section should submit a request to us at the contact information provided within this Privacy Policy.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
If we deny your rights request, you may have the right to request an appeal of our decision. To initiate an appeal, follow the instructions provided in the communication denying your request, or contact us at the information provided in this Privacy Policy.
You have the right to not experience discrimination from us for exercising the rights listed in this Section. What we mean by discrimination is denying you access to our services or limiting the quality of our services. However, limiting use of, or deleting, your Personal Information may restrict the purposes or uses that rely on that information.
Additional Information for Non-US Residents
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
This Privacy Policy originates and is hosted on a website located in the United States, which has different data protection laws from those of other nations, and particularly member nations in the European Union. Due to differing laws and legal practice, be aware that law enforcement agencies in the United States may have access to your Personal Information.
For European Citizens and Residents Only
If you are a European citizen or resident in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from the laws in the United States, please note that we may transfer your information to a country or jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. It may also be process your information by staff operating outside the EEA who works for us or for one of service providers. If required by applicable law, we will seek your explicit consent to process your Personal Information collected on our Websites or volunteered by you.
The following provisions apply to you if you are a European citizen or resident. All processing of your Personal Information is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations following the EU Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 (the “Directive”), and the implementations of the Directive in local legislation. As of May 25, 2018, the Directive and local legislation based on the Directive will be replaced by the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Information and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and our processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR. For purposes of the GDPR, we will be the “data controller” of Personal Information (referred to in the GDPR as “personal data” or "Personal Information", as described in this Privacy Policy) we collect through the Websites, unless we collect such information on behalf of a “data controller” in which case we will be a “data processor.” This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, applications or services that do not display or link to this Privacy Policy or that display or link to a different privacy policy.
Our Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information (UK, EEA, and Swiss Visitors Only)
If you are a visitor using our Websites from the UK, EEA, or Switzerland, our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Information described above will depend on the Personal Information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect Personal Information from you only where we need the Personal Information to Services for you for which you have contracted with us, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests or rely upon your consent where we are legally required to do so and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we also may have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you or may otherwise need the Personal Information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
Your Rights
You have the right to have your Personal Information erased. You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Information. You have the right to have your Personal Information we collect corrected. You have the right to object to certain types of processing of your Personal Information. You can opt-out of certain uses of your Personal Information. For any of these, please contact us at privacy@assp.org.
Categories of Personal Information
Personal Information may be disclosed to and processed by our third-party marketing data processors. Such data may include, but is not limited to Personal Information relating to the following categories of Data Subjects:
- Prospects, members, customers, event attendees, business partners and vendors of us.
- Employees or contact persons of our prospects, members, customers, event attendees, business partners and vendors.
We may disclose Personal Information to our third-party marketing data processors which may include, but is not limited to the following categories of Personal Information:
- First and last name
- Title
- Position
- Contact information (street address, email address, phone number)
- ID data
- Professional demographic data
- Personal demographic data
Data Transfers
We are headquartered in the United States. As such, we and our service providers may transfer your Personal Information to, or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your Personal Information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it. If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, we provide adequate protection for the transfer of Personal Information to countries outside of the EEA or Switzerland through a series of intercompany agreements based on the Standard Contractual Clauses. We may also need to transfer your information to other group companies or service providers in countries outside the EEA. This may happen if our servers or suppliers and service providers are based outside the EEA, or if you use our services and products while visiting countries outside this area.
If you are a resident of country other than the United States, you acknowledge and consent to our collecting, transmitting, and storing your Personal Information out of the country in which you reside.