{"id":820,"date":"2013-02-28T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyiac.org\/?page_id=820"},"modified":"2013-03-02T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T02:57:51","slug":"privacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nyiac.org\/policies\/privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LAST UPDATED: \u00a0March 1, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">PRIVACY POLICY<\/h2>\n<p>The New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) is concerned about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information.\u00a0 This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through \u00a0websites operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (the \u201c<b>Websites<\/b>\u201d), through software applications made available by us for use on or through computers and mobile devices (\u201c<b>Apps<\/b>\u201d), through social media pages that we control from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (collectively, our \u201c<b>Social Media Pages<\/b>\u201d) as well as through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, including the Websites, the Apps and our Social Media Pages, the \u201c<b>Services<\/b>\u201d).\u00a0 This policy will also apply to our collection of information from you offline.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<h2>PERSONAL INFORMATION<\/h2>\n<h2>Personal Information We May Collect<\/h2>\n<p>\u201c<b>Personal Information<\/b>\u201d is information that identifies you as an individual, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<li>Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses)<\/li>\n<li>Telephone number<\/li>\n<li>Email address<\/li>\n<li>Credit and debit card number<\/li>\n<li>Profile picture<\/li>\n<li>Social media account ID<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that we may use a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Services.\u00a0 If you wish to make a payment through the Services, your Personal Information may be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party\u2019s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy.\u00a0 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party\u2019s collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.<\/p>\n<p>If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n<h2>How We May Collect Personal Information<\/h2>\n<p>We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Through the Services<\/b>:\u00a0 We may collect Personal Information through the Services, e.g., when you sign up for a membership or inquire about a reservation.<\/li>\n<li><b>Offline<\/b>:\u00a0 We may collect Personal Information from you offline, such as when you visit NYIAC, meet with our representatives at a conference, or reserve an arbitration room over the phone.<\/li>\n<li><b>From Other Sources<\/b>:\u00a0 We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as public databases; joint marketing partners; social media platforms; from people with whom you are colleagues or connected on social media platforms, as well as from other third parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How We May Use Personal Information<\/h2>\n<p>We may use Personal Information: <b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to assist with reservations or to send you newsletters.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.<\/li>\n<li>To complete and fulfill a purchase, for example, to process your payments, have your order delivered to you, communicate with you regarding your purchase and provide you with related customer service.<\/li>\n<li>To send you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.<\/li>\n<li>To facilitate social sharing functionality.<\/li>\n<li>To conduct surveys on issues of interest to the arbitration community.<\/li>\n<li>For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.<\/li>\n<li>As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e)\u00a0to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and\/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How Personal Information May Be Disclosed<\/h2>\n<p>Your Personal Information may be disclosed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology \u00a0and related infrastructure provision, customer service, catering, email delivery, credit card processing, auditing and other similar services.<\/li>\n<li>To third parties to permit them to send you marketing communications, if you have opted in to such sharing.<\/li>\n<li>To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Services.<\/li>\n<li>By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages and blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and materials.\u00a0 Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services may become public information, and may be available to users of the Services and\/or to the general public.\u00a0 We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the Services.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).<\/li>\n<li>As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e)\u00a0to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and\/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>OTHER INFORMATION<\/h2>\n<h2>Other Information We May Collect<\/h2>\n<p>\u201c<b>Other Information<\/b>\u201d is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Browser and device information<\/li>\n<li>App usage data<\/li>\n<li>Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies<\/li>\n<li>Demographic information and other information provided by you<\/li>\n<li>Aggregated information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How We May Collect Other Information<\/h2>\n<p>We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Through your browser or device<\/b>:\u00a0 Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services \u00a0you are using.\u00a0 We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.<\/li>\n<li><b>Through your use of an App<\/b>:\u00a0 When you download and use an App, we and our service providers may track and collect App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number.<\/li>\n<li><b>Using cookies<\/b>:\u00a0 Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using.\u00a0 Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data.\u00a0 We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while using the Services, as well as for online tracking purposes.\u00a0 We can recognize your computer to assist your use of the Services.\u00a0 We also gather statistical information about the usage of the Services in order to continually improve the design and functionality, understand how the Services are used and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the Services.\u00a0 Cookies further allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site.\u00a0 You may also wish to refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutcookies.org\/manage-cookies\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.allaboutcookies.org\/manage-cookies\/index.html<\/a>. \u00a0However, if you do not accept these cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services.\u00a0 For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer and you may need to log in every time you visit applicable Services.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Using pixel tags and<\/b> <b>other similar technologies<\/b>:\u00a0 Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Services to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.<\/li>\n<li><b>Using Adobe Flash technology (including Flash Local Shared Objects (\u201cFlash LSOs\u201d)) and other similar technologies<\/b>:\u00a0 We or our service providers may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Services.\u00a0 If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager07.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager07.html\">Website Storage Settings Panel<\/a>. You can also control Flash LSOs by going to the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager03.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager03.html\">Global Storage Settings Panel<\/a> and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred to &#8220;information&#8221; on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).\u00a0 Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with the Services or our online content.<\/li>\n<li><b>IP Address<\/b>:\u00a0 Your \u201c<b>IP Address<\/b>\u201d is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).\u00a0 An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited.\u00a0 Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services.\u00a0 We may use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels of the Services, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Services.<\/li>\n<li><b>Physical Location:<\/b>\u00a0 We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower or WiFi signals. We may use your device\u2019s physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content.\u00a0 In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses and\/or sharing of your device\u2019s location, but if you choose to deny such uses and\/or sharing, we may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services and content.<\/li>\n<li><b>From you<\/b>:\u00a0 Information such as your location, as well as other information, such as your preferred means of communication, is collected when you voluntarily provide this information.\u00a0 Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services.<\/li>\n<li><b>By aggregating information<\/b>:\u00a0 Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services, (for example, we may aggregated Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How We May Use and Disclose Other Information<\/h2>\n<p>Please note that we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.\u00a0 If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it as described in \u201cHow We May Collect Other Information\u201d section above, as well as for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.<\/p>\n<p>In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your geographical location).\u00a0 If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is combined.<\/p>\n<h2>THIRD PARTY SERVICES<\/h2>\n<p>This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link.\u00a0 The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.<\/p>\n<h2>SECURITY<b><\/b><\/h2>\n<p>We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization.\u00a0 Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.\u00a0 If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the <i>\u201cContacting Us\u201d<\/i> section below.<\/p>\n<h2>CHOICES AND ACCESS<\/h2>\n<h2>Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information<\/h2>\n<p>We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes.\u00a0 You may opt-out from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Receiving electronic communications from us<\/b>:\u00a0 If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by sending an email to <a href=\"mailto:privacy@NYIAC.org\">privacy@NYIAC.org<\/a> with the word \u201cUNSUBSRIBE\u201d in the subject line.<\/li>\n<li><b>Our sharing of your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes<\/b>:\u00a0 If you would prefer that we do not share your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you may opt-out of this sharing by sending an email to <a href=\"mailto:privacy@NYIAC.org\">privacy@NYIAC.org<\/a> with the word \u201cOPT-OUT\u201d in the subject line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.\u00a0 Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.<\/p>\n<h2>How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information<\/h2>\n<p>If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress, or delete Personal Information that has been previously provided to us by you, you may contact us by writing to <a href=\"mailto:privacy@NYIAC.org\">privacy@NYIAC.org<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information that you have provided to us suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information that you have provided to us\u00a0 For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.\u00a0 We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and\/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion).\u00a0 There may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed.<\/p>\n<h2>RETENTION PERIOD<\/h2>\n<p>We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.<\/p>\n<h2>USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS<\/h2>\n<p>The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that these individuals do not provide Personal Information through the Services.\u00a0 <b><\/b><\/p>\n<h2>CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER<\/h2>\n<p>The Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States.\u00a0 Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.<\/p>\n<h2>SENSITIVE INFORMATION<\/h2>\n<p>we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (<i>e.g.<\/i>, social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.<\/p>\n<h2>UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY<\/h2>\n<p>We may change this Privacy Policy.\u00a0 Please take a look at the \u201c<i>Last Updated<\/i>\u201d legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised.\u00a0 Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.\u00a0 Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>CONTACTING US<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at <a href=\"mailto:Privacy@NYIAC.org\">privacy@NYIAC.org<\/a>. <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please note that email communications are not always secure; so please do not include credit card information or sensitive information in your emails to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) is concerned about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose 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