Privacy Policy
[Last Amended on: Nov. 2, 2007]
The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) is the organization that produces this Website. OPASTCO is committed to safeguarding your privacy online, and has established this Privacy Policy for that purpose.
General
You can visit this Website without disclosing any personal information about yourself. By entering this Website, you do disclose your Internet Protocol (IP) address. However, your IP address is only a temporary number assigned by your Internet service provider for browsing and other purposes, and does not identify you personally. OPASTCO may use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to monitor or administer the quality of our Website, and to measure the volumes of traffic on various portions of our Website. However, OPASTCO does not use such IP addresses to personally identify the users of this Website.
Voluntarily Supplied Personal Information
This Website contains online membership application forms, publication order forms, email distribution sign-up forms and a members-only section. In the future, it may also contain online meeting registration forms, online forms for the ordering and payment for various goods and services, and survey response forms. These various forms will require the voluntary submission of personal information regarding you, including but not limited to, your name, title or office, street or post office address, email address, and telephone numbers. These forms may also require the voluntary submission of “personal” information about your Company, including but not limited to, your Company’s name, address of principal office(s), type(s) of business, service(s) provided, area(s) of operation, numbers of exchanges and/or access lines, contact person(s), officers and directors, email address(es) and telephone number(s). We may also collect other personal and Company information relevant to the processing and satisfaction of the form or request, including but not limited to, the good(s) or service(s) ordered, the meeting(s) attended, and the topic(s) of interest.
If OPASTCO uses a third party to provide the goods or services that you requested, OPASTCO will provide that third party with the personal information you submit that is needed by the third party to identify and deliver to you the desired goods or services.
OPASTCO will not sell, lease or share your personal information with any other entity, and will require any third party vendors with which it deals to agree not to sell, lease or share such personal information.
If OPASTCO or its third party vendor request or accept online payment by credit card, all such credit card information will be considered as highly confidential, and its usage and storage will be protected by reasonable and appropriate security measures such as firewalls, passwords and/or encryption.
Email News Alerts and Offers
You may sign up on this Website to receive email news alerts and to receive emails containing special offers and promotions. You will not receive any such emails unless you complete the specific procedure for subscribing to them. If, at any subsequent date, you determine that you no longer wish to receive such emails, you may complete the procedure listed on the Website or the emails for “unsubscribing” to the particular email list, or may call (telephone number). “Unsubscribe” requests will be honored within ten (10) business days.
No Spyware or Adware
OPASTCO does not install any spyware or adware in connection with this Website, and does not distribute and commercial messages (or authorize any third party to distribute any commercial messages) by means of spyware or adware.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that websites save to your computer’s hard drive or to your browser’s memory. OPASTCO may use cookies to track your visits to our Website or to determine your usage of various portions of our Website. OPASTCO may also use cookies to store information that your provide regarding your preferences, or to store technical information useful for your interactions with our Website.
Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but usually can be modified to decline cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your computer. If you elect to decline cookies, you may not be able to experience fully the features of this Website.
OPASTCO does not transfer cookies associated with our Website to any other entity, nor does OPASTCO authorize any other entity to access the cookies we may place on your computer’s hard drive or browser.
Security of Your Personal Information
OPASTCO will regularly delete personal information that it no longer needs to serve its Members. All retained personal information will be protected by reasonable and appropriate security measures such as firewalls, passwords and/or encryption.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
OPASTCO may occasionally update this Privacy Policy in order to reflect technical and business changes, and/or to respond to Member experiences and suggestions. When it makes such changes, OPASTCO will revise the bracketed “Last Amended on: _____” date on the first page of this Privacy Policy to reflect the date that the most recent change was made.
Contacting OPASTCO
If you have any questions or complaints regarding OPASTCO’s privacy policies, you may contact us at (email address) or (telephone number).