Privacy Notice

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Society of Professional Communicators, Inc. (SPC, spcgroup.org, "we" and "us"). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:

What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
SPC is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We only have access to information that you voluntarily give us. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

SPC uses your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. SPC also posts your information on our search engine for the purpose of sharing professional expertise. We do not distribute your information to any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill specific requests such as sending meeting announcements and reminders.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about meetings, events or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via email info@spcgroup.org:

See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever you send us sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted directly to PayPal or the credit card processing company in a secure way.. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page. SPC does not recieve or store any financial information

Site Registration
In order to use this some features of this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide other demographic information that we may request about yourself or your profession, but it is not required.

Meeting Registration
We request information from you on our order form. To register for our meetings, you must provide contact information (like name and address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for payment purposes. If we have trouble processing an registration, we'll use this information to contact you.

Cookies
We may use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Business Partners
We use an Constant Contact and Paypal / credit card processing to process your payment for fees and membership. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond contacting you.

We may partner other parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or 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 any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.