Privacy Policy

General Statement of Privacy
 
The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce respects the privacy of its members and of those who visit this site. Subject to the provisions of applicable laws, any information you submit to the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce will not be used in any manner to which you have not consented. While the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber does analyze its Web site logs to monitor the flow of traffic and make improvements to the site’s content, its Web site logs are not personally identifiable, and no attempt to link them to individual visitors to this site is made.
 
Personally Identifiable Information
 
We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information about you on the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber Web site without your knowledge or action. Your information is collected through the membership registration form, information requests, and/or event registration forms. This information includes, but is not limited to, your name (first and last), company name, company address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, and credit card information. You should be aware that if you disclose any information on a bulletin board or in a chat room or other open forum that is hosted by the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber, others may collect that information to send you unsolicited information from outside the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber, or for other purposes.
 
Use of Personally Identifiable Information
 
The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.  The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you.  In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. 

The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries.  All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

You will always have the ability to opt out from receiving information from the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber.
 
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
 
Non-Personally Identifiable Information includes, but is not limited to, information we automatically collect on your use and/or actions on our Web site (e.g., user traffic patterns, page views on the Web site, click-through rates, search terms that users enter into our search utility). In addition, when a visitor arrives at our site, we collect the IP address, operating system, and browser software used. An IP address (which is not the same as an e-mail address) can tell us the user's internet service provider and, based on that, can suggest the geographic location of the connection. The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber recognizes that certain User Information of a key demographic nature (e.g., race, age, gender, national origin, income), while Non-Personally Identifiable Information, is still of a sensitive nature to users. As a general matter, the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber does not collect such information about you through the dpchamber.org Web site. However, in recognition of the sensitive nature of such information, in the event the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber comes into possession of such information, whether through your voluntary submission of such information in response to a special feature on the Web site or by receiving such information from any of our business partners, such information shall, when coupled with any of your Personally Identifiable Information, itself be deemed to be Personally Identifiable Information and treated by the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber as such.
 
Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
 
As a general matter, Non-Personally Identifiable Information helps us determine how the dpchamber.org Web site is being used, helps us identify popular areas of the Web site, and helps determine the effectiveness of our promotional activities regarding the Web site.
 
Use of “Cookies”
 
Our Web site uses "cookies" (i.e., a small data file that our Web site writes to a user's hard drive) to help track your usage of our site, including what advertising you have seen. Dpchamber.org’s cookies do not include personal information about you, but they are unique to each user and include a member ID # (a randomly generated unique number) that enables the dpchamber.org Web site to identify you when you visit, so you: (1) do not have to remember your username and password each time you visit the Web site; and (2) receive any personalized services you requested when you registered.
 
Neither our Web site, nor the cookies we write to the hard drives of our users, read any data off of your hard drive outside of our cookies. This includes not reading any cookie files created by other Web sites. You can refuse our cookies by turning them off in your browser (for more information on how to do this, please refer to your browser's documentation). You do not need to have cookies turned on in your browser to use our Web site; however, without cookies certain of the automated functions and features of our Web site will not be available to you. We also use cookies to measure the click through rate on e-mails delivered.
 
Third Party Use of Personal Information
 
The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber Web site contains links to other Internet Web sites, including co-branded or other affiliated sites. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites, including such sites' use of any information.
 
Security
 
You understand and agree that “perfect” security does not exist anywhere, including on the Internet. When you send credit card information, we encrypt this information between your computer and our server. Other information you send to this site, including email messages, will not be encrypted unless we advise you otherwise. Our Web site is protected by a firewall and monitored for security.
 
Merchant Services
 
You may be able to access certain information related to third parties at the Site, or via links, banner ads or clickthroughs from the Site, regarding the goods or services of third parties. You understand and agree that your access to or use of those services is a matter entirely between you and the associated third parties, and the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber shall have no liability whatsoever for any such access or use.
 
Legal Disclaimer
 
This site provides information designed to help users cope with their own legal, business, financial, and other needs. This information is not the same as retaining experts in those fields for advice. Although we go to great lengths to ensure the information is accurate, we strongly recommend you consult an expert, including but not limited to a lawyer, accountant, financial services consultant, or other professional as appropriate. Nothing contained in this web site is to be considered as the rendering of legal, financial, professional or other advice for specific cases, and users are responsible for obtaining such advice from their own legal, financial or other counsel. The information contained on this site is intended for educational, background and informational purposes only.
 
Notice to Parents or Guardians
 
We want to help you protect your child’s privacy. We encourage you to talk to your children about safe and responsible use of their personal information while using the Internet. Pursuant to the Children’s Online Protection Act of 1998, the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
 
Correcting, Updating or Deleting Information
 
The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.  If you believe that the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce at chamber@dpchamber.org.  We will use reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
 
Changes to This Privacy Policy
 
This privacy policy is available at all times to all users of the dpchamber.org Web site at http://www.dpchamber.org/visit/85/Privacy-Policy. Any material changes to this privacy policy will be communicated to users through this Web page. Users are responsible for making use of this resource to stay up to date on the dpchamber.org privacy policy.