Effective as of January 15,
2008.
General Statement of Privacy
The Ontario
California 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 Ontario Chamber of Commerce will not be used
in any manner to which you have not consented.
While the Ontario Chamber of Commerce does
analyze its Website logs to monitor the flow of
traffic and make improvements to the site’s
content, its Website 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 Ontario Chamber of
Commerce Web site without your knowledge or
action. Your information is collected through
the membership registration form, e-mail
newsletter registration 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 Ontario Chamber of Commerce,
others may collect that information to send you
unsolicited information from outside the Ontario
Chamber of Commerce, or for other purposes.
Use of Personally Identifiable
Information
We reserve the option to share your contact
information with certain third parties. These
can include financial institutions, service
providers, contractors, or affiliate
organizations. You will always have the ability
to opt out from receiving information from the
Ontario Chamber of Commerce as well as from said
third parties.
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 Ontario Chamber
of Commerce 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 Ontario Chamber of Commerce
does not collect such information about you
through the ontario.org Web site. However, in
recognition of the sensitive nature of such
information, in the event the Ontario Chamber of
Commerce 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
Ontario Chamber of Commerce as such.
Use of Non-personally identifiable
information
As a general matter, Non-Personally Identifiable
Information helps us determine how the
ontario.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.
Ontario.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
ontario.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 Ontario Chamber of Commerce 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 Ontario
Chamber of Commerce 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.
Correcting, Updating or Deleting
Information
The ontario.org Web site
gives users the option to correct, update or
delete any information previously provided to us
by the user; however, we will maintain copies of
user information to the extent retained as part
of our Web site's standard backup/archive
process. In addition, these procedures will not
remove such of your information that has been
provided by you to, or collected from you by,
the Web sites of our business partners. We are
not responsible for ensuring the removal or
deletion from the Web sites of our business
partners of your information provided by us to
our business partners as permitted by you or
otherwise in accordance with this Privacy
Statement.
To make changes to your contact information, or
to opt out of receiving information, please
contact us in one of the following ways:
1. Send an e-mail to info@ontario.org
2. Send a written request to:
Ontario Chamber of Commerce
500 East E Street Suite 200
Ontario, CA 91764
3. Call us at 909-984-2458
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