SIS is committed to respecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes the measures we take to protect your privacy in connection with your use of our website.

Collection of Information

Generally.
When you register on our website, we may ask for your name, title, company name, billing address, service address, e-mail address, phone number, user name, password, and answer to a security question used in the event you forget your user name or password. If you list, sell, purchase or return products or services offered on our website, we may collect, depending on the transaction, the information listed above, and credit card number, expiration date, security code and billing address, bank account number, and bank transit number. We use third parties to accept and process payments for purchase transactions on our website. Neither those third parties nor SIS retains credit card or banking information except during the payment transactions process.

IP Address.
An IP address is a unique string of numbers assigned to your computer by your internet service provider. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We will use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site. Your IP address also may be used to gather broad demographic information.

Cookies.
A “cookie” is a small data file placed on your hard drive when you visit certain websites. We use cookies to collect, store and sometimes track information for statistical purposes to improve the services we provide. If you are a registered user, we will use a cookie to save your settings and to provide personalized services. These cookies do not enable third parties to access any of your personally identifiable information. Additionally, be aware that if you visit other websites you may be required to accept cookies. Advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control the use of those cookies, and expressly disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.

Use of Information

We will only use your personally identifiable information in the context of your customer relationship with SIS, including for billing, provisioning of service, to solve problems associated with service, to provide reporting, and to inform customers of new products or services that will better meet their needs. From time to time, we may send you e-mail messages informing you of products and services we believe may be of interest to you. Those marketing e-mails may contain code that enables our database to track your usage of the e-mails, including whether the e-mail was opened and/or what links (if any) were clicked. We will combine such information to improve your experience with our website and/or provide customized e-mail communications to you.

Sharing Information

SIS does not provide any third-party access to your personal information except to facilitate your own attempts to register with our partners or receive offers of similar educational events from select partners (i.e. TCT, ACC). However, we may disclose information you provide if required by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law, (2) protect and defend our rights or property or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone in imminent danger of harm. We may gather demographic information from you from time to time. We will not share such information with any person or entity in a manner that identifies you as an individual, unless we let you know that at the time of collection, or we have your permission. When we share demographic information with third parties, we will give them aggregate information only.

Your Options to Control Your Information

SIS will not read, listen to or disclose to any third parties private e-mail, conversations, or other communications that are transmitted using SIS services except as required to ensure proper operation of services or as otherwise authorized by law.

If you would rather not receive e-mails about new products, promotions or other noteworthy news, please e-mail info@sis.org and request to not receive notification of any promotions and future plans. You may also contact us by postal mail at

SIS
1221 Madison Avenue,
Suite 1020
Seattle, WA 98104
Attention: Customer Service - Opt Out.

Unlawful Activity.
SIS may use personally identifiable information to investigate and help prevent potentially unlawful activity or activities that threaten the integrity of service or network integrity or otherwise violate SIS's Customer Agreements

Children’s Privacy Protection

SIS does not sell products or services for purchase by children and is committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. SIS does not knowingly solicit or collect customer identifiable information from children or teenagers under the age of eighteen. In addition, SIS will not knowingly link to any third party web site that solicits or collects customer identifiable information from minors. If you believe that a minor has disclosed personally identifiable information to SIS, please contact SIS Customer Service.

Security

Generally.
SIS has invested and deployed a wide variety of technology and security features to ensure the privacy of customer information on its network. In addition, SIS has implemented strict operational guidelines to ensure customer privacy is safeguarded. SIS will continue to update policies and implement additional security features as new technologies become available. Although we exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure. We will protect the transmission of credit card information through industry standard, SSL encryption.

Links to other Sites.
Our website contains hyperlinks and pointers to internet websites maintained by third parties. We do not control, operate or endorse any information, products or services on those third-party websites and are not responsible for their content. This privacy policy only covers our website and does not cover any other website.

Accuracy and Updates

Every effort is made to provide you with online access to your registration data so that you may update or correct your information at any time.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may make changes in privacy policy from time to time. When we do so, we will post the revised privacy policy on our website with a link at the bottom of our home page. Our home page will also contain a statement notifying readers that the policy has changed and the effective date of that change.

Contacting SIS

We would like to receive your comments and questions about this privacy policy and any other matter you have regarding our website. Please address comments or questions to us via e-mail or postal mail.

You can send e-mail to: info@sis.org

You can also contact us by postal mail at: SIS, 1221 Madison Avenue, Suite 1020, Seattle, WA 98104, Attention: Customer Service - Privacy Policy.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy

Your use of our website is subject to this privacy policy and our terms of use. BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ACCEPT THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the revision date at the bottom of this page to determine whether the policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of our website following posting of the updated privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

Effective Date

This privacy policy was last revised on April 23, 2007.