What this Policy Covers
This
Encounter Collaborative privacy policy describes how we use and
protect the personally identifiable information that you share
with us. This information includes your email address, name, title
and mailing address, etc., which enables us to identify you. This
policy governs websites owned and operated by Encounter Collaborative.
Our policy does not govern websites of other parties to which
we may provide links, because Encounter is not responsible, and
cannot control the privacy practices or content of those sites.
We do, however,
greatly respect your privacy. When using our sites, you may get
information, communicate with us, or link to other websites. While
doing that, you may give us information that enables us to provide
enhanced products or services to you and to personalize your experience
on our website. To demonstrate our commitment to fair information
practices, we have adopted leading communication industry privacy
guidelines. We do, however, urge you at all times to use caution
when providing your personally identifiable information and suggest
that you read the Federal Trade Commission’s suggested safety
precautions for internet surfing, which can be found by clicking
www.ftc.gov.
Our Policies and Practices
We want to give you the comfort and confidence you need to fully
participate in our online offerings so that we can better serve
your needs. Listed below are our policies and practices.
Profile Information
egenda’s profile forms require customers to give
us contact information such as name, pass code, company name and
email address. Confirmation and welcome emails may be sent via
email. Users may receive information on services, special promotions,
and a newsletter. Encounter will not use any confidential information
entered by our customers. Out of respect for the privacy of our
users we present the option to not receive communications from
Encounter. Please see our unsubscribe policies below.
We also automatically receive
and record information on our server logs from your browser including
your IP address, cookie information and
the page you requested.
Encounter uses information
for three general purposes: to customize the content you see,
to fulfill your needs and requests for certain products and services,
and to contact you about specials and new products.
Encounter routinely time-stamps
and logs events (like features used, page visits, number of participants,
length of meetings.) This data is used for accounting/billing
purposes as well as for performance tuning and optimization of
Encounter services.
Market Research
From time to time we may post some online surveys
asking visitors for contact information such as name and email
address. We use contact data from our surveys to notify customers
of changes/additions to our service. This market research is provided
voluntarily and used by Encounter to understand and respond to
customer requirements, issues, and needs.
Security
We make every precaution to protect our customers' information
on our corporate website and our product website.
We use secure technology, privacy protection controls,
and restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard your
personal information. When customers submit sensitive information
via the website, the information is protected both online and
off-line.
When we ask customers to enter sensitive information,
it is protected with the best encryption software in the industry
- SSL. We use industry-standard technology to keep your personal
information as secure as possible.
Each and every Encounter employee servicing our
products is obligated to abide by the Encounter privacy policy.
Employees who violate our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary
action, up to and including termination. Only authorized Encounter
employees servicing Encounter are permitted to have access to
your personal information and such access is limited by need.
Finally, the servers that
we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a
secure environment. If you have any questions about the security
at our website, you can send an email to service@e2c.com.
Confidentiality
Encounter does not share or release personal information.
Encounter will never willfully disclose personal information about
its customers nor email addresses nor contact names to any outside
parties without receiving written permission or unless ordered
to do so by a court of law.
We do not disclose your private, online communications.
Encounter honors the confidentiality of its members' private communications
(i.e. email invitations, meeting schedules, attendee lists, questions
and answers, and file uploads/downloads). However, what you publish
to your Encounter service is available to those whom you authorize
to see the information.
We protect the confidentiality of your Web meetings
and its contents.
Encounter is aware that its services may be used to conduct meetings
that may be private, or used to discuss highly confidential information.
Encounter takes seriously the need to protect the confidentiality
of the communications of its users. Encounter provides a number
of ways, such as passwords, PIN’s, emailed URL’s and meeting keys,
to restrict unauthorized access to users' confidential materials.
The meeting schedule, attendee lists, subject matter,
and contents of any Web presentations, live or recorded, visual
or audio, and any content uploaded to Encounter's servers are
considered private to the purchaser of the event or conference
center where such information was collected. Encounter employees
and agents will not view these materials except as necessary to
appropriately support the service. Any viewing of such content
will be restricted to the select, authorized operations and technical
staff that support the service. The information viewed will not
be shared with any third party. The sole use of any information
revealed would be to anticipate, diagnose, support or resolve
any problems that might limit or disrupt the service. Encounter
employees and agents will not act, trade or otherwise use such
private information for any personal or commercial gain.
Our system automatically gathers information about
the nature of your usage of our service. We do not share any of
this data with outside companies. We monitor this data (number
of attendees, duration and frequency of meetings, total number
of meetings) in aggregate for service capacity planning purposes,
and to understand how our customers as a group use the service,
so that we can continuously improve the quality and reliability
of our services overall.
Any meeting participant details or demographic information
collected on the behalf of the purchaser of any Web conference
or event, may be used by Encounter to authenticate the user and
such user's rights to attend, present or organize a specific Web
conference. Encounter will not use this information for any other
purpose without the authorization of the organizer of the event.
Encounter occasionally sponsors free conferences,
promotional offers, seminars, contests and events that may collect
user identifiable information via their registration process.
Meeting participants may be required to give us contact information
such as name, email address, and demographics. Encounter will
occasionally use this data to send additional information about
our company and services.
We have one exception to this policy. We will release
specific information about your account to law enforcement authorities
or other government officials as we, at our sole discretion, believe
is necessary, in connection with an investigation of any matter
that is illegal or may expose Encounter to any liability.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a customer's personally identifiable information changes (such
as your phone number), we will endeavor to provide a way to correct
or update that customer's personal data provided to us. egenda users customers can log in and click
on the “Profile update” button to modify information. Encounter
customers may contact: sales@e2c.com
Unsubscribe
Customers who no longer wish to receive online communications
or specific items from us may unsubscribe from receiving these
communications. Each communication will have a way to unsubscribe
from that list. Please carefully follow the instructions on the
communication to ensure removal of your name from our lists. If
you encounter any difficulty, please email us at: service@e2c.com
Links to Other Sites
Our websites may contain links to other sites. Please be aware
that Encounter is not responsible for the privacy practices of
such other sites. We encourage our customers to be aware when
they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this website.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing
information about the user. We may use cookies to save information
so you don't have to re-enter them each time you visit our site.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends on our site, administer
our site, help diagnose problems with our server, track customer's
movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use
and to keep track of how many people are using our site(s). We
may from time-to-time aggregate our users' system information
and share that with partners (whom are under confidentiality obligations),
but in no case is an individual's specific system configuration
revealed to third-parties.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on our website so our customers are always aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that stated
at the time it was collected, we would notify customers by way
of an email. Customers will have a choice as to whether or not
we use their information in this different manner. We will use
information in accordance with the privacy policy under which
the information was collected.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact
us at webmaster@e2c.com.