NATOA Privacy Policy

Introduction:
The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (“NATOA”) respects your privacy and wants to provide you with information about our privacy practices in this Privacy Statement ("Privacy Statement"). This Privacy Statement applies to information collected on the websites located at www.natoa.org, any mobile applications associated with NATOA, as well as any services and features available on or through www.natoa.org or mobile applications, such as sub-sites, blogs, user communities, social networks, or other online or wireless offerings that post a link to this Privacy Statement (collectively referred to as “natoa.org”). NATOA is referred to in this Privacy Statement as "we," "us," "our," or other similar pronouns.This Privacy Statement includes, without limitation, the following information:

  • What personal data is collected from you through the website;
  • How such information is used;
  • With whom such information may be shared;
  • What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information;
  • What security obligations are in place; and
  • How you can correct any inaccuracies in your information.

Contact Information

We appreciate your questions and comments about this Privacy Statement and welcome your e-mail messages to info@natoa.org. If you feel that NATOA is not abiding by this Privacy Statement, you should write to us at:

NATOA, 3213 Duke Street, #695, Alexandria, VA 22314

  1. Collection of Information

By using www.natoa.org, we may request that you provide personal information, including your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and other generalized background information. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses, but is not linked to your personal information. We also get information from your use of our services including how you use them. When you request pages from our website, our servers may log your IP address and sometimes your domain name. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another website or a search engine); the portions of natoa.org you visited; any search terms you have entered, and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers.

  1. Our Use of Your Information

We use the information we gather on the website for the purpose of operating and improving natoa.org, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering products and services. We may use your contact information in order to send you email or other communications. We additionally may employ Internet tracking and analytic tools such as Google Analytics to better understand and deliver a user experience.

  1. Disclosure of Personal Information to Others

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as follows. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf, including hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals may have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party. We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of www.natoa.org if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to (1) meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (2) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (3) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of natoa.org, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

  1. Use of Cookies and Local Storage

The website may contain electronic images known as web beacons that allow us to count users who have visited those pages. Web beacons are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our website usage and they collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. You may not decline web beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.

  1. Access to, Opt-Out and/or Modification of Your Information

NATOA may provide account holders limited access to or the ability to modify your personal information. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.

If you are receiving newsletters, commercial emails or other communications from NATOA, you may opt-out by selecting an appropriate link in those email communications as indicated for the opt out or by sending an email to info@natoa.org. We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of the www.natoa.org more efficient, practical, and relevant. To the extent that we utilize the Google Analytics tools available, you have options with respect to some of those tracking tools or features available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

  1. Security of the Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

  1. Children

The website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

  1. Changes to Privacy Statement

If we decide to make materials changes to our Privacy Statement, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the website so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at info@natoa.org.