NEACH is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the NEACH site and governs data collection and usage. By using the NEACH site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
NEACH collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. NEACH also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, ae, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by NEACH. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by NEACH for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the NEACH site.
Please keep in mind that if you choose to disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through NEACH public message boards, this information may be viewed, collected, and used by others. NEACH cannot guarantee the confidentiality or security of your Internet browser, or any communication transmitted or accessible over the Internet. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
NEACH Web sites may include links to third-party websites and social media where you will be able to share personal data, post comments, reviews, or other information outside of NEACH’s control. These links are made available to you as a convenience, and you agree to use these links at your own risk. These other third-party Web sites may send their own cookies to you, log your IP address, and otherwise collect data or solicit personal information. NEACH encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from NEACH so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. NEACH is not responsible for what third parties do in connection with their Web sites, how they handle your personal information, their privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the NEACH and NEACH family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
NEACH collects and uses your personal information to operate the NEACH Web site and deliver the services you have requested. NEACH also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from NEACH and its affiliates. NEACH may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
NEACH works with third party vendors to provide a more customized experience for you. To do so, we disclose personally identifiable information about you (specifically, your name and email address) to those vendors, though we do not allow them to re-sell or use that information for their own purposes.
NEACH does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
NEACH keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within NEACH, to determine what NEACH services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within NEACH to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
NEACH Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on NEACH or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of NEACH; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of NEACH, or the public.
Children’s Policy
NEACH Web sites are not directed to children under the age of 13. If you are not 13 years or older, do not use our Site. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that personally identifiable information of persons less than 13 years of age has been collected through a NEACH Web site, we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child or a minor under the age of 13 has posted, submitted or otherwise communicated personally identifiable information to a NEACH Web site without your consent, then you may alert us at info@neach.org so that we may take appropriate action to remove the minor's personally identifiable information from our systems.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
To help enhance the performance and functionality of the Site, we utilize session, persistent and third-party “cookies” that store a small piece of data on a users’ computers and collect certain information about the users’ visit to our Site. We also use cookies to understand users’ browsing and buying activities so that we can measure the success of online advertising campaigns we run on the Site. Our Site also uses web beacons (either directly or from our partners), along with cookies, to determine if a user has visited a particular website. These beacons aid in providing more relevant advertising to the user, as well measuring the success of an advertising campaign, but provide no personally identifiable information.
Cookies are small text files that web servers typically send to users’ computer when they visit a website. Cookies are stored as text files on users’ hard drive and can be accessed by web servers when the user visits a website or views an advertisement. A session cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user is using the Site but is deleted once the browser session is finished. A persistent cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user utilizes the Site and stores and uses that information in connection with future visits of the user to the Site. Third-party cookies and/or web beacons are cookies or web beacons provided by our technology and/or advertising partners. Any third-party cookie or web beacon that we authorize for use on the Site only collects that information described below for the same stated purposes as if we were directly collecting the information. For a third-party cookie or web beacon, the third-party will have access to the collected information to provide us with information or services to enhance the performance and functionality of the Site.
The cookies and web beacons we use collect non-personally identifiable information about users of the Site, including: browser used to access the site, date and time, the URL of the page being loaded, users who have visited a particular website(s), any previously assigned cookie identification (a unique identifier assigned to a user to identify repeat visitors), browser window size, the geographic location of the user, device and operating system used to access the Site. The information we collect from these cookies and web beacons is used to determine information about a user’s visit to our Site, including the number of visits, average time spent, pages viewed, navigation history through the website, and other statistics. This information is used to enhance the users experience while visiting our Site and to improve the performance of our Site by, among other things, allowing us to monitor Site performance, making the Site easier to use, measuring the effectiveness of promotional placements, and tailoring the Site (including the ads and offers a user receives) to better match a user’s interests and preferences.
Users who prefer not to accept cookies can set their Internet browser to notify them when they receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being placed on their hard drive. If you consent to our collection of cookies and you subsequently wish to withdraw your consent, you will need to manage the settings on your web browser to delete all cookies and disallow further acceptance of cookies. Please note that disabling cookies on your browser will prevent us from tracking your activities in relations to our Site, however, it may also disable some of the functions and features of the Site and the Site may not work properly.
If you would like to determine your consent status, please contact us at: info@neach.org
By continuing to use our Site, you are agreeing to our placing cookies and/or web beacons on your computer to analyze the way you use our Site. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the information we collect when you use the Site.
If you do not wish to accept cookies or web beacons in connection with your use of this Site, please discontinue use of the Site.
Security of your Personal Information
NEACH policies and procedures limit access to your personal information to those with a business reason to know such information. NEACH uses reasonable organizational, physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that the security of your communication with us was not secure or that an unauthorized person may have accessed your personal information, please immediately notify us by using the “Contact Us” page on our Web site or contacting us at info@neach.org.
Changes to this Statement
NEACH will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. NEACH encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how NEACH is protecting your information.
Contact Information
NEACH welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that NEACH has not adhered to this Statement, please contact NEACH at info@neach.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.