Privacy Policy
At Women Employed, we respect and protect the privacy of our website (“Site”) users. The following Privacy Statement provides details about how your personal information is collected and used. This privacy statement applies to Women Employed’s Site and services that are located in, but not limited to the www.womenemployed.org domain.
Information Collection and Use
Women Employed is the sole owner of information collected on this Site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Women Employed collects information from our Site visitors at several different points on our website.
Our Site offers several opportunities for visitors to register for informational mailings. These registration forms are often linked to Women Employed mailing lists and require users to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this contact information to send users information about Women Employed. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time.
Sharing and Usage
We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for their promotional use. Occasionally, we enter into contracts with third parties so that they can assist us in servicing you. The contracts prohibit them from using any of your personal information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information we provide to them. We may disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under the law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.
Our Site offers several opportunities for visitors to register for informational mailings. These registration forms are often linked to Women Employed mailing lists and require users to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this contact information to send users information about Women Employed. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time.
Use of Web Technologies
We use a variety of technologies on our Site, including Google Analytics, Google AdWords, CQ Roll Call Engage, and KnowWho. Among these are cookies, pieces of information that our Sites provide to your browser when you visit our Sites. Cookies allow us to verify the login status of Site users using services linked directly with our website, track point of entry to point of registration for those users participating in our email signup programs, and to track and measure the success of a particular email blast. Cookies also allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our website easier by recognizing you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our Site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still use our site; however, you may have limited access to some areas within our websites.
Women Employed uses remarketing or similar audiences to advertise online. In some cases, Women Employed partners with third-party vendors to show Women Employed advertising on other websites across the internet. These third-party vendors may use cookies to serve you ads based upon your past visits to Women Employed’s website. To opt out of Google cookies, visit their Ads Preference Manager. To opt out of any third-party vendor’s use of cookies, visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers. We collect information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view.
We also keep track of how you got to our Site and any links you click on to leave our Site. Once you leave our Site, we do not track you. We use your website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized Web experience, assist you with technical support, diagnose problems with our server, administer our websites and to tailor our informational offerings to you.
Security
We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures to protect your information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. When we ask for sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, we protect it through the use of encryption during transmission, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Women Employed takes care to reinforce the importance of our website visitors’ security and privacy among our employees. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information and, using physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to those employees and agents for business purposes only.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the Women Employed website, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.