PRIVACY POLICY

Visitors to IFDA’s website are anonymous. Personal information, such as your e-mail address

is not collected. Your IP address (computer Internet address) is traced, but not linked to any

personally identifiable information so that IFDA may track the number of visitors to various

areas of the website and the amount of time that is spent in each area. Other information that

may be collected automatically is the type of computer and operating system you are using,

which is supplied by your browser.

When you register for a conference, become a member, or purchase/request a product or service, we collect information you provide such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card information. IFDA also collects and uses your personal information to operate its website and deliver the services you have requested. Additionally, IFDA uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from IFDA. 

IFDA may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of

current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

A “cookie” is a text file stored on your computer which includes information that identifies your

computer and can be retrieved by our server to create a seamless browsing session. IFDA uses

cookies to track users’ activity through the website in order to improve the website, to offer the

user interactive features that would not be possible without them, and to recall specific

information to save the user time during subsequent visits to the website.

Association Use

Because of the special relationship we seek to maintain with our members, IFDA may, on

occasion, send you e-mails regarding the association, news, events and products.

Security of your Personal Information

IFDA secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. IFDA

secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer services in a controlled,

secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Third-Party Use

IFDA does not sell, rent or lease its member list to third parties. IFDA may, from to time,

contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of

interest to you. IFDA may also provide the business partner with contact information for

members, but only under contractual terms that restricts the use of that information only to the

IFDA program and for no other purposes. In addition, IFDA may share data with third parties

to help IFDA perform statistical analysis, send you e-mail or postal mail, provide customer

support, or arrange for deliveries. In all such cases, the third parties are prohibited from using

your personal information except to provide those services to IFDA, and they are required to

maintain the confidentiality of your information.

IFDA does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political

affiliations, without your explicit consent.

IFDA will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law

and in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the requirements of

federal or state law or comply with legal process served on IFDA; (b) protect and defend the

rights or property of IFDA; and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal

safety of users of the IFDA website or the public.

Credit Card Account Information

IFDA does not disclose credit card information provided to it by members or visitors. Credit

card account information is used only for obtaining payment for goods or services provided.

Information is submitted to the appropriate clearinghouse and not disclosed in any other way.

This website includes links to other websites. Since IFDA has no control over and is not

responsible for the privacy policies or contents of those websites, IFDA encourages you to

review the privacy and other policies of those websites.