Privacy Policy    

Conference Management Associates LLC., Sarasota, FL (“CMA”) takes your privacy seriously. Through our web site cmaworldwide.com we are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our service. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact info@cmaworldwide.com

When you register for a program on our site, you have granted us permission to release the information you entered as an Invitee of the sponsor of the program for which you wish to register (referred to as the “Program”).

Unless we request and receive your permission, we will not disclose or share personally identifiable information collected on our website with any unaffiliated third parties (except as required by law or pursuant to a governmental request). We use industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption. We do not sell or rent your personal financial information.

If you are registering for a Program as an Invitee or are purchasing or renting a product or service through our site, we may request payment or information regarding the transaction as well as your mailing address or other contact information to ensure authentication and proper delivery.

When you engage in an eCommerce transaction on our site using a credit card , your credit card information, is passed on only to those parties required to complete the specific transaction. For record purposes, your credit card information is stored with each transaction so that CMA and/or the vendor may access it if necessary when handling questions about that specific transaction. We may also use a company that performs credit card processing on our behalf; your personal financial data will be transmitted to such a company in order to process authorized transactions.

You can decline to provide credit card information at our site at anytime. If you should choose to withhold requested information however, we may not be able to provide you with the full spectrum of our services.





Website Links

Our site may contains links to other websites, including links to your Program sponsor’s sites and their vendor partners, as well as links to sites that CMA has determined may be useful to travelers. When you leave cmaworldwide.com to visit one of these sites, the only information transferred to the third party is the fact that you came from cmaworldwide.com (the refer address). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites.





Cookies

“Cookies" are commonplace throughout the Internet. CMA’s primary use of “cookies” are to allow CMA the opportunity to associate you with your information profile and in the process save you time.

A "cookie" also allows our site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements. CMA does not use "cookies" for targeted advertising unrelated to the specific program for which you are registering.

Cookies are not programs that come onto your system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to you that has no meaning outside our site. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there probably is a simple procedure in your browser that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies will be necessary to provide you with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information & confirmations) available on CMA's site.





Security Procedures

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Please note, however, that no data transmission over the Internet is infallible. Any information you transmit through our site is done at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we will take every reasonable precaution to ensure its security on our systems. This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control. We protect secure data with industry-standard firewall and password protection systems. We periodically review and improve our security and privacy policies as necessary. We allow only pre-authorized individuals access to our servers.





Promotional Communications

We do not sell, rent or otherwise disseminate your information for third party marketing. We will not send you notifications of specials, products and information on upcoming events, or other promotional materials. You still receive standard communications and emails from us when you use our site to register for a Program online.





Legal Requirements

We reserve the right to disclose any personal information you submit to us if we are compelled to do so by a court of law or governmental entity or if we determine it is necessary to protect the rights of CMA and/or this Program’s sponsor. By visiting cmaworldwide.com you are accepting the practices described in this policy. Your visit to this web site and any dispute over privacy is subject to this policy, and limitations on damages and application of the law of the State of Florida.





Contact Us

If you elect to contact us online with any questions, comments or requests, you will need to provide your full name, mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address so that we can be sure to be able to contact you. You will be given the opportunity to provide additional information that will allow us to serve you better.

Your communication will be handled by e-mail to answer questions regarding the Program or will be relayed to the Program’s sponsor. The information that you include online will not be encrypted prior to transmission, so you should exercise good judgment about the nature of the information that you include in the form (e.g., do not include things like your credit card number in the comments field). The information that you include in those online forms will be used in responding to your questions, comments and requests and may be used by us or entities acting on our behalf for quality assurance purposes. However, that information will not be used or disclosed for any other purposes without your permission unless it is done on an aggregated basis for statistical purposes without any information that could be used to link that information to you.





Change Of Policy

The foregoing policies are effective as of July 1, 2002. CMA reserves the right to change this policy at any time. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.