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CSAE Privacy Policy

The Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) is staffed by professionals who strive to serve members based on CSAE's Statement of Values. CSAE is committed to protecting the privacy of members and customers. The CSAE website is operated in accordance with this same set of values. All personal information collected by CSAE via this website or otherwise is done so in accordance with the following privacy policy.

Protecting Your Personal Information

Certain processes available on this website are used to collect personal information such as "Join CSAE," "Update Profile," "CAE Program", etc. CSAE collects no personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us. Any personally identifiable data about customers or website visitors is stored securely and used only for the purpose for which it is provided to us.

Payment Data Collected

All credit card information is collected and sent to our payment partner for use in payment approval and processing only. CSAE does not retain your credit card information. CSAE's payment partner is VeriSign. For further information on VeriSign's privacy policy, please see www.verisign.com.

Aggregate Data

CSAE may share aggregate information about its members and customers – not individual data – with sponsors, potential sponsors and other parties to help them better understand CSAE members and their interests.

Such aggregate information is used to give CSAE demographic data about its members in order to improve the organization and the programs and services we provide.

The information you provide to CSAE – such as your name, address, etc. – allows CSAE to inform you about events and activities and to notify you of issues, events or special offers which may be of interest to you. By becoming a member or by requesting information or registering for events or courses offered by CSAE, you are giving CSAE permission to contact you by way of the information you provide. Members may choose not to be contacted by CSAE – please use the "Update Profile" section of the CSAE website (www.csae.com) to customize your communications preferences, or by contacting CSAE Member Services at member.info@csae.com or 416-363-3555, ext. 228 or 226.

CSAE Website

The operating system for the CSAE website (www.csae.com) may automatically record some general information about your visit, such as:

The Internet domain for your Internet service provider, such as "company.com" or "service.ca" and the IP address of the computer accessing the website, such as "ppp-55";
The type of browser (such as "Netscape version x" or "Internet Explorer version x") you are using;
The type of operating system you are using (such as Macintosh, Unix, or Windows);
The date and time you visit our site and the web pages that you visit on our site, along with the address of the previous website you were visiting, if you linked to us from another website.
If you are logged into this site, your user name will be recorded along with the date and time of your visit, which pages you viewed, etc.

CSAE uses this information for statistical analysis, to help us make our site more useful to visitors. We may disclose this information in aggregate only to third parties such as sponsors, clients or advertisers and/or use it for auditing purposes.

The CSAE website may use "cookies" that identify you as a return visitor. A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. So, when you come back to visit CSAE's website again, information can be tailored to suit your individual preferences. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit and to measure website activity. Browsers such as Netscape allow you to disable cookie collection if you wish, or inform you when a cookie is being stored on your hard drive.

Specifically, we use cookies in order to allow members to access features (i.e. "Remember Me" function) without logging into the website each time.

When You Leave The CSAE Website

This policy discloses the privacy practices for the CSAE website (www.csae.com). However, the CSAE website contains links to other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of the new site. CSAE encourages you to read the privacy policies of all websites you visit, especially if you share any personal information.

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