Summary

In providing service to you, SPE collects certain information, such as your address, phone number(s), and other contact, profile, demographics, and billing information. SPE collects this information only by voluntary disclosure directly from you. This type of personal information may be requested on a variety of transactional forms, including the SPE Membership Application, product order forms, and event registrations. These forms may be either traditional paper-based forms in catalogs, brochures, or fliers, or electronic-based forms on our web site or at events. The information SPE collects is intended to allow SPE to process your transaction and better serve you and your interests.

To help you understand how SPE uses your personal information, SPE has developed a Data Privacy Policy which is based on the following principles:

• SPE will disclose how it uses the information it collects;
• SPE will give you an opportunity to restrict SPE's use of this information;
• SPE will give you an opportunity to tell us not to give the information to others;
• SPE will use commercially reasonable means to maintain the information accurately; and
• SPE will give you an opportunity to correct the information in our records when it has been erroneously recorded.
• SPE will give you an opportunity to delete your information.

These principles and SPE's policy apply whether SPE collects the information by paper or in electronic form.

The SPE database contains information on members and nonmembers, including authors, exhibitors, advertisers, service providers, for the purpose of conducting SPE official business. SPE makes available information, other than for the SPE Membership Directory, to certain SPE individuals as determined by SPE policy on data use. As an example, SPE may provide access to data to SPE committee chairs, section and division chairs or SIG chairs and others for the purpose of conducting SPE business. The determination of data groups made available to various SPE groups is dictated by SPE Data Use policy.

How SPE Uses Your Personal Information

SPE uses the personal Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders or memberships placed through our online platforms or printed mailings (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this personal information to:

• Communicate with you (emails, print, telephone calls, texts)
• Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
• When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services
• By registering for an SPE virtual event, your reported demographics may be used in the event platform for networking purposes and/or AI matching. In the platform, the registrant will have the ability to choose what information they want to make public.

We use the computer information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our online platforms (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the platforms, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns). Please note that SPE does not disclose any financial information of their users on any of the SPE online platforms.

Web Site Specific Issues

IP Addresses - SPE's website automatically records the Internet address of the computer accessing the site as well as the time and date of access. This information does not identify you personally, nor does it contain your name or email address. SPE uses this information solely for the purpose of diagnosing problems with the SPE server and to administer the website.

Cookies - SPE's site uses "cookies" to deliver content specific to your interests and to keep track of your preferences. "Cookies" are small text files that help identify you and your preferences when you return to SPE Online. When your browser accesses the site, SPE's server asks if you can store this identification information on your computer. "Cookies" are not programs and are not known to be damaging to your computer. The 'cookies' set by SPE do not personally identify you, they simply permit SPE's website to know what your preferences are. "Cookies" are also used to help determine how many unique users access pages on the website and may direct specific advertising content to you on selected pages. Most browsers have an optional setting to deny "cookies." If you use this setting, however, you may not be able to use SPE's site to its fullest capability, and you will lose the benefit of many special features provided via the SPE online platforms.

Email Lists - SPE operates a number of email list servers that, while not tied directly to the SPE website, are useful in communicating technical and non-technical information. If you disclose personal information on any SPE email list, that information is available to anyone with access to this area. SPE cannot control what others may do with this information. You should refrain from disclosing anything you do not want publicly known in such areas.

Links - This site contains links to other websites. SPE is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such sites.

Questions

SPE reserves the right to modify its data privacy policies and practices at any time without notice. This statement is not intended to create any contractual or other legal rights.

If you have questions about SPE's Data Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, the practices of the SPE website, or your dealings with SPE, contact the SPE at info@speindia.org

Secure Transactions

SPE uses industry-standard measures to protect your submission of membership, ordering, and credit card and financial (including credit card) information to SPE. SPE uses a secure server and encrypted date of transmission using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Technology. SSL Technology encrypts the transmitted information to make it very difficult for anyone other than SPE to decode the information.

You can verify that you are in a secure transmission portion of SPE's website in one of two ways:

• Look for an unbroken key symbol or lock symbol at the bottom status bar of your browser. This shows that you are in a secured mode.
• Look at the URL. When in secured mode, the address changes from http to "https."