The Data Governance Institute, LLC is a champion of personal privacy and the protection of individuals' confidential, personal information. We certainly attempt to maintain the highest standards of privacy in our own dealings with website visitors and members. Here's our Privacy Policy in plain English: you provide personal information to us, and we collect some information from typical sources (conferences, purchases, etc.). We use it ourselves to correspond with you and to tell you about events, information, products, and services we think you want to know about. We'll occasionally share it with others, but we'll stop sharing your information if you tell us to. We have no intention of becoming a nuisance to you or anyone else. We want you to like us.
Now, here's the same message using the same set of legal mumbo-jumbo we all seem to need to publish these days. Deep breath… here goes…
Privacy Policy
The Data Governance Institute, LLC (DGI) believes the privacy and confidentiality of an individual's personal information is important. We provide this document (the "Privacy Policy") so as to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. DGI may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to address new issues and to reflect changes on our Website. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly; your use of our website signifies that you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Definition.
Personally identifiable information is any information that can be used toentify or contact a specific individual and any other information about that individual.
Collection of PII.
DGI collects information from several sources. These include conferences, product subscription forms/registrations, reader service cards, website message postings, survey information and purchases via telephone, direct mail, email, and other electronic sources. From these sources we may collect postal addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and/or demographic information for those individuals that volunteer such information. For each visitor to our websites, our web server automatically recognizes the visitor's domain name and IP address only, but no otherentifiable information unless volunteered. In addition, we collect aggregate information on what web pages visitors access or visit.
Use of PII.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website, used to notify consumers about updates to our website, and is used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes. As part of a subscription and/or registration agreement, subscribers and registrants will be contacted by us via mail, e-mail, and/or phone to communicate with them about their subscription and/or registration. They will be contacted for renewal, re-qualification, surveys, updates concerning their account profile and special offers related to their subscription and/or registration. From time to time, we make our customer e-mail and postal address lists and demographic information and aggregate statistics about our members available to other reputable organizations and advertisers. You can, however, have your name put on our do-not-share list by emailing us at the address provided below. Certain information - such as your password and credit card number - is never disclosed in any form whatsoever to any outside party. We will, of course, share information as required by law, such as a court-ordered subpoena, search warrant, or other court order; or required by exigent circumstances). DGI also may use your profile information on an aggregate basis - without personalentifiers -- to provide our editors with information that is useful in developing new features and content for the Website, and to provide Sponsors and others with aggregate information about our users and the usage patterns of the Website. DGI reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior (on an aggregate basis) in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Website and to inform Sponsors of such information. DGI may permit third parties to offer subscription and/or registration based services through the Website. In this event, DGI is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and users should check the applicable privacy policy of such party before providing personallyentifiable information.
Retention of Your Information.
It is not possible for you to delete your profile from our database, nor is it feasible to delete all traces of your activity in the system. Messages posted to a Forum are examples of your activities that are not feasible to delete. However, if you send us an email to delete your email address from our database, we will do so. Voluntary Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
you voluntarily disclose personallyentifiable information (for example, user name, e-mail address) in a Forum or any other interactive part of the website, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of DGI and DGI makes no warranties about the discoverability of yourentity by methods beyond our control. Security
Encryption Technology.
When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial, we redirect visitors to a secure server.
Cookie Technology.
DGI does not currently employ cookies. However, DGI cannot control the use of cookies by advertisers or third parties displaying data on the Website or on the websites you visit using links from the Website. Most browsers are set to accept cookies. You can set yours to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Links to other Websites
Users will find advertising or other content on the Website that enable linking to the websites of our industry resources, advertisers, sponsors and other third parties. These third party websites may have their own privacy policies or no policy at all. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites. DGI has no control over the content displayed on such websites, nor over the measures, if any, that are taken by such websites to protect the privacy of your information.
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to our Customer Support by email at privacy@datagovernance.org
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please contact us through at President@datagovernance.com
Disclaimers And Other Information
Information supplied on this website by the Data Governance Institute and its writers is provided "as is" and neither DGI nor any of its agents, employees or representatives make any representation or warranty with respect to the contents of the website or information furnished by them or our agents, employees or representatives and specifically disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law any and all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, completeness, timeliness, correctness, noninfringement, or fitness for any particular use, application or purpose.
By entering the website you hereby expressly agree that the data governance institute and its officers, directors, agents and employees, shall not be liable to you for any damages, claims, demands or causes of action, direct or indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive, as a result of your use of the website or any information you obtain on it or any other interaction with website owner. In doing so, you agree that you are waiving voluntarily and unequivocally any liability of website owner.
DGI does not make any representation or warranty concerning errors, omissions, delays or other defects in the information supplied to users, or that its files are free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other codes that include or manifest contaminating or destructive characteristics.
With respect to communications, DGI does not guarantee that it will respond to all inquiries.
If any clause or provision set forth above is determined to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable under present or future law, then, in that event the clause or provision so determined to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable shall be severable without affecting the enforceability of all remaining clauses or provisions.
Any notice to DGI shall be given in writing and sent by certified and registered mail to The Data Governance Institute, Attn: President, 2511 E Colonial Dr #219, Orlando, FL 32803, USA
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