This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices of Mid-America Payment Exchange. Mid-America Payment Exchange wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy by disclosing its information practices and disclosing the following information:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site;
2. Which organization is collecting the information;
3. How the information is used;
4. With whom the information may be shared;
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information;
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Mid-America Payment Exchange's control; and
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection and Use
Mid-America Payment Exchange is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Mid-America Payment Exchange collects information from our users who subscribe to e-mail notification of web site updates for the sole purpose for our subscriber mailings. This personal information is not shared with any third parties nor used for any other purpose.
Registration
During registration for publication acquisition or seminar registration, a user may be required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest.
Order
We request information from the user on our order forms. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
Some of our web pages may, from time to time, use “cookies.” Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that web site by the same user. Cookies help features such as logins work by recognizing when you come to the site. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will not share aggregated demographic information with our partners nor any other third-parties. We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services that are ordered through our site. It is our understanding that these companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Links
This web site contains links to other third party sites. Please be aware that Mid-America Payment Exchange is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site. We have no control over the information that those linked sites collect from you or the manner in which they protect your personally identifiable information.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Such information is used only for the purpose of circulating the newsletter.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys and/or polls. Participation in these surveys and/or polls is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address) and demographic information (such as zip code and age level). Contact information may be used to notify the winners and award prizes or other special promotions, if any. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Security
This web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When you submit sensitive information via the web site, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.
In addition to using SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.
Legally Compelled Disclosure
We may disclose information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
Site and Service Updates
We send site and service announcement updates to our users. Members are able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We also communicate via email or phone with our users to provide requested services and to discuss issues relating to their accounts.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if you no longer desire our service, you can correct, update or remove your personal data by simply emailing your requested changes to memserve@mpx.org.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it.
Your Consent
By using our web site you consent to our collection and use of your personally identifiable information as described in this privacy statement.