Privacy Policy for tradecompetition.org

Effective as of December 12, 2011

 

General Statement of Privacy

The International Roundtable on Trade and Competition, Inc (“Roundtable”) respects the privacy of those who visit this site. Subject to the provisions of applicable laws, any information you submit to the Roundtable will not be used in any manner to which you have not consented. While the Roundtable does analyze its Web site logs to monitor the flow of traffic and make improvements to the site’s content, its Web site logs are not personally identifiable, and no attempt to link them to individual visitors to this site is made.

 

Personally Identifiable Information

We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information about you on the Roundtable Web site without your knowledge or action. Your information is collected when contacting the Roundtable by e-mail. This information includes, but is not limited to, your name (first and last), company name, company address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address.

 

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We reserve the option to share your contact information with certain third parties. These can include service providers, contractors, or affiliate organizations. You will always have the ability to opt out from receiving potential information from the Roundtable.

 

Use of “Cookies”

Our Web site uses "cookies" (i.e., a small data file that our Web site writes to a user's hard drive) to help track your usage of our site, including what advertising you have seen. Tradecompetition.org cookies do not include personal information about you, but they are unique to each user and include a member ID # (a randomly generated unique number) that enables the tradecompetition.org Web site to identify you when you visit.  Neither our Web site, nor the cookies we write to the hard drives of our users, read any data off of your hard drive outside of our cookies. This includes not reading any cookie files created by other Web sites. You can refuse our cookies by turning them off in your browser (for more information on how to do this, please refer to your browser's documentation). You do not need to have cookies turned on in your browser to use our Web site; however, without cookies certain of the automated functions and features of our Web site will not be available to you. We also use cookies to measure the click through rate on e-mails delivered.

 

Third Party use of personal information

The Roundtable’s Web site may contain links to other Internet Web sites, including other affiliated sites. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites, including such sites' use of any information. Security You understand and agree that “perfect” security does not exist anywhere, including on the Internet. Other information you send to this site, including e-mail messages, will not be encrypted unless we advise you otherwise. Our Web site is protected by a firewall and monitored for security.

 

Merchant Services

You may be able to access certain information related to third parties at the Site, or via links from the Site, regarding the goods or services of third parties. You understand and agree that your access to or use of those services is a matter entirely between you and the associated third parties, and the Roundtable shall have no liability whatsoever for any such access or use.

 

Legal Disclaimer

This site provides information designed to further economic freedom through trade liberalization, competitive markets and the protection of property rights around the world. This information is not the same as retaining experts in those fields for advice. Although we go to great lengths to ensure the information is accurate, we strongly recommend you consult an expert, including but not limited to a lawyer, accountant, financial services consultant, or other professional as appropriate. Nothing contained in this web site is to be considered as the rendering of legal, financial, professional or other advice for specific cases, and users are responsible for obtaining such advice from their own legal, financial or other counsel. The information contained on this site is intended for educational, background and informational purposes only.

 

Correcting, Updating or Deleting Information

The tradecompetition.org Web site gives users the option to correct, update or delete any information previously provided to us by the user; however, we will maintain copies of user information to the extent retained as part of our Web site's standard backup/archive process. In addition, these procedures will not remove such of your information that has been provided by you to, or collected from you by, the Web sites of our business partners. We are not responsible for ensuring the removal or deletion from the Web sites of third-parties of your information.

 

To make changes to your contact information, or to opt out of receiving information, please contact us in one of the following ways:

 

1)         Send an e-mail to Shanker.Singham@ssd.com    Or

 

2)         Send a written request to:

International Roundtable on Trade and Competition, Inc.

c/o Squire Sanders and Dempsey, L.L.P.

1200 19th Street, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20036
United States of America

Attention: Shanker Singham

 

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is available at all times to all users of the tradecompetition.org Web site at tradecompetition.org. Any material changes to this privacy policy will be communicated to users through this Web page. Users are responsible for making use of this resource to stay up to date on the Roundtable’s privacy policy.