Privacy Policy

This notice describes the privacy policy of District 52. By visiting the district52.org domain you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Information You Give Us

We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of site features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, improving our Web site, and communicating with you.

For example, you provide information when you communicate with us by e-mail and sign up for newsletters and alerts, complete a questionnaire; or use other features. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name (or another person's), address, and phone numbers; content of e-mails to us; personal information (your name and any Toastmasters International honors or awards you’ve received).

Automatic Information

We receive and store certain types of information whenever your Web browser accesses district52.org.

Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; perhaps a login; e-mail address; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform.

A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. We want you to be aware that these tools exist. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.

Information from Other Sources

Third party advertisers may appear on our Web site from time to time. They may be able to detect that visitors to their Web site arrived via district52.org. However, we do not receive any information from these or other outside Web sites regarding your page views, purchases or any other information.

Cookies

Cookies are tiny bits of information transferred your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as your personalized profile.

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Information Sharing

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. However, we may share your information for the following purposes:

• Toastmasters International: This includes the organization’s world headquarters, which manages Toastmasters.org, as well as Toastmasters districts, divisions, areas and individual Toastmasters clubs. In keeping with our regular offline business practices, Toastmasters International will provide demographic information about Toastmasters members to these internal associates for communication purposes only.

• Third-Party Service Providers: We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing Web site design assistance, and processing credit card payments. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

• Protection of district52.org and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Toastmasters International, our members, or others. This may include exchanging information with civil authorities, other companies and organizations in order to protect Toastmasters International and its members from illegal activities. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Security of Personal Information

Toastmasters International is committed to protecting the security of your personal information and maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that meet industry standards to guard your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. We protect your account information by placing it on the secure portion of our Web site, using firewalls and other security technology to protect our network and systems from external attacks, and requiring you to enter a unique user name and password to access your account information online.

It is important for you to guard against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to quit the browser and log off when you have finished using a shared computer.

Please remember that e-mail is not considered a secure means of transmitting personal information such as credit card numbers.

Third Parties and Other Web Sites

Our site may include third-party advertising and links to other Web sites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party Web sites. The rest of this section offers some examples as well as information on how to opt-out of their information collection practices.

Examples of third-party advertisers and advertising companies that serve advertising content directly to your browser on certain district52.org pages may include sponsors. You can find out more about their information collection and use practices, including how to opt out of cookies and other collection techniques that they use, by clicking on the links to their Web sites.

These third-party Web sites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or "serve") the advertisements that appear on our Web site directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party Web sites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called "ad networks" or "network advertisers"), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.

Use of E-mail Addresses

District 52 sometimes uses e-mail to send messages to large groups of members. It is the most efficient and cost-effective way of sending information to large groups of people.