ITDA Privacy Statement

The Illinois Technology Development Alliance is committed to protecting the privacy of the visitors to our websites (www.itda.biz, www.illinoistechnology.com, www.illinoistechnologydevelopmentalliance.org). We've asked for your personal information, so we want you to know how it will be used. By registering with or contacting us through our website, you agree that any information or comments you provide may be used without restriction to process customer orders and improve or market our products and services. We will not sell or rent your information to any third party, and will exercise reasonable efforts to keep the information secure.

What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our websites, you may provide us with two types of information: (1) personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis (voluntary registration) and (2) Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.

Voluntary Registration
Visitors to our websites may choose to register by providing their name, e-mail address, telephone number, and work address. You may also provide information about your organization, your role within the organization and how you learned about ITDA. The information you provide will assist us in tailoring our content to your needs.

Registrants have the option to receive one or all of our free e-mail newsletters.

Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or services from ITDA, you may need to provide personal information and authorization for us to obtain information from various credit services. For example, in addition to the information above, you may need to provide the following:

Mailing address
Billing address
Credit card number
Telephone number
Security

When credit card information is provided to ITDA websites, we require that you establish a "secure session" using Secure Socket Layer (SSL), or Secure Electronics Transaction (SET) protocol. The protocol encrypts all information before it is sent. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web site.

Other e-mail communications may not be secure unless you are advised that security measures will be in place prior to you transmitting the information. For this reason, you should not send confidential information, such as Social Security number, through an unsecured e-mail.

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Cookies
When you visit our websites we may send you a cookie. A cookie stores a small data file on your computer. This file enables us to recognize you each time you visit us. Cookies help us in to provide the best possible online experience and for purposes of collecting non-personal data.

ITDA web security cookies are not used to collect personal information on this web site.

Non-Personal Data
ITDA may use cookies to:

Count the number of times you visit our sites
Compile anonymous statistics on website use
Gather information on the type of Internet Browser and operating systems used

The information you provide to ITDA is used to better understand the content needs of registrants to our Web site. Our goal in collecting personal information and monitoring visitor traffic patterns is to provide you with the best available Web experience for online entrepreneurship information.

Links
ITDA websites contain links to other websites. ITDA is not liable for the privacy practices or the content of other websites.

ITDA DOES NOT SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT ANY INDIVIDUAL USER WITH ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT HIS OR HER PERMISSION.

Your Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection and use of information by ITDA as outlined in this Privacy Policy. If we decide to change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page so that you always have the opportunity to be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it.