CFED Privacy Notice

Last updated: July 2004

CFED knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting http://www.cfed.org, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Customers Does CFED Gather?

Here are the types of information we gather.

• Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way, such as your name, mailing information, and your registration choices for the IDA conference. You can choose not to provide certain information. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future conferences and events for you, and communicating with you about CFED’s work and mission.
• Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses cfed.com. Examples include: the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information sugh as browser type and version, operating system, and platform.
• E-mail Communications: We will use your e-mail address to send you updates about the conference and future CFED events. If you do not wish to receive future e-mails from us, please let us know by sending a note to .

What About Cookies?

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as and storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits.
• 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. Please be aware that disabling cookies may prevent certain features of the website from functioning properly.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

• We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
• We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

What Choices Do I Have?

• As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to register for an event.
• You can email us at to inform us you do not wish to receive e-mail or other mail from CFED.
• 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
• Click here to explore products that offer anonymous browsing. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.

From time to time, CFED may use information for unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in its privacy policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future, CFED will post the changes to our web site prior to their implementation. If you have questions about this policy, how information is collected, or interaction with this web site, please contact .