Privacy Policy
The EP3 Foundation website is operated by EP3 Foundations convenes stakeholders setting the rules, governance, and trust authorities to enforce Privacy Networks and Unified Trust Models.
It is our policy at EP3 Foundation is to protect the privacy of those who visit our website. This policy explains what information we collect through the website and how we may use, disclose and share that information. By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. This policy may be updated as our organization changes. When the policy changes, we will post a notice on our homepage and at the top of this Privacy Policy page, and by any other means as required by law. If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@EP3Foundation.org
Collection of Personal Information
In certain areas of our website, we collect information from organizations and individuals who wish to sign up for privacy assessments or receive additional information. For example, if you wish to sign up for an assessment, we may ask for your company name, role within the company, name, email address, and phone number. We use this information to send you the information you’ve requested to send you updates about topics that we believe might be of interest.
We also collect information from individuals and organizations that reach us through the “Contact Us” section of the website.
Use of Personal Information
We will use your Personal Information to provide you with additional materials and news about EP3 Foundation and its programs that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving such information by contacting us at info@EP3Foundation.org or by selecting the “unsubscribe” link available in each email that we send.
Disclosure of Personal Information
As a general policy, EP3 Foundation does not sell, disclose or provide third-parties, including our third-party partners, with Personal Information about visitors to our website. Personal Information, as used in this Privacy Policy, means last name, email address, street address, phone number, date-of-birth, and Social Security Number. Personal Information excludes, however, Internet protocol address (“IP address”), cookies, device identifiers, geolocation, “URL’s” for web pages, and all other technical information. Technical and other information is discussed below in the section entitled “Non-Personal Information.”
We delete user information periodically when it is no longer needed.
User Choice
If you would like to review or delete the Personal Information you have provided to us, please contact us info@EP3Foundation.org. Please note that we may request that you verify your identity prior to sharing information with you.
Non-Personal Information
As is customary with most websites, our website collects and stores the name of the website and/or IP address you visited immediately prior to navigating to EP3Foundation.org; the IP address of the device and/or router you used to access the Internet; your browser software version; your type of operating system; the date and time our website was accessed; and other technical information about your device. This information is only used for analytics, improving website performance, information security, to ensure proper website operation and for other internal purposes.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Technologies
Our websites, and the third parties that are “tagged” on our web pages, use various types of technologies to remember that your browser software visited our website. The third-parties include entities that provide social media sharing opportunities, video players, and other diverse website functionality and services for our site. These third parties may use browser cookies, web beacons, “Flash” cookies, and other technologies. Some of these parties may collect Non-Personal Information that they use for online behavioral advertising, which is advertising based on which websites you visit.
Browser Cookies are small data files created by a website and stored on your computer. Cookies enable us to recognize your browser on return visits to our Site and to remember your preferences. You can disable or block cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent to your device To learn more about browser cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Web beacons are very small image files that are not visible to the human eye and which are used with and without browser cookies to enable the entity serving the beacon to remember that you visited a particular webpage.
Flash Player technology is software, separate from your browser, that enables the delivery and viewing of rich content and videos. “Flash cookies” (or “Local Shared Objects”) are associated with the Flash Player software on your device and are often used to maintain settings and functionality. Flash cookies can be deleted by visiting Adobe and following Adobe’s instructions regarding Flash cookies. http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disablelocal-shared-objects-flash.html. We do not display advertising on our site, however, as noted, certain third-party entities that we use to provide website functionality or social sharing may collect Non-Personal Information for the purposes of online behavior advertising.
Our website does not respond to “do not track” signals transmitted by web browsers, but we encourage you to visit the following links if you would like to opt out of online behavioral advertising: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Third Party Links and Tools
We include links to social networking sites and other sharing tools. Please be aware that those sites and tools have their own privacy policies and practices. We encourage you to visit those sites to read those policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties.
A Special Note About California Residents
We do not disclose any personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
For additional information about our privacy practices, or to review and request to have deleted any personal information you have shared with us, please send a request to info@EP3Foundation.org