C.I.B.A. Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information is collected from visitors to the Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org web site, why the information is collected, and how it is used.

This Privacy Policy applies only to Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org’s online information collection and use practices.

A. NOTICE : Information We Collect and How We Use It

Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org collects two types of information about you when you visit our site: personally identifiable information (including, by way of example only, your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address) and non-personally identifiable, aggregate information (such as information regarding the pages on our site that you have visited and your IP address).

1. Personally Identifiable Information

The only personally identifying information that Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org collects and stores about you is the information you choose to provide us.  For example, if you request information about Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org, we may ask for information such as your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.  Additionally, if you make a purchase, we may request information such as your name, mailing address and credit card information. Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org also offers an e-mail alert service.  If you would like to sign up to receive Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org e-mail alerts, you will need to provide your e-mail address.  If you wish to un-subscribe from this service, please see the section entitled B. CHOICE, below.

2. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We collect and use non-personally identifiable information about you in the following ways:

Referrers, IP Addresses and Other Non-Personal Information

Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org collects certain non-personal information relating to the number of web site “hits” and “visits,” the type of web browser being used, time spent on the Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org web site, web pages within the Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org web site visited, referring URLs, and other statistical information.  Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org collects this information through “referrers,” IP addresses and various environmental variables.  A “referrer” is information the web browser passes along to the Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org web server that references the URL from which you came.  The “IP address” is a number used by computers on the network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to you. “Environmental variables” include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our web site, the type of web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the web site you left to visit Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org, the names of the pages you visit while at the Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org web site and the Internet address of the web site you then visit.  We may collect all of this information to allow us to detect demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org’ web site.

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Cookies

“Cookies” are alphanumeric identifiers sent to a user’s computer and stored on the user’s hard drive.  They are primarily used to identify users and certain preferences that users may have when visiting a particular web site.  Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org may use cookies to help us recognize you when you come back to our web site. Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org may also use cookies to help us track traffic and demographic trends on the Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org web site.  Cookie information may be aggregated in an anonymous manner.  This will help us better tailor our site and provide you with offers that we think may be of interest to you

3. Use of Personally Identifiable and Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We share your personally identifiable information with third parties that help us with administration activities on our web site, including processing credit cards, fulfilling orders, delivering orders, hosting our web site, sending e-mail or postal mail on our behalf, and providing advertising and marketing services.

Additionally, we may share your personally identifiable information with businesses and third parties with whom we do business.  From time to time, these businesses may contact you with offers or information that we believe might interest you.  If you do not wish to receive communications from these third party business, please notify us via our contact form.

In the unlikely event that Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org or any its assets are acquired by another party, your personally identifiable information may be transferred to this acquiring party.  Additionally, we reserve the right to release your personally identifiable information when we believe the release is necessary or appropriate to comply with any laws or protect the rights, property, or safety of others.

We may also use non-personally identifiable information for web site development, including detecting demographic trends, and web site marketing.  We may share this non-personally identifiable information with third parties that help us administer our web site and, from time to time, with other select third parties.

4. Links to Third Party Web Sites

This web site may contain links to other sites. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRIVACY PRACTICES OF OTHER SITES.  We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that they visit.  This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected when you visit our web site.

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B. CHOICE

Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org provides the following choices regarding the use of your information.

You may choose not to provide us with any personal information.

If you would like to unsubscribe to any of our services or would like us to remove you from any of our on-line mailing lists, please contact us.   Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of the message.

If you do not wish for any of our third party business partners to contact you, please contact us.

You may update, correct, or remove personal information from our database by contacting us.

C. SECURITY

We take every precaution to protect your information from inadvertent disclosure and intrusion by third parties, including using SSL technology in connection with any purchases or other transactions on the Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org web site.  If you have any questions about the security at our web site, please contact us.

SPECIAL POLICY REGARDING INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN

Columbus Importers and Brokers Association - cibacolumbus.org does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any child under the age of 13.  If it comes to our attention that we have received such information, we will delete it as soon as we discover it and will not use it or share it with third parties.

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