PRIVACY POLICY

By using or accessing this website you signify your acknowledgment and assent to the Privacy Policy set forth below. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this website. WWOA and CWEA can revise this policy at any time by updating this posting, and your use after such change signifies your acceptance of the changed terms. Please check these terms of use periodically for changes. This file was last updated on September 23, 2002.

Protecting your privacy is very important to WWOA and CWEA ("WWOA", "CWEA,", "WWOA-CWEA", "we," or "us"). We take the protection of your personal information very seriously. This policy is intended to help you understand how WWOA and CWEA collect, use and safeguard the information you provide on our website.

If you browse the WWOA-CWEA website, you may generally do so anonymously without providing any personal information. However, there are cases where we may ask you for personal data. For example, if you request information from the WWOA-CWEA website, we may ask for your e-mail address for an electronic reply, or your street address, city, state and zip so that we may respond via the United States Postal Service. Additionally, if you subscribe to any of our mailing lists, we will ask you for an e-mail address to send information.

WWOA-CWEA does not rent, sell or otherwise distribute to third parties your personal information entered on this site. While we use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your information, WWOA-CWEA will have no liability for disclosure of any information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties. WWOA-CWEA also reserves the right to change or update this policy, or any other policy or practice, at anytime, with reasonable notice to users of its website. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to the WWOA-CWEA site.

We may collect statistical or aggregated non-personal information about our users. This data is used solely to customize WWOA-CWEA website content to deliver a better experience to our users.

SPECIAL CASES

WWOA-CWEA reserves the right to disclose user information in special cases, when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other WWOA-CWEA website users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose personal information without notice to you in response to a subpoena or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or to respond to an emergency situation.

POLICIES FOR CHILDREN

WWOA-CWEA does not knowingly collect or use any personal information from users under 13 years of age.

LINKED SITES

Please be advised that our website contains links to third-party websites. The linked sites are not under the control of WWOA-CWEA, and we are not responsible for the contents or privacy practices of any linked site or any link on a linked site.

COOKIES AND IP TRACKING

"Cookies" are pieces of information stored on your computer by the websites you visit. This site uses temporary "cookies" solely for site administration purposes. These temporary "cookies" are removed from your computer as soon as you close your browser. No permanent "cookies" are used by this website. If for any reason you wish to not take advantage of cookies, you may have your browser not accept them, although this may disable or render unusable some of the features of the WWOA-CWEA website. WWOA-CWEA does not use nor do we condone the use of Web Beacons (also known as "web bots") to collect information from you.

The WWOA-CWEA website may detect and use your IP address or domain name for internal traffic monitoring and capacity purposes or to otherwise administer our website. No personal information is obtained, rather just the patterns of usage of our various users may be tracked to provide you with improved service and content based on aggregate or statistical reviews of user site traffic patterns.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

WWOA-CWEA
c/o Water and Waste Operators, Inc.
7003 District Heights Parkway
District Heights, MD 20747

webmaster@wwoa-cwea.org