Privacy

PFSCM Privacy Policy

 

Our Commitment to Privacy

 

PFSCM is committed to protecting our visitors’ privacy. This policy describes how we collect, use, maintain, protect, and disclose the personal information we collect on www.pfscm.org, social media, and newsletters, and our affiliated websites. Please read this carefully to understand our policy and practices regarding your personal information. We last revised this policy on Septemebr 15, 2023.

 

Your Consent

 

By accessing or using our websites, social media platforms, and newsletters, you agree to and understand this privacy policy.

 

Information Collection

 

We may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, postal address, or phone number, when you provide it. We may receive information about how and when you use our sites and store it in log files. This information might include, for example, your IP address, time, date, browser used, and actions you have taken within the site. We may receive information about how you use our newsletters, e-Catalog and other features you may subscribe to, such as whether you opened a message, what articles you viewed, and similar information.

Our websites include social media features, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn buttons. These may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on our website, and they may set a cookie to make sure features function properly.

We also maintain presences on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. Any information or material you submit to us via these or other social media platforms is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy.

PFSCM collects email addresses of people who communicate with us by email or apply for a job. Email addresses are also collected when you sign up to receive our email newsletters or updates from our blogs. PFSCM never sells, trades, or rents email addresses to other individuals or companies.

If you would like to view, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at pfscm@pfscm.org.

 

Information Use

 

The personal information we collect is used to provide the services or products that you have requested, to help improve our websites and e-Catalog, and to manage and improve communications with you and all of our users. We also use the information we collect to respond to your requests.

 

Information Retention

 

We will retain personal information only for as long as needed to provide our products or services; to manage our business; or to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our agreements.

If you would like to view, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at pfscm@pfscm.org.

 

Information Sharing

 

We may share personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside PFSCM if we have a good-faith belief that sharing the information is necessary to:

• Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
• Enforce applicable Terms of Use or other potential violation of contracts or rules, including investigation of potential violations.
• Detect, prevent, investigate, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
• Protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of PFSCM, our staff, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

We may also share your personal information with organizations or individuals we contract with to help us provide our services and products. Before sharing your personal information with any organization or individual we contract with, we will require that they protect your information in a manner consistent with this policy.

Other than the cases listed above, your personal information is never shared with outside organizations or individuals. PFSCM staff have access to your personal information only as required to accomplish the purpose for which it was collected.

 

Cookies and Web Beacons

 

We use cookies to collect non-identifying information about you as a user, such as Web-surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific website. Cookies are small text files that are downloaded by a browser when a site is visited. Cookies are returned to an originating site and/or third-party site on subsequent visits. Cookies may serve several functions, including remembering user preferences, visited pages, time and dates, and other metrics. PFSCM does not link information obtained through cookies to individual user’s personal information. You may disable use of cookies on this site through your browser settings. However, please be aware that disabling cookies may adversely affect the operation of some features of our sites.

We may also use small pieces of code called “web beacons” to collect such things as page views and email responses.

We use Google Analytics — a service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to allow us to see how you use our site. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our sites is described by the Google Analytics Terms of Use available at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and the Google Privacy Policy available at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. We have no control over either of these Google policies, and they may change at any time.

You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to our sites by disabling cookies in your browser. Google also provides an “opt-out” tool (which must be installed in your browser) that will prevent your browser from making your site activity available to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We are not responsible for this tool. If you choose to use it, you do so at your own risk.

 

Security

 

While the security of information transmitted over the internet cannot be guaranteed, we use commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. These measures include (but are not limited to) encrypting transmissions of personal information to or from our websites using Secure Socket Layer technology.

 

External Links

 

Our websites contain links to other sites, but we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any site that you visit.

 

Children’s Privacy

 

PFSCM’s websites are not intended for children. PFSCM does not intentionally or knowingly collect any information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, you should not submit any personal information to us while visiting our websites. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact pfscm@pfscm.org.

 

Policy Changes

 

If we change this policy, we will post those changes here, on the homepage of our various sites, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

 

Contacting PFSCM

 

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of PFSCM websites, or your dealings with the sites, contact us at pfscm@pfscm.org.