LTAnet PRIVACY POLICY
This Website is owned and operated by the Land Trust Alliance (LTA). Our intention
is to provide an informative tool for land trust professionals. We recognize
that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide
to us and how we treat that information. The Land Trust Alliance is committed
to honoring our constituents' privacy preferences.
To this end, LTA supports the following principles:
Consumer Choice
We believe a visitor to our site is the one to best determine:
- When—and under what conditions—to provide "personally identifiable
information" (i.e. data that may be used to identify, contact, or locate
a person).
- When such information may be shared with other organizations.
- When to remain anonymous.
- When they are asked to provide informed consent for us to use this information.
If personally identifiable information is collected, we believe a visitor to
our site has the right to:
- Know when we are collecting personal information.
- Know what personal information is collected, and the purpose of collection.
- Expect the opportunity to choose whether or not personal information will
be provided to any third parties.
- Expect reasonable steps to be taken to protect personal information from
unauthorized use.
- Review the accuracy of personal information and update it.
LTAnet PRIVACY POLICY
Your right to privacy is very important to us. We recognize that providing
us with personal information is an act of trust. Therefore, we have created
a privacy policy to protect your personal information.
This policy covers LTAnet, which is owned and operated by the Land Trust Alliance.
We encourage you to take the time to read this privacy policy and those of any
Website you visit.
Below is a summary of the Land Trust Alliance's online privacy policy.
Personal Information Collected
In order to use LTAnet, you need a password, and we ask you for your full name before you receive it. We do this for three reasons:
- To help ensure that only Sponsor member land trust staff and board members have access to the LTAnet community.
- To facilitate information sharing.
- To make site administration easier.
Other than your full name, you are not required to provide any other personal information. There are occasions when we will ask for additional information, and your response is optional. We do this
to better understand and respond to your information needs, and provide you with services
that may be valuable to you.
Use of Information
Personally identifiable information is made available to other non-profit organizations
and occasionally to for-profit organizations unless you request otherwise. Whether
or not you choose to share your information will have no impact on your interaction
with us. Members may choose a confidentiality option by calling Robert Aldrich,
Director of Information Services at the Land Trust Alliance, Monday through
Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. EST at 1-202-638-4725. We will not provide
any of your personal information to other organizations if you elect to keep
your record private.
Security of Your Credit Card Information
We take appropriate steps to protect your privacy. We also protect
your personal information in storage. For the personal data under our control, we have implemented security policies,
rules, and technical measures to ensure protection from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized
modification, unlawful destruction, and accidental loss.
All our employees
who have access to, and are associated with processing of personal data, are
obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data. For example,
if you supply us with your credit card information to become a member or make
a donation, we encrypt the card number and send it using a secure transmission
method.
Links to Third Party Sites
We provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control those Websites,
we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party
sites.
Our Website Services
LTAnet enables our visitors to communicate with other members of their organization
via electronic mail, and may allow visitors to post information to be accessed
by others.
Cookies
What are "Cookies"?
"Cookies" are small files sent from a Web server to your computer
through your browser program. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent
and persistent cookies.
Non-persistent cookies enable LTAnet to temporarily keep information
on your computer as you travel from one page to another on our site. This cookie
is automatically deleted from your machine when you close your browser. Because
these cookies are necessary to successful navigation of LTAnet, failure to allow such
cookies will make our Website unavailable to you.
Persistent cookies are kept even when you close your browser. You can manually
delete these cookies using commands specific to your browser and computer system.
These cookies store information that would generally not change from session
to session. They also contain information that you would otherwise have to reenter each time you visit the Website. For example, a common use of persistent
cookies is to allow a registered site visitor to enter the site without having
to specify their user-id and password.
Use of Cookies
LTAnet uses cookies for various reasons. LTAnet only reads cookies written
by our site. It does not use cookies to obtain information on other Websites
that you may visit. We may use cookies to store some history about the parts
of our sites that you have visited to help you navigate our site more easily
or to alert you to related pages on our site that may interest you.
How to Close your LTAnet Account
If at any time you wish to discontinue your membership in the LTAnet community,
please contact designated LTAnet administrator of your organization. A full listing of contacts
is available. You may also contact the Webmaster at LTA (webmaster@lta.org)
Electronic Mail Sent to LTA Containing Personal Information
You may decide to send the Land Trust Alliance personally identifying information,
for example, in a message containing information about your membership. We will
only use this information to determine how to respond to the electronic mail.
We will not use this information for any purpose other than to resolve the matter
identified in the email.
Access to the Personal Data We May Hold About You
You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you, by:
- sending an email (info@lta.org)
- calling us at this telephone number: (202)638-4725. Ask for the Director
of Information Services, Robert Aldrich.
Questions
The Land Trust Alliance welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We
are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and will make every reasonable
effort to keep that information secure.
If you have any questions, please contact
us.
You can help the Land Trust Alliance maintain the accuracy of your information
by notifying us of any changes to your address, title, phone number or email
address. To update your membership file, email us at info@lta.org,
or write us at:
Land Trust Alliance
1331 H St. NW, Ste 400
Washington, DC 20005
The information you provide to us will also be covered by this policy.
Due to the rapidly evolving technologies on the Internet, we may occasionally
update this policy. All revisions will be posted to this site. A revised Privacy
Policy will apply only to data collected subsequent to its effective date.
Last Revised: September 24, 2001
