BEST Coalition Privacy Policy
In
accordance with the Fair Information Practice Principles created by the FTC, we
make full disclosure on the use of any personal data collected at our website.
This site and any accompanying emails from BEST may contain links to other
sites. BEST is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such
other websites and we strongly recommend you review their policies.
NOTICE
We want to provide you with
clear and conspicuous notice of what information is collected and how it will be
used.
Your E-mail Address will be used only for the delivery of BEST
Communications (mainly workshops, tax site locations, and volunteer notices). It
will never be shared, traded, or sold to any third party under any
circumstances.
Your Mailing Address will never be shared with anyone.
BEST contact address will be made publicly available on the BEST website.
Other Personal Information:
From time to time we will ask you questions
about things you do and places you go, mostly in regards to the BEST workshops
that you may attend. Collection of this information is completely voluntary. We
want to know these things about you so we can provide you with better service
and the most relevant content possible. This information will be shared with
others in its aggregate only. For example, we may disclose to a potential
workshop facilitator for their workshop that 30 people who have attended our
workshops in the past are interested in a specific topic, but your individual
identity will never be revealed.
HOW YOUR
INFORMATION WILL BE USED
We collect personal information at your
discretion so we can provide you with a better website experience. The more we
know about you, the more relevant the information and special notice we can
deliver. Our site does not utilize cookies for personalization or tracking
purposes. Our website does utilize cookies to track which pages are viewed or
downloaded, however no personal information is ever collected.
REASONABLE ACCESS
We want our customers to have
access to the information collected on them and have a reasonable opportunity to
correct any errors or delete the data. BEST subscribers may contact BEST at
434.793.5627 at anytime to update or remove any information that we have
collected about you.
ADEQUATE SECURITY
We
insure the proper handling of consumer information to prevent unauthorized
access or identity theft. We do this by taking every reasonable means to insure
your information can not be accessed by anyone except BEST staff. All user
information sits behind a firewall, and no one except the network administrator
has the ability to access it internally.
Representatives of BEST have
reviewed this privacy statement and must adhere to these privacy standards. They
understand the importance of high levels of security and discretion in all
functions that deal with consumer information.