What information do we collect?
When you visit KyChamber.com you come for information about the Kentucky Chamber’s legislative affairs, member benefits and services, the Commonwealth’s business community and so much more. In order to provide users with valuable information and beneficial resources, we store information about your visit. The information provides the Chamber staff with important details that assist in developing new content to better serve our Web site users. Don’t worry we do not automatically identify you personally and the information we gather is used in an aggregate form. We collect the following information each time you visit our site:
• ISP domain name and IP address but not e-mail address
• Aggregate information on the pages you visit
• Name and release number of you Web browser software
• Name of your operating system
• Date(s) and time(s) you access our site
• Web site address that brought you to kychamber.com (referral URL).
Voluntary Collection of Information
Sometimes it is necessary to collect personal information about you, such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address and/or telephone number. However, you must offer this information on a voluntary basis – we do not collect this information for every user that visits KyChamber.com. If you send e-mail to the Chamber from our Web site, we do reserve the right to use that e-mail address to contact you concerning your inquiry. Beyond following up with concerns, issues or questions about the Chamber from our Web site, we also may use your information for the following:
• Contact you about joining the Kentucky Chamber
• Send you business, legislative and other timely news
• Improve the content and design of our Web site
• Verify you identity
Review of Collected Information
We do not allow Web site users to review the information we have collected and maintained about them.
Who will see my information?
Your information will never be shared with individuals or organizations outside of the Kentucky Chamber. The privacy of visitors to our Web site is extremely important. We do not share – rent, sell, exchange or otherwise provide – to any third-party organization. If legally obligated to disclose information, we will provide it.
Our Use of Cookies
In order to provide custom, personalized services, the Kentucky Chamber’s Web site does use “cookies” to provide useful features to visitors of our Web site. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. For example, a Web site may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you, your preferences or the pages you last visited.
Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies, or to ask you if you would like to accept or decline a cookie from a particular site before it is set. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the Help section of the toolbar. You should know, however, that if you reject a cookie, certain functions and conveniences of a site might not work properly.
We use cookies on our Web site to store and sometimes track visitor preferences. We will not link the cookie to any of your personal information.
Online Registration
Kentucky Chamber business education opportunities are a valuable member service, providing a range of human resources seminars and publications. We allow visitors to sign up for seminars and purchase publications online through the completion of a registration form. During the registration process, we ask for certain information to complete the transaction, including name, telephone number, e-mail address and payment specifications. We only collect personal information about visitors that is supplied to us by those visitors. This guarantees the confidentiality of our customers and protects their personal information.
Links to Other Web sites
We supply visitors with links to other Web sites that provide valuable information. We, in no way, endorse the material or information found on these sites. If you decide to visit a Web site linked from our site, please review that site’s privacy policy before sharing personal information.
The Kentucky Chamber cannot be held responsible for practices of non-affiliated, third-party Web sites.
Security of Communications
We recognize that many people are concerned about the privacy and protection of information as it is transmitted over the Internet. You should keep in mind that the possibility exists for unauthorized individuals to intercept any e-mail message you send over the Internet. In some cases, information can be encrypted (scrambled or encoded) to make it very difficult to read if it is intercepted during communication. Certain technology and practices allow Web sites to provide an increased level of security for your personal information when appropriate.
To enhance the level of security for communication and the transmission of personal information, we have security measures in place in our physical facilities designed to minimize the risk of loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you during your visit to KyChamber.com.
Modifications to Our Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes.
If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.
Conditions of Use
Your access and use of the site is subject to this Privacy Policy and its conditions.
Modification Date
This privacy statement was last modified Feb. 5, 2007.
How do I contact the Kentucky Chamber if I have questions?
If you have any questions about the Kentucky Chamber, please contact us. Our staff will be more than happy to review why Kentucky Chamber membership is important to the success of the our commonwealth’s business community. We also offer a vast array of member services and benefits focused on reducing cost and increasing productivity. Visit our Contact Us page for additional information.
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