PRIVACY NOTICE OF THE NEW ORLEANS PARALEGAL ASSOCIATION
Adopted October 5, 2011
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.neworleansparalegals.org and www.nopa.onefireplace.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by these web sites. It will notify you of the following:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
The New Orleans Paralegal Association is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. NOPA only has access to and/or can collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. NOPA will use your information to respond to you regarding the reasons you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your requests. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy. Your Access to and Control Over Information. You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email addresses or phone numbers given on our websites:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. We do not collect and/or store sensitive information, such as such as credit card data. Any fees paid through any of our websites are collected via PayPal, FetchPuppy or other similar services and any information provided to those parties is subject to the privacy statements and/or policies generated by those companies. The New Orleans Paralegal Association has no access or control over any information provided to or by PayPal, FetchPuppy, or other, similar services. We take all measures to protect your personal information transmitted online, and we also protect your information offline. Only members of the New Orleans Paralegal Association Board of Directors and/or certain committee members who need the information to perform a specific task (for example, membership, communications and distribution) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact a member of the NOPA Board of Directors immediately via telephone at 504-467-3136 or via email to any of the addresses posted on our websites.
ADDENDUM NO. 1 TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE NEW ORLEANS PARALEGAL ASSOCIATION Adopted on October 5, 2011
The Board of Directors of the New Orleans Paralegal Association has adopted the Privacy Notice during a meeting of the Board of Directors on October 5, 2011. In order to facilitate adherence to the statements made in the Notice, the Board of Directors hereby adopts the following procedures with regard to access to the Membership Database. Only members of the New Orleans Paralegal Association Board of Directors and those committee members who require the information to perform a specific task (for example, membership, communications and distribution) are granted access to the Membership Database. Generally, only the Co-Chairs of the Membership Committee and the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Primary NFPA Representative, Secondary NFPA Representative and the Board Advisor should have access to the database. Additionally, the Board acknowledges that, by default, the Webmaster of any or all NOPA websites may have access to member information.
Per the bylaws adopted by the General Membership on September 17, 2011, each committee is assigned a Board of Directors advisor/liaison. At all times practical, committee access to membership contact information should be accessed by the Board Advisor and/or Liaison. Should direct access to the database by any other committee member become necessary, the Board of Directors shall make a determination during either a scheduled board meeting or an executive session of the board regarding access to the database (e.g., email addresses to be used for invitation extended through LinkedIn or other social networking sites, previous seminar attendees and/or sponsors for contact by the Seminar Committee for future seminar participation, etc.). In order to maintain the integrity of the Privacy Notice, these exceptions should be rare.
Approved as voted on this the 5th Day of October, 2011