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BurgessCrest Training respects the privacy of its members and other visitors to its Web site. To protect online privacy, BurgessCrest Training has implemented the following policy.
Information BurgessCrest Training Collects:
It is our general policy to collect and store only personal information that our members and visitors knowingly provide. If our privacy policies change, we will notify all users by e-mail or a special announcement placed on the Web site.
From General Users. BurgessCrest Training does not collect any personal information from users browsing its Web site. Only aggregate data — such as the number of hits per page — are collected. Aggregate data are only used for internal and marketing purposes and do not provide any personally identifying information.
From BurgessCrest Training’s Members, Conference Registrants, and Other Customers. To gain access to members-only resources and personalization features on BurgessCrest Training, members and other users are asked to register and provide some limited information. This information is submitted voluntarily. BurgessCrest Training asks users to provide their name, tilte, member number (for members), organization name, business phone, and e-mail. Similar information may be submitted to BurgessCrest Training through membership applications, conference or event registration, publication orders, subscriptions, and contest registrations. Additionally, for some e-mails sent in HTML format by BurgessCrest Training to its members through electronic newsletters, we will collect specific information regarding what the recipient does with that email. For those emails, BurgessCrest Training will monitor whether a recipient subsequently clicks through to links provided in the message. Other information collected through this tracking feature includes: email address of a user, the date and time of the user’s “click,” a message number, name of the list from which the message was sent, tracking URL number and destination page. BurgessCrest Training only uses this information to enhance its products and distribution of those products to its members. This information is not sold or distributed in any other manner.
Duration of storage
General and personal data will be kept by BurgessCrest Training only as long as reasonably necessary taking into consideration its need to answer queries or resolve problems, to provide improved and new services and to comply with legal requirements under applicable laws.
Use Of Data Collected
BurgessCrest Training uses information voluntarily submitted by members and other customers in the following ways:
BurgessCrest Training Member Services and Products. Generally, BurgessCrest Training and its direct subsidiaries use data collected to improve its own web content; to respond to visitors’ interests, needs and preferences; and to develop new products and services.
Disclosures to Third Parties. BurgessCrest Training also makes contact information available through the BurgessCrest Training Membership Directory to other members using its Web site and to those who register for its conferences. On occasion, BurgessCrest Training may also provide limited data to third parties that offer products and services. Users may request BurgessCrest Training refrain from disclosing the data it collects to third parties on the membership application form, account registration form or any other form on which they are providing information; an opt-out box will appear on each form on which a user provides information.
Consent to Use Personal Information. In accordance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, BurgessCrest Training or its agents must store, host and otherwise process the information (including personal data) supplied by the User when registering. BurgessCrest Training may send such data outside the European Economic Area for processing. If you reside in the European Union, please indicate your consent that the personal information you have provided may be transferred and stored in countries outside of the EU, including the United States. User supplies as defined above when registering to allow BurgessCrest Training (or its designated agents) to use the information to send the User unsolicited direct mail advertisements, promotions, and solicitations for third parties’ products and services.
Credit Card Account Information. BurgessCrest Training does not disclose or retain credit card account information provided by its members and customers. When members and customers choose to pay using their credit cards, HSMAI submits the information needed to obtain payment to the appropriate clearinghouse.
We may share your personal information with companies (including our affiliates) that perform services on our behalf, for example, companies that help process credit card payments. Our service providers are required by contract to protect the confidentiality of the personal information we share with them and to use it only to provide specific services on our behalf.
Your Rights In accordance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, you have a right to request access to, rectification of your Data, or restriction of processing, and to object to said processing, as well as the right to data portability to the extent applicable. Moreover, you have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Under certain conditions you also have the right to have your personal data that is stored by BurgessCrest Training blocked and deleted, unless BurgessCrest Training has to keep these data for legitimate business or legal purposes. To contact BurgessCrest Training with questions or issues about BurgessCrest Training’s data processing, you should contact BurgessCrest Training at info@hsmai.org.
BurgessCrest Training gives you many choices regarding BurgessCrest Training’s use and disclosure of your personal data for marketing purposes. By contacting us at the above-mentioned e-mail address, you may opt-out from receiving future electronic marketing messages from BurgessCrest Training and request that we not share your personal data with unaffiliated third parties for their marketing purposes. BurgessCrest Training will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out as described above, BurgessCrest Training will not be able to remove your personal data from the databases of unaffiliated third parties with which BurgessCrest Training has already shared your personal data (i.e., to which we have already provided your personal data as of the date that we implement your opt-out request). Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related messages from BurgessCrest Training, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.
You may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of the Company’s marketing emails. Additionally, you may unsubscribe by contacting us at info@hsmai.org.
If you are a resident of the EU, you have the following additional rights regarding use and access to your data (as specified under the GDPR).
HSMAI Use Of Cookies
Cookies are files that contain information created by a web server that can be stored on a User’s hard disk for use either during a particular session (“per-session” cookie) or for future use (“persistent” cookie). BurgessCrest Traininguses cookies only to facilitate automated activity, store and track passwords, determine appropriate solicitations, and review navigation patterns. Cookies are not used to disseminate significant information about Users over the Internet or to analyze any information that Users have knowingly or unknowingly provided. Users may instruct their Internet browsers to opt out of accepting a “persistent” cookie and rather accept only a “per-session” cookie, but will need to login each time they visit the site to enjoy the full benefits. If the user declines the attachment of any cookie, the user may not have access to the full benefits of the website.
Privacy Issues Arising From Links To Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other web sites. BurgessCrest Training has no control over and is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such sites.
All rights are reserved by BurgessCrest Training, and the content may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of BurgessCrest Training, or as indicated below. Members of the association may download pages or other content for their own use, consistent with the mission and purpose of the association. However, no part of such content may be otherwise or subsequently reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred, in form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of, and with express attribution to BurgessCrest Training. Copyright infringement is a violation of federal law subject to criminal and civil penalties. BurgessCrest Training is a service mark of Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International.
Legal Disclaimer and Notices Regarding Content
The information contained herein is provided to BurgessCrest Training by BurgessCrest Training members, BurgessCrest Training staff, and non-members. While BurgessCrest Training makes every effort to present accurate and reliable information on this Internet site, BurgessCrest Training does not endorse, approve, or certify such information, nor does it guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of such information. Use of such information is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by BurgessCrest Training.
BurgessCrest Training (including its employees and agents) assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from the use of the information herein, or from the use of the information obtained at linked Internet addresses, or in any respect for the content of such information, including (but not limited to) errors, omissions, the accuracy or reasonableness of factual or scientific assumptions, studies or conclusions, the defamatory nature of statements, ownership of copyright or other intellectual property rights, and the violation of property, privacy, or personal rights of others. BurgessCrest Training is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, or reliance on such information. No guarantees or warranties, including (but not limited to) any express of implied warranties of merchandise or fitness for a particular use or purpose, are made by BurgessCrest Training with respect to such information.
At certain places within this BurgessCrest Training Internet site, live “links” or other Internet addresses can be accessed. Such external Internet addresses contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of BurgessCrest Training. BurgessCrest Training does not endorse, approve, certify, or control these external Internet addresses and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of information located at such addresses. Use of such information is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by BurgessCrest Training.