We, Entropy Technology LLC, the operators of this site, provide it as a public service to our users.
Your privacy is important to the us. Our goal is to provide you with a personalized online experience
that provides you with the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to
you. This Privacy Policy has been written to describe the conditions under which this web site is being
made available to you. The Privacy Policy discusses, among other things, how data obtained during your
visit to this web site may be collected and used. We strongly recommend that you read the Privacy Policy
carefully. By using this web site, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do
not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, you are directed to discontinue accessing or otherwise using
the web site or any materials obtained from it. If you are dissatisfied with the web site, by all means
contact us; otherwise, your only recourse is to disconnect from this site and refrain from visiting the
site in the future.
The process of maintaining a web site is an evolving one, and the Operators may decide at some point in
the future, without advance notice, to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your use of the web
site, or materials obtained from the web site, indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy at the time
of such use. The effective Privacy Policy will be posted on the web site, and you should check upon
every visit for any changes.
Sites Covered by this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all the Operators-maintained web sites, domains, information portals, and
registries.
Children’s Privacy
The Operators are committed to protecting the privacy needs of children, and we encourage parents and
guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. The Operators do
not intentionally collect information from minors, and the Operators do not target its web site to
children.
Links to Non-Operators Web Sites
The Operators’s web sites may provide links to third-party web sites for the convenience of our users.
If you access those links, you will leave the Operators’s web site. the Operators do not control these
third-party websites and cannot represent that their policies and practices will be consistent with this
Privacy Policy. For example, other web sites may collect or use personal information about you in a
manner different from that described in this document. Therefore, you should use other web sites with
caution, and you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any web site
before submitting personal information.
Types of Information We Collect
Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information is data about usage and service operation that is not directly associated with
a specific personal identity. The Operators may collect and analyze non-personal information to evaluate
how visitors use the Operators’s web sites.
Aggregate Information
The Operators may gather aggregate information, which refers to information your computer automatically
provides to us and that cannot be tied back to you as a specific individual. Examples include referral
data (the web sites you visited just before and just after our site), the pages viewed, time spent at
our Web site, and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. For example, when you request a page from
one of our sites, our servers log your IP address to create aggregate reports on user demographics and
traffic patterns and for purposes of system administration.
Log Files
Every time you request or download a file from the web site, the Operators may store data about these
events and your IP address in a log file. The Operators may use this information to analyze trends,
administer the web site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use or for other business purposes.
Cookies
Our site may use a feature of your browser to set a “cookie” on your computer. Cookies are small packets
of information that a web site’s computer stores on your computer. The Operators’s web sites can then
read the cookies whenever you visit our site. We may use cookies in a number of ways, such as to save
your password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, to deliver content specific
to your interests and to track the pages you’ve visited. These cookies allow us to use the information
we collect to customize your experience so that your visit to our site is as relevant and as valuable to
you as possible.
Most browser software can be set up to deal with cookies. You may modify your browser preference to
provide you with choices relating to cookies. You have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified
when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, certain of the functions
and conveniences of our web site may not work properly, and you may be unable to use those of the
Operators’s services that require registration in order to participate, or you will have to re-register
each time you visit our site. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject
cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. We do not link non-personal information from cookies to
personally identifiable information without your permission.
Personal Information
Personal information is information that is associated with your name or personal identity. The
Operators use personal information to better understand your needs and interests and to provide you with
better service. On some of the Operators web pages, you may be able to request information, subscribe to
mailing lists, participate in online discussions, collaborate on documents, provide feedback, submit
information into registries, register for events, apply for membership, or join technical committees or
working groups. The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include name,
address, phone number, e-mail address, user IDs, passwords, billing information, or credit card
information.
Members-Only Web Sites
Information you provide on Operators’s membership applications is used to create a member profile, and
some information may be shared with other of the Operators’s individual member representatives and
organizations. Member contact information may be provided to other members on a secure web site to
encourage and facilitate collaboration, research, and the free exchange of information among the
Operators’s members, but we expressly prohibit members from using member contact information to send
unsolicited commercial correspondence. The Operators’s members may be automatically added to the
Operators’s mailing lists. From time to time, member information may be shared with event organizers
and/or other organizations that provide additional benefits to the Operators’s members. By providing us
with your personal information on the membership application, you expressly consent to our storing,
processing, and distributing your information for these purposes.
How We Use Your Information
The Operators may use non-personal data that is aggregated for reporting about the Operators’s web site
usability, performance, and effectiveness. It may be used to improve the experience, usability, and
content of the site.
The Operators may use personal information to provide services that support the activities of the
Operators’s members and their collaboration on the Operators’s standards and projects. When accessing
the Operators’s members-only web pages, your personal user information may be tracked by the Operators
in order to support collaboration, ensure authorized access, and enable communication between members.
Information Sharing
The Operators does not sell, rent, or lease any individual’s personal information or lists of email
addresses to anyone for marketing purposes, and we take commercially reasonable steps to maintain the
security of this information. However, the Operators reserve the right to supply any such information to
any organization into which the Operators may merge in the future or to which it may make any transfer
in order to enable a third party to continue part or all of its mission. We also reserve the right to
release personal information to protect our systems or business, when we reasonably believe you to be in
violation of our Terms of Use or if we reasonably believe you to have initiated or participated in any
illegal activity. In addition, please be aware that in certain circumstances, the Operators may be
obligated to release your personal information pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas,
warrants, or other orders.
In keeping with our open process, the Operators may maintain publicly accessible archives for the
majority of our activities. For example, posting an email to any of the Operators’s-hosted public mail
lists or discussion forums, subscribing to one of our newsletters or registering for one of our public
meetings may result in your email address becoming part of the publicly accessible archives.
On some sites, anonymous users are allowed to post content and/or participate in forum discussions. In
such a case, since no user name can be associated with such a user, the IP address number of a user is
used as an identifier. When posting content or messages to a Operators site anonymously, your IP address
may be revealed to the public.
If you are a registered member of an Operators's website or email list, you should be aware that some
items of your personal information may be visible to other members and to the public. The Operators’s
member databases may retain information about your name, e-mail address, company affiliation (if an
organizational member), and such other personal address and identifying data as you choose to supply.
That data may be visible to other of the Operators’s members and to the public. Your name, e-mail
address, and other information you may supply also may be associated in the Operators’s publicly
accessible records with the Operators’s various committees, working groups, and similar activities that
you join, in various places, including: (i) the permanently-posted attendance and membership records of
those activities; (ii) documents generated by the activity, which may be permanently archived; and,
(iii) along with message content, in the permanent archives of the Operators’s e-mail lists, which also
may be public.
Please remember that any information (including personal information) that you disclose in public areas
of our web site, such as forums, message boards, and news groups, becomes public information that others
may collect, circulate, and use. Because we cannot and do not control the acts of others, you should
exercise caution when deciding to disclose information about yourself or others in public forums such as
these.
Given the international scope of the Operators websites, personal information may be visible to persons
outside your country of residence, including to persons in countries that your own country’s privacy
laws and regulations deem deficient in ensuring an adequate level of protection for such information. If
you are unsure whether this Privacy Policy is in conflict with applicable local rules, you should not
submit your information. If you are located within the European Union, you should note that your
information will be transferred to the United States, which is deemed by the European Union to have
inadequate data protection. Nevertheless, in accordance with local laws implementing European Union
Directive 95/46/EC of 24 October 1995 (“EU Privacy Directive”) on the protection of individuals with
regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, individuals located in
countries outside of the United States of America who submit personal information do thereby consent to
the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to its transfer to and/or
storage in the United States of America.
If you do not want your personal information collected and used by the Operators, please do not visit
the Operators’s web site or apply for membership of any of the Operators' websites or email lists.
Access to and Accuracy of Member Information
The Operators are committed to keeping the personal information of our members accurate. All the
information you have submitted to us can be verified and changed. In order to do this, please email us a
request. We may provide members with online access to their own personal profiles, enabling them to
update or delete information at any time. To protect our members’ privacy and security, we also may take
reasonable steps to verify identity, such as a user ID and password, before granting access to modify
personal profile data. Certain areas of the Operators’s web sites may limit access to specific
individuals through the use of passwords or other personal identifiers; a password prompt is your
indication that a members-only resource is being accessed.
Security
The Operators make every effort to protect personal information by users of the web site, including
using firewalls and other security measures on its servers. No server, however, is 100% secure, and you
should take this into account when submitting personal or confidential information about yourself on any
web site, including this one. Much of the personal information is used in conjunction with member
services such as collaboration and discussion, so some types of personal information such as your name,
company affiliation, and email address will be visible to other the Operators’s members and to the
public. The Operators assume no liability for the interception, alteration, or misuse of the information
you provide. You alone are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please
use care when use access this web site and provide personal information.
Opting Out
From time to time the Operators may email you electronic newsletters, announcements, surveys or other
information. If you prefer not to receive any or all of these communications, you may opt out by
following the directions provided within the electronic newsletters and announcements.
If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us. support@entropytechnology.com