NationalSupplierRegistration.com has created this privacy statement in order to
demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information
gathering and dissemination practices for Diversity 2000 and the NationalSupplierRegistration.com
website.
In order to have full access to the all of the features, of this site, NationalSupplierRegistration.com
may require you to be or become a NationalSupplierRegistration.com member. When
and if you register to become a member, you agree to the following: (a) WHEN REGISTERING
AS A SUPPLIER OR SMALL BUSINESS, (someone whose business is to supply products/commodities
and/or services to another company); ACKNOWLEDGE AND STATE THAT YOU ARE a "small
business" AS SET FORTH BY THE STANDARDS, RULES, REGULATIONS AND APPLICABLE LAWS
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (b) provide accurate, current,
and complete information about yourself as prompted by our registration form (including
your email address) and (c) to maintain and update your information (including your
email address) to keep it accurate, current, and complete. You acknowledge that,
if any information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete,
we reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and your use of the Site.
As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a Member ID and
password. We may refuse to grant you a Member ID that impersonates someone else,
is or may be illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or other proprietary rights
law(s), is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may cause confusion, as determined
by us in our sole discretion. You will be responsible for the confidentiality and
use of your Member ID and password and agree not to transfer or resell your use
of or access to the Site to any third party. If you have reason to believe that
your account with us is no longer secure, you must promptly change your password
by updating your account information and immediately notify us of the problem by
contacting us. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your NSR Member ID and Password and entirely responsible for any and all activities
(including purchases as applicable) that are conducted through your account.
NationalSupplierRegistration.com reserves the right to contact a registered user
regarding account status, changes to this agreement and other matters relevant to
the underlying service and/or the information collected.
NationalSupplierRegistration.com reserves the right to perform statistical analyses
of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of
the various areas of the site, and to inform advertisers of such information as
well as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising
banners. NSR will provide only aggregated data from these analyses to third parties.
NSR is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and users
should check the applicable privacy policy of such party when providing personally
identifiable information. Registrants should be aware that certain users may be
given exclusive rights to use of your info for their purposes; this may include
but is not limited to: Contacting you regarding goods and services; contacting you
regarding their goods and services. You may also receive periodic information from
NationalSupplierRegistration.com. This information may be in the following forms,
but is not limited to: monthly newsletters; press releases regarding NationalSupplierRegistration.com,
their sponsor Computer Consulting Associates International Inc., or other relevant
press releases dealing with major multicultural issues; mass mailings to notify
registrants of new features and uses available at NationalSupplierRegistration.com,
or for any use NationalSupplierRegistration.com sees fit. Your information may be
used for targeted marketing purposes to help promote business with diversity suppliers
and buyers. The personal data you enter belongs solely to NationalSupplierRegistration.com,
and NationalSupplierRegistration.com reserves all rights to this voluntarily given
information. Please note that this data is made publicly available, and is used
for promoting business with your company, and NationalSupplierRegistration.com assumes
no responsibility for loss or misuse of information by a third party.
Registrants under no circumstances may use NationalSupplierRegistration.com Data
for their own mass mailing/marketing purposes. If a registered user of NationalSupplierRegistration.com
is deemed by the NationalSupplierRegistration.com staff to have performed spam,
or other such activities NOT condoned by NationalSupplierRegistration.com, the users
priveleges will be revoked, entry in the NSR database removed and future priveleges
revoked regardless of Premium Membership status or payment. All payments made to
NationalSupplierRegistration.com are final, no refunds will be issued to any person
or organization that has abused the priveleges of the data available.
Additionally, users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personally
identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards
or in the chat areas of the NSR sites, that information, along with any substantive
information disclosed in the user's communication, can be collected and correlated
and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters
or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of NSR.
The NationalSupplierRegistration.com website also logs IP addresses for systems
administration purposes, and to help identify you. IP addresses and/or domain names,
as well as information about your computer, such as the browser, operating system,
and the home server from which you access the Internet are logged to track a user's
session. This gives NSR an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting. We
use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer
our Web site. This Site Gathers/Tracks aggregate information site-wide, including
anonymous site stats. On certain pages such as the NationalSupplierRegistration.com
Registration Form, we give users the option of providing us with names, addresses,
phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses, demographic, preference and other personal
information, and various other kinds of details. We do not gather this more personal
information without users’ knowing and active permission and participation.
NSR is produced and funded by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc.
(www.CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. CCAii is one of the leading minority owned Information
Technology Professional Services firms in the country. Having received national
recognition by the Small Business Administration (SBA) and numerous other organizations,
CCAii is noted for its commitment to Supplier Diversity and assisting other small
and minority businesses with their growth and development.
NSR’s use of “cookies”
Users also should be aware that non-personal information and data might be automatically
collected through the standard operation of NSR's Internet servers or through the
use of "cookies." "Cookies" are small text files a web site can use to recognize
repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site, and allow
a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content
improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a
user's system and damage files. A cookie file can contain information such as a
user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal
information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Generally,
cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside
the assigning site. Users should be aware that NSR cannot control the use of cookies
or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for NSR,
and that we do not have access to this information.
If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there
is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the
cookie feature; however, users should note that cookies might be necessary to provide
the user with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available
on the NSR site.
Cookies are part of the technology implemented by your Web browser. But don't just
take our word for it - read what the companies who wrote the browsers have to say!
For Netscape, please visit:
http://wp.netscape.com/security/basics/privacy.html
For Microsoft, please visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/insider/guide/intro.asp
Public Forums
NSR makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and news groups available to its users.
Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public
information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control. Access to computer data and files at NationalSupplierRegistration.com
are secured by password coding and router access lists. Our network is also behind
an industry standard firewall designed to prevent unauthorized access. IP addresses
and/or domain names, as well as information about your computer, such as the browser,
operating system, and the home server from which you access the Internet are logged
to track any user's session. Our security and privacy policies are periodically
reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access
to the information provided by NationalSupplierRegistration.com Members. You, as
a NationalSupplierRegistration.com Member, are ultimately responsible for the security
of your NationalSupplierRegistration.com username and password. Please take care
to store your NationalSupplierRegistration.com username separately from your account
password, or better yet, choose a password that you don’t need to write down at
all.
Membership Payment & Cancellation
Payment Terms
All payments for registration are due at the time of registration. Payment is via
Credit Card only unless you are a sponsor or supporter. Your registration is NOT
complete until payment is received.
Setup
Every account has a one time non-refundable setup fee. Following are the details
of it.
Membership Setup Fee : $200 (non-refundable)
Cancellations
If you must cancel your membership for any reason, we must receive written notice
of cancellation. There is a $50.00 processing fee for any refunds which doesn't
include the non-refundable setup fee. Memberships that have been regularly accessed
may be cancelled at any time, however no monies (registration fees) will be refunded.
Cancellation is subject to pro-rating depending on the length of time you have had
your membership, and how often you accessed the system. Pro-rating is based upon
how often you accessed the system since your registration. If you contact NationalSupplierRegistration.com
within one (1) month from the time of your registration, and have not accessed the
system since your registration, the registration fee will be completely refunded
minus the setup fee and the processing fee. If your cancellation is past one month
from the time of your registration and you have not accessed the system since your
registration, the amount of the original registration fee refunded will be pro-rated
based on a one year time frame, minus the processing fee and setup fee. One time
setup fee will not be refunded in any case.
Send cancellation requests to:
Accounts Dept-NSR.
Computer Consulting Associates
200 Pequot Ave
Southport, CT 06890
Or contact us here.
Correcting and Updating Information
Upon request, NSR will use reasonable efforts to allow users to update/correct personal
information previously submitted which the user states is erroneous to the extent
such activities will not compromise privacy or security interests. NationalSupplierRegistration.com
also believes strongly in providing you with the ability to access and edit the
personal information that you have provided to us. We give users the following options
for changing and modifying information previously provided (such as user profiles).
visit: http://www.NationalSupplierRegistration.com
Contact us via the web.
Contacting NSR
If you have any questions about this Privacy statement, the practices of NationalSupplierRegistration.com,
or your dealings with NationalSupplierRegistration.com, you can contact: Copyright
Agent
NationalSupplierRegistration.com
200 Pequot Ave.
Southport, CT 06890
The foregoing policies are effective as of May 4, 2000. NationalSupplierRegistration.com
reserves the right to change this policy at any time. This statement and the policies
outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal
rights in or on behalf of any party.