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Privacy Notice

The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce respects the privacy of its members and of those who visit this site. Subject to the provisions of applicable laws, any information you submit to the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce will not be used in any manner to which you have not consented. While we do analyze the Web site logs to monitor the flow of traffic and make improvements to the site’s content, its Web site logs are not personally identifiable, and no attempt to link them to individual visitors to this site is made. By using the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collected Information – Personally Identifiable Information
Information collected thru this web site includes, but is not limited to, your name (first and last), company name, company address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, and credit card information. You should be aware that if you disclose any information on a bulletin board or in a chat room or other open forum that is hosted by the Loudoun County Chamber, others may collect that information to send you unsolicited information from outside the Loudoun County Chamber, or for other purposes.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information
We reserve the option to share your contact information with certain third parties. These can include financial institutions, service providers, contractors, or affiliate organizations. You will always have the ability to opt out from receiving information from the Loudoun Chamber as well as from said third parties.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Non-Personally Identifiable Information includes, but is not limited to, information we automatically collect on your use and/or actions on our Web site (e.g., user traffic patterns, page views on the Web site, click-through rates, search terms that users enter into our search utility). In addition, when a visitor arrives at our site, we collect the IP address, operating system, and browser software used. An IP address can tell us the user's internet service provider and, based on that, can suggest the geographic location of the connection. The Chamber recognizes that certain User Information of a key demographic nature (e.g., race, age, gender, national origin, income), while Non-Personally Identifiable Information, is still of a sensitive nature to users. As a general matter, the Loudoun Chamber does not collect such information about you through the loudounchamber.org Web site. However, in recognition of the sensitive nature of such information, in the event the Chamber comes into possession of such information, whether through your voluntary submission of such information in response to a special feature on the Web site or by receiving such information from any of our business partners, such information shall, when coupled with any of your Personally Identifiable Information, itself be deemed to be Personally Identifiable Information and treated by the Loudoun Chamber as such.

Use of Non-personally identifiable information
As a general matter, Non-Personally Identifiable Information helps us determine how the Web site is being used, helps us identify popular areas of the Web site, and helps determine the effectiveness of our promotional activities regarding the Web site.

Use of “Cookies”
Like many other commercial sites, our site(s) may utilize a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how our site is used. Cookies were designed to help a web site recognize a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on a computer virus, or capture your e-mail address.

Security
The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When you send credit card information, we encrypt this information between your computer and our server. Other information you send to this site, including email messages, will not be encrypted unless we advise you otherwise. Our Web site is protected by a firewall and monitored for security.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Correcting, Updating or Deleting Information
The loudounchamber.org web site gives users the option to correct, update or delete any information previously provided to us by the user; however, we will maintain copies of user information to the extent retained as part of our Web site's standard backup/archive process. In addition, these procedures will not remove such of your information that has been provided by you to, or collected from you by, the Web sites of our business partners. We are not responsible for ensuring the removal or deletion from the Web sites of our business partners of your information provided by us to our business partners as permitted by you or otherwise in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

To make changes to your contact information, or to opt out of receiving information, please contact us in one of the following ways:

1. Send an e-mail to webmaster@loudounchamber.org
2. Send a written request to:
        Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce
        P. O. Box 1298
        Leesburg, VA 20177-1298
3. Call us at 703-777-2176

Changes to This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is available at all times to all users of the uschamber.com Web site at http://www.loudounchamber.org/privacy.htm. Any material changes to this privacy policy will be communicated to users through this Web page. Users are responsible for making use of this resource to stay up to date on the loudounchamber.org privacy policy.