Privacy Policy
Catalyst's Commitment
Catalyst respects your privacy. In collecting and using information about you, we will adhere to the following principles:
- We collect information about you only when you provide it voluntarily.
- We will use the collected information only for the purposes for which you provided it.
- We will share the information that we collect with third parties only upon your approval (other than as specified below).
- We do not sell or rent email or mailing lists to third parties.
Collected Information: What, When and How
Your Information
Catalyst may collect your personal information, such as your name, title, address, telephone number, email address, credit card information, or your company's name (collectively, “Your Information”) in connection with the following list, which is not comprehensive. Your or your company's:
- Membership subscription
- Catalyst Award application
- Newsletter subscription
- Conference registration
- Evaluation conference form
- Online purchase
- Email sent via the Catalyst website (“Site”)
- Site submission forms
- Resume submitted for a position at Catalyst
- Resume submitted for a Board position with another company
Information Collected Through Emails
When you open an email sent by Catalyst, Catalyst may receive a confirmation that you have opened the email, if your computer supports such functionality. Catalyst may also archive emails that Catalyst sends to or receives from you.
Information Collected Through Cookies
The Site uses cookies to store your username and password. “Cookies” are small text files a website may use to recognize repeat visitors, facilitate the visitor's ongoing access to and use of the website, and allow the website to track the visitor's behavior and compile aggregate data for content improvements. Most Internet browsers will let you disable cookies. If you do so, you may not be able to use the “remember password,” the shopping cart, and other features on the Site.
Sharing of Your Information
We will share Your Information with:
- Catalyst's affiliates. At present, we have affiliates in Canada and Europe.
- Other businesses and individuals performing functions on Catalyst's behalf, including market-research assistance. We have non-disclosure agreements with these third parties to protect Your Information.
- Governmental authorities under subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes (such disclosure may be done without notice to you).
Security
You should be advised that no transmission over the Internet is 100 percent secure and when you provide Your Information to us over the Internet, you do so at your own risk. Catalyst stores all collected electronic data in a password-protected database. We maintain our own email and mailing lists. High-grade encryption is used to protect your credit card information.
Correction and Updating of Your Information
Catalyst will use reasonable efforts to let you review Your Information and, upon your instructions, correct or delete Your Information in or from the databases. If you wish to review or have questions regarding Your Information, please email us at webmaster@catalyst.org, or call (212) 514-7600, and ask for Catalyst's webmaster.
Effective Date: February 1, 2006