Personal Information
You do not have to identify yourself or provide personal information unless you choose. You decide the amount of personal information you provide to us. Any and all information collected on this site will be kept confidential and will not be sold, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed without your permission.
We do not disclose credit card account information provided by our community members. In the event community members choose to pay for items on the website using their credit cards, we submit the information needed to obtain payment to the appropriate clearinghouse using a secured/encrypted server.
We do collect information about you when you register with us to receive our email newsletters or when you join as a member. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys, provide feedback and use our website contact form. Website usage information is collected using cookies.
While we do not monitor your personal activity on our site, we do track aggregated, anonymous user data to evaluate the effectiveness of our website and help us improve our service. For example, we may compile statistics about our daily number of site visitors or specific page requests. This data is generic in nature and contains no personal information.
Our website contains numerous links to sites developed by other companies, institutions, and organizations. Be aware that other sites’ privacy policies may differ from ours and we have no influence over third-party privacy policies.
The same pledge to respect your privacy applies to any individual who either joins or contributes online via this website.
Opt-out for the European Union and Other Users
In accordance with EU and other guidelines, you may decline to provide the information requested by the WEPAN. Please be advised, however, that WEPAN may be unable to provide certain services unless such information is provided for security and identification purposes. You also have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us at 2001 L St. NW, Suite 500-50176, Washington, DC 20036. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive that sometimes links to personally identifiable information about the user. WEPAN uses session cookies which are designed not to be permanent or persistent. The session cookie is designed so that, once you close your browser, the cookie will simply terminate. If you configure your browser to reject cookies, you may still use some, but not all, portions of our site. For example, accessing our online journals requires that your browser accepts cookies. We recommend closing browsers on publicly available machines (such as those in libraries) after use. More information about cookies can be found at
www.aboutcookies.org and
www.allaboutcookies.org.
For more information or to ask questions about your membership information, please contact us at:
Women in Engineering ProActive Network
The ARC Network
2001 L St. NW
Suite 500-50176
Washington, DC 20036
720-943-4587
info@wepan.org
This privacy policy was last updated on March 13, 2023, and is updated regularly as necessitated by internal review and/or changing laws.
