Connections practices a firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices both online and offline.
Contact information
Your name, address, and telephone number are confidential. We will maintain this information in our secure database. We may use it to facilitate your user experience with our web site, as well as, when necessary, to contact you. Your e-mail address will also be stored in our secure database, and we may use this address to contact you with announcements and information regarding events. We provide only your first name and phone number to individuals with whom you have made a mutual match. We will not sell or provide your contact information to any other organization.
Billing information
When signing up for an event using a credit card, you will be asked to provide
additional financial information such as your credit card number, expiration
date and billing address. We use encryption technology to protect your credit
card information while in transit, via the Internet, to our servers.
Other information
When you connect to the Connections web site, certain types of data, such as your IP address, browser, type of computer and operating system may be collected automatically. This information is useful to us in improving our web site functionality and security. We may analyze this information for internal business purposes but it is not made available to any person outside the organization. We will only disclose this information if required by law.
Cookies
We may use 'cookies' to simplify the user's experience. If you set your browser to reject cookies, the web site may not function properly. Cookies sent from our servers do not hold any personally identifiable or sensitive information and are only passed between our servers and your computer.
Links
The Connections web site contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are 'clicking' to another web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.
Choice/Opt-Out
Connections sends email newsletters to members and periodically sends emails about new services, improvements, scheduled service interruptions, etc. Our members can opt-out of receiving communications from us by replying to one of these emails with the word “remove” in the subject line.
Contacting Connections
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, please search for an answer to your question in the FAQ. If your question does not have an answer, please send an email or call our toll free number.