Privacy and Security Policy

United States Energy Association, (sometimes referred to as "USEA," "we," "us," or "our") takes your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy discloses our information collection and dissemination practices.

Privacy Protections and Use of Information

We will not disclose or share personally identifiable information collected on our web site with any third party (except as required by law or pursuant to a governmental request).

Aggregate Data

We may share reports with third parties based on aggregated data of our Members ("Aggregated Member Data"). Aggregated Member Data does not include any personally identifiable information about Planners or Invitees. For example, these reports will not include your personal or organization name. Information about Members is aggregated for the purposes of determining successful event benchmarks and other similar activities.

Event Registration

When you register for an event on our site, you have granted us permission to release the information you entered as an Invitee to the Planner.

Special Circumstances

We may disclose personal information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with other USEA users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that some web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie may contain information like a user ID that allows the site to track which web pages you have visited. The only personal information a cookie contains is information you decide to supply. A cookie cannot read data from your hard drive or cookie files created by other web sites. We use cookies to save your username so you do not have to retype each time; and to "time-out" your session if it is idle for a long period of time.

IP Addresses

We may use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers and administer our web site.

Web Site Links

Our site contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these web sites.

eCommerce

USEA does not accept credit cards through its website. All credit card transactions are processed through our accounting department.

USEA occasionally outsources its paid website registration to third parties. If you are registering for a paid event as an Invitee, the third party event registration company may request payment information to conclude the transaction as well as your mailing address or other contact information to ensure authentication and proper delivery. USEA only uses industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption. Neither USEA nor the third party event registration company sell or rent your personal financial information.

Security Notice

For SITE SECURITY purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the U.S Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

We generally will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.

If monitoring reveals evidence of possible criminal activity, such evidence may be provided to law enforcement personnel.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

The documents posted on this Web site may contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided for visitors' convenience. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any linked information.

Disclaimer of Liability

Every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information. However, with the thousands of documents available, often uploaded within short deadlines, we cannot guarantee that there will be no errors. We make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this Web site and expressly disclaim liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this Web site.

We do everything we can to protect the privacy and security of our Members. If you have any questions about this Privacy and Security Policy, the practices of this site, or dealings with this site, please contact us at:

United States Energy Association

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 550, Mailbox 142
Washington, DC 20004-3022
Telephone: (202) 312-1230
email: info@usea.org