SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium does not read any of your private online communications.

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium and SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium collects and uses your personal information to operate the SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium Web site and deliver the services you have requested. SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium and its affiliates. SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium, in order to determine what SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium pages, or register with SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium site or services, a cookie helps SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium is protecting your information.

Contact Information

SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium has not adhered to this Statement, please contact SWANA's Landfill Gas Symposium at it@swana.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.