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Privacy Policy

AGMA respects your privacy.  We will not:

1. Sell or distribute your name or e-mail address to any third party.
2. Retain your credit card information if you purchase items through our Web site.
3. Place any files or programs on your computer without your knowledge.
4. Distribute membership information to you via e-mail if you elect to opt out of AGMA’s e-mail distribution list.

AGMA collects three types of information from its Web site:

1. Your IP (Internet Protocol) address.
2. Information voluntarily submitted for access to the Members Only section of our website on publication order forms, meeting registration forms or e-mails sent to the website administrator.
3. Cookies, if the user so chooses.

Your IP address is only a temporary name by which a computer obtains access to the AGMA Web site.  AGMA uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site’s quality.  We do not use IP addresses to personally identify users.  We use a log file of IP addresses to determine which areas of our site visitors like, based on the volume of traffic, and to better prepare future site content based on the number of hits on particular pages of the site.  We do not track the usage patterns of individual users, but rather how well each page on our site performs overall.

Information voluntarily disclosed to AGMA either online or in writing through publication order forms, meeting registration forms, survey response forms, and relevant e-mails is added to the appropriate AGMA database to enable the processing of the order or registration or for the appropriate response.  This information is usually the name, address and item purchased, meeting attended or topic of interest.  AGMA may distribute additional relevant information, based on interest, to individuals identified by information voluntarily submitted to AGMA.

You may opt out of receiving additional communications from AGMA by e-mailing webmaster@agma.org to have your name removed from our lists.  Corrections or other changes may also be made by e-mailing webmaster@agma.org.

AGMA takes appropriate measures to ensure the reliability of member records and to protect them from loss, misuse or alteration. 

Cookies
Cookies are text files that contain information created by a Web server that can be stored on your hard disk for use either during a particular session or for future use.  Cookies do not interact with your computer in any way.  AGMA uses cookies only to facilitate automated activity, store and track passwords, and review navigation patterns.  Cookies are not used to disseminate significant information about users over the Internet or to analyze any information that you have knowingly or unknowingly provided AGMA.

Credit Card Information
AGMA does not disclose any credit card account information provided by its members and customers.  When members and customers choose to pay using their credit cards, AGMA submits the information needed to obtain payment to the appropriate clearinghouse.  AGMA does not retain credit card numbers in either electronic or paper form.

External Links
The AGMA Web site contains links to other Web sites.  AGMA has no control over and is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such sites.  If we learn of inappropriate or illegal links, we will take appropriate action.

Comments, Questions
If you suspect that AGMA has handled your personal information in a manner that does not comply with this privacy statement, please contact us by e-mailing webmaster@agma.org, or by calling AGMA at (703) 684-0211.