Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement Updated July 10, 2018.
Welcome to the Oklahoma City Human Resource Society (“OCHRS”). OCHRS is the leading membership association for the human resource profession in the Oklahoma City area. Our website is available to all visitors, although some content and features are restricted to OCHRS members.
This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) of OCHRS (referred to throughout this Policy as “OCHRS” or “we” or “our” or “us”), covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by OCHRS anytime you interact with OCHRS, such as when you visit our website or pay for monthly lunch meetings through the website. Please take a moment to carefully read the following to learn more about our information practices, including what type of information is gathered, how the information is used and for what purposes, to whom we disclose the information, and how we safeguard your personal information. Your privacy is a priority at OCHRS, and we go to great lengths to protect it. All meetings, conferences and educational services on OCHRS are made available subject to this Privacy Policy. By using the products and services, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Statement sets forth OCHRS’s Privacy Policy as to personal information which we collect online through our website www.OCHRS.org (the “OCHRS Website”).
“Personal information,” is any information that enables us to identify you, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as your name, identification number, location data, online identifier or one or more factors specific to you. Personal information includes “sensitive personal information” and “pseudonymised personal information” but excludes anonymous information or information that has had the identity of an individual permanently removed.
By accessing or using our website or using our services, you agree to be bound by all of its terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not access or use our website or our services.
OCHRS WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Throughout the OCHRS Website, there are forms for visitors to request information, products, and services. We use personal information from these forms to provide the products, promotional materials, or memberships that you request.
Forms on the OCHRS Website that request financial information do so in order to bill you for products or services ordered. Unique identifiers (specifically, your OCHRS member number) are collected from website visitors to verify the user’s identity for access to restricted content or features on the OCHRS Website.
This Privacy Policy discloses OCHRS’s privacy practices and contains detailed information about the following:
- What information do we collect?
- What are “cookies” and how does OCHRS use them?
- Do we share information with third-parties?
- How do we use the information we collect?
- How can you review and modify your personal information?
- What is the opt-out policy for the OCHRS Website?
- What types of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
- How do we use bulletin boards, discussion lists, and moderated chats?
- Information collected other than through the OCHRS Website.
- Changes to this Privacy Policy.
1. What information do we collect?
The OCHRS Website collects the following personal information about site visitors:
a) Site Use Information
OCHRS collects technical information relating to each time a visitor comes to our website, including IP address, browser type and version, time zone settings, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform type (e.g. Internet Explorer browser on a Windows platform).
We may also collect information about your visit, including pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Gathering this technical information helps us to learn what browsers we need to support and helps us determine what sections of our website are most popular and how many visitors come to our site. You DO NOT have to register with our website before we can collect this information.
b) Information You Give Us
You may provide personal information to us which may include your name, home and/or work email address, postal address, phone number and/or fax number, your employer and job title, demographic information about you including birth year, certification designation, etc., and if you are making a purchase, your credit card information. You are only required to provide such information if you want to take advantage of optional products and services provided through our website.
OCHRS collects personal information in the following ways from different parts of the OCHRS Website:
- OCHRS Membership Applications: You are sharing personal information with us when you join OCHRS or renew your OCHRS membership through the OCHRS Website. OCHRS members will have OCHRS membership log-in credentials which enable members to take advantage of restricted content and features on the OCHRS Website.
- Other Registration: When registering for specific services, we may ask for the same type of personal information. For example, if you subscribe to an email newsletter, we will ask you to provide your email address.
- Online Purchases: When you make a purchase on our website or when you subscribe to an OCHRS publication through the OCHRS Website we may also ask for the same type of personal information. The number and variety of useful services on the OCHRS Website may require the additional collection of personal information about you in the future.
2. What are “cookies” and how does OCHRS use them?
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer. This unique number identifies your web browser to OCHRS computers whenever you visit the OCHRS Website.
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and cookies are currently used on most major websites. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser to notify you when you have received a cookie. You can also set your browser to refuse to accept cookies altogether.
While OCHRS does not require you to use cookies, keep in mind that certain services will not function properly if you set your browser to refuse all cookies. To help serve you better, OCHRS generally uses cookies to:
- Identify return visitors. Cookies let us remember your web browser so we can provide personalized services. Cookies also allow us to identify OCHRS members who are returning to the site.
3. Do we share information with third-parties?
Personal information collected through the OCHRS Website is generally collected and maintained solely by OCHRS or its contracted vendors.
We may share personal information in the following ways:
a) Information You Give Us
- Personal information provided when you register for services or products. When you provide personal information about yourself on the OCHRS Website to register for a service, buy a product, or take advantage of a promotion, OCHRS reserves the right to sell or otherwise provide your information to selected third-parties’ mailing/information lists derived from such registrations.
If you wish to opt out of such list sales/distribution at any time, you may do so by following the directions in Item 6 below.
- Information provided when joining or renewing membership in OCHRS. If you join OCHRS or renew your membership through the OCHRS Website, you provide personal information about you on the membership application. OCHRS reserves the right to sell or otherwise provide mailing/information lists concerning members to selected third-parties.
If you wish to opt out of such list sales/distributions at any time during your OCHRS membership, you may do so by following the directions in Item 6 below.
OCHRS does not sell email addresses obtained from member applications or renewals to third-parties (except that OCHRS will rent a member email address if that member has expressly opted-in to allow such rentals). - Sensitive Personal Information. OCHRS does not share with third-parties, sensitive personal information such as passcodes, social security numbers, credit card numbers, felony conviction information, or health information except as necessary to complete transactions requested by you and under strict confidentiality and security protections; nor does OCHRS publish such sensitive personal information.
b) Site Use Information
We disclose to third-party sponsors/advertisers aggregate statistics (e.g., impressions and click-throughs on a company’s advertisement).
In addition, we may share aggregate website statistics with the media or other third-parties. We do not disclose personal information to these sponsors/advertisers or other third-parties as part of this process, only information in an aggregate form.
4. How do we use the information we collect?
We use your personal information according to the terms of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of our use. We will only process your personal information, including sharing it with third-parties, where (1) you have provided your consent, which can be withdrawn at any time, (2) the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party (including your membership agreement with us), (3) we are required by law, (4) processing is required to protect your vital interests or those of another person, or (5) processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate commercial interests, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We use personal information for the following purposes:
a) Information You Give Us
We use the personal information you give us:
- to carry out our obligations arising from your membership and any other agreement entered into between you and us;
- to update and renew your membership as required;
- to provide you with the information, products and services you request from us;
- to arrange and deliver conferences, events and programming relevant to your job and subjects of interest;
- to respond to your questions and provide related membership or customer services;
- to improve the OCHRS Website;
- to send you OCHRS publications, information about member benefits and special offers, and other information that OCHRS believes is relevant and useful to its members, where you have not opted-out of receiving such information;
- to send you third-party information that OCHRS believes is relevant and useful to you, where you have given your consent;
- to notify you about changes to your membership or related services or to ask you to provide feedback;
- to enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey;
- to administer and protect our business and website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data); and
- to comply with all applicable laws or legal processes, including providing information on individual users to the appropriate governmental authorities where required by law enforcement or judicial authorities.
In matters involving a danger to personal or public safety, or to protect the rights, property or safety of OCHRS, our members, customers, certificants or others, OCHRS may voluntarily provide information to appropriate governmental authorities.
b) Site Use Information
As mentioned above, OCHRS uses the aggregate, anonymous data collected to let our sponsors/advertisers know the number of impressions or views and the number of “click throughs” on their advertisement(s).
OCHRS also uses this aggregate, anonymous data to perform statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of visitors to the OCHRS Website; to measure user interests regarding specific areas of the OCHRS Website; and to analyze how and where best to use our resources.
Without such data, we would not know which parts of our website are the most popular, and we would not be able to change and update the content and services appropriately.
c) Exceptions
On occasion OCHRS collects personal information through our website with the intent to afford a greater degree of privacy for such information than is otherwise set forth in this privacy policy.
In those relatively rare situations where OCHRS does so, it will clearly disclose to you at the time it collects such information, what degree of privacy will be afforded to the personal information collected at such time and OCHRS will follow a process to assure that the specifically disclosed degree of privacy is in fact afforded to such information.
For example, OCHRS may collect survey information through a survey where OCHRS’s use of any personal information from that survey is more limited than the general OCHRS Privacy Statement would otherwise allow. In this case, OCHRS will disclose the stricter privacy policy governing that survey information at the time such personal information is collected from the survey respondent.
5. How can you review and modify your personal information?
You have the following options for modifying or causing to be deleted personal information or demographic information previously provided by you to OCHRS.
- Email: OCHRS@OCHRS.org
- Or if you are a OCHRS member you may also visit: Member Dashboard
- Send mail to the following postal address: OCHRS, PO Box 21471 Oklahoma City, OK, 73156
6. What is the opt-out policy for the OCHRS Website?
OCHRS provides members and customers with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners. If you no longer wish to receive specific communications or services, you have the following options:
- You can send an email to: OCHRS@OCHRS.org
- You can send mail to the following postal address: OCHRS PO Box 21471 Oklahoma City, OK, 73156
- Instructions for opting out of any OCHRS email newsletter you receive are included with each email.
7. What kinds of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
The OCHRS Website has security measures equal to or better than those reasonably expected in the industry, such as firewalls, in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information under our control. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we take reasonable precautions to prevent such unfortunate occurrences. Certain particularly sensitive information, such as your credit card number, collected for a commercial transaction is encrypted prior to transmission.
You are ultimately responsible for the security of your OCHRS login credentials. You may not share your OCHRS login credentials with colleagues or friends so they can access content or features that are restricted to OCHRS members only. You should log out of your browser at the end of each computer session to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence, especially if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
8. How does the OCHRS Website use bulletin boards, discussion lists, and moderated chats?
The OCHRS Website makes bulletin boards, discussion lists, and moderated chats available to its members. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Although users may post messages that will appear on the message boards anonymously, OCHRS does retain a record of who posts all notes.
9. OCHRS’s Privacy Policy for information collected other than through the OCHRS Website
If you submit personal information to OCHRS through any channel other than the OCHRS Website, the same privacy rules set forth above for the OCHRS Website will be applied to such personal information you submit through channels other than the OCHRS Website (including without limitation your opt-out rights at Section 6 above), except as follows:
- The “cookies” and other tracking devices used by OCHRS the Website and described above do not apply to personal information gathered through channels other than the OCHRS Website.
- Hardcopy personal information provided to OCHRS which is not converted to electronic media and hosted by OCHRS will be subject to different security procedures than will stored electronic personal information. OCHRS has security measures equal to or better than those reasonably expected in the industry, in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your hardcopy personal information under our control.
- When OCHRS collects personal information through channels other than the OCHRS Website, it may in some instances apply a different privacy policy to such information; but, where it does so it shall conspicuously disclose to you at the time of collection what privacy policy will apply to such information. For example, OCHRS may collect survey information through a survey where OCHRS’s use of any personal information from that survey is more limited than the general OCHRS Privacy Statement would otherwise allow; in such a case OCHRS will disclose the stricter privacy policy governing that survey information at the time such personal information is collected from the survey respondent.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will update this policy from time to time, so please check back periodically.
If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will endeavor to notify you of such changes (e.g., we will post a revised Privacy Statement with a new effective date, display the word “updated” next to the Privacy Policy link on each page on the OCHRS Website, or otherwise), prior to implementing them.