Copyright - Privacy Policy - Website Design Information

Applicable Web Site(s). This copyright, terms of use and privacy statement covers this site owned and operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ASIS International - known as SFBA ASIS or SFBA below.

Attention. Please read the copyright, terms of use and privacy information presented below carefully before using (including downloading from or uploading to) this Web site. Use of this Web site indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Web site.

Information and Accuracy. While SFBA ASIS attempts to convey accurate and current information on this site, the information provided on this site may contain typographical or technical errors. You are advised to confirm the accuracy of any information presented at this site before relying on it in any way.

INFORMATION ON THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Products and Services. Information on this Website and SFBA ASIS products and/or services may be changed or updated without notice. Some products and services may only be available in the United States and its territories.

No Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL SFBA ASIS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE, EVEN IF SFBA ASIS IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Trademarks. ASIS International, asisonline.org, sfasis.org, the SFBA ASIS and ASIS International logos, and other names, logos, icons and other marks identifying ASIS International and or SFBA ASIS, its products and services referenced herein are trademarks of ASIS International or SFBA ASIS and may not be used without the prior written permission of ASIS. Certain service agreements permit merchants and others to use certain of the trademarks for limited purposes. All other product or company names referred to herein are trademarks of the respective owners.

Copyright Notice. This web site is subject to the protection of the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. You may not reproduce any part of SFBA ASIS's web site without the prior written permission of SFBA ASIS. Products and companies referred to herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or mark holders. Some images copyright www.clipart.com and ASIS International. Milonic DHTML Menu JavaScript Website Navigation System © Milonic Solutions Limited. License Details: Number 194815; URL sfasis.org; Type Professional. Some photos copyright John King and The Livermore Buzz, used with permission.

Use of SFBA ASIS Services and Software. SFBA ASIS SOFTWARE AND SERVICES MAY ONLY BE USED FOR LAWFUL PURPOSES. If any SFBA ASIS software or service is used in violation of any law or regulation or in a manner that may cause SFBA ASIS to be subject to investigation, prosecution or legal action, SFBA ASIS may exercise its rights under the appropriate service agreement and/or software licenses to terminate service. Users of SFBA ASIS services and/or software accept the risk that their service may be interrupted if legal challenges arise as to their use of the service.

Data Collection. We make every effort to honor the preferences of our Web site users concerning the collection and use of personally identifiable information. In general, when you visit the SFBA ASIS Web site and access information, you will remain anonymous. We limit the information we collect from you to only what we need to conduct business and to offer products and services that you might be interested in. If you elect to engage in transaction opportunities on our Web sites, you will be asked to provide information necessary to facilitate transactions such as your address, payment instructions and other information that we are required to collect by law. When you make an offer to participate in a transaction opportunity, we will use your personally identifiable information to facilitate the transaction. We may also maintain transaction history information about our Web site users. In addition to information you provide, we may collect information about your use of our Web sites that will help us improve our online services, such as information regarding what pages you access on our sites, what URL you just came from and the URL you next go to, what browser you are using and your IP address. This type of information collection is an industry standard and the information collected will be used to analyze trends and statistics and monitor link usage.

Data Security. We use industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. Unfortunately, it is impossible to absolutely guarantee the security of data transmission over the Internet or any network. Therefore, although we take reasonable measures to protect your information, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us or from online services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will use industry standard efforts to ensure its security on our systems. All credit card transactions on our Web sites are via a secure connection which encrypts all data between your browser and our server during the credit card transaction process.

Cookies. We use cookies on some portions of our Web sites. A cookie is an identifier that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer. Cookies enable us to provide you with a better experience by allowing us to understand what areas of the Web site are of interest to our visitors. We may also use cookies when you register to use one of our web-based services. In this situation, a cookie will store useful information that enables our Web site to remember you when you return to visit us. We can only read cookies from our own Web sites. We do not link the information collected through cookies to any personally identifiable information provided by users. Cookies do not contain any information that is, in itself, personally identifying. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still access most of our Web sites and services.

Comments. Any comments or materials sent to SFBA ASIS may be used by us without liability and for any purpose without compensation or attribution to the sender. SFBA ASIS may reproduce, use, disclose, exhibit, display, transform, create derivative works and distribute such content or materials to others without limitation or compensation.

Quality. Because you deserve the highest quality products and services we can offer, we use secure server technology to keep information about our business relationship with you private, complete, accurate, and up-to-date.

Our Responsibility. We provide protection against unauthorized disclosure of the information you share with us. We limit access to our "customer" files only to those with a need to know. We also educate our staff about their responsibility to protect your privacy.

Links to other Sites. Information that SFBA ASIS publishes on the World Wide Web may contain links to other sites. SFBA ASIS makes no representations whatsoever about any other web site that you may access through this site. Unless expressly stated in writing, SFBA ASIS does not endorse the products or services offered by any company or person linked to this site nor is SFBA ASIS responsible for any software or the content of any information published on the site of any other party. You should take precautions when downloading files from sites to protect your computer software and data from viruses and other destructive programs. Through our web pages, you may connect to third parties' web sites via hyperlinks, and the connections may or may not be obvious. We are not responsible for the collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure of data and information by such third parties. We encourage our users to be aware of the varied privacy policies of web sites that they visit.

Users Under 13. This Web site is not directed at children under the age of 13. If you are younger than 13, please do not provide any personally identifiable information in connection with your use of this Web site.

Sponsors and Advertising. The display of paid / free advertising/sponsorships is not an endorsement of the product or service by the website host, SFBA ASIS nor ASIS International.

Changes to this Privacy Policy. Due to changing technological and marketing demands, we must reserve the right to change our policies regarding the privacy of your personally identifiable information in the future. If that happens, we will endeavor to promptly update this Privacy Policy. We may also attempt to provide a message to our customers whose e-mail addresses we have, in conformity with this Privacy Policy, advising of any such change(s). Your continued use of the web site following changes to this policy will indicate that you accept the changes.

We do not sell or rent our customers' information
to any outside company or organization.