The Lancaster Chamber values and respects the privacy of our members. It is our policy to protect the information you provide. The following paragraphs describe what information the Lancaster Chamber collects, why we collect it and how its treated.

What information does The Lancaster Chamber collect?

When you register for an event or purchase products or reports:

• Your name
• Your e-mail address
• Your company name
• Your contact information, such as phone number, fax number and address
• Your credit card information, such as card number, type and expiration date

What does the Lancaster Chamber do with your information?

Internally, any financial information you provide via the event registration section of out website is used for billing purposes related to the event for which you’ve registered. The Lancaster Chamber does not keep any credit card information on file manually or electronically.

The Lancaster Chamber retains the option to sell our member list with your contact information (e.g., name, company name, company address, phone and fax) at any time to active members who are in good standing within the organization. Members may choose to opt out of this list by contacting the Business Relations team at (717)-397-3531. We do not disclose members’ financial information.

Periodically throughtout the year we update our members via email. If at any time you want to opt out of receiving our email communications, each communication includes the instructions for doing so.

Does The Lancaster Chamber use cookies?

A cookie is a tiny file of data that remains on your hard drive. The Lancaster Chamber does not use cookies on our website or in our e-mails to collect any personal information. We do, however use cookies in our surveys in order to ensure that our sample is valid and that the same member does not submit mutiple responses.

We may collect your IP address, which is a unique number assigned to your machine by your Internet Service Provider each time you connect to the internet. We will us this information (e.g., user traffic patterns, page views on the website, click-thought rates, search terms that users enter into our search utility) to monitor the flow of traffic and make improvements to the site’s content.

What about site security?

The Lancaster Chamber is committed to ensuring the security of your information. The Lancaster Chamber’s site (www.lancasterchamber.com) uses Network Solutions as the certificate authority, one of the leading providers of Internet trust services, to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. You can go to www.networksolutions.com to find out more about how they protect you. Our site does link to third party sites, and The Lancaster Chamber claims no responsibility for the privacy and data usage on any third party site.

What about children using this site?

While there is no content at www.lancasterchamber.com that is unsuitable for children, we do however process monetary transactions.

Notifications of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that users are always aware of how we use your information and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in this policy, we will notify our users by e-mail or a posted change to this policy at such time. We reserve the right to amend or change this policy at any time.

Contacting the website

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact The Lancaster Chamber at webmaster@lancasterchamber.com.

Legal Disclaimer

This site provides information designed to help users cope with their own legal, business, financial, and other needs. This information is not the same as retaining experts in those fields for advice. Although we go to great lengths to ensure the information is accurate, we strongly recommend you consult an expert, including but not limited to a lawyer, accountant, financial services consultant, or other professional as appropriate. Nothing contained in this Web site is to be considered as the rendering of legal, financial, professional or other advice for specific cases, and users are responsible for obtaining such advice from their own legal, financial or other counsel. The information contained on this site is intended for educational, background and informational purposes only.

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