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Thank you for visiting the Texas Library Association (TLA) website and reviewing our privacy statement. TLA is committed to protecting the privacy of our members, donors, customers, and other contacts. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. Any information you choose to provide on the website will only be used to provide or improve services. TLA guards your privacy and appreciates your trust.
E-mails and Web Forms Personally identifying information that you provide by e-mails or web forms will be used only for such purposes as are described at the point of collection (for example on a web form), such as to send information or products to you, update your membership record, or to respond to your questions or comments. If you provide contact information, TLA staff or its contractors may contact you to clarify your comment or question, or to learn about your level of customer satisfaction with our services.
Any credit card information you provide for goods or services is secure and used only for your intended purpose.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically During your visit, as you browse through the public web site, read pages, or download information, we will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit but not about you. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about the visit:
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors, by learning about the number of visitors and the technology in use. The data collected are not connected to your personal information or identity.
Cookie Policy This Cookies Policy explains what Cookies are and how they are utilized on our website.
A cookie is a small file stored on the site user’s computer or Web server and is used to aid Web page navigation. Two types of cookies are commonly used. A session cookie is a temporary file created whenever a Web site is accessed and is self-terminated based either on an expiration date (i.e. 3 hours from creation of the cookie) or by closing the Web browser. A persistent cookie is a permanent file and must be deleted manually. Cookies referred to in the context of these Guidelines are persistent cookies.
A cookie function may be used on the site to track visitor practices to help determine which site features and services are most important and guide editorial direction. The cookie makes it possible for the user to access the site without requiring entry of a username, allows the user to view different restricted areas of the site without reregistering, and allows the user to personalize the site for future use. Users who do not desire the functionality created by the cookie have the option of disabling the cookie function on their browser.
The website uses both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below and some are administered by third parties:
Service Providers TLA partners with a range of organizations and individuals, referred to as “Service Providers,” to deliver Association Services to you. These Service Providers include website, data hosting companies, and analytics companies, email providers, database, app developers and other consultants. In order to provide these Services, we may share your personal information with these Service Providers to process memberships, event registrations, career services and other essential association business.
The data shared with them may encompass the information you have provided to us, as well as data we have collected about you, including Personal Data and information gathered through data collection tools like website forms, cookies, web beacons, log files, Unique Identifiers, contact information and location data. Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
TLA works together with our Service Providers to ensure they are contractually obliged to adequately protect your information. If TLA is alerted to a Service Provider using or disclosing information inappropriately, we will take reasonable steps to stop or correct such unauthorized use or disclosure.
Security For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the TLA uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage.
This website contains links to other sites. The Texas Library Association is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, which may differ from the practices described in this policy. We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of other sites you visit, including those linked from our site.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 and 1030. Information also may be used for authorized law enforcement investigations. Except for the above purposes, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
Revisions We reserve the right to change or modify this privacy statement at any time. If we revise our privacy statement, we will post a link to those changes on the homepage and in other places so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
