Privacy Statement and NSC eNetworking Use Policy
We actively protect the privacy of NSC members using NSC eNetworking, participants in on-line forums, email correspondents, and other details. We also protect the privacy of public visitors. Such privacy is essential to the continuation of NSC eNetworking.

NSC agrees to protect participant’s privacy in the sense of protecting the confidentiality of information relating to individual persons (“Personal Information”). We will also take similar steps to protect the confidentiality of information about organizations that register with NSC eNetworking or otherwise participate in this online community. We want to make sure that you are informed concerning what Personal Information is collected about you, who uses it and for what purposes, what choices you have concerning NSC’s communications to you and what data is shared with others, how your Personal Information is secured, how you can gain access and update or correct the information about you, and what information about you appears for public viewing.

Information We Collect and How We Use It
NSC’s purpose is to provide individuals and organizations with control over personal information. Consistent with existing NSC policies, we only collect the Personal Information you choose to give us and only so that we can provide you with the services you desire. We won't sell, rent, or provide your data to anyone unless you send us a written request to be contacted.

Wherever possible we provide you with the ability to view, modify or delete the information that we store for you, using “UPDATE MY PROFILE”. We use special coding that allows you to enter as little or as much information as you wish, and then choose to hide specific information, affording you as much control as possible. As we create new services, we will continue to ask what you wish to share from the information on hand.

Email and Forum Postings
NSC holds the names and email addresses of correspondents in the strictest confidence and will not disclose any Personal Information about email senders without their permission, unless required by law.

NSC hosts discussion forums to which you may subscribe by providing an email address and selecting your preferences. We created forums based on interest areas to encourage communication between individuals interested in related topics. Before subscribing to a forum please review the configuration options of the list to ensure you understand how it is configured and how your email address and discussion postings will display. We allow you to preview your message before sending. When you subscribe to a forum the other subscribers to the list see may see your email address as the generator of a message, depending on settings that you control. Other subscribers to the forum may receive your message with your email address, and may opt to reply directly to you, outside of NSC eNetworking. In addition, forum postings are public messages (anyone visiting the site can see what is posted). We plan to archive forum postings, which places them off the public site into a secure server, but while postings are publicly displayed, topics could be indexed by web search engines.

Please use discretion in sending email messages to other NSC members (such as topics you select to post to "forums"). NSC will endeavor to store, use, and disclose email only as needed to provide services to you. But electronic mail is not a reliably secure medium of communication, and NSC cannot guarantee the confidentiality of email messages in transit or stored on the servers of ISPs, employers, or others to whom emails may be manually or automatically routed and who are outside the direct control of NSC. NSC’s websites and e-mail communications may contain links to websites operated by other parties. NSC does not control those external websites and cannot be responsible for their privacy practices.

Cookies
Like many other secure sites today (e.g., PayPal), logged-in access to NSC eNetworking requires that "cookies" be enabled on your computer. A "cookie" is a very small text file that is placed into an open directory on your computer after you have successfully logged in with your username and password. This is part of our site security, and gives us no additional information about you. In our various mailings and out-reach broadcast emails, we often include login information and "instant login" links. Our instant links look for this file when you are logging in, and if the file is not present (you are using another computer, or someone else is trying to log in through your account), the instant login is not successful. This helps us prevent unauthorized access to your NSC eNetworking account.

NSC eNetworking Surveys
NSC may ask website users to participate in surveys. In all cases, participation will be voluntary. If a survey asks for Personal Information, answering those questions will be optional. Only NSC staff conducting the survey will see survey responses. Survey results will be made public only in the aggregate, without reference to individuals, unless an individual gives us permission to quote and attribute his or her response.

Contacting NSC about Personal Information
Please send an email to info@nscsb.org to report any privacy policy concerns or suspected violations. We will correct any errors on our part, notify third parties that obtained relevant data from us concerning any necessary corrections or deletions.

Effective Date
This Privacy Policy (NSC eNetworking) is effective as of the 25th September 2006