tma.org  knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting tma.org, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

 

Does tma.org Share the Information It Receives?

Neither TMA nor tma.org shares any customer usage information or e-mail addresses with ANY outside group!

 

How Secure Is Information About Me? 

TMA has worked to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

TMA maintains security for all personal credit card information and product purchases.  Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing, albeit in encrypted form.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your username/password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

 

What Personal Information About Customers Does tma.org Gather?

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at tma.org. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future sections and communicating with you.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use cookies, and obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses tma.org. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see examples of the information we receive. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at tma.org if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

E-mail Communications: TMA often receives a confirmation when you open e-mail from tma.org if your computer supports such capabilities.

 

What About Cookies?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features.

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.  However, the use of cookies provides TMA with valuable information in terms of how tma.org is collectively used.

 

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; and cookie number.

 

Information You Give Us

You provide most information when you search, buy, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; provide information in your Profile. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, phone number and e-mail address; and credit card information.

 

What Information Can I Access?
tma.org gives you access to the following information about you for the limited purpose of your viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information.

Personal Information - Name, title, company, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, etc.

Personal Financial Information - Credit Card type and number, Draw-Down account.

Publication subscription list

My TMA subscription list

Product purchase list (viewing only)

 

What Choices Do I Have?

As an approved employee of one of our member companies, the information you provide TMA is essential for your user profile.  Therefore, it is important that we store the types of data noted above.

You can add or update certain information on the Edit User Profile page.  When you update information, we keep a copy of the prior version of your profile for our records.

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.  However, the use of cookies provides TMA with valuable information in terms of how tma.org is collectively used.

 

Children
Since tma.org is an Extranet site that grants access only to approved employees of our member companies, it is extremely unlikely that any person under age 18 can reach the web site.

 

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
TMA maintains on its web site an up-to-date description of its conditions of use and privacy policy.  If you have any concern about privacy at tma.org, please send us a thorough description to tma@tma.org, and we will try to resolve it.  Our business changes constantly. This Notice may also change and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes.