Privacy Statement for NATIONAL LIME ASSOCIATION websites

Welcome to the National Lime Association website. The National Lime Association (“NLA”) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy for our website users and our membership. The following paragraphs disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices. The privacy statement may change at any time; any changes will be posted on this page. Should you have additional questions, comments or concerns please contact us at:

National Lime Association
200 North Glebe Road, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22306

We can be reached via e-mail at: natlime@lime.org
You can reach us by telephone at 1-703-243-5463

E-Mail Privacy

We do not sell or rent e-mail addresses to anyone outside the NLA.

E-mail Information Gathered by the NLA

For some e-mails distributed by the NLA, specific information on recipient response is collected. We use this information only for the purposes of responding to member requests, analyzing areas of interest, improving our products and enhancing the usefulness of our website for NLA members and other visitors. None of this information is sold outside of the NLA.

The NLA's Support Level Agreement

The NLA is committed to providing 100 percent availability of its Internet site(s). Even with safeguards in place, loss of connectivity or hardware failure can still occur. For this reason, the NLA cannot "guarantee" its Internet connectivity, nor can we be responsible for lost or delayed requests, email, or content.

For questions regarding our website being down or any related service outage, please send an email to natlime@lime.org or phone us 703.243.5463.

Use of Cookies and IP addresses

Our site may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our site. Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for record-keeping purposes at many websites. Use of cookies makes web surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords, your personal preferences regarding your use of the particular website and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.

Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function properly when you view them.

A unique number called an IP address identifies every computer on the Internet. Each time you connect to the Internet your machine is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet.

We collect an IP address from all visitors to our site. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our site, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

External Links

NLA contains links to other external web sites that do not fall under the NLA domains. NLA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.

E-Commerce

Our sites make use of order forms, registration forms, and survey forms for members and customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information, method of payment, and event-specific data. This information is used to process orders and registrations, as well as improve our services. We do not sell this information outside of the NLA.

Public Forums

This site may provide chat rooms, forums, listserves and message boards to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Although NLA tries to protect your personal information when using these public forums, NLA cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. It is also not the NLA's responsibility for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information you have disclosed.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.