Privacy Policy

This policy covers how the International Alumni Association ("IAA") treats personal information that the IAA collects and receives in connection with our public, private and/or restricted-use Web sites including but not limited to www.thealumniassociation.com (collectively, the “Sites“). Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you login as a member, submit a contact form, complete an application through the online form, contact a member through their profile, or through any voluntary submission of information through email.

Any data we request that is not required will be specified as voluntary or optional.

When registering or using our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, phone number, or other personally identifiable information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

The IAA automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, browsing patterns, and the page you request.

Cookies & Pixel Tags

Like most websites, we use cookies to enhance your experience, gather general visitor information, and track visits to our website. Please refer to the ‘do we use cookies?’ section below for information about cookies and how we use them.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)

To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

These security measures include: password protected directories and databases to safeguard your information.

Do we use cookies?

Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to staff who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide services to you or in order to do their jobs.

All reasonable precautions are taken in order to protect and secure your information. We have put in place physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Links to Other Web Sites

Our Sites may contain links to other third party Web sites that are not associated with the IAA. Therefore, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites and do not make any representation as to the existence, sufficiency, accuracy or completeness of their Web sites or privacy policies.

Anti Spam Policy

The International Alumni Association has a ZERO tolerance spam policy. We respect the privacy and are dedicated to protecting the rights of all visitors, users, and members. We vehemently oppose and take every effort to mitigate the sending of unsolicited e-messages (spam). Furthermore, we strictly enforce our Anti-Spam Policy.

The International Alumni Association does not allow or condone anyone to use our website or network for the purpose of sending spam, nor do we allow our company and its products or services to be referenced in spam. We encourage our visitors to use our platform as long as they abide by our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and our Anti-Spam Policy. Spam is strictly against our Terms and Conditions. Any user found to be using our products or services for spam will immediately have access to our website restricted and their member profile deactivated in order to prevent future violations.

Definition of Spam

Spam is defined as any and all unsolicited email or alternative electronic messages originating from our site. Any promotion, information, or solicitation sent to a person without their direct prior consent is considered spam. The following are some examples of spamming that violate our Anti-Spam Policy:

- Any email or message sent to a recipient who had previously signed up to receive communications but later opted-out by indicating to the sender they no longer wish to receive additional communications.

- Any email or message sent to recipients that have had no prior association with the sender or did not DIRECTLY agree to be contacted by the sender.

- Any email or message sent to recipients obtained from "opt-in" lists with whom the sender has no prior association.

- Any email or message sent to a recipient without a clear way for a person to opt-out or request future communications not be sent to them.

- Any email or message that does not have a valid reply-to address.

What is Not Spam

A message is not spam if the recipient directly requested information be sent to them from the sender or the sender's organization, and that recipient has not subsequently asked for removal from their list.

Spam Filtering

We use spam filtering and prevention software to limit the possibility of spam and our messaging systems automatically filter-out messages that fir the profile of spam messages. However, from time to time legitimate emails and messages will be filtered-out by our systems, if you believe this has happened to a message you have sent please contact us by other means.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change.

This policy was last modified on 1/31/2017

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.