The Association of Water Technologies (AWT) respects the privacy of its members and other visitors to its website. AWT strongly believes that for the success of online activities, consumers must be assured that information provided online is used responsibly and appropriately. This Privacy Policy describes how the Association of Water Technologies (AWT) collects, uses, shares, and safeguards personal information on AWT.org. We collect information you provide directly, such as when you create an account, make a donation, or sign up for newsletters, as well as information about your device and browsing activity through cookies and similar technologies. We use this information to provide and improve our services, process transactions, communicate with you, and comply with legal obligations. We may share your information with service providers who help us operate our website and deliver our services, or as required by law. We implement reasonable security measures to protect your data, but no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. By using AWT.org, you consent to our collection and use of your information as described in this policy.
Most data collected is used only to help improve our website and to better serve our members. It is our general policy to collect and retain only personal information knowingly provided by our members and visitors. If this policy changes, we will notify members via email and post an announcement on this website.
For General Users: We do not collect personal information from individuals browsing the website. The public areas of the website are accessed and browsed anonymously. Aggregated data – such as the number of hits per page – are collected and only used for internal assessments and marketing purposes.
For Association Members, Conference Registrants, and Other Customers: To gain access to members-only resources and personalization features on the website, members and other users are asked to register and provide some limited information. This information is submitted voluntarily.
Information provided by conference registrants may also be provided to exhibitors and sponsors should attendees opt in to be contacted by exhibitors and sponsors, but such information is not sold or distributed in any other manner.
In the routine operation of AWT, we may collect all or some of the following personal information:
Name, nickname, member number (for members), work address, title, phone, email, photo, home address, home phone, home email, gender, dietary restrictions, and special accommodations.
This data is for the sole benefit and operational purposes of the organization. The uses include delivering member benefits via mail, email, listservs, and other methods of informing our membership of news and activities relating to AWT and our mission. Member contact information is also publicly available through our online directories.
AWT does not disclose credit card account information provided by members and customers. When e-commerce transactions are completed via credit card, we submit only the information required for our contracted processor to complete the process. We do not retain credit card information.
We do not sell or otherwise provide your Personal Identifiable Information (PII) to third parties.
We may provide limited personal information to the following trusted service providers to enrich our membership services and for the benefit of our members:
Marcom, Articulate, Dale Carnegie, Suez/VenU (education partners)
Meridian (affinity partner)
Industry Insights (benchmarking partner)
ISSUU (journal partner)
Survey Monkey, Constant Contact, Westfax, Cision, Lyris (online partners)
Potomac Digitek (hosting partner)
Professional Testing, Pearson Vue (certification and testing partners)
Presdo, Boomset (conference operations partners)
Byles & Associates (advertising partner)
We work with these providers to ensure that they are handing personal information only for the benefit and operational purposes of AWT.
AWT understands the importance of minimizing the amount of PII data it maintains and retains such data only as long as necessary. We maintain organizational record retention procedures, which dictate the length of data retention to meet business, legal, and operational needs.
Cookies are files that contain information created by a web server that can be stored on a user's device for use during a defined session or for future use (‘persistent' cookie). AWT uses cookies only to facilitate automated activity, store, and track passwords (single sign-on processing, for example), determine appropriate solicitations, and review navigation patterns.
Cookies are not used to disseminate significant information about users over the internet or to analyze any information that users have knowingly or unknowingly provided.
When a user logs in or registers, the system automatically sets a cookie. Acceptance of such cookies enables AWT to better determine member interests and provide the most relevant information. Acceptance of the cookie is essential to the use and navigation of the AWT website.
Users who decline the use of cookies on the AWT site will experience limited functionality.
By joining AWT and consenting to this privacy notice you are giving us permission to process your personal data specifically for membership services in AWT and for purposes identified above.
You may withdraw consent at any time by sending an email to: hzimmerman@awt.org or written request to: Data Privacy Officer, Association of Water Technologies, 1300 Piccard Drive, Suite LL 14, Rockville, MD 20850.
Any questions or concerns about our privacy policy or the handling of Personally Identifiable Information, please contact hzimmerman@awt.org.
