Privacy Policy

New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NECOEM) is committed to protecting the privacy of its members and other visitors to its web site. NECOEM maintains safeguards to store, and secure our information. The privacy statement below describes how NECOEM acquires data from its web site and how this information is utilized responsibly and appropriately. NECOEM reserves the right to make changes to its site, policies, and conditions of use at any time. By visiting NECOEM’s web site at www.necoem.org, you accept these conditions, including any changes. Therefore, NECOEM encourages you to frequently re-read this privacy statement.

Minimum Age 
You must be at least 18 years old to be permitted to use the NECOEM web site. NECOEM does not knowingly collect, use or disclose information about site visitors under 18 years of age.

Public Area Usage
The server for the NECOEM web site maintains a log file covering all visits to the site, including the IP address of each visitor’s computer.  However, NECOEM does not collect any personal information from users visiting the public area of the web site anonymously. Only aggregate data, such as the number of URL hits/visits per page, are collected and maintained for internal use only.

Members and Others
When you create a contact record on the NECOEM web site or choose to interact withNECOEM’s web site in other ways, such as registering for a NECOEM conference/course, or subscribing to or purchasing an NECOEM product or service, NECOEM may collect additional personal information from you. Depending on the type of product or service, NECOEM may collect your name, company name, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, demographic information, and credit card information. By providing your contact information, you are voluntarily giving NECOEM permission to use your name, address, and e-mail for the purposes of future NECOEM communications.

Disclosure to Third Parties
NECOEM makes no contact information available to Third Parties.

Credit Card Information
NECOEM uses Paypal to help to protect every customer purchasing NECOEM products or services over the Internet. Paypal encodes information as it is being sent over the Internet between your computer and Paypal helping to ensure that the transmitted information remains confidential. NECOEM does not disclose credit card account information provided by its members and customers.

How Does NECOEM Use Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer and used to aid in navigation of the web site. Cookies are not used on the public area of the NECOEM web site. Session cookies are used once a user logs into a non-public area of the NECOEM web site. Session cookies are temporarily stored in the user’s computer memory after login and are then terminated or removed after the user closes the browser.

Links to Other Sites
NECOEM’s web site at times includes links to other, external web sites, and NECOEM is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices for those other sites. If you visit any of those sites, you should consult their posted description of privacy policies and practices, if any.

Questions?
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of the NECOEM site, you can contact NECOEM at necoem@comcast.net.