Privacy Policy

BMA Atlanta Chapter is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our web site visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

(1) What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

(a) information about your visits to and use of this web site;

(b) information about any transactions carried out between you and BMA Atlanta on or in relation to this web site, including information relating to event registrations, downloads, surveys and other transactional activity;

(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us and/or subscribing to our web site services and/or email notifications.

(2) Information about web site visits

We may collect information about your computer and your visits to this web site such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this web site, to improve the web site’s usability, and for marketing purposes.

We use cookies on this web site. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie which may be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this web site, to improve the web site’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognize your computer when you visit our web site, and to personalize our web site for you. Our advertisers may also send you cookies.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.) This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many web sites, including this one.

(3) Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this web site will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the web site In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

(a) improve your browsing experience by personalizing the web site;

(b) send information (other than marketing communications) to you which we think may be of interest to you by post or by email or similar technology;

(c) send to you marketing communications relating to our association or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology.

(d) provide other companies with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user.

(4) Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

(5) Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Of course, data transmission over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet. We will store all the personal information you provide on commercially
hosted secure servers.

(6) Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our web site You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

(7) Third party web sites

The web site contains links to other web sites We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third party web sites

(8) Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to info (at) bmaatlanta.com or by post to BMA Atlanta Chapter, 1140 Hammond Drive, Suite G-7250, Atlanta, GA 30328.