Privacy Policy

TMS+YOU provides this website as a public service to our users.
Your privacy is important to TMS+ YOU. Our goal is to provide you with a personalized online experience that provides you with the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. This Privacy Policy has been written to describe the conditions under which this web site is being made available to you. We strongly recommend that you read the Privacy Policy carefully.

By using this web site, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, you are directed to discontinue accessing or otherwise using the web site or any materials obtained from it. If you are dissatisfied with the web site, by all means contact us; otherwise, your only recourse is to disconnect from this site and refrain from visiting the site in the future.

The process of maintaining a web site is an evolving one, and TMS+YOU may decide at some point in the future, without advance notice, to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your use of the web site, or materials obtained from the web site, indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy at the time of such use. The effective Privacy Policy will be posted on the web site, and you should check upon every visit for any changes.

Sites Covered by this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all web sites, domains, information portals, and registries maintained by TMS+YOU.

Links to Non-Operators Web Sites
TMS+ YOU may provide links to third-party web sites for the convenience of our users. If you access those links, you will leave the TMS+YOU forum. TMS+YOU does not control these third-party websites and cannot represent that their policies and practices will be consistent with this Privacy Policy. Therefore, you should use other web sites with caution, and you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any web site before submitting personal information.

Types of Information We Collect
TMS+YOU may gather aggregate information, which refers to information your computer automatically provides to us and that cannot be tied back to you as a specific individual. This includes but is not limited to referral data, time spent at TMS+YOU, and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. For example, when you request a page from one of our sites, our servers log your IP address to create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns and for purposes of system administration.

Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information is data about usage and service operation that is not directly associated with a specific personal identity. TMS+YOU may collect and analyze non-personal information to evaluate how visitors use the forum.
Aggregate Information

Log Files
Every time you request or download a file from the web site, servers may store data about these events and your IP address in a log file. TMS+YOU may use this information to analyze trends, administer the web site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use or for other business purposes.

Cookies
TMS+YOU may use a feature of your browser to set a “cookie” on your computer. Cookies are small packets of information that a web site’s computer stores on your computer. The Operators’s web sites can then read the cookies whenever you visit our site. We may use cookies in a number of ways, such as to save your password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, to deliver content specific to your interests and to track the pages you’ve visited. These cookies allow us to use the information we collect to customize your experience so that your visit to our site is as relevant and as valuable to you as possible.

Most browser software can be set up to deal with cookies. You may modify your browser preference to provide you with choices relating to cookies. You have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, certain functions and conveniences of our web site may not work properly, and you may be unable to register, or you will have to re-register each time you visit our site. We do not link non-personal information from cookies to personally identifiable information without your permission.

Web Beacons
The TMS+YOU forum may use web beacons to collect non-personal information about your use of our web site and the web sites of selected sponsors or members, your use of special promotions or newsletters, and other activities. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our web site and selected sponsors’ sites; how many people open our emails; and for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity outside of the TMS+YOU forum or those of our sponsors. TMS+YOU does not link non-personal information from web beacons to personally identifiable information without your permission.

Personal Information
Personal information is information that is associated with your name or personal identity. TMS+YOU uses personal information to better understand member needs and interests and to provide you with better service. On the TMS+YOU forums, members may be able to request information, subscribe to mailing lists, participate in online discussions, collaborate on documents, provide feedback, submit information into registries, register for events, apply for membership, or join technical committees or working groups. The types of personal information you provide to TMS+YOU on these pages may include name, address, phone number, e-mail address, user IDs, passwords, billing information, or credit card information.

Members-Only Web Sites
Information provided on TMS+YOU forum membership applications is used to create a member profile, and some information may be shared with other of the TMS+YOU individual member representatives and organizations. Member contact information may be provided to other members on a secure web site to encourage and facilitate collaboration, research, and the free exchange of information among the TMS+YOU forum members, but we expressly prohibit members from using member contact information to send unsolicited commercial correspondence. The TMS+YOU forum members may be automatically added to the TMS+YOU mailing lists. From time to time, member information may be shared with event organizers and/or other organizations that provide additional benefits to the TMS+YOU forum members. By providing us with your personal information on the membership application, you expressly consent to our storing, processing, and distributing your information for these purposes.

How We Use Your Information
The Operators may use non-personal data that is aggregated for reporting about the TMS+YOU forum web site usability, performance, and effectiveness. It may be used to improve the experience, usability, and content of the site.
TMS+YOU may use personal information to provide services that support the activities of the TMS+YOU forum members and their collaboration on the TMS+YOU forum standards and projects. When accessing the TMS+YOU members-only forums, your personal user information may be tracked by the server in order to support collaboration, ensure authorized access, and enable communication between members.

Information Sharing
TMS+YOU does not sell, rent, or lease any individual’s personal information or lists of email addresses to anyone for marketing purposes, and we take commercially reasonable steps to maintain the security of this information. However, TMS+YOU reserves the right to supply any such information to any organization into which TMS+YOU may merge in the future or to which it may make any transfer in order to enable a third party to continue part or all of its mission. We also reserve the right to release personal information to protect our systems or business, when we reasonably believe a member to be in violation of our Terms of Use or if we reasonably believe a member to have initiated or participated in any illegal activity. In addition, please be aware that in certain circumstances, TMS+YOU may be obligated to release your personal information pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or other orders.

In keeping with our open process, TMS+YOU may maintain publicly accessible archives for the majority of our activities. For example, posting an email to any of the TMS+YOU hosted public mail lists or discussion forums, subscribing to one of our newsletters or registering for one of our public meetings may result in your email address becoming part of the publicly accessible archives.

If you are a registered member of a TMS+YOU website or email list, you should be aware that some items of your personal information may be visible to other members and to the public. The TMS+YOU member databases may retain information about your name, e-mail address, company affiliation (if an organizational member), and such other personal address and identifying data as you choose to supply. That data may be visible to other of the TMS+YOU members and to the public. Your name, e-mail address, and other information you may supply also may be associated in the website server’s publicly accessible records with various TMS+YOU committees, working groups, and similar activities that you join, in various places, including: (i) the permanently-posted attendance and membership records of those activities; (ii) documents generated by the activity, which may be permanently archived; and, (iii) along with message content, in the permanent archives of the TMS+YOU e-mail lists, which also may be public.

Given the international scope of the TMS+YOU websites, personal information may be visible to persons outside your country of residence, including to persons in countries that your own country’s privacy laws and regulations deem deficient in ensuring an adequate level of protection for such information. If you are unsure whether this Privacy Policy is in conflict with applicable local rules, you should not submit your information. If you are located within the European Union, you should note that your information will be transferred to the United States, which is deemed by the European Union to have inadequate data protection. Nevertheless, in accordance with local laws implementing European Union Directive 95/46/EC of 24 October 1995 (“EU Privacy Directive”) on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, individuals located in countries outside of the United States of America who submit personal information do thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to its transfer to and/or storage in the United States of America.

If you do not want your personal information collected and used by the Operators, please do not visit the TMS+YOU web site or apply for membership of any of the TMS+YOU websites, forums, or email lists.

Security
TMS+YOU makes every effort to protect personal information by users of the web site, including using firewalls and other security measures on its servers. No server, however, is 100% secure, and you should take this into account when submitting personal or confidential information about yourself on any web site, including this one. Much of the personal information is used in conjunction with member services such as collaboration and discussion, so some types of personal information such as your name, company affiliation, and email address will be visible to other TMS+YOU members and to the public. TMS+YOU assumes no liability for the interception, alteration, or misuse of the information you provide. Members alone are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of their personal information. Please use care when use access this web site and provide personal information.

Access to and Accuracy of Member Information
TMS+YOU is committed to keeping the personal information of our members accurate. All the information you have submitted to us can be verified and changed. In order to do this, please email us at admin@tmsyou.com for a request. We may provide members with online access to their own personal profiles, enabling them to update or delete information at any time. To protect our members’ privacy and security, we also may take reasonable steps to verify identity, such as a user ID and password, before granting access to modify personal profile data. Certain areas of the TMS+YOU web sites may limit access to specific individuals through the use of passwords or other personal identifiers; a password prompt is your indication that a members-only resource is being accessed.

Children’s Privacy
The Operators are committed to protecting the privacy needs of children, and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. The Operators do not intentionally collect information from minors, and the Operators do not target its web site to children.

Opting Out
From time to time TMS+YOU may email electronic newsletters, announcements, surveys or other information. If you prefer not to receive any or all of these communications, you may opt out by following the directions provided within the electronic newsletters and announcements.

If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us.