Effective June 1, 2004

This is the website of the Orange County CA chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-OC).

Our postal address is:
1240 N. Jefferson St., Suite G, Anaheim, CA 92807
We can be reached via e-mail at admin@nawbo-oc.org
or by telephone at 714-630-2983

Our web server does not automatically recognize any information regarding the website visitor’s domain or e-mail address.

Information we collect: We collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on which pages website users access or visit, and information volunteered by website users such as survey information, site registrations, and membership applications. If you do not wish to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website, and to communicate with NAWBO-OC members and website users as follows:

1) Affiliated organizations may obtain mailing labels for contacting NAWBO-OC members once per year (one time use only).
2) Local, State and National Corporate and Community Members may request that we send an email on their behalf to NAWBO-OC members once per year. They may also obtain mailing labels for contacting NAWBO-OC members once per year (one time use only).
3) All NAWBO members, including local and national corporate and community members, can access the member information that is included in the online database.
4) Periodically NAWBO national may print a membership roster and distribute it to all NAWBO members.
5) Periodically NAWBO-OC may print a membership roster and distribute it to all NAWBO-OC members. When new members join they are also given this printed roster.
6) Periodically NAWBO-OC may co-sponsor an event and provide mailing labels to the organization hosting the event to send event invitations to our members.

In addition, if you supply us your postal address you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on upcoming NAWBO-OC events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the above address, or writing to us at the above address. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will make sure your name is removed from our list.

In addition, if you supply us your telephone number you may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address. Please provide us with your name and phone number. We will make sure your name is removed from our list.

Cookies: We use cookies to suppress the e-news sign-up page if you have already signed up to receive our e-news by e-mail. (A cookie is a packet of information that our web server sends to your web browser, which is sent back by your browser every time it reconnects with our server. We use cookies to identify registered users.)

Ad servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

Changes in our privacy policy: From time to time, we may use website user information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.

Access to information: Upon request we will provide website users access to financial information that we maintain about them (e.g., credit card account information), transaction information that we maintain about them (e.g., dates on which they made purchases, amounts and types of purchases), contact information that we maintain about them (e.g., name, address, phone number), and a description of information that we maintain about them. Website users can access this information by e-mailing us at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address. Website users can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

Security: We have reasonable security measures in place at our physical facilities and on our web server to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information we have collected from you.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.

The security of customer and member information is very important to us and we take a number of steps to safeguard it. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with Federal standards to guard nonpublic personal information about you. We limit access to personal and account information to those employees and agents who assist us in providing products and services to you. All credit card account information is strictly safeguarded.

Notice To NAWBO-OC Members Regarding Spam/Scam E-mail From This Website:
In late 2004, all NAWBO-OC members' email links on this website were changed to links to a customized contact form. This was done to make it more difficult for spammers to send messages to members, and to prevent the sending of malicious content (e.g. viruses) via email links on the site.

Since we are ranked very high on popular search engines for key terms such as women's business group (on Google we were recently ranked #2 out of 103 million sites for this particular phrase) we are, unfortunately, getting a lot of visits from spammers and scammers, as well as legitimate individuals and businesses.

Thus, since late 2004, you have probably received several bogus emails using our contact form. Although the source of the email is now more obvious because the email subject reads "NAWBO Contact Form" we strongly believe the amount of spam from the site has actually declined. To further reduce this nuisance we are tracking the use of the form, following up on each instance of spam, and blocking senders if it is feasible to do so. However, we cannot prevent this entirely without eliminating all email links from the website, so we advise all members to ignore suspicious email messages. There is no need to report suspicious messages, as we are monitoring the site's email log.

Please note that you may also get legitimate messages with the email subject "NAWBO Contact Form" including inquiries from potential customers.

If you have any questions about this issue, or would prefer to have your email link removed entirely, please contact our webmaster. For more information on how to protect yourself from scam emails talk to your computer professional or see http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm.