NIRI Website Privacy Policy and Disclaimer
Who We Are
This is the National Investor Relations Institute (“NIRI”) Website Privacy Policy. Please note our contact information below if you’d like to reach out.
NIRI values individual privacy and wants to give visitors the opportunity to know what information we collect about them and how they can limit the use of personally identifiable information beyond the purposes for which they first provided it. At all times, however, NIRI reserves the right to disclose information where required by law or to comply with valid legal process (such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order), to protect NIRI’s rights or property, including without limitation in the event of a transfer of control of NIRI or substantially all of its assets, or during emergencies when safety is at risk.
Whenever we change our policy, we will give reasonable notice by posting a notice on our home page. Since these policy change notices last only for a limited time, however, you should check this Privacy Policy regularly to see if there have been any changes.
Data We Collect and How We Use It
Personally Identifiable Information
We mainly collect your full name, preferred mailing address, your phone number, and e-mail address as well as other information that you might supply voluntarily.
If you purchase a product or service at our site, we will process your payment in the form of a credit card or wire payment. Only accounting staff have access to customers’ form of payments. NIRI does not release any personal financial information to third parties unless you authorize us to do so or if it is necessary to fulfill our responsibilities, including, but not limited to, delivering a product or service you order. All sales are considered final.
We may use your contact information to respond to an e-mail or other inquiry or request, to help improve our website and our services, to customize your experience at our website, or to send updates or notices about our organization and the products we offer that we think may be of interest to you. We may also combine this information with other generally or publicly available information to help us identify visitors’ preferences or interests. We may provide information that identifies you to NIRI Chapters you are affiliated with, and companies that assist us fulfill your request for a product, service or information (e.g., NIRI Store).
NIRI collects information from its members (including names, addresses, business phone numbers, and e-mail addresses) for inclusion in an online membership directory that is available to NIRI members only. Further, with the members’ express approval, NIRI may occasionally provide, sell, or rent limited data to third parties, including companies that offer products and services for sale to NIRI’s members. This limited data includes names, job titles, companies/organizations, and business addresses, but do not include business phone numbers, business fax numbers, or e-mail addresses.
Children’s Privacy
NIRI’s website is intended for adults. NIRI does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If NIRI obtains knowledge that it has personally identifiable information about a child under 13 in retrievable form in its files, NIRI will delete that information from our existing files.
Cookies & Computer-Related Information
NIRI collects cookies on our Web site to capture information about page visits. This information is anonymous, and NIRI uses this information only internally – to deliver the most effective content to our visitors. Information from the cookies is used to gauge page popularity, analyze traffic patterns on our site and guide development of other improvements to our site. NIRI does not require that you accept cookies, however, some functionality on our Web site, our product or service check-out process, and products and services may be disabled if you decline to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. You may also change your cookie settings through preferences options in our products and/or services, where applicable. NIRI never gives away information about our users. If you choose to e-mail us and provide personally identifiable information about yourself, NIRI will use this information only to respond to your inquiry. NIRI will not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose that information to third parties unless such disclosure is necessary for the purposes set forth in this Policy, by law or a policy or notice contained or associated with a specific NIRI product or service.
NIRI uses analytics data and the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. Site visitors may opt out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or they may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Our web server automatically collects information from your computer and navigation patterns when you visit our site, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the computer’s operating system, the type of browser you use, and the specific web pages visited during your connection. We may also track data such as the total number of visits to our website and the number of visitors to each page of our website.
We may use this information, in aggregate form, for system maintenance and to better understand how our visitors use our site and services so that we can make them better.
How You Can Control and Update Data About You
We want to be sure that we keep only the most accurate and up-to-date information about you in our records. Therefore, whenever you believe that your contact information needs to be updated, you can e-mail us at memberservices@niri.org to correct or update your contact information.
You may choose at any time to remove your name, telephone and fax numbers, and postal and e-mail addresses from the lists we use to send notices or updates and elect not to receive correspondence from us by e-mailing at memberservices@niri.org.
Other Internet sites you visit — including those linked from the NIRI website — may have their own privacy policies or no policy at all. Other websites might use personal information differently than our policy permits. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of any site before providing any personal information.
Data Integrity and Security
We use state-of-the-art technology to keep any information you provide as secure as possible. All NIRI employees must abide by NIRI’s Privacy Policy. Only authorized employees are permitted to have access to personally-identifiable data about website visitors, and that access is limited to what is reasonably needed to perform an employee’s responsibilities, such as providing updates or notices or customer service. Employees who violate our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
General Legal Notice and Liability Disclaimer
NIRI makes available this website and the information and services contained herein in furtherance of NIRI’s nonprofit and tax-exempt purposes. While NIRI makes every effort to present accurate and reliable information on this site, NIRI does not endorse, approve or certify such information, nor does it guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of such information. Use of such information is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review by qualified experts. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process or service does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by NIRI.
At certain places on this site, live “links” to other websites can be accessed. Such external sites contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of NIRI. NIRI does not endorse, approve, certify, or control these external sites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of information located at such sites. Use of any information obtained from such sites is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review by qualified experts. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process or service does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by NIRI.
NIRI assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from use of the information contained herein, or from use of the information obtained at linked sites, or in any respect for the content of such information. NIRI is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, reliance on, or performance of such information.