Who we are
Our website address is: https://amta-nv.org.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Source: Gravatar | An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Source: Akismet | We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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Contact forms
We keep contact form submissions indefinitely for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to record the behavior of its users/visitors – how Google uses this information can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Who we share your data with
We do not share your data with anyone or any other organization without your explicit permission in writing.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
User comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
If you have privacy-specific concerns regarding use of this website, please contact the AMTA-Nevada Chapter through its Webmaster on this form.
Additional information
How we protect your data
This website uses 128-bit encryption of all transmissions, including loading pages and sending information over the encrypted communication methods including the servers hosting this website – check for the “https://…” in the address bar of each page on this website. [more about HTTPS]
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
this website does not use your submitted information to make automated decisions or conduct profiling.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
As an organization of professionals that are part of a regulated industry in Nevada, privacy is very important to us. All user-submitted postings are held in queue until an organizational representative can review the post for Approval or Denial – if massage-therapy-client-confidential or personally-identifying information is included in a user’s post, it will be removed from the original post and a modified post will be Approved. Users will be notified when their submitted-post is Approved and may review the edited post for accuracy: the user may leave the edited post or request for its removal.