Pay Governance is committed to protecting the privacy of our clients and of the visitors to our website even ifthey are not clients. Pay Governance (“we”, “us” or “our”) safeguards your information to maintain clienttrust. We have created this policy as our commitment to your privacy and protection of your information.
Pay Governance respects the privacy of visitors to paygovernance.com and any related sites (collectively“paygovernance.com”) by disclosing and explaining in this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) how Pay Governancecollects, uses and shares information about you from paygovernance.com and the choices that you can makeabout the way your information is collected, used and shared. Pay Governance encourages you to read thisPrivacy Policy.
The following sections address Pay Governance privacy issues in more detail:
This Privacy Policy applies to all services and any sub-sites available under the domain paygovernance.com.This is a global privacy policy. By visiting this website, you are agreeing in advance to the current and futureterms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to agree to these terms, you should leave this website.
There are two types of information collected on paygovernance.com: Personally Identifiable Information andNon-Personally Identifiable Information.
We do not collect any Personally Identifiable Information (“personal information”) on our site. Personalinformation is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, emailaddress, age or employer. Personal information is only obtained when you voluntarily provide the information tous. Pay Governance uses personal information to better understand your needs and interests and to provideyou with better service. For example, you may voluntarily submit your name and email address to us whencommunicating with us or providing your personal information to receive future email or publications from us orhave one of our Members or employees contact you. You may also provide information related to your interestin career opportunities with Pay Goverance.
Once you choose to provide us with personal information, you can be assured it will be used only to supportyour relationship with Pay Governance. We take seriously the trust you place in us and will not sell, rent orlease your personal information to others.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information (“non-personal information”) is information that does not identify you asan individual, such as your browser type, IP Address, the URL of the previous website you visited, etc. PayGovernance may automatically collect certain types of non-personal information from you when usingPaygovernance.com. We may also collect non-personal information that you voluntarily provide, such asinformation included in response to a questionnaire or survey.
Pay Governance’s primary purpose in collecting personal information on paygovernance.com is to provide youwith an experience that is safe and secure, and to provide you with services and information that better meetyour needs or requests. We only collect information that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.
Pay Governance collects data when you provide information to us or through the use of web technology.
If you choose to use certain services on Paygovernance.com, we may require you to provide contact andidentity information. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. If youchoose not to use a particular service or feature, you do not have to provide the contact or identity informationrequested.
Paygovernance.com may use cookie technology to improve your experience on paygovernance.com andgather data for website statistical reporting. Cookie technology does not capture your individual email addressor any personal information about you.
A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a website that is saved on your hard disk by your computer’sbrowser. It holds information a site may need to personalize your experience (i.e., rotating images onpaygovernance.com home page) and gathers website statistical data, such as which pages are visited, what isdownloaded, the Internet provider’s domain name and country that our visitors come from and the addresses ofsites visited immediately before and after coming to paygovernance.com. However, none of this is associatedwith you as an individual and is measured only in aggregate.
To browse without cookies, you can configure your browser to reject all cookies or to notify you when a cookieis set. (Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookiepreferences.) Your experience of the paygovernance.com site may be different if you set your browser to blockcookies.
Paygovernance.com may use web beacons to serve advertising, enhance email advertising and track usage onpaygovernance.com. We use third parties to manage web beacons and the data they collect. Web beacons donot capture your individual email address or any other personal information.
Web beacons, also called clear GIFs (a common format for image files), are invisible files on web pages thatyou visit. If you visit a page on paygovernance.com that contains a web beacon, it communicates with yourcomputer to determine, among other things, whether you have been to that page before or viewed a particularadvertisement.
We do not use any third-party services to provide ad tracking services.
Paygovernance.com may collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration, server problemdiagnosis and compiling aggregate information (such as how many visitors logged on to paygovernance.com).When you visit a particular web page on paygovernance.com, our servers log your IP address. An IP addressis a number that is assigned to your computer automatically when you use the Internet.
We take seriously the trust you place in us and will not sell, rent or lease your information to others.
Pay Governance may employ other companies and individuals (“agents”) to perform services on behalf ofpaygovernance.com, such as sending emails, website management and analyzing data. Such agents will haveaccess to personal and non-personal information only as necessary to perform their services for us and are notpermitted to use it for any other purpose.
If you go to other websites, including other sites that link to our site, those other sites may collect personal andnon-personal information about you. The information practices of those other sites are not covered by thisPrivacy Policy. We have no liability or responsibility for those sites or their own policies.
Disclosure of personal information for legal purposes and protection of paygovernance.com andothers: paygovernance.com reserves the right to share your personal information with third parties if we believesuch action is necessary in order to: (a) conform with the requirements of the law or to comply with legalprocess served upon us; (b) protect or defend our legal rights or property, paygovernance.com or our users; or(c) investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potentialthreats to the physical safety of any person or violations of the terms and conditions of usingpaygovernance.com.
Our email marketing is permission-based. If you receive an email from us, you have expressly shared thisaddress for the purpose of receiving information in the future or you have an existing relationship with us. Werespect your time and attention by controlling the frequency and content of our mailings.
If you choose to receive email messages, paygovernance.com may periodically send you email messages withinformation we believe is of interest to you. You can choose to stop receiving this email at any time. Simplyfollow the instructions included in your email or send a reply stating your request.
If you do not explicitly choose to receive informational emails, the only email messages you will receive frompaygovernance.com will be in response to email inquiries that you send us.
At any time, you can “opt-out” of receiving direct mail and marketing material from Pay Governance byfollowing the instructions included in your email or by sending a reply stating your request, and we will makethe requested changes.
Paygovernance.com is not intended for use by children. We do not knowingly collect information from childrenunder the age of 13. If we learn that personal information on a child under the age of 13 is collected, we willdelete that information from our systems. We encourage parents and guardians to be familiar with the websitesthat their children visit.
The security of your personal information is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting theinformation that we collect. We have security measures in place at our facilities to protect against the loss,misuse or alteration of information that Pay Governance has collected from you at our website. We useappropriate, commercially reasonable safeguards to maintain the privacy of your personal information.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100percent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Pay Governance cannotensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, andyou do so at your own risk.
By visiting paygovernance.com, you are accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, and we havethe right to use your information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify this PrivacyPolicy at any time.
This Privacy Policy applies only with respect to the information that we collect on paygovernance.com and notto any information that Pay Governance collects through other methods or sources.
If for some reason you believe that Pay Governance has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please notify us atone of the addresses below.
Pay Governance may modify or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. In an effort to keep you informedof changes to this Privacy Policy, we will publish any updates to this policy on our website. Changes to thisPrivacy Policy will not affect our use of previously provided personal information.
Please note that whenever you submit any information to us, you consent to Pay Governance’s processing ofthis information in the United States as necessary to provide the services you are receiving.
If you have any questions or comments about Pay Governance’s Privacy Policy and/or the way it affects you,please feel free to contact us by either of these addresses:
• Sending an e-mail request to: http://paygovernance.com/contact-us/
• Sending a letter via US Mail to:
Pay Governance LLC
Attn: Privacy Policy
Two Logan Square
100 N 18th Street
Suite 821
Philadelphia, PA 19103