NARSA/IDEA Website Privacy Policy
Last modified: January 23, 2025
Introduction
The International Heat Transfer Association ("NARSA" or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.narsa.org (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising on third-party websites and services, if such advertising includes links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by NARSA or any third party; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at info@narsa.org.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");
That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your employer or professional affiliations; and/or
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, filling out the contact form, or registering for events. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
Your search queries on the Website.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
The information we collect automatically does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. The following cookies may be deployed on the Website:
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
Statistics Cookies: Also known as “performance cookies,” these cookies collect information about how you use the Website, like which pages you visited, and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve Website functions.
Web Beacons. Our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit NARSA, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We use Google Analytics on our Website.
The data processing serves the purpose of analyzing this Website and its visitors. For this purpose, Google will use the information to evaluate your use of the Website, to compile reports on Website activity and to provide us with other services related to Website activity and internet usage. The following information, among others, can be collected: IP address, date and time of the page view, click path, information about the browser you are using and the device you are using (device), pages visited, referrer URL (website from which you accessed our Website), location data, purchase activities. The IP address of your browser transmitted by Google Analytics is not linked to any other Google data.
You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/.
Our Website also uses Google Analytics reports for performance, based on demographic characteristics and interests as well as reports to impressions in the Google Display Network. You may deactivate Google Analytics for display advertising and set the displays in the Google Display Network by accessing the display settings under this link: https://www.google.de/ads/preferences?ac_tld=de&continue=aHR0cHM6Ly9hZHNzZXR0aW5ncy5nb29nbGUuZGUvYW5vbnltb3Vz.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of NARSA’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by NARSA about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of NARSA, our members, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. We respond to DO NOT TRACK signals. You can also set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. You can also always opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile, checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email with your request to info@narsa.org.
Promotional Offers from NARSA. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by NARSA to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to info@narsa.org. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may select the “Click here to unsubscribe” link in the email footer.
Your State Privacy Rights
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: info@narsa.org. Please note, however, that we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.
Additional Information for Residents of the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area
Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data Under GDPR
We process your personal data for the purposes outlined in the Privacy Policy. We also process your Personal Data in line with the legal bases recognized under GDPR. We may rely on the following legal bases for processing: to pursue our legitimate interests (for example, website analytics, conducting research on admissions, requesting gifts from donors, etc.), to process transactions requested by you to meet our contractual obligations (for example, registering you for online courses or events, to process your application for admissions, etc.), as necessary for compliance with a legal obligations (for example financial aid and tax reporting obligations, etc.), or on the basis of your consent, where applicable, or for any other legal bases as allowed by applicable law, including processing your personal data under the following conditions:
Performance of a Contract: when your personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement that we make with you and/or for any contractual obligations thereof.
Legal Obligation: when your personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which NARSA is subject.
Legitimate Interests: when processing your personal data is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by NARSA.
Consent: you have given your consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes.
Vital Interests: when your personal data is processed in order to protect your vital interests or those of another natural person.
Public Interests: when your personal data is processed relating to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in NARSA.
Your Data Protection Rights Under GDPR
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights with respect to your personal data that we collect and process:
The Right to Request Access. You have the right to access, update, or delete the information we have about you.
The Right of Rectification. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
The Right to Object. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.
The Right to Restrict Processing. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
The Right of Erasure/The Right to be Forgotten. In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to remove or delete your personal data.
The Right to Transfer. Upon request we will provide you (or a third-party you have chosen) the personal data we have collected about you. Your personal data will be provided in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the personal data to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw Your Consent. In the event we have relied on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where NARSA relied on your consent to process your personal data.
You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority if you feel that we have not complied with applicable laws regulating your personal data. European Economic Area authorities can be found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en#member-uk. If you are a resident of the United Kingdom, you can file a complaint with the ICO here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.
You may exercise any of the rights enumerated above by contacting us at info@narsa.org or via the number listed below. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply. For more information, or to make a request, please use the information below and provide your name, email address, request, and basis for your request.
We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to comply with your request, provide services, or as required by law, or as necessary to comply with legal or contractual obligations and for our legitimate purposes.
Data Transfers Outside of the United Kingdom or European Economic Area
We are based in the United States of America. We may process, store, and transfer the Personal Data, in and to a country outside your own, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as your own, including the United States of America. In the event we transfer your Personal Data outside your country as part of our processing, we rely where required on appropriate or suitable safeguards or specific legal provisions permitting such transfers under GDPR.
When transferring Personal Data from a country in the European Economic Area or from the United Kingdom to a country outside such areas, we may base such transfers on contracts containing legally authorized data protection provisions.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
NARSA/IDEA
519 Central Avenue
Falconer, NY 14733-1241
(724) 799-8415