Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology

CMI Privacy Policy

The Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology wishes to conserve the privacy of personal information gathered from its members and the interested public. CMI safeguards this information as detailed below.

 

Personal data and distribution lists

CMI generates a membership database of personal information that includes individuals’ affiliations, postal addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers. This information comes from solicited user input from the CMI website, telephone, email, or from the postal service. These data are stored on a secure computer that only authorized staff can access.

CMI transmits regular updates to its members via email. This is performed either through a "blind carbon copy" email function, or through the services of a third party email distribution service, operated under the control of the CMI Executive Director.

CMI maintains a list of people wishing to receive event announcements. This information comes from solicited user input from the CMI website and conference or course evaluation forms. This data is stored on the CMI office computer. Announcements are sent through a third party email distribution service operated under the control of the CMI Executive Director.

 

Protocol for CMI events

Participant lists for courses, workshops, and conferences are compiled to aid with the delivery of these events. To encourage networking, participant lists are displayed at events in print format. These include names, affiliations, cities, and email addresses. When participants register they may indicate that they decline to have this information displayed at the event. No versions will be made available any third party outside of these venues, with the exceptions of the organizing committee for the event, and the instructors for a course.

CMI conference summaries do not include participant lists.

 

Website

CMI accepts on-line credit card payments for registration fees. Credit card information is not stored by the Columbia Mountains Institute. We use a secure hosted web site to collect payments.

Abstracts and speaker or instructor contact information (name, affiliation, city, email address) will be posted within the CMI website, usually in the conference summary prepared for each event. Speakers wishing not to have their contact information posted may choose to do so when submitting their information.

Hyperlinks to other websites are present on the CMI website. Those websites are independent of CMI. Be sure to read their privacy statements before submitting personal information to those websites.

Revised January 2011.