AIGA privacy policy
AIGA values your interest and involvement in
this organization and the time you spend on our website. In our
online communication as in all other AIGA programs, we are
committed to informing you of how we use any information you share
with us, and giving you choices about sharing it.
This privacy statement explains AIGA privacy practices for the
national website, www.aiga.org, and for all sites that are part of the
aiga.org domain. This statement notifies you of:
If you feel that AIGA is not abiding by its posted privacy
policy, you should contact us.
Why AIGA collects member and customer
information
When you become a member of AIGA or get involved in AIGA
activities on this website or elsewhere, AIGA responds to your
interest by offering to keep you informed about AIGA events and
programs. While print AIGA communications are a benefit of
membership, email announcements are available to members and
nonmembers.
You have the choice of whether or not to give us your
information or receive AIGA email announcements. If you choose to
subscribe to these announcements, you have our commitment that they
will be topical, timely and relevant to your professional and
cultural interests.
Furthermore, AIGA will never sell or rent your information to
another party, or use it in any way other than that described in
this statement. AIGA will prosecute any parties who illegally
attempt to mine member data from the site.
AIGA members
If you are a member and you have supplied your email address, you
will automatically receive AIGA email announcements, along with
AIGA print communications and up to two mailings a year from each
of AIGA's national sponsors, of whom there are up to six. If you
would prefer not to receive the email announcements, you can always
opt out of receiving them by visiting my.aiga.org to update your communication preferences.
Nonmembers
If you are a nonmember, you can use most of the features of the
site without supplying any personal information to AIGA. If you
would like to stay informed about AIGA programs and activities, you
can provide your name and email address and opt in to receiving
AIGA email announcements. If at any time you wish to stop receiving
these emails, you can opt out by visiting my.aiga.org to update your communication preferences.
Website features requiring the
submission of personal information
Submission of personal information to the AIGA website is
entirely voluntary, except in the case of members, for whom current
names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses must
be on file. Most areas of the website may be used without supplying
any personally identifiable information.
The following site features do require users to supply personal
information:
Membership
When you join AIGA, we request your
name, address, phone and fax numbers, email address, job title,
school or company name, chapter affiliation and professional
affiliation. The information you have supplied is used to get an
accurate picture of our membership as a whole and to provide you
with the full benefits of membership, including publications,
mailings and discounted registration for AIGA events. After
joining, you can update any of your
information on the web at any time.
Site status updates
If you wish to receive information about specific new features or
services when they are added, we ask for contact information
including your name and email address.
Surveys
From time to time we request information from users of the site via
surveys. Participation in surveys is completely voluntary.
Information requested may include contact information (such as name
and email address), demographic information (such as zip code and
age level), and professional information (such as skills, areas of
expertise and subjects of interest). This information will not be
released under any circumstances in a manner that will identify the
respondent. Personally identifiable information is requested only
for internal purposes (for example, to avoid asking for the same
information more than once). Survey information will be used for
monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this
site.
Publication orders
If you wish to order publications from AIGA, you must provide
contact information including your name, email address, phone
number, shipping address and financial information including your
credit card number and expiration date. This information is used
for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble
processing an order, your contact information is used to get in
touch with you.
AIGA Design Jobs
Design Jobs is AIGA's online job search and recruitment center for
the design community.
Job seekers: If you wish to advertise your skills and
availability to employers using Design Jobs, you are asked to
provide contact information such as your name and email, and
professional information such as your skills, areas of practice,
job seeking status and a description of your professional
qualifications. To preserve your privacy, your last name and
contact information are not displayed to other Design Jobs users,
but are collected for purposes of authentication and so that AIGA
may contact you in the event that your Design Jobs account is being
misused. Your professional information is available to other Design
Jobs users, so that potential employers may assess your
qualifications for work.
Employers: If you wish to post available jobs on Design Jobs, we
ask for information about the job you are offering, such as the job
title, type of position, your company's city and state, required
skills and areas of practice, and a job description. This
information is available to other Design Jobs users, so that
potential employees may assess the opportunity. We also request
company contact information such as your contact name, company
name, address, and email. To protect your privacy, we give you the
choice of revealing your contact information to other users, or
posting your job anonymously. In either case, your contact
information is collected for purposes of authentication and so that
AIGA may contact you in the event that your Design Jobs account is
being misused.
Registration for AIGA activities
If you wish to register for an AIGA conference or other event, we
ask for contact information such as your name, school or company
name, job title, telephone number, and email address, and financial
information including your credit card number and expiration date.
Contact information is used to send you important messages
regarding the activity or event for which you registered. Financial
information is used for billing purposes and to fill your
orders.
Subscribe to AIGA email announcements
If you wish to receive timely information about select AIGA
programs and events, you may subscribe to AIGA email announcements.
Announcement subjects include upcoming conferences, exhibitions,
publications and new interactive services. Subscribers receive up
to 18 email messages per year.
Log files
AIGA collects aggregate information in the form of log files
recorded by the web server. This information includes how many
visits we have had to our webpages, the IP address of the computer
that person was using, and the address of the referring page.
We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site,
track users' movement through the site, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use. None of this information
is linked to personally identifiable information.
Use of cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. The AIGA website uses
cookies for purposes of session state management-that is, to give
users a persistent identity in the database while they submit forms
and go through any multi-step processes. Once the user leaves the
site, the session information is held for one day only and then
purged from the database.
AIGA is the sole owner of the information collected on all areas
of this site. AIGA will not sell, share, or rent this information
to others in ways different from those disclosed in this
statement.
If you wish to correct, update or remove your personally
identifiable information from our database, or if you no longer
wish to receive communications from us, you have several ways of
getting in touch with us.
Update
If you are a member, you can update your information at any time
by accessing your profile at my.aiga.org.
If you are a nonmember, or you would like assistance using the
member directory, you may contact us; call us at
212 807 1990, or send us regular mail at 164 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
Choice/opt-out
If you receive communications from AIGA and you wish to stop
receiving them, opt-out mechanisms and instructions exist. You may
opt out by replying to any email we send you with the word
“unsubscribe” in the subject line. You may also contact us; call us at
212 807 1990; or send us regular mail at 164 Fifth
Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
Security
AIGA takes every precaution to protect website users'
information. All of our users' personally identifiable information
is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the
information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer
service representative) are granted access to personally
identifiable information. Furthermore, all employees are kept
up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as
well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified
and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what
they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected.
Finally, the servers on which we store personally identifiable
information are kept in a secure environment.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that
AIGA is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other
sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site
and to read the privacy statement of any website that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by this website.
Notification of
changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post a notice
of those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to
use personally identifiable information in a manner different from
that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by
email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. We will use information in
accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was
collected.