The Accountability Board, Inc. (TAB) is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information private. You can visit the TAB website without telling us who you are or revealing any identifying information about yourself. However, because our website includes areas in which visitors can provide personally identifying information, we have developed this privacy policy to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you. This privacy policy governs the URL accountabilityboard.org and certain electronic communications sent out by TAB. This website is owned and operated by TAB for the benefit of visitors interested in our work.
How we collect information about you
Information you voluntarily provide
TAB collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you send us an email or complete any of our online forms. Such information may include your name, mailing address and email address; it may also include a mobile phone number, the email addresses of those to whom you forward our electronic content and any other information collected in the forms. You may be asked to provide credit card information to become a member, contribute to TAB, purchase certain information or materials from TAB or subscribe to various TAB publications.
Other information
accountabilityboard.org also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our website. This information includes your IP address and your domain name. accountabilityboard.org logs these IP addresses and domain names and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience to visitors and helps us to improve the quality of our content.
TAB uses cookies to make the results available for your on-site searches. Cookies are not used for any other reason on this site. A cookie is a small file that is sent out by a website, accepted by the user's browser and placed on the user's hard drive. You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed and then chose which cookies you want to accept. TAB does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to TAB.
TAB may use single pixel gifs, also called web beacons, in our emails. Web beacons track behavior such as who has opened an email and when, the IP address, the browser or email type, which links were clicked and other similar information. This allows us to measure the performance of email campaigns, see what actions subscribers took, create reports about email performance, improve the quality of our emails and segment messages for specific audiences.
TAB may use remarketing with Google Adwords and analytics to display content specific advertisements to visitors that have previously visited our site when those visitors go to other websites that have the Google Display Network implemented. TAB also uses Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.
TAB and other third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party and third-party cookies together to inform and serve ads based on a visitor's past visits to our website.
You may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Ways information about you is used
We may use the information you voluntarily provided to contact you regarding issues we feel you may be interested in, to keep you updated regarding TAB's programs and to extend an invitation to you to support our programs. We may also send such information to the people whose email addresses you provide when forwarding TAB electronic content.
From time to time, we may make the information you have voluntarily given to us (excluding credit card information and text messaging originator opt-in data and consent, neither of which will be disclosed to third parties) available to third parties for marketing purposes, including TAB affiliate organizations or sponsors and licensees that provide special programs or services we think you might find interesting or beneficial. If your volunteered personal information will be used in any manner other than as stated above, such use shall be specifically posted. If you wish to update or remove your information, or if you do not wish your information to be shared with affiliated third parties, please email privacy@accountabilityboard.org.
Other
From time to time, TAB may link to other websites not affiliated with TAB. TAB attempts to link only to those websites which also respect a visitor's privacy and the goals of TAB. However, TAB cannot be responsible for the content or policies of third-party websites. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies. If you find inoperable links or are concerned about any of the sites that TAB currently links to, please inform the TAB by emailing us at privacy@accountabilityboard.org.
Security
TAB uses generally accepted, industry-standard security systems, software and encryption technologies—Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)—for the secure transfer of personal and financial data and to protect against unauthorized access to TAB's servers, equipment and other components of our online presence. This includes using industry-standard security systems to protect credit card processing information. Our web servers are stored off-site at multiple, physically secure facilities with limited access.
Contacting TAB
If you would like to contact TAB about correcting information we might have collected or if you have any questions about this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@accountabilityboard.org.
