Many of the features of gotousa.org are available to you without your providing personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information generally includes information that could be used to determine your identity, such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and birth date. The following are certain situations in which gotousa.org may collect personally identifiable information from you: Registration for Membership or Newsletters collects personally identifiable information from you if you register online. When you register online, gotousa.org asks for personally identifiable information like your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, personal interests and other demographic information. 

 

 

Gotousa.org uses your personally identifiable information as follows: 

 

1.To improve gotousa.org’s marketing and promotional efforts, analyze site usage, improve gotousa.org’s content and product offerings, and customize gotousa.org’s content, layout, and services; 
 

2.to fulfill your requests for certain products and services; 
 

3.for market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity, to enforce gotousa.org’s Terms of Use, for other internal purposes, and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection; and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. 
 

You expressly agree to gotousa.org’s use of your personally identifiable information as set forth in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. 

 

 

Tracking information is collected both on an individual basis and in the aggregate through the use of "cookies." A cookie is placed on a reader's hard drive by a Web server and it is used to identify the pages that a reader visits. Gotousa.org monitors how long readers spend on each article and monitors how popular particular articles are. In addition, gotousa.org logs, when possible, Internet Protocol addresses, browser type, reader's location, monitor size, and time and date that you arrived and departed the site. 
 

gotousa.org uses this tracking information to perform statistical analyses of its readers so that it can figure out which articles garnered the most attention and so that it can make product-development decisions in the future. Gotousa.org may also use information collected to target, in aggregate, readers with advertisements that are most relevant. 

 

Any information that is disclosed by readers in the comments section of gotousa.org becomes public and may be used by gotousa.org for publication and commercial purposes in any media that gotousa.org utilizes -- either online or offline. 

 

 

Personally identifiable information you submit to gotousa.org is password-protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas gotousa.org uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions. . No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure; therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. In the unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises gotousa.org security measures, gotousa.org will not be responsible for any damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party's ability to view, use or disseminate such information. 

 

Gotousa.org may include links to other third party Web sites. Such links are not an endorsement by gotousa.org of those Web sites and/or the products or services offered there. Third party Web sites may have different privacy policies and gotousa.org is not responsible for the privacy practices of those third party Web sites. If you click on a link to a third party Web site, gotousa.org encourages you to check the privacy policy of that Web site, as it may differ substantially from that of this Privacy Policy.

 

Our site is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us immediately. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we will remove information and terminate the child's account.

 

If you believe that gotousa.org has not adhered to this Statement you may write to our Privacy Officer at the following address:

 

V-Tech Communications, Inc.

Attn: Privacy Officer

11601 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 500

Los Angeles, CA 90025

United States of America

 

We may revise this privacy policy from time to time. The most current version of the Statement will govern our use of your information and will always be located here. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Statement.