Total Diving Online Privacy Policy
We at www.TotalDiving.com are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your visits to this website. Outlined below is our online privacy policy. If you have questions about this policy, please let us know.
Collection and Disclosure of Information
To ensure we are able to communicate effectively with visitors to our website, we collect some information that can be directly associated with a specific person. We call this "Personal Information" and it includes, by way of illustration: names, addresses, telephone numbers and eMail addresses.
We collect Personal Information from eligible individuals who post comments on this website and/or affirmatively request to receive eMail or other services from us. We collect this Personal Information in order to provide these eligible individuals with timely information via eMail regarding events, resources, new posts and issues.
It is our general policy not to make Personal Information available to anyone other than our employees, staff, and agents.
Online Comments and Personal Information
We treat your name, city, state, and any comments you provide as public information. We may, for example, provide compilations of your comments to industry leaders and other individuals participating in our efforts, without disclosing eMail addresses. We may also make comments along with your city and province/state available to the press and public online.
Opting Out and Modifying Information
Subscribers to our eMail list may terminate their subscriptions via a link at the bottom of each eMail sent from us.
Browser Information Collected on the Website
We log IP addresses, which are the locations of computers or networks on the internet, and analyze them in order to improve the value of our site. We also collect aggregate numbers of page hits in order to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the value of our site. We do not gather, request, record, require, collect or track any internet users’ Personal Information through these processes.
Privacy of Our eMail Lists
As noted above, we maintain eMail lists to keep interested, eligible individuals informed about important topics, and individuals must affirmatively request to join them. We configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the eMail addresses of our list subscribers to anyone other than those whom we authorize. However, we are not the author of this software, and are not responsible for any failures in the software to preserve subscriber anonymity.
Children’s Privacy
Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online (we have kids too!), we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13.
It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by contacting us.
Security
We maintain a variety of physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. For example, we use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems. Also, we restrict access to Personal Information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.
Your own efforts to protect against unauthorized access play an important role in protecting the security of your personal information. You should be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer, and always log out of any site when viewing personal information.
We may have links to other, outside websites that we do not control. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites, and users should check those policies on such sites.
Changes to This Policy
We will revise or update this policy if our practices change, or as we develop better ways to keep you informed about them. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information and the effective date of any changes. If we decide to change this policy, we will post a new policy on our site and change the date of publication listed on this page. Changes to the policy shall not apply retroactively.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.
