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IICRC Privacy Notice
Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available electronically on the IICRC homepage and at points where personally identifiable information may be requested by the IICRC.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted to the IICRC, including information submitted on IICRC paper forms and applications, or on the IICRC website. The type of personal information collected by the IICRC includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Name
Title
Address
Email address
Phone numbers
Fax number
Credit/debit card numbers
Insurance information
References
Qualifications and credentials, such as training, education, experience
Areas of interest or expertise
Potential sources of bias and conflict of interest, including funding/income
Organizational affiliations
The Way We Use Information
The IICRC will use the personal information you provide us for the purpose for which it is submitted, such as to communicate with you, to reply to your letters and emails, handle your questions, process billing and business requests related to program participation, to provide operational notices, email informational blasts, and for program record-keeping.
IICRC Headquarters staff (both domestic and international) and IICRC officers, directors and committee chairs and vice-chairs also use personal information collected for a variety of additional operational purposes, including: placement of volunteers in positions, determining compliance with IICRC policies and requirements, processing certification examinations, evaluating applicants for approval as instructors and schools, evaluating applicants for the many certifications and designations offered by the IICRC, processing of complaints, and for other internal operations and activities related to the functions and purposes of the IICRC.
Our research and record-keeping may lead to publication of aggregate demographical data but will not result in the reporting or publication of any personal information provided to us. At certain points where personal information is collected by the IICRC, there may be a box where you may indicate you would like to be on a mailing list to receive information about IICRC programs and services and about ways to volunteer with and support the IICRC. At any time you can add or remove your name from such an IICRC list by contacting us as indicated below.
In addition, we may use your email address to forward newsletters and other information and notices related to the IICRC or the inspection, cleaning, restoration and remediation industry or related industries, that may be of interest to you.
How Your Information May Be Shared
IICRC certified firms are automatically included in the IICRC referral system. Participation in the IICRC referral system requires release of some of your personal information by the IICRC to consumers requesting referrals, which facilitates a consumer contacting you to discuss your providing services to them.
Periodically, lists of IICRC registrants are requested from the IICRC by third parties for a variety of purposes. Such lists are confidential and proprietary to the IICRC, and contain private information governed by the IICRC Privacy Policy and this Privacy Notice. Such lists are not distributed to any third party by the IICRC for any reason, except where otherwise consistent with the IICRC Privacy Policy and this Privacy Notice.
In addition, it may be necessary to release your name and contact information to third parties when you participate in IICRC standard development activities in order to comply with the requirements of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which is the body that accredits the IICRC standards and its standards development practices.
In addition, it may be necessary to release your name, contact information, and IICRC certifications and designations to third parties in order to comply with the requirements of organizations that may accredit the IICRC certification programs.
The IICRC may also release personal information under the following circumstances:
A. Where release is required by law (for example, a subpoena) or regulation or is requested by a government agency;
B. Where our records indicate an individual or company may be engaged in illegal or fraudulent or deceptive activity;
C. To appropriate persons, where communication suggests possible harm to others.
Opt Out Provisions
You may prevent use of your email address by the IICRC for newsletters and other information and notices related to the IICRC or the inspection, cleaning, restoration and remediation industry or related industries, by advising us not to use your email address. IICRC forms, applications or renewal applications, and related materials that collect personal information, including the IICRC website, contain language allowing registrants to “opt out” of the use of their email address by the IICRC.
You may prevent disclosure of your personal information by the IICRC to consumers that request referrals of IICRC certified firms, by advising us that you do not wish to participate in the IICRC referral system. IICRC forms, applications or renewal applications, and related materials that collect personal information, including the IICRC website, contain language allowing registrants to “opt out” of their participation in the IICRC referral system.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of personal information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You may access all of your personally identifiable information collected and maintained by the IICRC by contacting the IICRC as described below. You may correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a written request to the contact person provided below that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
How To Contact Us
Should you have questions, concerns or complaints about this Privacy Notice or the IICRC Privacy Policy, please contact the IICRC as follows:
IICRC
Executive Administrator
2715 E. Mill Plain Blvd.
Vancouver, WA 98661
360.693.5675 Phone
360.693.4858 Fax
info@iicrc.org Email
Privacy Notice Revisions
This Privacy Notice and the IICRC Privacy Policy may be revised from time to time. If the IICRC materially changes its privacy notices, policies or practices, we will notify you by posting the changes in advance on the IICRC website and by revising and promulgating this Privacy Notice, as necessary.
Effective Date
The effective date of this Privacy Notice is November 1, 2006.
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