USTDA has always
taken pride in our customer service. Through regular mail,
faxes, and now e-mail, we work hard at making your business
more effective by sharing the information we have on the
latest infrastructure development projects around the world.
However, you should
know that we take every precaution possible to protect your
privacy. The following is our official policy on what we do
with the personal information you provide us.
Signing the
USTDA Guestbook
We do not collect any personal information from you unless
you specifically provide it while visiting the USTDA
Website. When you sign the USTDA Guestbook, the information
that you provide is collected into a firewall protected
database that is used internally in two different ways. If
you check the box indicating that you would like to be on
the USTDA E-Mail Update List, we use that address on a
bi-weekly basis to send you a link to the USTDA Pipeline. If
you do not check this box, we store your information in the
same secure database. From time to time, we search that
database for a specific region or sector of interest and may
send you information about a relevant USTDA event either by
e-mail, regular mail, or by fax.
In order to promote
U.S. export opportunities, USTDA may also share the
information in the USTDA Guestbook with contractors that
carry out USTDA activities, other government trade agencies,
or interested entities that share the USTDA mission (e.g.,
trade associations, multilateral development banks, etc.)
Please also see number 5 below.
Consultant Database
USTDA's Consultant Database is housed on a secure server (SSL)
with a Thawte Certificate to help us verify a secure
connection with your browser. In order for us to
authenticate your identity - and therefore prevent others
from logging in under your name and tampering with your
account - you are required to log in with a username and a
password. The User ID and Password that you enter is checked
against a secure database housed on the server. Once
verified, your browser is issued a temporary "session" that
expires upon
-
You're logging
out of the Consultant Database area, or
-
If your browser
is left idle for more than 40 minutes.
