Privacy Policy

Effective August 1, 2019

Who Maintains this Website?  Contact/Notification Information

This is the Internet Privacy Policy for the [New Meridian Resource Center] Website. This Website, and this Privacy Policy, are maintained by New Meridian Corporation. You can write to us at New Meridian Corporation, 9390 Research Blvd, Kaleido II, Suite 310. Austin, Texas 78759. We can be reached by email at info@newmeridiancorp.org, or you can call us at 512.399.3440.

New Meridian values individual privacy and we want to give visitors to this Website the opportunity to know what information we collect about them and how they can limit the use of personally-identifiable information beyond the purposes for which they first provided it.  At all times, however, New Meridian reserves the right to disclose information where required by law or to comply with valid legal process (such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order) to protect New Meridian’s rights or property, including without limitation in the event of a transfer of control of New Meridian or substantially all of its assets, or during emergencies when safety is at risk.

Whenever we change this Policy, we will give reasonable notice by posting a notice on the home page.  Since these policy change notices last only for a limited time, however, you should check this Privacy Policy regularly to see if there have been any changes.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

What Information May We Collect?

We collect your email address if you communicate with us by email, as well as other information that you might supply voluntarily.  If we ask you for any additional information, we will identify the relevant purposes for which information is being collected.

What May We Do with Your Information?

We may use this information to respond to an email or other inquiry or request, to help improve this Website, or the New Meridian website and our services, to customize your experience at this Website or at the New Meridian website, or to send updates or notices about our organization and offerings that we think may be of interest to you.  We may also combine this information with other generally or publicly available information to help us identify visitors’ preferences or interests.  We may provide information that identifies you to companies that work with us under contract in these activities, such as helping us fulfill your request for information.

What We Won’t Do with Your Information.

Your privacy is important to us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization other than as necessary to fulfill your request and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain your consent or as required by law.  We will not sell or rent your information to anyone. We won‘t retain personal information beyond the period of time to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.

 

Children’s Privacy

This Website and the New Meridian website are intended for adults.  New Meridian does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.  If New Meridian obtains knowledge that it has personally identifiable information about a child under 13 in retrievable form in its files, New Meridian will delete that information from our existing files.

Cookies & Computer-Related Information

New Meridian does not enable “cookies” on this Website or on the New Meridian Website with one exception.  A cookie is used in website system administration to keep track of movement of an individual user from one screen to another.  Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. This information may be used by our staff to detect and resolve website problems and to assist with customer support.  We do not collect any personally identifiable information about site visitors in this process.

Our web server automatically collects information from your computer and navigation patterns when you visit our site, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the computer’s operating system, the type of browser you use, and the specific web pages visited during your connection.  We may also track data such as the total number of visits to this Website and the number of visitors to each page of this Website.

We may use this information, in aggregate form, for system maintenance and to better understand how our visitors use our site and services so that we can make them better.  New Meridian may also share statistical or demographic information in aggregate form with third parties for marketing or research purposes. This aggregate data will not contain any information that personally identifies you.

How You Can Control and Update Data about You

We want to be sure that we keep only the most accurate and up-to-date information about you in our records.  If you ever want to:

  • see what data we have about you, if any;
  • change/correct any data we have about you;
  • have us delete any data we have about you;
  • express any concern you have about our use of your data; or
  • elect not to receive correspondence from us

you can contact us by email at info@newmeridiancorp.org, or you can call us at 512.399.3440.

Links

Other Internet sites you visit – including those linked from this Website or the New Meridian website – may have their own privacy policies or no policy at all.  When you move to another site, this Privacy Policy will not apply and you are subject to the privacy policy of that new site. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of any site before providing any personal information.

Data Integrity and Security

New Meridian uses security measures designed and intended to prevent corruption of data, block unknown or unauthorized access to our systems and information, and to provide reasonable protection of private information in our possession.  We also have in place privacy protection control contractual obligations with our vendors designed to ensure that personal data is protected from unauthorized access or disclosure. All New Meridian employees must abide by New Meridian’s Privacy Policy.  Only authorized employees are permitted to have access to personally identifiable data about website visitors, and that access is limited to what is reasonably needed to perform an employee’s responsibilities, such as providing updates or notices or customer service.  Employees who violate our privacy policies are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.