Contact Us Calendar 703.729.8000 DISCOVER MEET CELEBRATE EAT STAY PRIVACY POLICY The National Conference Center is committed to addressing the privacy concerns of all users of this website. The following statement is to inform users of our privacy principles and guidelines. Use of this website by you will be considered your acknowledgment and acceptance of this privacy statement. BROWSING THIS WEBSITE: Visitors who browse this website do so on an anonymous basis. We have not configured this website to collect any information from your computer without your input. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with information, we will not know your identity, your e-mail address, or any other information identifiable to you. INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) ADDRESS: An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer every time you browse the Internet. When a user requests a page from our site, our servers log the user’s current IP address. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. Thus, each user session remains anonymous. COOKIES: Like many companies, from time to time we may use “cookie” technology on our Site. When you visit our site, the cookie informs us whether you’ve previously visited our website or if you are a new visitor, where you were referred from, and also tells us if you booked. The cookie does not track any personal information about you or provide us with any way to contact you, and the cookie does not extract any information from your computer. You may occasionally receive cookies from unaffiliated companies or organizations, to the extent they place advertising on our site or are linked to the site. These third-party cookies may collect information about you when you click on their advertising, content, or link. This practice is standard in the Internet industry. Because of the way in which the Internet operates, we cannot control collection of this information by these third parties, and these cookies are not subject to this Privacy Statement. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION: When we need to collect information from you, we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. For example, if you would like to make a reservation, we will ask you for information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card type, credit card number, credit card expiration date, and room preference (non-smoking room or no preference) to process your reservation. We will use your e-mail address to send a confirmation and, if necessary, might use the other information to contact you for help to process the reservation. When we ask you for personal data when making a reservation or purchasing a gift certificate, including your name, address and credit card data, it is transferred over a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) line provided you are using an SSL enabled browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. This ensures that your information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. This secure mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from your computer. In addition, when accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from “http” to “https”. After information reaches us it is stored on a secure server that resides behind a firewall that is designed to block access from outside the company. We may also ask you to fill out an online customer survey, to obtain your suggestions or comments about your use of our services, or for similar purposes. Providing this information is voluntary. We also, at times, may use an interactive dialogue product to assist visitors while on certain web pages. The content of the dialogue is not identifiable to you unless you voluntarily provide us with your name or other information regarding your identity. The dialogue product is used only to facilitate your visit by providing the additional OUR CORE BELIEFS REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION User privacy and data protection are human rights We have a duty of care to the people within our data Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary We loathe spam as much as you do! We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information RELEVANT LEGISLATION Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy: EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR) PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons: SITE VISITATION TRACKING Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to personally identify you, but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor ( see section below ). GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website. In addition to Google Analytics, this website may collect information (held in the public domain) attributed to the IP address of the computer or device that is being used to access it. BLOG Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on blog sites, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third party data processors detailed below. Only your name and email address that you supplied will be shown on the public-facing website. Your comments and it’s associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either: remove the comment or remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and it’s associated personal data deleted, please contact us . If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog. NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website. CONTACT FORMS AND EMAIL LINKS Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section below. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices. THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section above. Google ( Privacy policy ) Twitter ( Privacy policy ) Microsoft ( Privacy policy ) Facebook ( Privacy policy ) Benchmark ( Privacy policy ) Instagram ( Privacy policy ) COOKIE POLICY This policy covers the use of cookies and other technologies. The types of cookies we use fall into 3 categories: • ESSENTIAL COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES These are vital for the running of our services on our websites and apps. Without the use of these cookies parts of our websites would not function. For example, session cookies allows a navigation experience that is consistent and optimal to user’s network speed and choice of device. • ANALYTICS COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES These collect information about your use of our websites and apps, and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, analytics cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages. They also help identify any difficulties you have accessing our services, so we can fix any problems. Additionally these cookies allow us to see overall patterns of usage at an aggregated level. • TRACKING, ADVERTISING COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES We use these types of technologies to provide advertisements that are more relevant to your interests. This can be done by delivering online adverts based your previous web browsing activity. Cookies are placed on your browser which will remember the websites you have visited. Advertising based on what you have been looking at is then displayed to you when you visit websites who use the same advertising networks. We may also use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with adverts based on your location, offers you click on, and other similar interactions with our websites and apps. DATA BREACHES We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY This privacy policy may change from time to time to conform with legislation and/or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. 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