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Linking Policy

This linking policy sets forth general principles for use by the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (eC3) concerning hyperlinks from other web sites to the eC3 website (located at http://www.ec3.org.These principles may be assumed not to cover all possibilities and circumstances. The Executive Committee of the eC3 may amend this policy at anytime.

Consistent with the mission of the eC3:

Links from other federal, state and local government web sites are permitted without restriction whenever their subject matter is relevant to, and consistent with, eC3 policy and objectives.

Advance permission to link to the eC3 homepage from non-governmental sites is not required if a site owner is making a simple link to the eC3 homepage. However, there may be old URLs leading to the eC3 website that are no longer being used. Links shall be made to eC3 homepage using the following URL:

http://www.ec3.org

Links are also permitted to one of eC3's subpages, where appropriate, but the base URL of www.ec3.org should be used.

The eC3 reserves the right to change subpages at any time without notice, so it is up to the site owner to continuously verify links to eC3 subpages.

What Site Owners should not do.

• Site owners shall not capture eC3 pages within site owner's frames, or otherwise present eC3 content as site owner's. Any link to eC3 site should be a full forward link that passes the client browser to the eC3 site unencumbered. The BACK button should return the visitor to owner's site if the visitor wishes to back out. Although all content on the eC3 site is available to the public, the eC3 maintains and will defend a copyright interest in these pages where applicable.
  
• Site owners should not link to individual eC3 graphics or tables within eC3 pages, especially in an effort to place the downloading burden on eC3 servers. Such an action may be considered a misuse of eC3 resources. To get permission to use a copy of eC3 graphics within site owner's pages, site owner must contact the eC3 Administration Agent.

eC3 will require sites linked to its home page to use reasonable efforts to ensure that these sites may be accessed by persons with disabilities.

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Privacy Policy

The following is the privacy policy for this site (all pages starting with www.ec3.org):

We do not use cookies to collect information. Note: A cookie file contains unique information a web site can use to track such things as passwords, lists of pages you've visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific page or to identify your session at a particular web site. A cookie is often used in commercial sites to identify the items selected for a specific shopping cart application.

If you send us an electronic mail message with a question or comment that contains personally identifying information, or fill out a form that e-mails us this information, we will only use the personally-identifiable information to respond to your request and analyze trends. We may redirect your message to another member of the eC3 who is in a better position to answer your question.

For site management functions, information is collected for analysis and statistical purposes. This information is not reported or used in any manner that would reveal personally identifiable information, and will not be released to any outside parties unless legally required to do so in connection with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.

We use Log analysis tools to create summary statistics, which are used for purposes such as assessing what information is of most interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. The following information is collected for this analysis:

• User Client hostname - The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access.
  
• HTTP header, "user-agent" - The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system it's running on.
  
• HTTP header, "referer" - The referer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page.
  
• System date - The date and time of the user/client request.
  
• Full request - The exact request the user/client made.
  
• Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client.
  
• Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user/client.
  
• Method - The request method used.
  
• Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server.
  
• Query string of the URI - Anything after the question mark in a URI.
  
• Protocol - The transport protocol and version used.

eC3 conference registration forms that are filled out online will contain a separate privacy policy with a link to the policy prominently posted in the upper left hand corner of the form. This applies to registration forms hosted by the eC3 Web site and for registration forms that are hosted by third-party vendor sites.