(11.05.2025)

 

INTRODUCTION

 

At The Vision In Profession (“VIP”, “we”, “us”, “our”, or the “VIP-Club”), we are committed to protecting your privacy. ThisPrivacy Policy describes the types of information we collect about users of our websites and is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using ourServices. This Privacy Policy also describes (1) the measures we take to safeguard the information we collect and (2) your rights and privileges concerning our collection, use and disclosure of information about you.

 

This Privacy Policy applies to websites owned and operated by The Vision In Profession, including, but not limited to www.visioninprofession.org. Throughout this document, this website, all other VIP affiliated websites, and affiliates with links tothis policy will be collectively referred to as the “Websites”. Services provided by or enabled via the Websites will be referred to as the “Services”.

 

The Vision In Profession is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of non-VIP websites to which this website, or anyother VIP website, may link. By using our Websites, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do notagree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use our Websites.

 

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

 

The data The Vision In Profession collects and uses is governed by this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time, not by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of data collection. This includes data collected from VIP Websites, affiliates with links to this Privacy Policy, and services provided by or enabled via these sites. The Vision In Profession may change the Privacy Policy at our sole discretion and will provide notice of changes in the Privacy Policy and on the privacy policy page of our Websites. If, as theresult of such changes, you want to alter the ways in which we are allowed to use your personal information, you can do so byfollowing the procedure described in the section entitled “Privacy Rights”.

 

Please regularly review our Privacy Policy. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should immediately discontinue useof the Websites and the Services enabled by the Websites. This Privacy Policy does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities, websites other than the Websites, or any products or services not available or enabled via the Websites.

 

You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, the changes to the Privacy Policy after such notice has been posted with the following exception: if at the time you provide personal information to The Vision In Profession you limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by The Vision In Profession or by third parties, The Vision In Profession will not change your preference in this regard without your express written consent.

 

COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies (collectively, “Cookie(s)”) are used when you visit our Site. A“Site” includes our websites, emails, and other applications owned and operated by The Vision In Profession (the “VIP”, the “VIP-Club”, “our”, or “us”) as well as any other services that this site may use. This policy explains what these technologies are and whythey are used, as well as your right to control their use.

 

We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please take a look at the “LAST REVISED” date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any change in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Site.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your session actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences).

How do we use cookies?

Essential Cookies

Essential Cookies enable you to navigate the Site and to use its services and features. Without these necessary Cookies, the Sitewill not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide the Site or certain services or features.

Preference Cookies

Preference Cookies collect information about your choices and preferences, and allow us to remember language or other local settings and customize the Site accordingly.

Social Media Cookies

Social media Cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content you find interesting on our Site through third-party social networking and other websites

We use cookies to optimize site functionality and to enhance user experience. We use cookies to remember your site preferences,should you choose to allow cookie use. Furthermore we use cookies (including pixels and tags) from the following providers:

Analytics Cookies

Analytics Cookies collect information about your use of the Site, and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, AnalyticsCookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the Site, help us record any difficulties you have with the Site, andshow us whether our advertising is effective or not.

 

 

For more information on our service providers, sites this site may link or utilize, and their Privacy Policies and their Terms of Use of please use the following links:

 

Google Umbraco Salesforce Hootsuite Survey Monkey YouTube

 

Twitter Higher Logic Pixieset Microsoft LinkedIn Instagram

 

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manuallyadjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Please be aware that if Cookies are disabled, not all features of the Site may operate as intended.

 

COLLECTION AND USE OF DATA

 

The Vision In Profession are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We have access to and collect information thatyou voluntarily give us via email, webform, survey, website use or other direct contact from you. We will use your information torespond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not sell this information to anyone. Unless you ask us not to, we maycontact you via email in the future to tell you about our VIP-Club or changes to this privacy policy or to provide you with informational, VIP-Club related surveys or VIP-Club event related communications.

 

Do not provide personal information about others unless you are authorized or required to do so by applicable law or contract. Beforesupplying personal information about others, you and the person about whom you supply the information must review and consent tothe Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of the Website. By submitting any personal information about others, you represent and warrantthat you are authorized to do so, that you have made the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy available to the person about whom you supply the information, and that you have obtained that person’s written consent to our

Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. If applicable law allows you to supply the information without doing the foregoing, you represent and warrant that you have abided by that law and that it allows us to receive and disclose the information under this Privacy Policywithout any further action on our part. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless The Vision In Profession, our officers,directors, members, employees and agents for any failure by you to comply with this paragraph.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION AND BUSINESS INFORMATION

 

“Personal Information” as used in this Privacy Policy is information that we directly associate with a specific person or entity, such as name, address, payment information, telephone number, and email address. The Personal Information you provide will vary based upon the context, and we will not collect your Personal Information unless you make it available. You are not required to provide Personal Information at any time while visiting the Websites; however, you may be required to provide Personal Information to usecertain Services or for the purposes of membership. You may provide us with Personal Information by participating in online surveys,VIP-Club announcements and other recurring offerings through the Websites, and in connection with other products, services, features, or requests made available through the Websites.

 

The Vision In Profession collects the Business Information necessary to enable us to respond to your requests for purposes of membership, events, communications, surveys, services and to send you information regarding our VIP-Club membership, events,surveys, communications and services from time to time. For these purposes, we have defined “Business Information” as anyinformation that identifies or may identify a company or an individual contact at a company or that allows others to contact acompany or an individual contact at a company. When you visit our Websites, you may be asked to submit information such as e-mail address, company name, address, phone number, title and/or areas of interest. In addition, you may be asked to submit credit card and related payment information when you order

 

event products, but please note that any payment information submitted is not stored by us. Our information collection and use practices are described in more detail below.

 

VIP-CLUB SERVICES AND RELATED INFORMATION COLLECTION

 

The Vision In Profession collects certain additional information in connection with your use by the VIP-Club for purposes of membership processing, event attendance, communications and services.

 

Account Application/Membership - Membership and services are subject to an application and enrollment process, which may becompleted manually via paper or online. Information requested may include contact and demographic information. This information is used to process your membership enrollment request and, if approved, to set up and administer your account.

 

Account Set-Up and Access - Upon applying, joining, and maintaining membership at our VIP-Club, The Vision In Profession collects Business Information, which may include contact information used to administer your member account. This allows us to identify you, to authorize your access and use of services, and to provide you with relevant account information and VIP-Club offerings.

 

Web-based Services - Some of our web-based services collect certain additional information, including IP address, browser, connection speed, domain, referring URL and other environment-related information. This enables us to provide a secureenvironment for the use of the services, to pre-populate forms and calculate aggregate statistical information about the customers using these services. We use this information to better protect you and to provide a better user experience.

 

Registrations and Orders - To access information on the member website, a user may be required to register with The Vision In Profession. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name, email address, job title). This information is used solely by the VIP-Club for purposes of membership application, membership, billing, electronic tickets, attendance to events, and VIP-Club communications. Additionally, we request information from you process orders. To purchase VIP-Club offerings, you must provide contact information and billing information. This information is used for payment processing and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

 

Surveys - From time-to-time, the VIP-Club may request information via a survey. Participation in these surveys is completelyvoluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested mayinclude contact information such as account, name and email address. Survey information will be used for purposes of feedback or improving VIP-Club offerings and events.

 

Cookies - The Vision In Profession may place “cookies” on the browser of your computer. Cookies are small pieces of informationthat are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies may enhance the convenience and use of the Website. For example, the information provided through cookies may be used to recognize you as a previous user of the Website (so you do not have to enter your personal information every time), offer personalized information for your use, and otherwise facilitate yourexperience using the Website. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of the Website.

 

Web Beacons - The Vision In Profession may also utilize web beacons on our Websites. A “web beacon,” also known as an Internettag, pixel tag or clear GIF, links web pages to web servers and their cookies and may be used to transmit information collectedthrough cookies back to a web server. The

 

information collected through these automated means may include information that we gather and store about your visit to, and use of, the Websites, such as your IP address, type of browser and operating system used, date and time you access the websites, pages you visit, and, if you linked to the Websites from another website, the address of that website. This data does not include PersonalInformation and is not treated as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy, but it may include the IP address of your device. We may link an IP address to information that is personally identifiable.

 

Third-Party Analytics - We may also allow certain third-party analytics service providers to include cookies and web beacons within the pages of the Websites on our behalf and to retain and use the information received from such cookies and web beaconsthemselves. Third-party service providers that collect this data on our behalf may offer information about their data collection practices, and in some cases, an opt out on their respective websites which you can access

here: http://www.google.com/analytics/.

 

Do Not Track - Currently, various browsers — including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari — offer a “do not track” or “DNT” option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header, which sends a signal to Web sites’ visited by the user about the user’s browser DNT preference setting. We do not currently commit to responding to browsers’ DNT signals with respect to the Company’s Web sites, in part, because no common industry standard for DNT has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies or regulators, including no consistent standard of interpreting user intent. Wetake privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browsertechnology and the implementation of a standard.

 

PROTECTING DATA DURING COLLECTION

 

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the Websites, your information isprotected both online and offline. We use appropriate security measures to protect the security of your data both online and offline.These measures vary based on the sensitivity of the information that we collect, process, store, and the current state of technology. Please note, though, that no website or internet transmission is completely secure, so while we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss or a data breach will never occur.

 

EMAIL COMMUNICATION

 

Each email we send will contain instructions on how to unsubscribe should you decide not to receive future VIP-Club e-mails. If you choose to opt-out of receiving VIP-Club e-mail communications, we may still periodically communicate with you via mail and telephone to follow up with VIP-Club requests. We send notification emails about billing, VIP-Club Communications, E-tickets andemail deliverability from time to time as necessary. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are notpromotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to request in writing to the VIP-Club.

 

We also send newsletters to our members with VIP-Club news and new VIP-Club offerings. Should you change your mind aboutreceiving these newsletters, you can unsubscribe by following the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. Most of our communications are intended for billing and membership renewals, notifications of VIP-Club events or offerings that we think maybe of interest to you, distribution of electronic tickets or “E-Tickets” to attend a VIP-Club events, or requests for survey responses todetermine how the VIP-Club can better service you.

 

THIRD-PARTY E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS

 

If you access and/or use any of our Vendors’ services from a link on this Website, or by any other means, any information you revealin connection with such service is submitted to our Vendor and is not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacypolicy of any Vendor, Partner or third-party site with respect to its treatment of any information that you may reveal through such service.

 

HOW WE SHARE DATA

 

Unless you give us your permission, we don’t share data we collect from you with third parties, except as described below:

 

Third-party service providers or consultants - We may share data collected from you on The Vision In Profession Site with third-party service providers or consultants who need access to the data to perform their work on The Vision In Profession’s behalf, such as a website development/analytics, trusted third-party vendor or consultant. These third-party service providers are limited to only accessing or using this data to provide services to us and must provide reasonable assurances that they will appropriately safeguard the data.

 

Compliance with Laws - We may disclose your data to a third party if (i) we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary tocomply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request (including to meet national security or lawenforcement requirements), (ii) to enforce our agreements and policies, (iii) to protect the security or integrity of The Vision In Profession Site or our services and products, (iv) to protect ourselves, our other customers, or the public from harm or illegalactivities, or (v) to respond to an emergency which we believe in good faith requires us to disclose data to assist in preventing a death or serious bodily injury. If The Vision In Profession is required by law to disclose any of your data that directly identifies you, then we will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of that disclosure requirement, unless we are prohibited from doing soby statute, subpoena or court or administrative order. Further, we object to requests that we do not believe were issued properly.

 

Affiliates - We may share data collected from you from The Vision In Profession Site with our affiliates. For instance, if a member chooses to attend an event through the Economic VIP-Club Reciprocity Program. We will only use the data as described in thisnotice. We do not share your data (including, but not limited to, the personal data of our users or members) with third parties fortheir direct marketing purposes.

 

PRIVACY RIGHTS

 

We may retain your information for a period of time consistent with the original purpose of collection. For instance, we may retain your information during the time in which you have an account to use our Web sites or Services and for a reasonable period of timeafterward. We also may retain your information during the period of time needed for us to pursue our legitimate business interests,conduct audits, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

 

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. Additionally, if the collection of your personal data was based on yourconsent, you have the right to revoke that consent at any time. Be aware that by revoking consent, you may lose access to services you previously opted to use.

 

You may request to review, correct, delete, or otherwise modify any of the personal information that you have previously provided to us through the Company’s Web Site(s) and Services. You can do the

 

following at any time by contacting us via the email address or mail address provided on our website: (i) see what data we have about you, if any, (ii) change/correct any data we have about you, (iii) have us delete any data we have about you, or (iv) express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Requests to access, change, or delete your information will be addressed within a reasonable timeframe.

No mobile information or text messaging opt-in data will be shared with third parties for promotion or marketing purposes.

 

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS’ PRIVACY RIGHTS

 

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. To request a copy ofsuch information, please contact us via the email address or mail address provided on our website, and we will respond within 30 days as required by law.

 

HOW TO CONTACT US

 

The Vision In Profession commits to evaluate and resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information.

 

To contact The Vision In Profession, please write to us at the following address:

 

The Vision In Profession 

Attn: PRIVACY RIGHTS

1 East Erie St. STE 525-5203

Chicago, IL 60611 USA

 

In your letter, please describe in as much detail as possible your request and we will evaluate and investigate as required by thispolicy and by law. Please note that The Vision In Profession is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of non-VIP-Club websites to which this Site may link. You should review the additional privacy policy of the linked or external site before using the site.