Privacy Policy

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organization like Southern Growth Policies Board. We are based in the United States and our mailing address is P.O. Box 12293, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.

Southern Growth Policies Board is a non-partisan public policy think tank serving 13 member states and the south. We are a Non-Profit 501c organization.

Formed by the region’s governors in 1971, Southern Growth Policies Board develops and advances visionary economic development policies by providing a forum for partnership and dialog among a diverse cross-section of the region’s governors, legislators, business and academic leaders and the economic- and community-development sectors. This unique public-private partnership is devoted to strengthening the South’s economy and creating the highest possible quality of life.

Our privacy policy covers Southern Growth Policies Board and its Web sites, www.southern.org, www.southerngrowth.com, www.southerngrowth.org, and www.southerncompass.org.

You can access our Web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.

Our Web site does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others.

Our Web site includes a link to Wachovia’s Virtual Merchant Payment portal for online transactions that require payment. Such third party Web service providers may collect personal data about our visitors and will have their own privacy policies.

We do not use cookies on our Web site.

We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

We collect personal data such as name, address, phone, email address, and special interests that you may volunteer while filling out on-line registration forms for meetings and/or for ordering publications. After registration for our events your name will be manually added to our local interoffice Professional Contact Database. Your name will not be collected in any database on our southern.org or southerncompassnews.org hosting site. Your name and information will never be sold, shared, or traded to any other organization for any reason. It will be maintained internally and may used at a later date for occassional updates on future Southern Growth events. If you do not wish for your name to be added to our internal database you may email Paula Baker at pbaker.southern.org.

We do not collect credit card or other financial information on our website. Credit card and other payment information is collected through a secure third party payment portal or manually via personal phone call to either Mary Williams or Niraz Gos at 919-941-5145.

If we wish to use your personal data for a different purpose, we offer you the means to consent to this new purpose by indicating in a box at the point on the site where personal data is collected.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children on our website. Additionally, to ensure that children’s privacy is respected on our Web site, we ask that no one under the age of 18 fill out our online forms.

We take specific steps to protect the privacy of children by requiring signed consent forms for anyone under the age of 18 if collected personal information will be used. These forms are collected manually, via personal contact. Additionally, if necessary we give parents the option to consent to the collection and use of the child’s personal data for our internal use or in our reports or collaterial media.

We do not disclose your personal data to any subsidiaries or other organizations.

Where we disclose your personal data for purposes which are different from those indicated above, we offer you the opportunity to consent to disclosure via checkboxes on forms which collect your data.

We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:

• primary personal data (such as name and contact details)
• identifiers (such as credit card details, Web site password)

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

• unauthorised access
• improper use or disclosure
• unauthorised modification
• unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

You can ask us about personal data we may hold about you by:

• sending an email to info@southern.org
• calling this telephone number: 919-941-5145

We will provide you with the personal data which we keep about you only after verification of your identity. We will provide this information without any charge, either via email or phone conversation.

We will not provide any financial data information as we do not maintain such records beyond whether a payment was successfully processed and for how much.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:

• erased
• rectified or amended
• completed

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

Our privacy policy is compliant with the Southern Growth Policies Board Corporate Privacy Policy. In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy instrument, we are:

• voluntarily committed to a Self Assessment procedure

Self Assessment Procedure

Primary personal data/Business information