Privacy Statement
Northern Virginia Apartment Association provides this Privacy Policy to outline how we collect, use, share, and process information collected through this website.
What information is collected?
When you visit nvaa.org, personally identifiable information is not collected without your knowledge. Anonymous information is collected, such as the time and length of your visit, the pages visited, the referral site, and the name of your internet service provider and browser. This information is used to measure site activity and develop improvements to our website and your user experience.
There are also several opportunities for members and website visitors to provide non-sensitive personal information in order to build a relationship with Northern Virginia Apartment Association. This information may be collected through forms, surveys, meeting registrations, and purchases. If you choose to share any personal information, we may store and use it for marketing purposes, which may include sharing it with other business partners. Northern Virginia Apartment Association will not sell your personal information. If you wish to be removed from our contact database, please submit your request using our Contact Form.
How is your information protected?
Northern Virginia Apartment Association employs various methods to protect your personal information. Submitted information is transferred using industry-standard encryption. Northern Virginia Apartment Association's leadership and other designated administrative users have access to your personal information for the purpose of managing the organization. Financial information, including credit card numbers, is collected and transferred, but not stored within the website.
Do we use cookies?
The Northern Virginia Apartment Association website uses cookies, small files saved to your web browser, in order to improve your user experience. Cookies can be disabled within your browser. Cookies may be used to measure website activity and to customize the website to your preferences. When you return to nvaa.org, information can be tailored to improve your user experience.
Cookies and Web Beacons
In order to help enhance the performance and functionality of the Site, we utilize session, persistent and third-party “cookies” that store a small piece of data on a users’ computers and collect certain information about the users’ visit to our Site. We also use cookies to understand users’ browsing and buying activities so that we can measure the success of online advertising campaigns we run on the Site.Our Site also uses web beacons (either directly or from our partners), along with cookies, to determine if a user has visited a particular website. These beacons aid in providing more relevant advertising to the user, as well measuring the success of an advertising campaign, but provide no personally identifiable information.
Cookies are small text files that web servers typically send to users’ computer when they visit a website. Cookies are stored as text files on users’ hard drive, and can be accessed by web servers when the user visits a website or views an advertisement.A session cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user is using the Site but is deleted once the browser session is finished.A persistent cookie is a cookie that stores information as a user utilizes the Site and stores and uses that information in connection with future visits of the user to the Site.Third-party cookies and/or web beacons are cookies or web beacons provided by our technology and/or advertising partners.Any third-party cookie or web beacon that we authorize for use on the Site only collects that information described below for the same stated purposes as if we were directly collecting the information.For a third-party cookie or web beacon, the third-party will have access to the collected information in order to provide us with information or services to enhance the performance and functionality of the Site.
The cookies and web beacons we use collect non-personally identifiable information about users of the Site, including: browser used to access the site, date and time, the URL of the page being loaded, users who have visited a particular website(s), any previously assigned cookie identification (a unique identifier assigned to a user to identify repeat visitors), browser window size, the geographic location of the user, device and operating system used to access the Site. The information we collect from these cookies and web beacons is used to determine information about a user’s visit to our Site, including the number of visits, average time spent, pages viewed, navigation history through the website, and other statistics. This information is used to enhance the users experience while visiting our Site and to improve the performance of our Site by, among other things, allowing us to monitor Site performance, making the Site easier to use, measuring the effectiveness of promotional placements, and tailoring the Site (including the ads and offers a user receives) to better match a user’s interests and preferences.
Users who prefer not to accept cookies can set their Internet browser to notify them when they receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being placed on their hard drive.If you consent to our collection of cookies and you subsequently wish to withdraw your consent, you will need to manage the settings on your web browser to delete all cookies and disallow further acceptance of cookies. Please note that disabling cookies on your browser will prevent us from tracking your activities in relations to our Site, however, it may also disable some of the functions and features of the Site and the Site may not work properly.
If you would like to determine your consent status, please contact us at: Contact Form.
By continuing to use our Site, you are agreeing to our placing cookies and/or web beacons on your computer in order to analyze the way you use our Site. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the information we collect when you use the Site.
Third-Party Links
Northern Virginia Apartment Association may reference or refer you to other websites. Please review each third-party website for their individual privacy policies. Northern Virginia Apartment Association cannot take responsibility for how third-party websites collect and use activity and personal information.
Terms of Use
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Consent
By using this website, you consent to Northern Virginia Apartment Association's privacy policy.
This policy was last modified on 03/01/2023.
