Privacy Policy
This website is owned and operated by the Council for Inclusion in Financial Services, Inc.™ (“CIFS”). CIFS respects your privacy. The CIFS Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to the www.councilforinclusion.org and www.finservexpo.com website and governs its data collection, use and services. This Privacy Policy discloses how we collect, protect, use and share information gathered about you. This Privacy Policy applies to CIFS and not to any of our affiliated companies, vendors or service providers. If you use this site you explicitly agree to the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of your use. Please read our Privacy Policy to understand:
Your Access to Your Information
Disclosing Information to Third Parties
Security Procedures to Protect Information
Inapplicability of Privacy Policies of Any Linked Sites or Other Parties
Changes to this Privacy Policy
I. Information We Collect
Our website does not collect personally identifiable information about individuals except when such individuals specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis, such as when joining the network, customer login, user login (collectively “registering”) at our website or contacting us through our website. CIFS uses such information collected primarily to provide better service to our customers and vendors, to comply with our legal obligations, to operate and grow our business, to improve and customize the content you see, to provide the products, services or membership benefits you request, and to contact you about special promotions and new products. This website is primarily designed for commercial users and is not intended for personal, family or household purposes.
II. Site Use Information
CIFS may collect the IP addresses of visitors to our site. This information may be aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, etc. CIFS may use this information to measure the use of our site and to improve the content we offer. We may share with third parties this experiential information or other data which does not personally identify visitors to our site.
III. Information You Provide to Us
You are not required to register in order to access our site. Certain portions of our site may be restricted to registered users. Any information you provide is voluntary. If you register on the site we may collect your contact information, i.e. your name, address, birth date, email address, telephone number and other information you provide to us about yourself. You agree to provide accurate and current information and to update that information as appropriate and you will update it as necessary.
You may also be given the opportunity to select or create a password to be used to access your information or to obtain access to certain online services not available to anonymous visitors. Please be aware that our information security software may cause some e-mail messages or other documents sent via this website not to be received. If you send us an email or request information we may retain your email address or other information you provided and use it to respond to your inquiry or otherwise as provided in this Privacy Policy.
By providing personal information through this site you explicitly agree to our collection, use and sharing of all such information as described in this Privacy Policy. You agree that we may use the personal information you provide CIFS and our affiliated companies for general commercial purposes including to respond to your inquiries, process orders, contact you, and let you know about products or services which may be of interest to you or to personalize our service to meet your needs or preferences. This may involve sharing certain information with others.
You may be given the option to make payment through this site. We may use a third-party payment processor for this purpose, in which case your information is either submitted directly to the payment processor or is transferred by us to the payment processor.
IV. Use of Cookies
Our website uses “cookies,” pixels, web beacons, and other similar technologies, such as Google Analytics, to help personalize your online experience, such as recognizing your name when you revisit, as well as to assist us in marketing, advertising, and analysis. A cookie is a text file that is anonymously placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies or other technologies placed when you visit our site may personally identify registered users and allow us to monitor certain statistics which help us improve our services, such as how many site visitors view certain pages on our website or receive our advertisements when visiting other websites. Some cookies may be deleted once you leave our site (“session cookies”), while other cookies remain after your leave our site (“persistent cookies”) so that you are recognized when you return to the site. We may permit selected third parties to collect information from our site visitors about their online activities over time and across other websites through the use of cookies.
You also may have the ability to accept or decline cookies on your device. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website or have some of our services, being automatically recognized as a registered user, function properly.
We do not currently employ technology to respond to do-not-track signals from your browser.
V. Email Communications
By providing your email address you agree to receive communications related to the commercial relationship and transaction, including industry news and information and/or programs of interest or marketing material, employment opportunities, vendor opportunities, professional offerings, or responses to your inquiries. To unsubscribe from promotional emails, follow the instructions in the email.
VI. Your Access to Your Information
Registered users have the ability to update their information by accessing their account. You have the right to access and update your personal information submitted to us. You may access your information at any time to add, change or delete certain profile information by simply logging in.
VII. Disclosing Information to Third Parties
We do not disclose personal information to third parties for monetary consideration but we may disclose your information with our affiliated companies. We may also disclose personal information to unaffiliated third parties if: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) the information is provided to help complete a transaction for you; (3) the information is provided to comply with the law, applicable regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our legal notice disclosure or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.); (4) the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, customer information may be one of the transferred assets); (5) the information is provided to our agents, independent contractors, outside vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, sending emails about our products or services, etc.); (6) the information is shared with third parties for their marketing use; or (7) to others as described in this Privacy Policy. We may also gather aggregated data about you and disclose such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to third parties for promotional, data analysis or other purposes.
VIII. Child Privacy
Because of the nature of our business, our products and services are not designed to appeal to minors, and therefore we do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information from children under 18. If we have reason to believe that information is being provided by a person under the age of 18 we will not collect the information.
IX. Security Procedures to Protect Information
You should be aware that information sent to us using this website may not be secure in transmission. While we take steps to protect your personal information and keep it secure, you also play a role in protecting your information. You can help to maintain the security of your online transactions by not sharing your password with anyone. If we receive instructions using your log-in information and password we will assume that the instructions have been authorized by you. CIFS cannot guaranty the security of any information you transmit to us or from our site, and therefore you use our site at your own risk.
X. Notice to Nevada Residents
We do not disclose personal information for monetary consideration. If you would like to tell us not to sell your information in the future please email us at CCPA@councilforinclusion.org with your name, postal address, telephone number and email address with “Nevada Do Not Sell” in the subject line.
XII. Inapplicability of Privacy Policies of any Linked Sites or Other Parties
CIFS’s site may contain links to other sites such as our affiliated companies and third parties. This Privacy Policy only addresses CIFS’s use and disclosure of your information collected on this site, if any. While we try to link only to sites that share our standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked sites, although we do encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or web sites.
XIII. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will occasionally amend this Privacy Policy to reflect feedback and we reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. The use of your information is subject to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect at the time of use. The provisions contained in this Privacy Policy supersede all previous notices or policies regarding our privacy practices with respect to this site. We post the effective date of our Privacy Policy on our site. We encourage you to check our site frequently to see the current Privacy Policy to be informed of how CIFS is committed to protecting your information and providing you with improved content on our website. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy we will post the revised Privacy Policy and the revised effective date on this site.
XIV. Your Comments are Appreciated
If you have any questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy or our website, you can contact us at the Council for Inclusion in Financial Services, Inc.™ Corporate Headquarters, Attention: Privacy Department, 740 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 1000, Pomona, CA 91768; Tel. 888-316-2272; Fax (909) 865-4909. This site is owned and operated by the Council for Inclusion in Financial Services, Inc.™ which controls any information submitted through this site.
Effective Date: As of January 1, 2025
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