Last changed October 1, 2020

The Texas Association of Professional Insurance Agents ("PIA TEXAS ") respects the privacy of its members and other visitors to its Web Site ("PIATX.ORG").  PIA TEXAS has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our commitment to user privacy. The following applies to the information gathering and dissemination practices for information collected on or submitted to PIATX.ORG. Please also see the Terms of Use which all users of PIATX.ORG agree to abide by as a condition of using PIATX.ORG.

Information You Provide: PIATX.ORG collects personally identifiable information from you if you choose to provide this information to us. In a few areas on PIATX.ORG, we ask you to provide information — or log-in as a PIA TEXAS  member, a PIA TEXAS chartered affiliate employee, a customer, or a PIA TEXAS partner (collectively known as "Authenticated Users") — to enable PIA TEXAS: to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain information, materials, and services available from PIATX.ORG; to enhance your site visit; to assist you with customer service or technical support issues; to follow up with you after your visit; to provide information about products and services, or to otherwise support your customer and/or member relationship with PIA TEXAS. While failure to provide this information may mean that you cannot access and use certain information, materials, and services on PIATX.ORG or PIA TEXAS partner websites, providing personally identifiable information on PIATX.ORG and logging in as an Authenticated User are completely optional.

Information That Is Automatically Collected: Basic contact information (name, company name, address, phone number, email address, member identification number, etc.) about Authenticated Users is uploaded from PIA TEXAS' membership database to PIATX.ORG to enable Authenticated Users to log in and access password-protected information and programs.

PIATX.ORG does automatically collect information that does not identify users personally. Via Web server logs, for example, PIA TEXAS may monitor statistics such as the number of people that visit PIATX.ORG, which page(s) are visited on PIATX.ORG, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit PIATX.ORG (e.g., Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.).

Cookies: A "cookie" is a small file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can be read only by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Each time you initiate a session on PIATX.ORG the site sets the cookie in order to identify you and determine your access privileges. Cookies do not store any of the personal information that you have provided to the site. They are simply identifiers. Clicking on this box will store the cookie on your hard drive so that you will not have to log in each time you visit PIATX.ORG.

You have the ability to delete cookie files from your hard drive at any time. However, you should know that cookies may be necessary to provide you with access to much of the content and features of PIATX.ORG. We use cookie technology to enable Authenticated Users to move quickly and securely through access-controlled areas of PIATX.ORG and to take advantage of certain useful features on PIATX.ORG.

Information you provide and information that is uploaded to PIATX.ORG from TEXAS PIA's membership database may be used to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain information, materials, and services available from PIATX.ORG; to enhance your site visit; to assist you with customer service or technical support issues; to follow up with you after your visit; to provide information about products and services, or to otherwise support your customer and/or member relationship with PIA TEXAS.

PIA TEXAS strives to keep the personal information you provide to us when using PIATX.ORG and information that is uploaded to PIATX.ORG from PIA TEXAS'  membership database confidential. Agents or contractors of PIA TEXAS who are given access to your personal information are required to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for PIA TEXAS.

We may disclose information you provide to us and information that is uploaded to PIATX.ORG from PIA TEXAS' membership database to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested or to improve your customer experience. We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of certain Web Site functions that require access to the information you supply online. On occasion, PIA TEXAS may also provide data supplied online to third parties that offer products and services. We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.

PIA TEXAS monitors PIATX.ORG "traffic" statistics using information that does not identify users personally so we may improve PIATX.ORG. We use an outsourcing program to assist us in analyzing this data. Aggregated statistics may also be provided to advertisers and other third parties, but the statistics contain no personal information.

PIA TEXAS takes steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally identifiable information. We utilize industry-standard SSL encryption when accepting credit card information during our online checkout process. Access to some computer data and files at TEXAS PIA are secured by password coding with access to personally identifiable information strictly limited to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities. Our network is behind a firewall designed to prevent unauthorized access.

Authenticated Users may access and correct personal information in their PIATX.ORG profile. To the extent that other personally identifiable information has been received by PIA TEXAS and is currently stored, please contact the appropriate department of PIA TEXAS to review and/or change this information.

If any PIATX.ORG user suspects TEXAS PIA has handled its personal information in a manner that does not comply with this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by calling (703) 836-9340.

PIATX.ORG contains "links" to other, external Internet Web Sites that may have privacy policies and procedures that differ from those of PIA TEXAS.

PIA TEXAS reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Updated versions of the Privacy Policy will appear on PIATX.ORG and are effective immediately. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy. Continued use of PIATX.ORG after any such changes constitutes your consent to such changes.