Last updated: April 3, 2022

The CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers is strongly committed to protecting your privacy online and has taken steps to protect the information you share with us. For example, we use encryption technology to safeguard your credit card data used in electronic commerce transactions. To help us protect your privacy, you should maintain the secrecy of the logon ID and password you may have set up in connection with your participation in any CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers service.

The CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers does collect certain personal information to provide you with customized services, content, and advertisements. Some personal information is gathered when you register to receive certain CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers services or products. We may also ask you for personal information at other times, for example when you complete a survey or form, or enter a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion. The better we know you, the better we can tailor our services to meet your needs.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary: (a) to comply with the law or in response to a subpoena, court order, government request, or other legal process; (b) to protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of the CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers or others; (c) to enforce any terms of service on this Web site; (d) to provide you with the services or products requested by you and to perform other activities related to such services and products, including billing and collection; or (e) to operate the CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers’s systems properly. We may also share your personal information with a sponsor or other third party who is interested in serving you (“Third-Party Providers”). You may inform us at any time not to share your personal information with such Third-Party Providers by sending an email to info@contractpackaging.org.

The CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers reserves the right to change this statement at any time by posting revisions on the CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers Web site. This privacy policy is not intended to, and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. This privacy policy applies only to the CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers Web site and does not apply to other CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers products and services.

Privacy Shield Notice

CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to the United States. CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU, Swiss and UK individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers at dataprivacy@pmmi.org. CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers has further committed to cooperate with the panel established by the EU data protection authorities (DPAs), the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) about unresolved Privacy Shield complaints concerning data transferred from the EU, the UK, and Switzerland.

You may contact your local data protection authority within the European Economic Area, the UK, or Mexico (as applicable) for unresolved complaints. Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, including when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted, you may invoke binding arbitration.

Under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, we are responsible for the processing of information about you we receive from the EU, the UK, and Mexico and onward transfers to a third party acting as an agent on our behalf. We comply with the Privacy Shield Principles for such onward transfers and remain liable in accordance with the Privacy Shield Principles if third-party agents that we engage to process such information about you on our behalf do so in a manner inconsistent with the Privacy Shield Principles, unless we prove that we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers may disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

We are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

To learn more about the Privacy Shield Program, please see here privacyshield.gov.

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