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Thank you for visiting our website. Privacy is an important issue for our visitors, and National Petrochemical & Refiners Association ("NPRA") is committed to protecting the privacy of your information. This Privacy Statement describes NPRA's information handling practices. This Privacy Statement only applies to information collected through www.npra.org (the "Site"). NPRA's Site may contain links to other websites. NPRA is not responsible for the information practices or the content of such other websites. NPRA encourages you to review the privacy statements of other websites to understand their information practices.

Collection of Information
Visitors to the Site may create an online profile, which contains information such as the visitor's name, personal contact information, company name, company contact information, special interests in NPRA meetings and publications, name and contact information of a visitor's assistant, and name and contact information of a visitor's spouse/companion. Visitors are able to create a profile and manage this information through Manage Profile on the Site. The information stored in the online profile allows visitors to purchase publications and register for meetings. NPRA may collect credit card information from visitors who purchase publications, register for meetings, or reserve hotel rooms through the Site.

When visitors access the Site, NPRA may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information about them through commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies. Such information may include, but is not limited to, the links visitors used to arrive at the Site, the domain and host from which visitors access the Internet, the type of web browser that visitors uses, the type of operating system in use, IP address, and the number and frequency of visitors who visit various pages of the Site.

NPRA uses cookies to make interactions with the Site easy and meaningful for visitors. When you visit the Site, NPRA's servers send a cookie to your computer. On its own, a cookie does not personally identify a visitor. Cookies may be used to provide better service and a more effective Site, facilitate interaction with the visitors' web browsers, collect non-personally identifiable information, and recognize visitors when they return to the Site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. Visitors are always free to decline cookies by adjusting their browser settings, but in doing so, visitors may not be able to use certain features on the Site.

Use and Sharing of Information Collected
NPRA may use non-personally identifiable information collected from visitors to the Site for internal purposes such as to conduct reviews of the Site, guide decisions about the development of the Site, provide an enhanced online experience for visitors, or identify, on an aggregate basis, general trends that may assist NPRA in providing services and offerings to visitors.

Personally identifiable information collected from visitors may be used to answer visitors' questions, provide services, newsletters, and other information that visitors request or register for through the Site, or for internal business purposes. NPRA may use visitor information for marketing purposes, such as to inform visitors of meetings, newsletters and other offerings provided by NPRA that may be of interest to visitors. NPRA may share visitor information with NPRA's agents so that these agents can contact visitors who have provided contact information on NPRA's behalf. NPRA does not sell, rent, or trade personally identifiable information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

NPRA uses a third-party intermediary to manage credit card processing. This intermediary is not permitted to store, retain, or use credit card billing information except for the sole purpose of credit card processing on NPRA's behalf. Additionally, credit card numbers may be shared with hotels for room confirmations.

NPRA reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information of visitors to the Site if required by law or if NPRA reasonably believes that disclosure is necessary to protect NPRA's rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

Communications Preferences
Visitors to the site who create an online profile can control whether, and how, they receive information from NPRA. NPRA may send visitors email communications, such as meeting announcements, call for papers, and notices to committee members, or newsletters. Visitors may be automatically subscribed for select newsletters by becoming a member of the committee for which the newsletter applies. Visitors can manage their receipt of email communications and newsletters through an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of each email communication and newsletters. Additionally, visitors can manage their receipt of email communications and newsletters by editing their interests in Manage Profile, or by contacting NPRA at info@npra.org.

Public Forums
NPRA may provide public forums for visitors to interact and post information about their companies and organizations. Any personally identifiable information a visitor chooses to submit in such a forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums and may be used to send the visitor unsolicited messages. NPRA is not responsible for the personally identifiable information a visitor chooses to submit in such a forum.

Security
NPRA uses robust security measures to protect visitors' personally identifiable information. Although NPRA strives to provide a high standard of security and privacy, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. NPRA cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information transmitted by visitors over the Internet.

Changes
NPRA reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement. NPRA will provide notification of the change through the Site at least thirty (30) days prior to the change taking effect.

Contact NPRA
Questions regarding this Privacy Statement or the information practices of the Site should be directed to NPRA by email info@npra.org or by mailing NPRA, 1667 K Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20006.

The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association is a nonprofit, tax-exempt membership association organized to foster cooperation and the exchange of technical information among its members. These worthwhile activities are sanctioned by custom and law. It is important, however, to recognize that these activities are subject to the legal limits of federal and state antitrust laws. NPRA is committed to complying with the antitrust laws in all respects and has adopted the following guidelines in order to facilitate compliance with the antitrust laws:

As a general matter, the antitrust laws prohibit competitors from agreeing on the prices they will charge, the products they will offer, the customers they will serve, or the markets in which they will compete. Therefore, there should be no discussion or disclosure of information with respect to (a) expected profits, premiums, prices, surcharges, or discounts; (b) specific customers or classes of customers, or whether you will or will not do business with them; (c) proposed product offerings; (d) allocation of geographic or product markets; (e) any refusal to deal with a customer or supplier; (f) how to deal with the market behavior of a competitor; or (g) any other topic involving a potentially anticompetitive practice.

Some subjects of discussion may lead to agreements that are not unlawful on their face but that may have an unlawful anticompetitive effect or may give rise to the inference of an anticompetitive act, depending upon their scope and how they are implemented. Other subjects may appear to be prohibited by the antitrust laws but in fact may be permitted because of the context or ultimate purpose of the communication. Whether discussing a subject is permissible may vary depending on factors such as the nature of the subject matter, its relationship to competition among NPRA members, the purpose of the communication, and the degree of restraint that NPRA members can be expected to exercise.

We cannot make a statement that will take the place of advice from your own company or that will cover every situation. We do suggest that those who participate in NPRA activities may avoid difficulties for themselves and for the Association by observing these principles and calling to NPRA’s attention any violations you may observe.

The National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (“NPRA”) has adopted the following “Ethical Responsibility and Professional and Personal Conduct Code” (hereinafter, “the Code”). Every member of NPRA, their designated representatives, and non-member attendees at all NPRA meetings and forums agree to abide by the Code as a condition of membership in NPRA and attendance and participation at NPRA meetings and forums.

The Code requires the following of all individuals attending NPRA meetings and forums:

• Adherence to the NPRA bylaws and the NPRA policies and procedures, as adopted by NPRA’s Board of Directors.
• Strict compliance with federal antitrust laws.
• Adherence to all applicable federal and state laws.
• Maintenance of the highest level of professional and personal ethical behavior while attending NPRA meetings and forums.
• Prevention of certain behaviors, including harassment, violence, intimidation and discrimination of any kind involving race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or, where applicable, veteran or marital status.
• Assurance that conduct at all times and in all professional and personal dealings with each other and other attendees with the highest level of integrity and courtesy.
• Sharing of knowledge and expertise as speakers at NPRA educational events and sessions whenever practicable, without soliciting or explicitly promoting their own organization's products or services.
• Working to instill public and consumer confidence in the petrochemical and refining industries, its member companies, and its professionals, avoiding any action conducive to discrediting members of NPRA.
• Refraining from scheduling general attendance meetings, receptions or other events at times that conflict with substantive programming or social events at NPRA meetings without express written permission of NPRA.

Failure to abide by the Code may result, for the first offense, in informal censure of a company or individual by the NPRA Executive Committee. If violations of the Code continue after such an informal censure, a company may be subject to expulsion from NPRA, or an individual to exclusion from participation in NPRA activities, by the Board of Directors.