Privacy Policy

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for the Sustainability Management Association’s (SMA) website www.sustainabilityma.org as well as any information we may receive from inquires and customers via telephone or email. The privacy policy will notify you of the following:

  1. Personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. Choices available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. Security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies of information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing 

SMA and its affiliates are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order. If you attend a webinar, the guest speaker may receive the contact information you registered with on the webinar software. SMA also stores your webinar login information, but does not share it with anyone else.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

This policy is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) effective 05/25/18 as required by the EU.

Your Access to and Control Over Information 

You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what personal data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any personal data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any personal data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your personal data.

Security 

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Sensitive information (such as credit card data) is processed solely through PayPal to protect your secure information. SMA also protects your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information only and all data is kept securely or shredded. SMA does not save any of our membership data to the cloud. Information collected on this site may not be shared with any third parties, except to the extent as required by law. Should anyone initiate legal action against us for the use of data, then we would that action to be governed, interpreted, and construed by, under and in accordance with the laws, statutes, and decisions of the State of California and the County of Butte.

Updates 

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at or via email.

Registration 

A user must first complete the registration form on the website. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name, address, and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. If we have trouble processing membership or a certification application, we'll use this information to contact you.

Cookies 

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Links 

The SMA website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our website in order to read the privacy statements of any other site of an affiliate that the affiliate website may collect personal data.

Surveys & Contests 

From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code and age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. We will not share any personal information receive from you with a third party vendor.