MFDA Privacy Policy
– About Our Privacy Policy
– How We Gather Information
– Sharing Information Outside the MFDA Family
– Sharing Information Within MFDA
– Our Former Members
– Our Security Practices and Information Accuracy
– Changes to this Privacy Policy
– This Policy Does Not Supercede Other Agreements

MFDA Digital Privacy Practices
– About Our Digital Privacy Practices
– How We May Use Information
– How We Collect Information
– Information Storage
– Third-Party Web Sites

About Our Privacy Policy:
Protecting your privacy is important to The Metropolitan Funeral Directors Association (MFDA). We want you to understand what information we may gather and how we may share it. This Privacy Policy explains MFDA’s collection, use, retention and security of information about you.

How We Gather Information:
As part of providing you with products and services related to funeral directing, we may obtain information about you from the following sources:

• Applications, forms, and other information that you provide us, whether in writing, in person, by telephone, electronically, via the Internet or by any other means. This information may include your name, address, employment information and credit card information. For information we collect about you when you visit or transact business on an MFDA web site and for information about our use of "cookies" and online tracking technologies, please see our Digital Privacy Practices.
• Your transactions with us.

Sharing Information Outside the MFDA:
The MFDA does not provide personal or proprietary business information about MFDA members, their firms, their clients, or their employees, or such information about any member of the public who visits any MFDA website to any non-MFDA affiliated companies to market their products. We may occasionally share contact information pertaining to MFDA member funeral directors with organizations offering relevant industry related products and services (For example, advertisersin the MFDA’s official newsletter MET News and the MFDA Membership Directory may receive a courtesy copies of these publications.)

In some situations, however, we are required to or we may provide all the information we gather about you to third parties outside of the MFDA without your consent, as permitted by law, such as to respond to judicial process, regulatory authorities or law.

Sharing Information Within the MFDA:
We also may share certain information about you within the MFDA membership. (For example, all members of the MFDA receive a copy of the MFDA Membership Directory, which contains general membership information and the MET News and which may include your contact information from time to time.)

Our Former Members:
Even if you are no longer an MFDA Member or associated with one of its affiliated companies, our Privacy Policy will continue to apply to you.

Our Security Practices and Information Accuracy:
We also take steps to safeguard customer information. We restrict access to the personal and proprietary information of our members, their firms, their employees, their clients, members of the public who visit any MFDA website to association personnel for whom such information is relevant to their responsibilities. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to protect sensitive information.

We also have internal controls to keep member information as accurate and complete as we can. If you believe that any information about you is not accurate, please let us know.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:
MFDA may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your membership account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

This Policy Does Not Supercede Other Agreements:
This privacy policy does not supercede any other agreements in force between you and the MFDA.

About Our Digital Privacy Practices:
The MFDA is committed to safeguarding information about customers and visitors to MFDA Web sites.

The MFDA Privacy Policy explains our collection, use, retention and security of consumer information and applies to MFDA products and services offered within the United States. Online activities of members and consumers, therefore, may be subject to both the MFDA Privacy Policy and the MFDA Digital Privacy Practices. These Digital Privacy Practices explain our privacy practices regarding the information we collect about you when you visit or transact business on MFDA Web sites. Our Digital Privacy Practices, last updated on October 13, 2004, do not constitute a contract or create legal rights or modify or amend any agreements MFDA has with members. They are for general guidance, and are subject to change. Please review periodically. As technology evolves, so will our ability to provide you with better online products and services.

How We May Use Information:
We may collect information during your Web site visit in order to provide you with offers and information. To learn more about how we may use information, please see the MFDA Privacy Policy.

How We Collect Information:
We may collect information online through Cookies. Our Web server may write a "cookie," which is a small file, to your hard drive. We may use cookies to enhance your online experience, to facilitate your use of our Web site and to collect site-visit statistics. If you register for certain personalized services, or choose to save personal information on our Web site, MFDA may store this information in an encrypted cookie. Our use of encrypted cookies may make your repeated online interactions with us easier by allowing you to avoid re-entering personal information each time you visit the Web site. If you are uncomfortable with our use of cookie technology, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. Certain services are dependent on cookies, and you may disable those services by refusing cookies.

Information Storage:
The MFDA may store the information collected during your visit in an electronic database. The MFDA uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data stored in our systems. Credit card information used by you to purchase any product or service offered on any MFDA website will be retained by MFDA solely for purposes of documenting the single transaction being processed.