Privacy Policy

The Coffee Technicians Guild (CTG) wants you to know how we use the information you provide when you visit this website or any of the other websites operated by CTG.

We will collect personal information about you or your company from our Website only if you voluntarily give it to us. We will only use this information to facilitate your requests, process any transactions you might initiate, or update your membership information.

When you place an order or register for a program on-line, we use the information you provide only to ship the product or to register you for the program. We do not share this information with outside parties except (a) to the extent necessary to complete the order or registration and (b) in certain instances to provide limited contact information to select Business Partners as described below.

CTG does not knowingly collect or maintain any personal information from children under the age of 13. In addition, no part of our Website is designed with the purpose of attracting any person under age 13.

Like most websites, ours use "cookies" (a small text file placed on your hard drive) to facilitate site navigation, provide additional security, and allow you to customize your access to our Websites. We do not use cookies to collect information for distribution to third parties for any purpose. Nor do we use cookies to obtain information from or about other websites you may visit.

There is information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected, which can include: browser type, access times and your Internet Protocol (IP) address. We use this information for the operation of our site, to maintain quality of service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of our site. Our cookies do not generate personal data, do not read personal data from your computer and are never tied to anything that could be used to identify you.

Communications with our Website that contains confidential information requires that a "secure session" first be established. Such communication between you and CTG is encoded for your protection, using the most recent release of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology utilizing encryption of up to 128 bits.