The California Association of Hostage Negotiators has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The CAHN does not sell, lend nor distribute any member information to any third party. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. We do not use your IP address to gather demographic information in any manner. Our site does not use cookies to facilitate the use of the members area and services. Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). We use customer contact information (email address) from the registration form to send the user information about upcoming events and training conferences. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time. The CAHN site contains links to other sites. The CAHN is not responsible for the privacy practices and/or the content of such Web sites. When visiting such sites, we urge you to be an informed surfer and use caution when providing any personal data. We may use outside companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies for optimization purposes, and CAHN does not have access to this information. Public Services This site may make use of chat rooms, forums, message boards, classified ads, and guestbooks available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Security This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These measures include secure servers, encrypted passwords, and other security measures to guarantee the privacy of our members. We do not store credit card information on any CAHN server.  All online monetary transactions will be completed on AuthorizeNet.  They use state of the art encryption and Secure Socket Layers so that your credit card information is not compromised.  If they fail to comply with their stated goal in any way, we ask that you notify us without delay. Mailing Lists/Corrections/Updates By registering at www.CAHN.us, you agree to subscribe to our Members Update and Special Events mailing lists. These lists may contain third-party sponsorships. You may unsubscribe to the list at any time. You have the following options for removing your information from our database to not receive future communications or to terminate your CAHN Membership. You can unsubscribe from any mailing lists or modify your account by following the instructions contained at the bottom of the emails.         You can contact the Executive Secretary Contacting the Web Site If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact the Executive Secretary