WEBSITE OPERATIONS 

This website is owned and operated by TECH-Nique. Your right to privacy is very important to us. The following Privacy Policy demonstrates our commitment to protecting website visitor information and using it only in ways that are consistent with your wishes.

 

OUR POLICY

Our website doesn’t collect personally identifiable information about individuals unless they knowingly provide it. So, if you just want to browse and learn about our services, programs, and benefits, we invite you to do so. As a casual, unregistered visitor to our site we’ll recognize your home server (that your web access is through gmail.com, etc.) but not your e-mail address or any other personal or system information.

 

OUR DATABASE

When you register to receive our e-newsletter, identify your areas of interest or request information about our services, we add your name to our database. This data remains confidential and will only be used by TECH-Nique. We authorize our employees to view your personal information only when necessary to serve you better. We will not share any information you provide to us with any other organization.

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COMMUNICATION FROM US

If you are in our database and have provided us with an email address, we may notify you from time to time about TECH-Nique products, services, and benefits. This also enables you to receive current information about the local, national, and global community to better meet your philanthropic needs. Should you request information via email, we do our best to respond within 48 hours. We include “opt-out” instructions with any e-newsletter that is sent to you.

 

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICE

Copyright of the text contained in this website is owned by the TECH-Nique. All rights are reserved. All text, images, graphics, and other materials on this website are subject to the copyrights and other intellectual property rights of the TECH-Nique, and its affiliated companies. These materials may not be copied, reproduced, or distributed for commercial purposes, nor may these materials be modified, or uploaded, downloaded or reposted, in whole or in part, to other websites. All graphic designs and visual/audio content included on this site, such as photographs, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, and software, is the property of TECH-Nique and is protected by U.S. patent and copyright laws. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all software material on this site is the exclusive property of TECH-Nique or its software suppliers and is protected by U.S. copyright and patent laws. The content and software on this site may be used as a resource only. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, or performance, of the content on this site is strictly prohibited. The names, trademarks, logos, designs and trade dress shown on this site are owned by the TECH-Nique and are protected by the trademark laws of the U.S. and other jurisdictions. Any use of “TECH-Nique” its logo, or text, or graphic materials contained in this website in any manner to express or imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or association of the user with or by TECH-Nique is strictly prohibited unless permission has been granted. 

 

WEB LINKS TO THIS SITE

You may establish a hypertext link to this site from your website, so long as the page containing the link properly attributes the linked site to the TECH-Nique and does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by the TECH-Nique. Without prior written consent of TECH-Nique, you may not create a link to this site that incorporates or relies upon, in whole or in part, any content from any page on this website, or that incorporates any copyrighted or otherwise intellectual property of TECH-Nique.

 

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

As a service to you, TECH-Nique provides links to websites of various philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. A link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation with respect to such site, its owners, or providers. When leaving https://www.tech-nique.org/, we recommend you check the privacy policy of the site you are visiting before providing personal information. Changes to the Privacy Policy We reserve the right to update and change the Policy as needed. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact

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SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY

In the interest of making our social media venues including our website, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram among others a helpful experience for everyone, we have established a few rules and expectations for being on our online properties. Failure to follow these rules may result in your posts or comments being taken down by our administrator. If you have any questions regarding these policies, please feel free to contact us at alisia.mcclain@tech-nique.org

 

1. Any posts, pictures, tweets, videos or questions you place on our website, our Facebook, Flickr, You Tube, Twitter or other social media streams are considered the copyrighted property of TECH-Nique and can be used again in our other marketing materials or online.

2. Any personal contact information you provide to us will be gathered to create our mailing list for future communications. However, we will not share your data with our grant recipients or any other outside party.

3. TECH-Nique reserves the right to edit or remove your posts if they:

   • verbally harass, demean or slander other members of our online community, or TECH-Nique itself;

   • use ethnic slurs, personal insults, obscenity, or other offensive language;

   • discuss matters that aren’t relevant to the mission of TECH-Nique;

   • plagiarize other writers or websites without a link back to the original post;

   • post the same message multiple times;

   • post chain letters;

   • post promotions or self-promotional items;

   • offer personal contact information for yourself or others in a public in a post or comment;

   • reveal your personal financial information or the financial information of others.

4. People who post or comment on our website or social media properties are legally responsible for their opinions, comments or content. Individuals can be held personally liable by third parties for any commentary deemed to be defamatory; obscene; proprietary to, or owned by, others; or libelous to TECH-Nique, its suppliers/partners or any other person or entity. For these reasons, those who post should exercise caution with regard to exaggeration, colorful language, guesswork, obscenity, materials used in content, SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY conclusions, images and/or video, and derogatory remarks or characterizations. In addition, those who post should at all times be mindful that, given advances in technology, opinions, comments or content will remain public, and will be archived, stored and retrievable, indefinitely.