Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club’s official website. We are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy rights of our members. This policy describes the types of information that we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.tslclub.org and our practices for collecting, using, protecting and disclosing that information. By visiting any website in the www.tslclub.org domain, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

In simplified form (greater detail is below), our policy can be summarized as follows:

1. We may collect some information about you, as described in this policy, but you can control how much you share about yourself.
2. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 18 years of age.
3. We will not sell your personal information but may share such information with third-party service providers in order to streamline functions on our behalf.
4. We may collect, use and share aggregate, anonymous information about our users.
5. In certain legal situations, we may be compelled to disclose your personal information.
6. If you are outside the State of Kuwait, you understand and agree that we store your information in the State of Kuwait.

What personal information do we collect?
Why do we retain personal data?
How does TSL use collected information?
What about cookies?
Does TSL share the information it receives?
Do I have choices about sharing my information?
How secure is my information?
Are children allowed to visit tslclub.org?
What else should you know?

What personal information do we collect?

When you apply to become a member, we will collect personal data as necessary to register the membership. Typical information required may be your name, postal address, telephone number and email address in order to establish the membership.

We may ask you to provide us with additional information including:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided to subscribe to services available on our website, registration for online events, post material or request further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Your search queries on our website.
• There may be features that are developed in the future that may result in the collection of additional new information.

You can choose not to provide certain information or to have it deleted, by accessing your profile or by contacting our Club Executive Committee, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing your future visits to the Toastmasters website, improving our website, and communicating with you.

Any information we collect automatically is statistical data, and does not identify any individual. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size, browser statistics, and popularity of content and usage patterns.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our website.

A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit websites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at www.tslclub.org if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist. 

Why do we retain personal data?

We retain personal data to fulfill any legal or regulatory obligations. If you do not renew your membership, we may take steps to mask personal data, but we reserve our ability to retain and access the data for so long as required to comply with applicable laws. We will continue to use and disclose such personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How does Toastmasters use collected information?

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To provide you with information, or services as part of your membership.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To notify you about changes to our website or services we offer or provide.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website.
• To present our website and its contents to you.
• To store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

What about cookies?

Cookies are tiny bits of information that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as your personalized profile.

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, leaving cookies on will allow you to take full advantage of some of Toastmasters most entertaining and helpful features.

Does TSL share the information it receives?

Information about our members is an important part of our club, and we do not sell it to others. However, we may share your information for the following purposes:

The World Headquarters:
The Toastmasters International World Headquarters, if they ask for.

Third-Party Service Providers:
We may share information with third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include services such as backup and website maintenance. All third-parties have been carefully vetted, and when necessary may have signed data protection agreements.

Protection of tslclub.org and Others:
We may release account and other personal information when appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club, our members, or others. This may include exchanging information with civil authorities, other companies and organizations in order to protect The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club and its members from illegal activities. However, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this policy.

Do I have choices about sharing my information?

www.tslclub.org gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. Examples of data you can access at www.tslclub.org include your order history and personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, and your club membership history). This list will change and expand as our website evolves.

You may choose not to provide data and opt out of services and communications along the way, but certain services, may be unavailable to you as a result. 

You can opt out of receiving non-essential communications via email, postal mail, or telephone. Even if you opt out of getting messages, we will still send you transactional messages such as order confirmations and receipts and communications necessary.

How secure is my information?

The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club is committed to protecting the security of your personal information and maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that meet industry standards to guard your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. We protect your account information by placing it on the secure portion of our website, using firewalls and other security technology to protect our network and systems from external attacks, and requiring you to enter a unique username and password to access your account information online.

When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a password) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption. The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club uses industry-standard (SSL) technology to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing potentially sensitive information.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Certain parts of our website require a password, and you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Passwords, registered with our website, are encrypted to ensure protection against unauthorized access to your personal information. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our website. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our website. It is important for you to guard against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Are children allowed to visit www.tslclub.org?

If you are under 18, you may use www.tslclub.org only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

What else should you know?

The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club strongly supports our members’ right to privacy. If you choose to visit www.tslclub.org, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this policy and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the State of Kuwait. If you have any concern about privacy at www.tslclub.org, please contact us by email at info@tslclub.org with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it.

If you choose to use the Services from the European Union (“EU”), Switzerland or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from the law of the State of Kuwait, please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to Kuwait for storage and processing. By providing any information, including personal information about you, on or to the Services, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Our website is growing, and our Privacy Policy and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, though you should still check our website frequently to see reports on the latest changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

The Speaker's Lounge Toastmasters Club may change, add, modify or remove portions of this policy at any time, which shall become effective immediately upon posting on this page. The date the policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. It is your responsibility to review this policy for any changes. By continuing to use our website, you agree to any changes in the policy.