Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Toastmasters International’s official website and shopping at our online store.
Toastmasters International respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this website privacy policy (“Policy”).
This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.toastmasters.org and our practices for collecting, using, protecting and disclosing that information. By visiting any website in the Toastmasters.org domain, you are accepting the practices described in this Policy.
This Policy applies to information we collect:

• On our website
• In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and our website
• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from our website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and our website
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy

What personal information about members and other customers does Toastmasters.org gather?

• We collect information you provide to us on or through our website including:
  Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to toastmasters.org, donating to The Smedley Fund, subscribing to services available on our website, submitting a Trademark Use Request, posting material or requesting 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.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our website.
• 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.

For example, you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through our store; provide information to our Member Services department; provide information in your personal profile (or profiles, if you have more than one); communicate with us by phone, email, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire; or use other Toastmasters.org features. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name (or another person’s), address, and phone numbers; credit card information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number; content of emails to us; personal information (your name and any Toastmasters International honors or awards you’ve received); and financial information.

You can choose not to provide certain information, 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 and shopping, improving our website, and communicating with you.