Privacy Policy
Effective Date: March 22, 2025
The NW Electronics Design & Manufacturing Expo (“NEDME”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information when you visit or interact with our website, https://www.nedme.com (“Site”).
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://www.nedme.com. NEDME is a nonprofit industry expo serving the electronics design and manufacturing community in the Pacific Northwest.
2. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string (also called a hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to the Site, please avoid uploading images that include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the Site can download and extract location data from such images.
4. Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies will last for one year.
When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out will remove these cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser, indicating the post ID of the article. This cookie expires after one day and contains no personal data.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the source website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including if you have an account and are logged in to that external website.
6. Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This helps us recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
For registered users (if any), we store the personal information provided in user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for usernames). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
8. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on this Site or have left comments, you may request an exported file of your personal data, including any data you’ve provided. You may also request the erasure of any personal data we hold about you, excluding data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
9. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
10. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to make a request regarding your personal data, please contact us at:
Email: info@nedme.com