Website
Website Policies
The OATUG.org/OATUG.com site and associated services (the “OATUG Site”) is a business collaboration service provided by the Oracle Applications Users Group (“OATUG”) and is subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth below.
If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, you may not access or use the OATUG Site.
Access to and use of the OATUG Site and its contents are subject to the disclaimers, terms and conditions set forth below, and all applicable laws and regulations in the United States, including all applicable export laws, regulations and restrictions, all of which are subject to change and revision from time to time without prior notice. OATUG reserves the right to terminate access to this OATUG Site or take other actions it reasonably believes necessary to comply with the law or to protect its rights. Any access or attempt to access this OATUG Site for any unauthorized purpose is strictly prohibited.
OATUG may modify this agreement at any time, and such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified agreement on the OATUG Site. You agree to review the agreement periodically to be aware of such modifications and your continued access or use of the OATUG Site shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified agreement.
Except as otherwise identified, the trademarks appearing on the OATUG Site, whether registered or unregistered, are the property of OATUG. Such marks may not be used without the written permission of OATUG or the identified owner of the trademarks. Except as otherwise identified, the copyright in the content of the OATUG Site is owned by OATUG or other third parties. No part of the OATUG Site may be copied or reproduced for commercial purposes without the express written permission of OATUG or the identified owner of the information and content. However, one copy of the content on any or all pages of this OATUG Site may be made by you for personal use. If any party or user misappropriates or uses any mark or copyright without the express written consent of OATUG, OATUG may pursue any and all injunctive, equitable, and monetary damages permitted under the law to protect and enforce its trademark and copyright. Any and all users of the OATUG site agree that if they use or misappropriate a mark or copyright without the express written consent of OATUG, OATUG shall receive legal fees and costs for protecting and enforcing its trademark and copyright.
You acknowledge that by sending to the OATUG Site and/or OATUG any information or material, in whatever form, the user grants OATUG a nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid up license to use, execute, reproduce, display, perform, modify, create or have created derivative works of, transmit and distribute, internally and/or externally, and sublicense, in any medium or distribution technology, without accounting to the user, including the right to grant any or all of the foregoing rights and licenses to others. In addition, you agree that OATUG has the right to disclose, publish, disseminate and use, and permit others to disclose, publish, disseminate and use, any ideas, concepts, know-how and/or techniques that you provide via the OATUG Site, for any purpose without remuneration or accounting to you, including the right to grant any or all of the foregoing rights to others.
OATUG respects the privacy of its members and other visitors to its Web site, and believes that visitors must be assured that information provided online is used responsibly and appropriately. The majority of data OATUG collects is used only to help OATUG better serve its members. It is our general policy to collect and store only company and contact information that our members and visitors knowingly provide. If our privacy policies change, they will be posted on the OATUG web site.
OATUG collects data to improve its Web content; to respond to visitors' interests, needs, and preferences; and to develop new products and services for its members. OATUG will not distribute or sell information to any third party with the intent of direct marketing or any purpose outside its stated mission of promoting networking and knowledge sharing among its members. Furthermore, OATUG will endeavor to protect member organization information from recruiters, direct marketers, or any other unsolicited contact outside of its stated mission.
To gain access to members-only resources and personalization features on the OATUG Web site, members and other users may select a user name and password that they use each time they log in. If, at any time, a member organization feels its members-only User ID and Password have been compromised, the member key contact shall inform the OATUG, who will reset it in a timely manner. Member and non-member visitors may browse OATUG's public areas anonymously.
Contact information (in databases and on other Web pages) on the OATUG Web site is provided to OATUG members for the sole and express purpose of improving their use of Oracle Applications and their ability to network with other members. Unauthorized copying or redistribution of information found anywhere on this Web site or use of company names for recruiting or direct marketing purposes is strictly prohibited and could result in suspension of OATUG membership.
OATUG reserves the right to contact you as a direct requirement of doing business with you and/or your organization. OATUG commercial communications will be done in accordance with the contact preferences you select in your OATUG contact profile. OATUG key contacts may disable OATUG contact profiles for the organization(s) he or she represents, at which point OATUG will no longer contact that individual. It is the OATUG contact's responsibility to keep his or her personal contact preferences up to date.
You acknowledge that electronic communications, databases and websites are subject to errors, malfunctions, tampering and break-ins, or that use thereof may result in damages to your systems or operations. While OATUG will implement reasonable precautions to attempt to prevent such occurrences, you further acknowledge that OATUG does not guarantee such events will not take place and that OATUG will not be liable for any such occurrences. You shall be solely responsible for ensuring that any information or content downloaded from the OATUG Site or any other website accessed from the OATUG Site does not contain any virus or other computer software code or subroutine designed to disable, erase, impair or otherwise damage its systems, software or data, and you shall indemnify, defend and hold OATUG harmless from any liability, claim, cost or damage arising out of any third-party claim or suit caused by such virus or code or subroutine.
OATUG advises all users to exercise discretion while browsing the Internet. Hyperlinks on the OATUG Site and other websites may direct users to websites containing information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. Such linked websites are not under the control of OATUG, and OATUG makes no representations concerning any such websites. OATUG is not responsible for the accuracy, intellectual property compliance, legality, legitimacy or decency of any information or content contained on any websites accessible directly or indirectly via a Hyperlink to or from the OATUG Site.
The information and content provided on the Site and your access of the Site does not create a client-consultant or any other professional relationship between you and OATUG. The information and content provided on the OATUG Site are not intended to be relied upon for making business, investment or other decisions. All information and content on or obtained through the OATUG site are provided "as is" and without warranty of any kind. You hereby waive all other warranties relating thereto, including but not limited to any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or warranty against interference or infringement. OATUG does not warrant that the use of the site will be uninterrupted or error free or that any error or defects will be or can be corrected. Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, in which case some of the above exclusions may not apply to all users.
OATUG shall not in any event be liable to any user or to any third party for any direct damages, lost profits, revenues, business opportunities or business advantages whatsoever, nor for any special, consequential, indirect or incidental losses, damages or expenses directly or indirectly relating to the use or misuse of the oatug site, or the information or content, whether such claim is based upon breach of contract, breach of warranty, negligence, gross negligence, strict liability in tort or any other theory of relief, or whether or not OATUG is informed in advance of the possibility of such damages.
If any part of this disclaimer is held to be invalid, the remaining parts will continue to be valid and enforceable.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the OATUG Site or would like to obtain permission to use any of the information or content in the OATUG Site, please contact us.
Cookies
Last updated: April 7, 2019
Oracle Applications & Technology Users Group ("us", "we", or "our") uses cookies on the https://www.oatug.org website (the "Service"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.
Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.
What are cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How Oracle Applications & Technology Users Group uses cookies
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To enable certain functions of the Service
- To provide analytics
We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:
- Essential cookies. We may use cookies to remember information that changes the way the Service behaves or looks, such as a user's language preference on the Service.
- Analytics cookies. We may use analytics cookies to track information how the Service is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Service to see how our users react to them.
Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.
What are your choices regarding cookies
If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
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- For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.
Where can you find more information about cookies
You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:
Recruiting
Recruiting Policies
- Recruiting firms may not join the OATUG.
- Recruiting firms are prohibited from attending all OATUG Conferences.
- No recruiting is permitted at OATUG Conferences. This applies to all conference attendees - both members and non-members, users, and vendor/consultants.
- Any recruiting material found at OATUG Conferences will be confiscated and will not be returned.
- Conference attendees found violating any OATUG policies, including but not limited to these policies prohibiting recruiting activities at OATUG conferences, will be escorted from the conference an not allowed to return to the conference or any conference activities.
- Violators of any OATUG policies, including but not limited to these policies prohibiting recruiting activities at OATUG conferences, risk immediate termination of membership, without refund, and will not be permitted to re-apply for membership within the OATUG for a period of one calendar year.
- OATUG reserves the right to deny membership to any party or parties found violating any OATUG policies, including but not limited to these policies prohibiting recruiting activities at OATUG conferences.
- OATUG membership, conference attendee lists, or other OATUG contact listings are provided to OATUG members for the sole purpose of supporting networking and the sharing of information within the OATUG community. The use of any OATUG list is restricted, and may not be used in recruiting activities, or any other activity that may be damaging to OATUG member organizations.
- OATUG reserves the right to determine what activities and material constitutes "recruiting" and which material may be deemed as activities/materials which violate OATUG policies, including but not limited to these policies prohibiting recruiting activities at OATUG conferences.
Violators of any OATUG policy, including but not limited to these policies prohibiting recruiting activities at OATUG conference, should be reported to one of the following OATUG contacts: Meeting Expectations personnel, OATUG Conference chairperson(s), OATUG membership chairperson. Material in violation of said policies should also be provided to the contact, if possible.
Privacy
Privacy Policy
The Oracle Applications & Technology Users Group (OATUG) is committed to the privacy of its members, registrants and other visitors to its website, and believes that visitors must be assured that personal data provided online is used responsibly and appropriately. In this privacy policy, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to the OATUG and its affiliates, including Meeting Expectations, its management company (collectively, the “Data Controllers.”)
As the OATUG is an organization incorporated in the United States (and managed by Meeting Expectations, a US-based Association Management Company), restrictions and obligations dictated by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) apply only to EU data subjects and for conferences and events held in the EU.
Our Privacy Policy explains:
• What information we collect and why we collect it.
• How we use that information.
• The choices we offer, including how to access and update information.
Information We Collect
We collect personal data for various reasons, and may include: providing personalized website content, eCommerce, communicating with members and prospective members, conference and event registration, maintaining subscriptions, geographic or special interest groups, exhibitors and sponsors, guest information, certification, voluntary lead retrieval services, surveys and evaluations, opt-in marketing, timing and duration of use of our services, legal compliance, and various other ancillary services directly related to doing business with the association.
The Personal Data we collect can be used to identify an individual. This includes:
• First and last name
• Title
• Position/Job Title
• Employer
• Postal address
• City
• State/Province
• Country
• Telephone number
• Mobile number
• Fax number
• Email Address
• Twitter handle
• LinkedIn profile
• Guest first and last name
• Guest email address
• Guest phone number
• Emergency contact first and last name
• Emergency contact email address
• Emergency contact phone number
Personal Data may also include digital tags, provided they can be used to specify an individual. These can potentially include things like database ID numbers, cookies, and IP addresses.
Various other extended and demographic data we collect could be used to triangulate identification of an individual (such as Job function + Age + Gender + Location).
This personal information shall be legally used only with your consent, for the proper administration of our business, or to fulfill our contractual requirements. We may process your personal data to operate our website, performing transactions (including purchases of goods and services), provision of services, ensuring security of our database and services, maintaining backups, data reporting and analysis, and communicating with you. We may disclose your personal data to third parties only with your consent, in providing services to you, maintaining business operations, obtaining professional advice, or as legally required. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the personal data we supply to it, and will be governed by that third party’s privacy policy.
Financial transactions relating to the provision of our services is handled by our payment service providers, and will only be used in conjunction with the provision of those services, reporting, processing refunds, or addressing inquiries.
Processing of personal data may be carried out by automated means, without human interaction. By creating or logging into your account profile, you have the ability to perform transactions, modify your personal data, and/or maintain your opt-in marketing preferences. Information supplied by you is processed in real-time. Fulfillment of certain requests (such as those related to financial transactions or opt-out requests) may not happen immediately as they may require manual processing to complete. Personal data requests requiring human involvement will be addressed within a reasonable timeframe of receiving the request.
Personal data is supplied voluntarily by you, and you have the right to edit or update it at any time. In the rare instance that personal data is obtained from a third party, you have the right to know the origin of such data, and whether it came from publicly accessible sources.
Data Safeguards, Protection and Security
Our office is headquartered in the United States. Transfers to third countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards as designated by the European Commission. Despite these safeguards, we cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
We utilize industry-standard encryption in all transactions, to protect user accounts, and to protect our website and services. We restrict access to personal data only to those individuals who have a legitimate business reason to do so, in the general course of conducting business with us.
Retention and Deletion of Personal Data
Personal data that we process for any purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for those purposes. This personal data will be retained for a minimum of one year, and retained until consent is withdrawn by you or until it is no longer required to administer our business, including trend reporting and analysis. We may retain your personal data indefinitely if retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or to protect the vital interests of you or another natural person.
Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using these controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive marketing communications and limit the publication of your information. Our privacy controls operate on an “opt-in” basis, you can change your preferences at any time.
Your Data Protection Rights
As appropriate and within legal and contractual constraints (and provided the rights and freedoms of others are not affected), your rights under this policy include:
• The right to access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict or object to processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to complain to a supervisory authority
• The right to withdraw consent
You can access and update your personal data at any time by logging into our website. We will supply you with a copy of your personal data upon request. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
For more information about this policy and how personal data is used, or to make specific requests regarding your personal data, please contact:
Oracle Applications & Technology Users Group (OATUG)
1 Glenlake Parkway NE
Suite 1200
Atlanta, GA 30328
+1 404.240.0897
Or
Meeting Expectations
1 Glenlake Parkway NE
Suite 1200
Atlanta, GA 30328
+1 404.240.0999