Privacy Practices

Copyright Statement

AIA Houston holds copyright protection over all the images, content, and code contained in this Site, with the exception of our partner logos.

Privacy Policy

AIA Houston has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices.

Your Information is Private

Users are requested to enter limited personal information during Information Requests. Under no circumstance will we sell, transfer or disseminate this personal information gathered by our site to any other entity.

Our statistics product collects information about visitors to our web site only. This information will also not be sold, transferred or disseminated to any other entity. We may display aggregated data to show industry trends (such as browser share). However, this data shall be the average of many thousands of sites and will in no way linked to individual users.

Your Information is Secure

Your information is secure because AIA Houston does not store information on our server. All personal information is stored in a location where access is restricted to organization management only.

Privacy Policy

AIA Houston takes the privacy of our members very seriously. As such, we make every effort to ensure that all transactions conducted online are both safe and secure. Those transactions are processed through a payment gateway provided by Authorize.net, a company that uses industry standard, 128-bit, state of the art data encryption for fast, reliable, service. For information on how to contact Authorize.net directly via phone or e-mail, visit the Autorize.net website.

Additionally, AIA Houston does not share any of our member data with third party sources. All information collected during online transaction processing is saved to an internal database that is used for record keeping only. None of your personal information, including e-mail address, is provided to any other company or individual outside of the AIA Houston offices.

How we use “Cookies”?

Visitors should be aware than non-personal/non-critical information, such as IDs and generic letter/number combinations may be stored and collected by the AIA Houston website through the use of “cookies”. We use “cookies” solely for the purpose of maintaining sessions such as users/customers login status, and order/product status. “Cookies” are required for the AIA Houston website and functionality may or may not work with “cookies” disabled.

How we use Javascript

Visitors should be aware that Javascript is required for the AIA Houston website to function properly. Our Javascript code aids in the processing and validation data, and does not pose any security risk to you or your personal information. The AIA Houston website may or may not work as intended if Javascript is disabled.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact AIA Houston Administration:

AIA Houston
315 Capitol, Suite 120
Houston, TX 77002

Phone: 713-520-0155
Fax: 713-520-5134
Online Contact Form

Terms of Use

AIA Houston maintains this site for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. You may download material displayed on the Site for non-commercial, personal use only provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video without written permission from AIA Houston. Your access to and use of the Site is also subject to the following terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that any other agreements between you and AIA Houston are superseded and are of no force or effect.

Terms and Conditions

You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the written permission of AIA Houston. AIA Houston neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with AIA Houston.

While AIA Houston uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information in the Site, AIA Houston makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. AIA Houston assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.

Your use of and browsing in the Site are at your risk. Neither AIA Houston nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. AIA Houston also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.

Any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post may be used by AIA Houston or its affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, AIA Houston is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.

Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, AIA Houston. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.