Executive Partners
The Greater Houston Partnership values and respects the privacy of our member companies, their employees, our prospects, visitors, staff and clients. We recognize the importance of protecting personally identifiable information or sensitive business or organizational information that you may share with us. Last updated December 2024.
You may submit or be asked to provide certain company information or personally identifiable information to us when you:
In most cases, the Partnership collects only basic information needed to: (1) complete your membership application, (2) register you for an event, (3) complete a transaction, (4) list your company in one of our directories or other products or (5) consider you for employment. This information may include your name, title, company mailing address, physical address, telephone number, email address, company description, number of employees or other ranking that might indicate the size of your business, names and similar information about other key executives, the extent of your international operations, and whether your firm may be owned by a foreign company or have foreign subsidiaries.
The Partnership also may collect financial information, such as banking or credit card information, when you purchase products or register for events. If you are concerned about providing such information, please contact us at contact@houston.org or call our Information Services desk at 713-844-3600 for assistance.
We use information you and/or your company provide to personalize your service; to better understand your needs as a member; to broaden our relationship with you and your company; to develop and market products and services that may be of interest to you; to collect data needed to analyze business trends in the Houston market; to publish and distribute our business directories, newsletters and other products; to promote the greater Houston region by providing accurate data on industries and resources; to develop member engagement programs; to respond to inquiries from the news media; and to assist other agencies and organizations in strengthening the Houston community and its worldwide connections. We share our information with other companies, agencies and organizations subject to applicable laws and the “opt-out” provisions of this policy.
You have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data. To exercise your rights, please contact us at member.engagemenet@houston.org or 713-844-3678.
We retain your data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, comply with legal obligations or resolve disputes.
The information we collect is focused on companies because our mission and our membership base are business oriented. However, we do maintain records of individuals, with information about their company affiliations. If you are receiving communications from the Partnership, then we maintain a personal record for you with name, title, employer and business contact information. You may update certain information via our Web site by logging in.
Please login and visit Profile Settings to update and manage your information.
Once you have logged in, you'll be routed to our Partnership Portal. Select "Profile Settings" from the top menu. If you've changed companies, please update your information and enter your new company. If you need assistance updating your company, please contact our Member Engagement Department at 713-844-3678 or email member.engagement@houston.org.
If you do not wish the Partnership to use information you or your organization may provide, you should withhold that information. We will not publish personal numbers or email addresses, but we will make your company's email address and fax number available in our directories and other products unless you ask in writing that they be withheld.
To withdraw company information we may already have on record, please contact our Member Engagement Department at 713-844-3678 or member.engagement@houston.org. Only authorized company representatives may request this change.
To opt out of receiving email messages from the Partnership about products and services that may be of interest to you or to prevent publication of your email address or its release to other parties, please use the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of emails sent by the Partnership. We will make every effort to block your email address from future messages within the time required by law.
Please be aware that you will be removed from all Partnership email lists and may not receive items you might wish to receive, such as announcements of major events, invitations to serve on our committees, notices of committee meetings, newsletters, event and program opportunities, requests to update your business information in our directories, periodic economic data, membership information or notices of new resources and opportunities for Houston businesses.
Because you will miss so many opportunities, we hope you will choose not to opt out of receiving information from the Partnership by email. To ensure your email preferences are tailored to you, click the link to ‘Update Profile” at the bottom of any Partnership email to tailor the communication delivered to your inbox.
Please be aware that the Partnership has no means of preventing other parties that may have legitimately obtained your information previously from continuing its use in emails, telephone solicitations or other publications. We cannot be responsible for continued use by other parties. You should contact those parties directly to request that they discontinue use of your information.
We employ industry-standard security measures, including encryption, firewalls and access controls, to protect your data. While no system is entirely secure, we continuously update our practices to mitigate risks.
The Partnership does not discuss or disclose information about: (1) pending economic development projects, (2) pending or anticipated litigation, (3) the private activities of our volunteers or staff that are unrelated to Partnership business and (4) items about which confidentiality is required by law, court order or contract.
Email, mail, the Internet and other means of communication are never 100 percent secure by nature. We cannot guarantee that your private communications or other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed to third parties. For example, we may be forced to disclose information to the government under certain circumstances. Or, a third party might unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Additionally, we may (and you authorize us to) disclose your personally identifiable information to private entities, courts of law, law enforcement or other government officials as necessary or appropriate. We do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private under all circumstances.
The Partnership may use a computer application called a "cookie" to better understand how to improve the experience of visiting Partnership websites. "Cookies" are identifiers that a website can send to a user's computer browser to facilitate the user's next visit to that Web site. This enables our websites to identify you as a member or non-member when you enter the sites and offer you the appropriate prices or provide you access to areas that may be restricted to Partnership members only. Also, the Partnership tracks the Internet addresses from which visitors enter our site and uses this data to analyze the success and outreach of our programs and services. Manage your preferences through our cookie settings.
We use industry-standard techniques and applications to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable or company information, such as firewalls, private servers and secure socket layers where appropriate. We maintain other procedural, electronic and physical safeguards to guard your nonpublic information. Our practices comply with applicable state and federal regulations. Our Business Survey update procedures require your knowledge of a confidential code to gain access, which prevents other users from being able to review or alter your company’s information without your knowledge.
This policy only addresses Partnership business activities and Partnership use of information you may provide. Other third parties and/or websites (including those we link to or which we co-brand) may have their own policies, which we do not control and cannot be held responsible for and thus are not addressed nor bound by this policy.
The Partnership has no control over and will not be held responsible for the actions of other parties that may purchase or otherwise obtain Partnership directories, databases, lists, labels or other products that may contain information you provide.
This policy may be updated or altered from time to time, with or without advance notice to you, and your continued membership or use of our Web site or other products and services constitutes your agreement with its terms and conditions.
If you have any questions regarding our policy, please contact the Partnership at contact@houston.org or call 713-844-3600.
