Privacy Policy
Overview
Overview
Your
privacy is important to ACP Press, and we are committed to respecting
that privacy. This statement describes the personal information
practices for the ACP Press® Web site, including what type of
information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and
with whom the information is shared.
Personal
Information
In
general, you can visit the ACP Press Web site without telling us who
you are and without revealing any personal information about
yourself.
In
using specific features of the site, such as the online commerce
functionality, you will be asked to give us personal information,
such as your name or e-mail address, which will be needed to (for
example) correspond with you and/or process an order. Aside from
aggregating data, with all personal information removed, to allow us
to check on our own performance, it is our intent that your personal
information will be used only to fulfill the request(s) you make of
us, and to allow us to contact you if there are any problems with
your request. We will not exchange or sell your email address to
third parties.
Information
Security and Quality
We
intend to protect the integrity of your personal information. To do
this, we have implemented appropriate technical and organizational
measures, such as using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for
transmission of credit card numbers and passwords, to help us keep
your information secure, accurate, current, and complete. We will
make a sincere effort to respond in a timely manner to your requests
to correct inaccuracies in your personal information, to remove
personal information you do not want stored, or to answer any
questions you may have about our use of your information.
Information
Gathered through Cookies and Other Technologies
In
general, you can use the ACP Press Web site in all ways without using
the technology known as "cookies." A cookie is a short
identifier, stored on your computer, which a site may use to identify
you when you make return visits to it. The features of the ACP Press
site were designed to work without cookies, so if you turn them off,
you may still browse, search, and shop at our site. Performance may
be slower, however, and the "Remember Me" feature (for
registered site users) will not function.
We
may collect anonymous information from visits to the ACP Press site
to help us provide better customer service and a better customer
experience. For example, we keep track of the domains from which
people visit, and we measure aggregate user activity on the ACP Press
Web site, but we do so in ways that keep user's personal identity and
information anonymous. ACP Press or the analytic vendors it selects
may use this data to analyze site usage trends and statistics, to
help us improve our site.
When
we collect personal data from you in connection with a transaction
(an order, e-mail request, etc.) we may extract some information
about that transaction in an anonymous format and combine it with
other anonymous information such as clickstream data. This anonymous
information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help
us understand trends and patterns in our site's usage.
Business
Relationships
The
ACP Press Web site may contain links to other Web sites. ACP Press is
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Web
sites.
Questions
Regarding this Statement
Any
questions regarding this statement or our privacy policies should be
directed to ACP Press site manager at:
ACP
Press
American
College of Physicians
4W
190
N. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA
19106-1572
acppress@acponline.org
By
visiting and using the ACP Press Web site, you are accepting the
practices described in this Privacy Policy. This privacy statement
was last updated on April 1, 2009.
