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Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy (Statement) was developed
by AHACPA as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality
products and services with the highest level of integrity in dealing
with our valued members and the companies, businesses and organizations
they represent.
If you do not agree to this Statement,
you should not use this Internet site. We may modify the Statement from
time to time and post those modifications here. Your continued use of
this site after any such modification constitutes your acceptance of
the modified Agreement.
- Information.
We obtain information from and about you in a number of different ways,
including:
A. General Information. Some
information (General Information) is gathered automatically when you
access this site. This General Information (which includes site pages
visited, type of Web browser used, type of operating system, the domain
name of your Internet service provider and similar information) does
not identify you personally.
B. Personal Information. Some information that may be identifiable
as yours (Personal Information) is not gathered automatically at this
site. If you wish to provide Personal Information, you must do so
voluntarily, and you may do so in a number of different ways. The
following are some of the kinds of Personal Information we gather:
(i) Registration Information.
When you register at this site, you will be asked for certain Personal
Information, such as your name, your street mailing address, your
email address and other information;
(ii) Email Information. When you send us email messages, we may
retain the content of your email messages, together with your email
address and our response to you.
C. Cookies. Cookies are small pieces of
data that are stored by your Web browser on the hard drive of your
computer. Cookies can "remember" what information (Cookie
Information) you access on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions
with that Web site or can use that information to streamline your
transactions on related Web sites. The Cookies we use do not capture
your individual email address or any personally identifying information,
but do permit us to send focused advertising, new products or services,
promotions and other such responses to you or assist your use of this
site. We may also set Cookies when you register on this site, and
may do so without notice to or permission from you or any third party.
Third party Web sites which are accessible from this site via links,
may also use Cookies, and we have no responsibility whatsoever for
such Cookies.
- General Use and
Disclosure of Information. We use and disclose your information
as follows:
A. General Information. We
use General Information to understand site demographics and content
preferences, and shall do so without notice to or permission from
you or any third party. In particular, we may provide aggregate information
about our members, sales, site traffic patterns and related information
to our affiliates.
B. Personal Information. As further provided in Section 3 (Other Use
and Disclosure of Personal Information), we use and disclose to our
business partners and affiliates Personal Information for purposes
of administering our business activities, providing member service
and making available other products and services to you and other
AHACPA members and prospective members and those business partners
and affiliates. This may include focused advertising, new services,
promotions and other responses to you. We may also use and disclose
Personal Information to notify you about important changes to this
site or our business, new services and special offers you may find
valuable; and
C. Cookie Information. We use and disclose Cookie Information
to improve our site and better serve you and our other members, and
may do so without notice to or permission from you or any third party.
- Other Use and
Disclosure of Personal Information. We may disclose any of
your information when legally compelled to do so, or when we, in good
faith, believe that the law requires it, or for the protection of our
legal rights. The following are some of the ways in which we may use
or disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
A. Registration Information.
We may transfer the Personal Information you provide us during the
site registration process to third parties for those parties to use
to populate their own Web site registration forms when you hyperlink
from this site to their Web sites, in order to save you time in filling
out their registration forms. Such third party Web sites include Web
sites that are "co-branded" sites of AHACPA;
B. Shared Registration Information. When you register at this site,
you may be given the opportunity to register simultaneously at the
Web sites of certain third parties. Unless you opt out of this opportunity
by checking or clicking on the icon indicated on this site, you will
be deemed to have consented to such simultaneous registration, and
shall therefore be subject to the privacy policies, if any, of such
third party Web site.
- Community.
We urge you to use discretion when sharing Personal Information in community
areas on this site such as message boards, mailing lists and directories.
If you disclose Personal Information in such areas, you understand and
agree that such Personal Information may be used and disclosed by others
without restriction.
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