Privacy Policy
I. Introduction
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the owners and operators of
www.pharmacist.com, respect your privacy as a user of
this Web site. Please read this Privacy Policy so that you can
understand what information is collected on pharmacist.com, how that
information is used, with whom it is shared, and how it is protected
against unauthorized access. To make this notice easy to locate, we make
it available on our home page and throughout the site.
Note that this Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. You
should check it regularly to make certain that you are kept up to date.
Questions about this Privacy Policy should be directed to: infocenter@aphanet.org
II. What information is collected on
pharmacist.com?
This section of the Privacy Policy describes the types of information
collected on pharmacist.com. The information collected on pharmacist.com
falls into two categories: (1) information that you provide when you
engage in transactions on the site, register for the site, or enroll as
an APhA member, and (2) information gathered about how you navigate
pharmacist.com.
Information that you provide when engaging in transactions on the site,
registering for the site, or enrolling as an APhA member includes the
following:
- Name
- Primary mailing address
- Primary telephone number
- Primary fax number
- E-mail address
Additional demographic information such as practice setting, job
function, and license number is requested, but not required.
You may also provide, at your option, a secondary address, telephone
number, or fax number. For example, you may provide your home address,
telephone, and fax numbers as your primary contact information and a
business address, telephone, and fax number as your secondary contact
information.
In order to take continuing education (CE) exams on pharmacist.com, you
will also be required to provide your Social Security Number for
tracking purposes.
If you decide to enroll as an APhA member on the site, you will also be
asked for the college(s) of pharmacy or other educational institutions
from which you have earned degrees, your date(s) of graduation, and the
APhA
Academyand Section you
wish to join. APhA members may also elect to join one or more
Practitioner Interest Groups and to receive certain e-newsletters that
are provided as a benefit of membership. APhA members may opt in or out
of APhA e-newsletters by updating their profiles on pharmacist.com.
After logging into the site, click on "My Account" then "Edit my
Preferences."
When you place an order on pharmacist.com, we may also collect
information you provide about someone else to whom you wish to ship
products. We do not share this information with outside parties except
to the extent necessary to complete that order.
pharmacist.com receives and stores certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. pharmacist.com may collect and log your
IP address and your browser information to determine how to facilitate
services online and administer the site. We may collect information on
pages visited, frequency of visits, and length of time spent to make
improvements that will enhance your experience with us. We also use
"cookies" and collect passwords to facilitate your navigation through
our site. Cookies are small files that your Web browser places on your
computer's hard drive. You can easily adjust your browser settings to
prevent cookie data from being stored on your computer; however certain
site functions may not operate if you do so. We do not allow third
parties to use cookies on pharmacist.com.
III. How is the
information you provide on pharmacist.com used?
This section of the Privacy Policy describes how the information that
you provide on pharmacist.com is used. The information you provide is
used for four purposes: (1) to control access to the Web site (2) to
provide the products or services you purchase through pharmacist.com,
(3) to contact you about APhA activities, and (4) to understand how you
interact with the Web site so that the site may be improved to better
meet your needs.
In addition, the name, address, e-mail, telephone, and fax numbers you
provide on pharmacist.com may be used to send you APhA periodicals,
resource catalogs, information on programs such as the APhA Annual
Meeting, educational programs, and announcements from APhA, and
e-newsletters and ballots for APhA elections.
We may also conduct occasional voluntary surveys of pharmacist.com
users (for example mailing or e-mailing you a questionnaire).
IV. With whom is the information you provide on pharmacist.com
shared?
This section of the Privacy Policy describes how the information you
provide on pharmacist.com may be shared with parties other than APhA and
how you may control such information sharing. There are four ways in
which information that you provide on pharmacist.com may be shared: (1)
with agents of APhA who are performing Web services, data entry,
customer service, or product fulfillment tasks under contract, (2) with
organizations seeking to contact you about pharmacy-related news,
professional information, or educational resources, (3) with research
organizations, and (4) with a select few organizations offering
professional services to pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, or pharmacy
students. With the exception of (1), pharmacist.com offers you the
option not to have your information shared.
Name and address, telephone or fax number, e-mail address, and credit
card information may be provided to third parties operating under
contract to APhA for such purposes as fulfilling product orders,
handling meeting registrations, or providing CE exam grading services.
Contract terms specifically forbid these third parties from making any
other use of your information. These third parties are selected and
monitored by either APhA, as are the arrangements that the third parties
make to secure your information against unauthorized use. Credit card
information provided on pharmacist.com is not permanently stored by
APhA, or the third parties that perform the functions listed in this
paragraph.
Name and address information collected on pharmacist.com may be made
available for limited, one-time use by organizations seeking to contact
you with information about products, programs, or services relevant to
the professional or educational needs of pharmacists, pharmacy
technicians, or pharmacy students. E-mail addresses are not made
available to any such third party. Requests for such use of your address
information are reviewed to ensure that the information that is to be
provided is consistent with the professional nature of APhA and the
professional and educational needs of the pharmacy community. You may
specify that your name and address information not be used for the
purposes enumerated in this paragraph by sending an e-mail with the
subject "no informational mailings" to infocenter@aphanet.org.
APhA may provide name and address, telephone, or e-mail information
collected on pharmacist.com to research firms operating under contract
to either or both organizations, to researchers at colleges of pharmacy
or other recognized educational, or to research organizations seeking to
conduct studies on pharmacy practice, education, or training on a
voluntary basis (that is, you may be asked but never required to
participate in such studies). Such organizations will be permitted to
use personally identifiable information only to contact you regarding
the study. You may specify that your name and address information not be
used for the purposes enumerated in this paragraph by sending an e-mail
with the subject "no surveys" to infocenter@aphanet.org.
Name and address information collected on pharmacist.com may be made
available to a small number of providers of professional liability or
other insurance products, credit card, banking, or investment services,
telephone discount, or automobile rental companies for the purpose of
sending you mail about their products, programs, and services. You may
specify that your name and address information not be used for the
purposes enumerated in this paragraph by sending an e-mail with the
subject "no offers" to infocenter@aphanet.org.
Pharmacist.com may disclose personally identifiable information in
special cases if we find it necessary to identify, contact, or bring
legal action against someone who may be violating the policies of
pharmacist.com or causing injury to or interference with pharmacist.com,
its users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Pharmacist.com also may disclose personally identifiable information as
is required or appropriate in order to comply with the law.
V. How we protect the information you provide on
pharmacist.com
This section of the Privacy Policy explains how the information that you
provide when you register for pharmacist.com, conduct transactions on
pharmacist.com, or enroll as an APhA member is protected against
unauthorized use.
We will undertake procedures to help to ensure that the information you
provide to us is protected against loss, misuse, alteration,
destruction, or unauthorized access. To prevent unauthorized access,
maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we
have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online,
The information stored in your profile and CE Center account is
protected by the user name and password that you were provided when your
pharmacist.com account was created. You may change your user name and
password at any time by logging onto pharmacist.com, clicking "My
Account" then "Change Password." You are encouraged to change passwords
periodically and to protect your user name and password as you would
other personally sensitive information.
Whenever you are finished using the pharmacist.com site, you are
encouraged to log out by clicking the "log out" button located on the
home page and most other pages within the site. To prevent others from
accessing your personal account information, it is particularly
important to log out if you are using a shared or publicly accessible
computer.
All information that you provide on pharmacist.com is stored in a
database residing on servers that are secured against unauthorized
access both by physical and software means. Physical access to the
servers is tightly controlled. Access to your information by employees
of APhA, and third parties working on pharmacist.com or providing
services under contract to APhA is on a "need to know" basis, in which
access is permitted only for specific jobs or job functions (for
example, billing clerks or customer service representatives).
Credit card and other personal information that you provide on
pharmacist.com is transmitted over the Internet using a Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) connection. SSL is the industry-standard method for
protecting confidential Web communications, such as credit card numbers,
online forms, and financial data, from interception and hacking.
APhA take’s commercially reasonable steps to secure the
information collected on pharmacist.com. In addition, you can do your
part to protect the information collected on pharmacist.com about you by
securing your pharmacist.com user name and password, as described above,
and by logging out when you finish using the site. However, you should
be aware that despite the security procedures that APhA employs, no
security system is impenetrable nor can we guarantee that the
information you provide will not be intercepted while being transmitted
over the Internet. You should particularly note that although it is
illegal to intercept or disclose these messages under Federal law,
Internet e-mail is not secure, so you should not send confidential or
personally sensitive information via e-mail.
VI. How you
can change information that you provide on pharmacist.com
Pharmacist.com provides users with 24-hour access to their personal
information after it has been collected. You can access all of your
personally identifiable information that we collect online (your
"profile") and maintain it by logging into the site and clicking on
"Update my Account." You may also send changes to APhA Membership
Services Department, 2215 Consitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037.
To further protect your privacy and security, we will also take
reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to make
corrections. When you update information, we usually keep a record of
the prior version for our records.
VII. Anonymous
browsing
You are also given the option of visiting pharmacist.com without
offering any information about yourself. Please note that you will not
be able to purchase certain products or visit certain areas of the site
as an anonymous browser.
VIII. Acceptance of Privacy
Policy by user
The use of this site and submission of personal data
to pharmacist.com constitute the User's acknowledgement that he or
she has read, understood, and accepted this Privacy Policy, and agrees
to its terms.
APhA reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy
statement at any time. If we make a material change, we will post a
notice on our home page with a link to the updated Privacy Policy.
Please read any such notice and the new Privacy Policy. Your continued
use of this site after we post such notice will constitute your
acceptance of the new terms and their application to your use of this
Web site and the information disclosed for such use, including
information previously furnished to us, as if they were the original
terms.
Pharmacist.com contains links to other Web sites. Pharmacist.com has no
control over, and is not responsible for, the privacy policies or
content of these sites.
IX. For additional information/questions/comments
Requests for additional information, questions, or comments about this
Privacy Policy may be directed to infocenter@aphanet.org.
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