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Privacy Policy — The PsychiatryOnline Commitment to You
PsychiatryOnline and American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI) take your privacy concerns very seriously. We are committed to protecting your personal information at all times.
We appreciate that you provide us with your personal data. By sharing this information with us, you allow us to make the process of purchasing and managing your subscription more convenient, reliable, and seamless.
Except for the purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy, we will NOT disclose, share, sell, or rent your email address or credit card number to any third party.
What Personal Information Does PsychiatryOnline Collect?
We collect personal information such as your name, address, demographics, and credit card information, which allows PsychiatryOnline to recognize you and complete your transactions. Some of this information is necessary to successfully complete a transaction; other, nonessential information is voluntary. Below you'll find a list of the personal information we collect from you, and a brief description of how that information is used at PsychiatryOnline:
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Transaction Information
When you subscribe to PsychiatryOnline or register for a free trial, it is necessary for us to obtain information from you (such as your name, contact information, and credit card data) to complete your transaction and manage your subscription. This information is stored with each transaction and shared with appropriate third parties facilitating the transaction (for example, credit card authorization companies). We will provide only the information necessary to ensure your order is completed.
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Continuing Medical Education (CME) Reporting
Personal information, including the name of the individual user, is private to PsychiatryOnline CME faculty and the American Psychiatric Association. We collect registration information, CME scores, and credits awarded and information volunteered by the user such as demographics and course evaluation responses to facilitate the peer-review analysis of our content and to understand the utilization of our programs. The resulting information is used only in the aggregate and only for internal program decisions. Registration records for participants in CME activities are maintained for 6 years to fulfill Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) requirements. Only aggregate numbers are provided to ACCME. This information is not shared with any other organizations for commercial purposes.
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Alerts, Promotions & Newsletters
When you register at PsychiatryOnline, we will automatically add your email address to our announcements list. This list is used strictly to alert you to new PsychiatryOnline features, content updates, and new titles added to the collection. We will not use this list to promote other products to you.
During registration, we also give you the opportunity to add your email address to other APPI mailing lists so that we can share news of other APPI products you may find valuable. All of our promotional email alerts offer clear instructions for opting out of future email communications, or you can opt out at http://www.appi.org/email/optout.cfm. If you’d like to sign up for news of APPI products aside from PsychiatryOnline, please visit http://appi.org/email/secureform.cfm.
APPI sometimes shares subscriber information (but never your email address or credit card number) with selected outside companies whose products or services we feel may be of interest to you.
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Usage Tracking
PsychiatryOnline servers collect software client information, such as IP addresses, browser versions, operating systems, and pages accessed during PsychiatryOnline sessions. This information is used ONLY in aggregated form (e.g., number of pages accessed) to view site usage patterns and to provide institutional usage reports.
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Cookies
PsychiatryOnline makes use of a type of cookie called a "session cookie." Cookies are small bits of data that we send to your computer for later retrieval by our application. We use them to keep track of the fact that you have signed in so that you don't have to continually enter your username and password as you move around the site. Session cookies are not permanent—the cookie is removed as soon as you log out or close your browser.
Personal Information Security
We are dedicated to providing a safe and secure online shopping environment. We use technology that encrypts your information (name, address, credit card number, etc.) before it is transferred across the Internet from your computer to our secure server. This ensures that all of your personal information is protected at all times.
Links
PsychiatryOnline contains links to third-party websites outside the control of PsychiatryOnline. These links do not imply an endorsement of any kind by PsychiatryOnline, APPI, or the American Psychiatric Association. We are not responsible for the services, content, or handling of confidential material offered by linked third-party websites.
Modification of Policy
PsychiatryOnline reserves the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with no advance notice. The current version of the policy is always available from the PsychiatryOnline homepage. We want to ensure that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If you feel PsychiatryOnline is not following this policy, or for further information, please contact us:
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: (800) 368-5777 or (703) 907-7322
Fax: (703) 907-1091
appi@psych.org
This privacy policy was last updated on 8 August 2006.
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