Privacy Policy Statement

OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY

The Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals deeply respects the privacy of its visitors. You are not required to register or to provide any personal information in order to access information on our site.

The Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals may collect and store the information you choose to provide us to send you information about the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals and Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals partners and third parties from time to time. The Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals collects and stores some information the user chooses to provide, including name, address and email address, to send users information about the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals and Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals partners and third parties from time to time.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect only the domain name, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages visitors access, and information volunteered by our visitors, such as survey information and/or site registrations. If you do not wish to receive e-mail from the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals in the future, please let us know by sending us an e-mail, calling, or writing to us at the above address.

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitor's domain name, but not the e-mail address.

Please note that when you visit one of our partner web sites even though you may have started your visit at the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals’ site you are interacting directly with a separate organization, the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals. This means that information you choose to share with that organization will fall under their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.

THE INFORMATION WE USE

The information we collect is used to better understand general site usage patterns, improve site usability, improve the content of our webpage, and add merchants and services which will better serve our visitors’ needs and interests. We may use volunteered information to send updated information on our programs and develop promotions based on general user preferences. Site visitors who supply us with their postal address on-line may receive periodic mailings from us with information on products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings from the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals in the future, please let us know by sending us an e-mail, calling, or writing to us at the above address. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is promptly removed from our mailing list.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.

With respect to ad servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. We do not, however, make any representations concerning ad servers on any other site to which you may have access through this site.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. We will post any policy changes to our Web site. We will only use data collected from the time of the policy change forward. We urge you to check this privacy policy periodically if you are concerned about how your information is used. If you do not wish to have your information used, please let us know by sending us an e-mail, calling, or writing to us at the above address. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is promptly removed from our data.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY

The Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site. When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site. We have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Policies and Disclaimers

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

With respect to documents available on this Web Site, neither the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals nor its Board of Directors or Members makes any warranty express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.

At certain places on this Web Site live links to other Web Sites can be accessed. Such external links contain information created, published, maintained or otherwise posted by institutions, individuals, or organizations independent of the APS. The APS does not control these external sites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of information located on them.

MEDICAL TREATMENT INFORMATION

Portions of this Web Site contain information regarding medical treatment or upon which medical treatment discussions may be based. That information is subject to the same policy and disclaimer notices set forth herein. No decisions regarding medical care or treatment should be made on the basis of information contained on this Web Site alone. The responsibility for filling out any forms, or for proper medical treatment rests with the individual and his or her treating physician.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING LEGAL MATTERS

This Web Site does not contain any legal advice, nor should it be relied on for such. Anything contained herein is solely for informational purposes and should NOT be relied on when making legal decisions. Decisions regarding legal matters should only be made after consulting with an attorney.

DISCLAIMER OF ENDORSEMENT

Reference on this Web Site to any specific commercial products, process or service by trade name, trademark, manufacture, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, its Board of Directors or Members. The views and opinions of independent authors regarding such products or processes do not state or reflect those of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, its Board of Directors or Members and reference to this Society shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement.