Privacy Policy
Information Collection, Disclosure, and Use:
This privacy statement demonstrates American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' ("AAPS") commitment to your right to privacy and explains the privacy policy governing the AAPS Portal site (the Web site). It is our general policy to collect and store only personal information that our members and visitors knowingly provide.
Areas of our site may require you to provide contact or other personally identifiable information, such as your name or e-mail address, which would only be used as described below. Unless otherwise provided, we may use the personal information we collect from you to ensure that our community is protected against unauthorized access, to use e-mail to diagnose problems with the server or to administer the Web Site, and to contact you when necessary. In addition, AAPS may sell, lease or otherwise provide the contact information you give in the membership application to third parties for pharmaceutical industry-related goods and services. AAPS shall permit such sale, lease or provision only (a) for a one-time use by the third party and (b) when AAPS has reviewed and approved the use by the third party.
AAPS collects cookies on our Web site to capture information about page visits. This information is anonymous and AAPS uses this information only internally - to deliver the most effective content to our visitors. Information from the cookies is used to gauge page opularity, analyze traffic patterns on our site and guide development of other improvements to our site. AAPS does not require that you accept cookies, however, some functionality on our Web site, our product or service check-out process, and products and services may be disabled if you decline to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. You may also change your cookie settings through preferences options in our products and/or services, where applicable. AAPS never gives away information about our users. If you choose to e-mail us and provide personally identifiable information about yourself, AAPS will use this information only to respond to your inquiry. AAPS will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose that information to third parties unless such disclosure is necessary for the purposes set forth in this Policy, by law or a policy or notice contained or associated with a specific AAPS product or service.
AAPS uses analytics data and the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website. Site visitors may opt out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or they may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Google has additional information available about their Remarketing Privacy Guidelines, Policies, and Restrictions.
If our privacy policy changes, we will notify all users by a special announcement on the Web Site.
Minors:
Minors, as defined by the jurisdiction from you are accessing this Web Site, are not permitted to subscribe to or use the Web Site.
Choice/Opt-Out:
If you do not want personally identifiable information that you provide on the Web Site's membership application to be disclosed to third parties as described above, you may opt out and elect not to have the information shared with third parties. AN OPT-OUT BOX WILL APPEAR WHEN YOU PROVIDE ANY REQUESTED INFORMATION.
Cookies:
Cookies are files that contain information created by a web server that can be stored on your hard disk for future use. Cookies are not used to disseminate significant information about you over the Internet or to analyze any information that you have knowingly or unknowingly provided. This Web Site uses cookies only to facilitate automated activity and to enable the server to recognize your computer.
Links:
This Web Site contains links to other web sites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the content, privacy policies or reliability of such sites.
Public Forums:
We may make various public forums and functions available to you. Any information you choose to share when using any of these forums or functions becomes public information. It is incumbent upon you to exercise caution in deciding whether to disclose any personal information.
Integrity/Security:
We use encryption and other technology to store personal information gathered online in an attempt to provide a secure environment that is protected from unauthorized third party access, alteration, theft, or misuse.
Corrections/Updates:
You may change or modify information that you have already provided via phone toll free 1-877-998-AAPS within the U.S. and Canada, or +1 703-243-2800 from elsewhere.
Redress/Contact:
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Web Site, or your dealings with the Web Site, you can contact our Web Manager.