A. Personal Information You Provide to Us
We collect the following types of information that you provide to us:
In various areas of the Site and in printed materials, we provide you the
opportunity to submit a form with basic contact information, such as your
name, company or organization, e-mail, phone number, or mailing address.
We use such information to inform you of new products, technical
information and services, and upcoming events that may be of interest based
on your participation in NASS, expressed interests, or practice area
engagement. After your membership expires, we may continue to send you
occasional e-mails to provide you with offers to rejoin NASS or attend
NASS-related events. If you no longer wish to receive these e-mails, the
opt-out process is described in Section 5 of this Privacy Policy.
In addition, if you choose, you may participate in a NASS e-mail list by
subscribing on the Site or by contacting NASS staff directly. You may
unsubscribe from these e-mail lists by following the unsubscribe
instructions found within the e-mail.
We process your e-mail and password to enable you to securely log into the
Site, and we process information regarding your NASS profile to
appropriately control access to your public-facing profile. We process this
Personal Information only as necessary to provide you services on the Site
under our
Terms of Use and
to further our legitimate interests in protecting the Site and content.
NASS uses the information provided through membership forms to process
membership applications and related requests. For example, NASS processes
information such as your name, gender, date of birth, states in which you
are licensed, educational background, and professional background when
provided in a membership application. We also retain information contained
in a resume or curriculum vitae as part of your membership application to
serve our legitimate interest in verifying your identity and your
professional attainment and qualifications for various NASS activities. To
provide you with the benefits of membership, we process certain
membership-related information such as your membership category, purchases,
member ID, date joined, last sign-on, and last disclosure. We also process
membership and Personal Information in connection with a public member
directory at
www.knowyourback.org
and through a private members-only directory on our Site. You may adjust
what information is shared and to whom through your member profile. We also
archive membership information for historical purposes.
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Video Library and Continuing Medical Education Certificates
When you access our video library, we collect information relating to the
OnDemand courses you select and the meetings and conferences you
participate in for the purpose of delivering your requested content and to
further our legitimate interest in better understanding your interests in
our educational subjects so we can improve our future offerings. Similarly,
when you register for an event, we process Personal Information, such as
special accommodations requested, in order to reserve your space at the
event and to further our legitimate interest in preparing for the event. We
also track your Continuing Medical Education certificates attained through
our site or through a third party provider as applicable for the purpose of
allowing you to maintain your credentials and meet your continuing
education requirements.
In some cases, you may be required by NASS or the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education to voluntarily disclose certain
conflict-of-interest or financial-related information. For example, you may
be required to make a disclosure if you serve on a NASS committee or the
NASS board of directors, or if you publish or present with NASS. NASS
processes Personal Information in connection with these disclosures, and in
some cases, may publish the disclosure. For example, NASS may publish your
name, a funding partner’s name, and funding amount received in connection
with a publication or presentation. For more information, please review our
Disclosure Policy.
When you purchase a membership, subscription, register for an event, or buy
products from us, third-party service providers acting on our behalf
process payment information, including payment card details and billing and
shipping addresses, to help us fulfill your orders.
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Information Collected through Various Forms
We gather information from online forms that are often similar or identical
to the information we gather from traditional printed forms. When you
submit information through forms, whether offline or on the Site, you
voluntarily provide us with the information requested, and we will use the
information in order to take the action requested, to complete a requested
transaction, or for other reasons related to the purposes for which you
provide the information.
For example, an application for membership form allows individuals to apply
for certain categories of membership. We use information submitted through
application for membership forms to confer membership benefits based on
category selected. As another example, we post career-related forms to
attract qualified candidates for various positions. We provide forms on our
Site via hyperlink to a static PDF or through a dynamic form entry process.
In addition, we may check the information a user has provided via any forms
against any information we have about the user in its customer database. We
do this to help further our legitimate interest in maintaining the most
current and accurate information about its customers.
B. Information We Automatically Collect through our Site
We collect the following types of information automatically when you use
the Site:
When you use our Site, our servers automatically record information,
including your Internet Protocol address (“
IP Address”),
browser type, referring URLs (
e.g., the site you visited before
coming to our Site), number of clicks, and how you interact with links on
the Site, domain names associated with your internet service provider,
pages viewed, and other such information (collectively, “
Log File Information”). We may also collect similar
information from e-mails sent to you which then help us track which e-mails
are opened and which links are clicked by recipients. We use Log File
Information collected from our implementation of the Site to further our
legitimate interests in securing the Site by identifying potential threats
and vulnerabilities, and in analyzing the effectiveness of our Site to
improve the Site’s function and content.
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Cookies and Similar Technology
When you use or access the Site, we use cookies, device identifiers, and
similar technologies such as pixels, web beacons, and local storage to
collect information about how you use the Site. We process the information,
including Personal Information, collected through such technologies to
further our legitimate interests in operating the Site, enhance your
experience through personalization, and help us better understand the
features of the Site that you and other users are most interested in.
Some of our service providers (described in Section 4, below) and third
parties from which we receive content (such as Your Membership, a career
services manager and provider) use cookies or other methods to gather
information regarding your use of our Site. For example, we use Your
Membership to allow you to easily identify career opportunities on the
Site, and Your Membership uses cookies which you can opt out of, or learn
more about, by reading its
Privacy Policy. Such
third parties may use these cookies or other tracking methods for their own
purposes by relating information about your use of our Site with any of
Personal Information that they may have. The use of such information by a
third party depends on the privacy policy of that third party. If you would
like more information, please see Section 12 for our contact information.
We and our advertisers (through the advertising network, Feathr) use
cookies and similar technologies to collect information for advertising
purposes, such as which advertisements were viewed, how often they were
clicked, and device location information to provide you with content and
advertising that might be of particular interest to you. To opt out of
Feathr’s use of cookies, please visit its privacy policy here:
https://privacy.feathr.co/.
For further information on how to
request to opt-out of an advertiser’s use of cookies, visit the
National Advertising Initiative
or the
Digital Advertising Alliance. If you opt out of such cookies, you will continue to receive
advertisements, but those advertisements will no longer be personalized for
you.
Most browsers provide you with the ability to block, delete, or disable
cookies, and your mobile device may allow you to disable transmission of
device identifiers. If you choose to reject cookies or block device
identifiers, some features of the Site may not be available or some
functionality may be limited or unavailable. Please review the help pages
of your browser or mobile device for assistance with changing your
settings.
NASS does not track Site users over time and across third-party websites to
provide targeted advertising. Accordingly, we do not currently respond or
take any action with respect to web browser "do not track" signals or other
mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding
the collection of Personal Information about an individual consumer's
online activities over time and across third-party web sites or online
services.