SERVICE
AGREEMENT The
date of this Service Agreement is November 3, 2000. Please read this Service
Agreement carefully. Together with the Guidelines for Acceptable Use and
the Privacy Statement, it governs your use of the ASPA web site and other
information, communication and transaction services (collectively called
the "Service") that may be provided to you by ASPA from time
to time.
This Agreement, the
Guidelines and the Privacy Statement, supersede all prior communications
and agreements with regard to their subject matter; the current version
of each may be found at ASPA's web site at www.aspanet.org.
1. Service
(a)By completing the
registration process to become a subscriber of the ASPA web site Service
("Service") or by using the Service or any software provided
by ASPA ("Software") other than to read this Agreement, you
agree to accept the terms of the Agreement (including the Guidelines and
the Privacy Statement) as if you had signed it. ASPA may change this Agreement
at any time; such changes will be effective immediately upon posting of
notice on the web site, transmission of notice by e-mail, postal mail,
or any other means. Each time you use the Service reaffirms your acceptance
of the then-current Agreement. If you do not wish to be bound by this
Agreement, you may discontinue using the Service and the Software and
immediately terminate your account as set forth below.
(b)Please refer to
any initial signup communications for specific information with respect
to your service level. ASPA may discontinue or alter any service level
or aspect of the Service at any time, without notice, without liability
and in ASPA's sole discretion.
2.
Your Obligations
(a)You agree to provide
ASPA with accurate, current and complete information, to the extent required
by ASPA for your registration as a subscriber of the Service or at any
time thereafter, and to maintain and to update this information as required
to keep it accurate, current and complete. You agree in your enrollment
and in your use of the Service not to impersonate any other person or
entity, and you represent that you are 13 years of age or older.
(b)You are responsible
and liable for any activity by any person who uses your account with the
Service. Other users of your account will be bound by this Agreement as
if they were you. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your password and for any liability resulting from disclosure of your
password. You agree that, upon becoming aware that your password or account
is (or possibly is) being used without authorization, you will immediately
change your password and notify ASPA by sending e-mail to the Department
of Information Services
(c)You are responsible
for obtaining and maintaining the equipment and telephone services necessary
to access and use the Service and for any telephone charges associated
with connecting to the Service. Depending on your location, connecting
to the access number(s) you select may involve long distance telephone
charges.
(d)You expressly permit
and authorize ASPA (and such third parties as may be authorized by ASPA,
subject to the Privacy Statement) to furnish you, electronically or by
any other means selected by ASPA, information prepared by ASPA or by (or
on behalf of) other entities, including advertising information and solicitations.
You acknowledge that any such advertisements and solicitations are an
inseparable part of the Service, and you understand and agree that such
advertisements and solicitations cannot be terminated unless the Service
is also terminated. Some third parties furnishing you with advertisements
and solicitations through the Service may permit you to "opt out"
of receiving such communications from them, in which case you can do so
by following the instructions they provide. However, ASPA is not responsible
for any such party's failure to comply with its own "opt out"
policies, nor does ASPA endorse the views or content of any third party
advertisements or solicitations. All such advertisements and solicitations
will be understood to be "requested" by you through the act
of using the Service, and each time you use your account reaffirms such
request. ASPA's policies relating to privacy and the collection and use
of subscriber information are set forth in the Privacy Statement, which
forms an integral
part of this Agreement.
(e)You agree in using
the Service to comply with ASPA's Guidelines for Acceptable Use. You acknowledge
that the Service is provided only for personal and professional use by
you.
(f)While ASPA does
not presently do so, in the future event that ASPA may provide e-mail
services or other services online to its members, you agree that ASPA
mayestablish general practices and limits concerning use of the Service.
These may include from time to time, among others, the maximum number
of days that unread e-mail messages will be retained by the Service, the
maximum number of e-mail messages that may be sent from or received by
an account on the Service, the maximum size of any e-mail message that
may be sent from or received by an account on the Service, the maximum
disk space that will be allocated on ASPA's servers on a subscriber's
behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for
which) a subscriber may access the Service in a given period of time.
You acknowledge that such limits may differ for different portions of
the Service, and in particular may be set at different levels for subscribers
based on their chosen service level and/or geographic location. You also
acknowledge that ASPA reserves the right to change these
general practices and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with
or without notice.
3.
Content
(a)You acknowledge
that information, communications, photographs, video, graphics, software,
music, sounds and other materials may be accessible to you through your
use of the Service. You acknowledge that, as a matter of policy, ASPA
does not pre-screen such materials, but that ASPA has the right (but not
the obligation) to remove from its computer servers materials (including,
without limitation, materials created, posted, uploaded or transmitted
by you) that ASPA, in its sole discretion, determines to be in violation
of the Guidelines. You further acknowledge, however, that ASPA may not
have the capability to monitor, review, restrict, edit or remove some
or all materials made available by third parties on its web site, and
you agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with,
the use of any materials, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness,
or usefulness of such materials. The fact that ASPA may provide a link
to a particular web page is not an indication that we endorse that site's
policies or the content or products available from that particular site.
(b)The following are
trademarks or service marks of ASPA: Council for Advancement and Support
of Education, ASPA
and CURRENTS. Other trademarks or service marks appear on this web site
with the permission of their owners. You acknowledge that materials available
through the Service may be protected by copyright, trademarks, and other
intellectual property rights. You agree that your use of such materials
is governed by all applicable laws and regulations, and by any further
restrictions placed on such materials by their owners or licensors.
(c)You acknowledge
that the Service may provide certain public areas (e.g. message boards,
newsgroups, forums, and public mailing lists), and that ASPA is a distributor
(and not a publisher) of information disseminated by persons using the
Service. By posting, uploading or transmitting material to any such area,
you are requesting ASPA to make such material available to
others, and you are acknowledging that placing such material in a public
area will result in copies of such material being transmitted to others.
By posting, uploading or transmitting material to any public area, you
(i) grant to ASPA a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive
license (including any moral rights) to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,
publish, distribute, display, and create derivative works from, such material
(in whole or in part) and to incorporate it into other works in any form,
media or technology (whether now known or later developed) and (ii) warrant
that the owner of any rights in the material, including intellectual property
and moral rights, has waived such rights and has given you the right to
grant the license described above.
4.
Fees
(a)As a subscriber
of the Service you are solely responsible for any charges to your account
and any activities conducted through your account. By using a credit card
or other payment method to pay for any purchases or billable portions
of the Service, you expressly authorize ASPA or its agents to charge all
fees and other charges incurred in connection with your
Service to the credit card or other payment method you have designated,
and such authorization will remain valid unless revoked by you pursuant
to paragraph 8(b). If you use a credit card and ASPA does not receive
payment from the card issuer or its agents, you agree to pay all amounts
due upon demand by ASPA. Fees are non-refundable, except as otherwise
provided in this Agreement.
(b)You may change
your designated payment method by contacting ASPA in the manner specified
for that purpose on ASPA's web site or by calling the ASPA Department
of Information Services at 202 393-7878. ASPA reserves the right to accept
other forms of payment or to modify the forms of payment it will accept.
If ASPA elects to authorize alternative or additional methods of payment,
your designation of such a method of payment will be deemed to be an authorization
to ASPA to bill you, in a
manner appropriate to your designated payment method, for all fees and
other charges incurred in connection with your service.
(c)If ASPA does not
receive the amount of your account balance within 30 days of the applicable
invoice date, an additional 1.5% (or the highest amount permissible by
law, if less) per month of the amount outstanding may be added to your
invoice as a late charge. You will be liable for all attorney and collection
fees arising out of ASPA's efforts to collect any unpaid balance of your
account. If you believe that a billing discrepancy has occurred, you must
notify ASPA within 90 days after the date of the relevant account statement
from your credit card issuer or financial institution or such amounts
will be deemed to have been accepted by you. You agree to release ASPA
from any liability for any error or discrepancy that is reported to ASPA
after such period.
(d)Your subscription
to any billable portion of the Service will continue and renew automatically,
unless terminated by ASPA or until you notify ASPA pursuant to paragraph
8(b) of your decision to terminate your subscription to a portion of the
Service. ASPA reserves the right at any time to change its fees and charges
for use of portions of the Service, to institute new or additional fees,
and to change its policies, methods, and procedures with respect to pricing,
billing, cancellations, and surcharges. Although ASPA expects to provide
e-mail or other notice to you prior to increasing the price you pay for
the Service, ASPA shall not be required to do so before making any of
the changes described. You may obtain current pricing
information for different service levels, as well as information about
policies, methods and procedures with respect to pricing, billing, cancellation
and surcharges (i) by calling the ASPA Department of Information Services
at 202 393-7878, (ii) through ASPA's web site, or (iii) by sending e-mail
to the Department of Informaiton
Services ASPA may modify the means of accessing rates and billing
information in its sole discretion.
(e)You agree to pay
all sales, use, value-added, personal property or other governmental taxes
or levies imposed on fees for the Service or goods or services that you
purchase through the Service.
5.
Software License
(a)In event that ASPA
may at any time provide you with Software for use in connection with its
web site, ASPA grants to you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive
license to use the Software (in object code form only) to access the Service
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Any such Software
is licensed, not sold, to you by ASPA and may be used only to connect
to the Service from the United States of America and such other locations
as ASPA may authorize.
(b)If ASPA does distribute
Software to you, you may copy and archive the Software, and you may distribute
copies of the Software to third parties, provided that all such copies
contain the same copyright notice and proprietary markings as are on the
original Software; and provided further that you do not sell, transmit
or otherwise dispose of any copy for compensation or as part of a commercial
offer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, ASPA may, at any time, and in its
sole discretion, prohibit your distribution or your further distribution
of the Software to third parties and require you to discontinue any such
activity.
(c)You agree not to
translate, reverse engineer, reverse compile, disassemble or make derivative
works from the web site or any Software which ASPA may provide to you
in providing the Service. You agree not to attempt to modify the web site
or Software in any manner or form, or for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized
access to the Service or disabling features of the Software or Service.
Except as may be permitted by ASPA, you agree not to access the Service
by any means other than through the interface that is provided by ASPA
for use in accessing the Service.
(d)The Service may
includes certain cryptographic software that may be subject to export
controls under the U.S. Export Administration Act. The Software may not
be exported to any country or to any foreign entity or "foreign person"
to the extent prohibited under applicable U.S. government regulations.
By downloading or using the Software, you are acknowledging and agreeing
to the foregoing limitations on your right to export or re-export the
Software, and are also representing and warranting that you are neither
on any of the U.S. government's lists of export precluded parties nor
otherwise ineligible to receive software containing cryptography that
is subject to export controls under the U.S. Export Administration Act.
4.5. You acknowledge and agree that (i) you are not acquiring the license
granted hereunder on behalf of a U.S. government agency and (ii) the license
granted hereunder is not being acquired pursuant to a U.S. government
contract.
(e)You acknowledge
that ASPA and its suppliers retain all title, rights (including, without
limitation, intellectual property rights) and interest in the Service,
except as expressly licensed in this Agreement. All rights in the content,
information and materials accessed through use of the Service are the
property of the applicable content owner and may be protected under intellectual
property and other applicable laws. You agree that ASPA's suppliers are
direct and intended third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.
6.
No Warranties
(a)You agree that
use of the Service is at your sole risk. You acknowledge that the Service
may provide access to the Internet and other web sites, but that the Internet
and other web sites are not owned, operated or managed by ASPA.
(b)With respect to
information, goods and services provided or accessed on or through the
Service or otherwise available on the Internet, ASPA (i) has no responsibility
or obligation with respect to (and does not endorse) any information,
good or service, (ii) makes no warranties whatsoever (express or implied)
with regard to any information, good or service (including, without limitation,
warranties of accuracy, completeness, usefulness, merchantability, safety
or fitness for a particular purpose), (iii) will not be a party to a transaction
between you and any other user of the Service, and (iv) will not be liable,
under any circumstance, for any loss, cost or damage arising directly
or indirectly from any act or omission of any person or from any information,
good or service; except to the extent the foregoing may not be disclaimed
under law. ASPA does not assume liability to subscribers or others for
any failure to enforce the Guidelines.
(c)ASPA DOES NOT WARRANT
THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE NOR MAKE ANY WARRANTY
AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE. ASPA DOES NOT
GUARANTEE CONNECTIVITY AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME OR AT ANY SPEED.
THE SERVICE AND THE SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS", "AS
AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER (EITHER EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED), INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO
ORAL ADVICE OR WRITTEN (INCLUDING ELECTRONIC) INFORMATION PROVIDED BY
ASPA, ITS EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS OR
AUTHORIZED USERS WILL CREATE A WARRANTY, NOR SHOULD YOU RELY ON ANY SUCH
ADVICE OR INFORMATION.
(d)UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) WILL ASPA OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN PROVIDING
THE SERVICE OR SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES FROM OR THROUGH THE USE OF
OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR THAT RESULT FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS,
INTERRUPTIONS, DELETION OF FILES OR E-MAIL, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, DELAYS IN
OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, EVEN IF ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF.
7.
Indemnification
(a)You agree to indemnify
ASPA against liability arising from your use of the Service (including,
without limitation, your dissemination of any information on the Service).
8.
Termination
(a)ASPA may terminate
your access to the Service and your account at any time, for cause or
for no cause, with or without written (including electronic) notice. Upon
termination, you will have no right to continue to use the Service or
access any stored content on the Service (and any such content will be
forfeited). You acknowledge that if an account on the Service is terminated
(or if you delete your account from ASPA's central computers), any unread
e-mail sent prior to termination (or deletion of your account) may be
deleted from the Service.
(b)You may cancel
billing for your Service at any time by calling the Department of Information
Services at ASPA at 202 393-7878 or by using such other means as ASPA
may make available from time to time, provided that you will remain liable
for any fees to which you have committed at the time of registration.
If you are dissatisfied with this Agreement or any terms, policies, or
practices of ASPA in operating the Service, any content available through
the ASPA Service, or any change to any of the foregoing, your sole recourse
is to cancel your service. Deleting your account from ASPA's central computers
or removing the Software from your computer will not cancel billing
for your service.
9.
Miscellaneous
(a)The failure of
either you or ASPA to insist upon or enforce strict performance by the
other of any provision of the Agreement will not be construed as a waiver
of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between you and
ASPA nor trade practice will act to modify any provision of the Agreement.
(b)If any provision
of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable for any reason, that provision
will be reformed only to the extent necessary to effect the original intentions
of the parties, and the remainder of this Agreement will remain in full
force and effect.
(c)This Agreement
and its enforcement will be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the laws of the District of Columbia, without regard to conflicts-of-law
principles. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and
federal courts situated in the District of Columbia in connection with
any action arising under this Agreement or relating to the Service or
Software. Any cause of action brought by or on behalf of you with respect
to this Agreement, the Service or Software must be commenced within one
year after the claim or cause of action arose.
GUIDELINES
FOR ACCEPTABLE USE
The date of these Guidelines for Acceptable Use is November 3, 2000.
Introduction
Please read these
Guidelines for Acceptable Use carefully. Together with the Service Agreement
and the Privacy Statement, they govern your use of the Service and other
information, communication and transaction services (collectively called
the "Service") provided to you by ASPA. These Guidelines, the
Service Agreement and the Privacy Statement supersede all prior communications
and agreements with regard to their subject matter; the current version
of each may be found at ASPA's web site at www.aspanet.org. Failing to
comply with these or any other guidelines made available to you from time
to time by ASPA, or interfering with any other person's use and enjoyment
of the Service or any other online service, may result in termination
of your account.
1.
E-mail
(a)Unsolicited Commercial
E-mail--Spamming. The ASPA web site may not be used to send unsolicited
advertisements for goods or services of any kind, free or for profit.
Furthermore, if ASPA offers e-mail as part of its Service, ASPA accounts
may not be used as a "dropbox" or repository for responses to
an unsolicited advertisement (including, but not limited to, inquiries,
complaints, unsubscribe replies or bounced messages). Users may be fined
$200.00 for each day this provision is violated. Full payment of fines
will not prevent ASPA from terminating the offending account or seeking
to obtain other legal remedies against the responsible user, including
other damages or an injunction.
(b)Mass Mailings.
You may not use the Service to disseminate any e-mail message in a broad-based
mailing without ASPA's prior consent. Whether a given mailing constitutes
a "mass mailing" is determined by ASPA in its sole discretion,
based on criteria which may include the size of the message being sent
and the number of recipients. Any message sent to more than 50 e-mail
addresses simultaneously will typically be considered a mass mailing,
and will not be permitted. Sending chain letters through the Service is
prohibited. Using the Service to participate in a pyramid scheme is prohibited.
Pyramid schemes are illegal operations in which an e-mail recipient is
encouraged to send money to a list of several people, replace one name
on the list with his/her own, and forward the e-mail in bulk to others.
(c)Threats. You may
not use the Service to transmit any harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
defamatory, hateful or other offensive material. For everybody's safety
and comfort, we are obligated to take threats seriously. If you make a
threat, your account may be terminated even if you were joking or didn't
intend to follow through on the stated threat.
(d)Mail Bombs. The
use of the ASPA Service to send a mail bomb is prohibited. Mail bombing
is defined as sending numerous and/or unusually large files or messages
to one or more recipients with malicious intent.
(e)Harassment. E-mail
harassment is prohibited. Harassment is defined as sending unsolicited
messages which interfere with others' enjoyment of the Service. A message
does not need to be overtly threatening or have obscene content to qualify
as harassment. Unlike threatening messages, harassing mail can sometimes
be the unintended result of mail repeatedly sent to a misspelled or otherwise
incorrect address, a poorly maintained mailing list or indiscriminate
use of the "reply to all" function. You can avoid unintentionally
harassing other users by:
1. Making sure you
know all the people to whom your
message is addressed before sending it;
2. Making sure that
the addresses entered in your
Address Book are entered correctly;
3. NOT selecting
"Reply to All" without knowing who all the recipients are
and being sure that they welcome mail from you;
4. Refraining from
e-mailing any person who has stated that he or she does not wish to
receive mail from you.
2.
Newsgroups
(a)Newsgroup Spamming.
Excessive cross-posting, or posting of the same article to multiple newsgroups,
is prohibited. Generally accepted standards allow posting of a single
article (or substantially similar articles) to no more than 15 newsgroups.
Reported incidents of newsgroup cross-posting will be investigated and
may lead to termination of your account.
(b)Off-Topic or Harassing
Posting. Articles posted using the Service must comply with the written
charter of the newsgroup to which they are posted. If a newsgroup does
not have a charter, it is the responsibility of the ASPA user to determine
the rules of the newsgroup before posting. Please know that the vast majority
of newsgroups prohibit posts such as chain letters, pyramid schemes, encoded
binary files (such as images or sound files), job offers or listings and
personal ads.
3.
General
(a)Resale. You may
not resell the Service or any part of the Service.
(b)Impersonation or
Header Forgery. A ASPA user may not attempt to send e-mail or post articles
to newsgroups, mailing lists or other forums using a name and address
of someone other than himself/herself. Attempting to impersonate any person,
using forged headers or other forged identifying or transmission path
information or knowingly permitting another person to falsely identify
your account as the origin of such transmission is prohibited and cause
for immediate termination.
(c)Password Solicitation
and Other Security Attacks Use of the Service to compromise the security
or damage the resources of any other Internet user or site is strictly
prohibited. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security
is prohibited. The Service may not be used to transmit or receive replies
to password solicitations.
4.
Viruses
(a)The Service may
not be used to transmit or post any material that contains software viruses
or any other computer code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the
functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications
equipment.
5.Infringement
(a)You agree to post,
upload or transmit on or through the Service only material that is not
subject to any third party rights or material for which you have obtained
from the owner of the rights in such material the express authorization
to distribute the material on or through the Service. Any violation may
result in civil or criminal liability. In addition, you will indemnify
and hold ASPA harmless from any damages you may cause to ASPA or third
parties.
6.
Connection
(a)The following guidelines
apply to your connection to the Service: You agree that your account may
not be used to maintain a persistent and continuous connection to the
Service, and you may not engage in any practice (such as automated and/or
persistent checking of the host server) or use any software or device
(such as an auto-dialing device) in an effort to maintain a persistent
and continuous connection, except as ASPA may explicitly permit for certain
service levels. You agree that ASPA may terminate your connection after
a period of inactivity and/or if necessary, each as determined in ASPA's
sole discretion, to restore or maintain general availability of access
to the Service by, and/or appropriate allocation of resources among, ASPA
subscribers. You may not create "simultaneous sessions" (defined
as the use of a single dial-up account on the Service by two or more modems
at the same time) unless permitted for your service level.
7.
Illegal Activity
(a)Service access
may be used for lawful purposes only, and use of the ASPA Service for
the transmission or storage of any information, data or material in violation
of any federal or state regulation or law is strictly prohibited. Notification
of claimed copyright infringement or any other illegal activity should
be sent to: ASPA, 1120 G Street, N. W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005.
PRIVACY
STATEMENT
1. Our Commitment
to Privacy
(a)At the American
Society for Public Administration, we respect your right to privacy and
recognize that our primary responsibility is to meet your interests and
needs as a member or friend of ASPA. Therefore, the ASPA Board of Trustees
has adopted the following privacy statement explaining our online information
practices and the choices you can make about the way your information
may be collected and used. This statement is part of our Web legal page
and user agreement.
2.
The Information We Collect--Registration
(a)In order to use
certain features of this web site, a user must first complete a registration
form. During registration, a user is required to give contact information,
such as name and e-mail address, institutional affiliation, and job title.
This information is used to contact the user about the services on our
site for which they may have expressed interest. It will be optional for
the user to provide additional information, such as demographic information,
and personally identifiable information so that we can provide a more
personalized experience.
3.
The Information We Collect and Use--Orders
(a)Whenever you place
an order via this site or register for a conference, information will
be requested on an order form. The information requested would include
name and shipping address, financial information such as a credit card
number and expiration date. This information is used for billing purposes
and to fill customers' orders.
4.
The Information We Collect and Use--Cookies
(a)Our web site does
not use "cookie" technology in ways that compromise your privacy.
We use a feature of your Web browser called "cookies" to automate
certain aspects of our web site. Cookies are very small files that are
stored on your computer and that enable us to recognize your computer
each time you return to our site. By using cookies, we can keep track
of your preferences, what you have already seen on our site and what you
haven't, and any personalization you've done, without requiring you to
enter a password every time you come back.
(b)We do not use cookies
in any way that would disclose your personally identifiable information
to a third party without your consent. Please be aware that other companies
may collect various types of information about you and have different
privacy policies and practices. ASPA takes care to ensure its users' privacy
-- but not every company has comparable policies. Other than ASPA's own
site, no site on the Web is under ASPA's control, not even those sites
to which we may provide links, and ASPA cannot assume any responsibility
for any other site's content or practices. Providers of Internet sites
or services have separate data and privacy practices independent of ASPA
that govern the manner in which they use the information that you provide
to them. Many web sites use cookies to recognize you when you return to
their site; some sites require that you provide information before they
allow you to enter; some automatically gather information when you visit,
such as what operating system your computer runs, what type of Web browser
you use, what Internet access provider you use, or what other web pages
you visit; and sites vary greatly (from each other and from ASPA) with
regard to how they use such information and to whom they disclose it.
We encourage you to exercise care each time you are asked to provide personally
identifiable information at a site whose privacy policies you don't know.
(c)Even at ASPA's
site, many of the features and much of the content is supplied by third
parties (or jointly by ASPA and one or more third parties), each of which
has its own privacy policies and practices. You may be asked to provide
personally identifiable information when you register for certain services
or promotions on our site; in such cases, the information you provide
may be collected and used by a third party rather than, or in addition
to, ASPA. Our policy requires such third parties to notify you in advance
if they intend to use information you provide for purposes unrelated to
the services or promotions for which you sign up, and to give you the
opportunity to choose not to use their service rather than share your
information with them, but we cannot assume responsibility for their compliance
with our policy.
(d)We may engage third
parties to serve the advertisements that appear on our web site and within
other parts of the ASPA interface. These companies may use cookies to
ensure you do not see the same advertisements too often, and these cookies
also may collect information about you when you view or click on an advertisement.
Such ad-serving companies are responsible for placing and reading these
cookies; we do not have access to these cookies or control how they are
used.
5.
More on How We Use Information
(a)In addition to
use of cookies as described above, we use your IP address to help diagnose
problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address
is used to help identify you and your preferences and to gather broad
demographic information.
(b)We use the information
you provide about yourself when ordering a product or service, registering
for a conference, or becoming a ASPA member to complete the transaction.
We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent
necessary to complete the transaction.
(c)We use the information
we collect based on usage by those who register with the ASPA Network
to customize the information on the site to the user's interests.
(d)We use the information
you provide about yourself for the in-print and on-line membership directory
for a variety of organizational purposes, including sharing with you information
about ASPA products and services we think might be of interest to you.
We offer postal mailing lists for rent to third parties, but we do not
sell, rent, or share e-mail addresses with external organizations or individuals.
(e)We use data gathered
through surveys and benchmarking studies solely for the purposes described
therein. Unless specifically noted otherwise, no personally identifiable
information is disclosed in reporting on these surveys and studies.
(f)We use non-identifying
and aggregate information to better design our web site and other ASPA
services. We also may share such information with associations, organizations
and commercial enterprises to help them understand the makeup of the ASPA
membership.
(g)Finally, we do
not intend to use or share the personally identifiable information provided
to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also
providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated
uses.
6.
Public Forums
(a)The ASPA Network
makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available
to its users. As indicated above, please remember that any information
that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should
exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personally identifiable
information.
7.
Supplemental Information
(a)This site supplements
the information that you provide with information that is received from
third parties. For example, we may include in your profile data supplied
by the institution with which you are employed.
8.
Our Commitment to Data Security
(a)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.
9.
Links to Other Sites
(a)This site contains
links to other sites. As stated above, ASPA is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
10.How You Can
Contact ASPA to Access or Correct Your Information or Opt Out
(a)This site gives
users the following options for changing and modifying information previously
provided. Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
communications from us at the point where we request information about
the user, or you can also use the contact information below.
(b)You can send email
to the Marketing and Communications Manager
(c)You can visit the
following URL: www.aspanet.org
(d)You can send mail
to the following postal address:
- ASPA National
Office
- 1301 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW Suite 840
- Washingotn, DC
20004
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