American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI), publisher of PsychiatryOnline
Journals, takes 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 e-mail address or credit card number
to any third party.
What
Personal Information Do We Collect? 
We collect personal information such as your name, address, demographics,
and credit card information, which allows our systems 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 details about the personal information
we collect from you, and a brief description of how that information is
used.
TRANSACTION INFORMATION
When you subscribe to a journal from APPI, 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 provide only the information necessary to ensure your order
is completed. 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 your
personal information is protected at all times.
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) REPORTING
Personal information, including the name of the individual user, is private
to 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.
USAGE TRACKING
Our servers collect software client information, such as IP addresses,
browser versions, operating systems, and pages accessed during user 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.
COOKIES
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. We do not use cookies
to track what other sites you have visited, or to look at or track any
personal or confidential information about you. We make use of cookies
to enable authorization control for online subscriptions. We delete all
of our cookies when you click “Sign Out.”
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APPI sometimes shares subscriber information (but never your e-mail 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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Links
Our Journal websites contain links to third-party websites outside our
control. These links do not imply an endorsement of any kind by 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
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with no
advance notice. The current version of the policy is always available
at journals.psychiatryonline.org/misc/PrivacyPolicy.dtl.
If you feel we are not following this policy, or for further information,
please contact us:
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
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This privacy policy was last updated on 16 August 2006.
What
Personal Information Do We Collect?
