Site Use and Privacy Policy

Site Use

Use of Information on the ASTDA Website

The compilation of information on the ASTDA website, including the design and organization, is copyrighted, and may not be reprinted or electronically reproduced. Copyright laws protect the information, artwork, text, video, audio and pictures you find on this site. You may only access and use these materials for personal educational purposes. You may not modify or use the materials for any other purpose without ASTDA’s express written consent. Except as provided below, you may not reproduce, republish, post, sell, transmit or distribute any materials on the ASTDA website.

None of the material on the ASTDA site may be reproduced without our written permission, with the exception of downloading or printing a single copy for yourself for offline viewing. When printing these materials for personal use only, you must include attribution to ASTDA, indicate our location in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and include any copyright notice originally included with the materials.

Information included on the ASTDA website has been compiled from a variety of sources and is subject to change without notice. Copyright laws protect all media files on the ASHA website. You may not, under any circumstances, reproduce, record, publish, publicly exhibit, sell or distribute any media files made available on this website without ASTDA’s express written content. Permission to photocopy or otherwise reproduce materials should be directed toastda@astda.org. You should not attempt to pass off any of this content as your own work.


Sites Linked from the ASTDAWebsite

Sites linked from the ASTDA website are not under ASTDA control. ASTDA is not responsible for the contents and communications messages of any "off site" Internet information referenced by or linked to the ASTDA site. ASTDA does not intend these links to be referrals or endorsements of the linked entities, and are provided for convenience only.


Endorsements

Any reference to a commercial or non-commercial product, process, service or company is not an endorsement or recommendation by ASTDA. ASTDA does not endorse or recommend products, services or manufacturers. ASTDA assumes no liability whatsoever for the use or contents of any product or service mentioned.


User Privacy and Confidentiality

When you log on, you are not recognized and are anonymous. For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer’s domain name, but not the e-mail address. We collect information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey information and/or guest book and site registration. The information we collect can be used for data and trends analysis or to contact visitors to support ASHA. If you supply us with your postal address on-line, you may receive mailings from us with information about new programs and services. We do not share information with other organizations, and we do not sell our database. 

Privacy Policy

General

This notice describes ASTDA's Privacy Policy, including how we collect information from you or about you, why we collect this information, how we will use or disclose this information, and how you can update or delete personably identifiable information collected about you from our records. We are committed to protecting our visitors' and customers' privacy and all confidential data supplied to astda.org, and may take reasonable steps to protect such privacy and confidential data in accordance with accepted industry standards.


IP Addresses

ASTDA collects IP address information to properly administer our system and to gather aggregate information on visitors to our website and how our website is being used. To maintain your anonymity, we do not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. However, we will use IP address information to personally identify you in order to enforce our legal rights or when required to do so by law.
 

Cookies

Our site places a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer's hard drive. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard disk for record keeping purposes. Most browsers automatically accept these cookies, but you usually can change your browser setting to prevent the acceptance of cookies. Our cookies do not contain personal information. They do enable ASHAstd.org to relate your use of the site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided to our site. 


Security 

The website www.astda.org has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The site employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions. By accessing the astda.org site you are hereby authorizing astda.org to utilize industry accepted security measures such as secured databases and encrypted Internet transmissions.


Changes

The site www.astda.org may change the terms and conditions of our privacy policy at any time by posting modifications on our website. You agree to review our privacy policy from time to time so that you are aware of any modifications made to these policies. By accessing or using astda.org, you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of our privacy policy as posted on astda.org at the time of your access or use.


Copyright and Trademark Notices

© 2012 American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association and/or its licensees, all rights reserved. For any concerns about the site use and privacy policy, contact us at astda@astda.org or via the contact information below.

ASTDA
PO Box 12665
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919-361-3124