Privacy Policy of Society of Palliative Care Pharmacists

Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists (SPPCP) operates the www.palliativepharmacist.org (and sppcp.org) website, which provides the information to the general public as well as our members.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use the palliativepharmacist.org (and sppcp.org) website.

If you choose to use our site, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at www.palliativepharmacist.org (and sppcp.org), unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

We do not share, sell, or rent information to any third-party processors for their promotional use or for marketing purposes except in the following circumstances:

Information that you provide on our website may be shared: (1) with agents of SPPCP who are performing services for SPPCP, including without limitation, consulting, web or internet hosting and maintenance; data entry; customer service; product fulfillment tasks; or payment processing, under contract, (2) with organizations seeking to contact you about pharmacy-related news, professional information, or educational resources, or (3) with a select few organizations offering professional services.

Further details regarding how and with whom SPPCP shares information are set forth below:

  • Name, address, telephone, and e-mail address may be provided to third parties operating under contract to SPPCP for such purposes as fulfillment of services.
  • Name and email address collected on the website may be made available for limited, one- time use by organizations seeking to contact you with information about products, programs, or services relevant to the professional or educational needs of SPPCP.

You can update your communication preferences, including opting out of sharing information or receiving communications, in the My Account section of the SPPCP website.

When you terminate your membership or cancel the website account access, SPPCP may continue to share information about you according to our legal and regulatory requirements.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, SPPCP may disclose your personal information as required by law or as needed in legal proceedings when SPPCP believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

In addition, in the event of a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale or transfer of some or all of our assets to a third party, we may also disclose your personal information to the third parties concerned or their professional advisors. In the event of such a transaction, the personal information held by SPPCP will be among the assets subject to the transaction.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these "cookies" to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • To facilitate our Service;
  • To provide the Service on our behalf;
  • To perform Service-related services; or
  • To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Last Revised April 2022 (except to add new URL, SPPCP.org, added March 2024)