APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement does not read any of your private online communications.

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement and APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement collects and uses your personal information to operate the APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Web site and deliver the services you have requested. APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement and its affiliates. APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement, in order to determine what APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement pages, or register with APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement site or services, a cookie helps APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement is protecting your information.

Contact Information

APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement has not adhered to this Statement, please contact APRA - Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement at info@aprahome.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.