We respect the privacy of members, users of our services, and visitors to our various web sites and operate according to the following policies.

Personal Information

Some personal information including addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other demographic information is collected for membership, subscriptions and publications, meeting registrations, submission of articles, and other similar transactions.

The IPDA takes precautions to protect your individual information from unauthorized use. IPDA may make internal use of your contact information to inform you of situations or services that may interest you.

The IPDA online Membership Directory is a service restricted to use by members. It contains basic contact information and membership data. E-mail addresses are not released to outside organizations. Members may suppress the publication of their personal information in the Membership Directory, decline to receive IPDA-generated e-mail messages.

You may use the "Contact" link on the web site or by e-mail at ipda@ipdaonline.com to request removal from the membership directory or elect to have only member specified information listed.

Please address any other concerns to the above links or e-mail address. Cookies A “cookie” is a file a Web site places in your computer for future reference. IPDA uses cookies to improve some of its services, such as the Discussion/Message Boards.

Information supplied through an IPDA cookie is used only by IPDA and is not shared with others. Server Logs. As you travel through the IPDA web sites, our servers log information about your session. Information logged includes items such as your IP address, what browser you are using, the time and date you visited, how long your session lasted, and what pages you visited. We use this information from our server logs primarily to learn about our visitors as a group. It helps us to improve services on the site and plan for future needs so that we can assure continuity of service. NO personal identifiable information is collect or stored.

Future Changes

The IPDA reserves the right to change this policy in any manner at any time without prior notice. If we make material changes to our privacy policy, these changes will be posted on this page.

Disclaimer

We do not knowingly permit any illegal, copyrighted, decency offensive, pornographic material on the IPDA web site. If any is observed please notify us immediately using the "Feedback" link or by e-mail ipda@ipdaonline.com.

This privacy policy applies to all pages of the IPDA web site, but not to web sites accessed from links on the IPDA web site. It does not apply to web sites operated by organizations or groups who associate themselves in any way with the IPDA. It does not apply to any other Internet web sites, including those that have hypertext links to any IPDA web site.

It is our intent to provide accurate information; however, changes in circumstances after the time of publication may affect the accuracy of information on the IPDA site. The IPDA gives no assurance as to the accuracy of any information or advice contained. We take measures to protect our web site but there is no warranty that the IPDA web site will be free of infection by viruses or any other contaminating or destructive properties. The user accepts sole responsibility and risk associated with the use and results of IPDA web site materials, irrespective of the purpose to which such use or results are applied.

The IPDA encourages you to exercise discretion while browsing the Internet. The IPDA web site provides links to other web sites which are not controlled by IPDA. A link from the IPDA web site is not an IPDA endorsement for any company or organization.

The IPDA is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained on any other web site. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our web site and to read the privacy statements of each web site that collects personally identifiable information.