CHPA - Online Privacy Policy

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (“CHPA”) respects the privacy of personal information you choose to provide through this web site. Please read this privacy policy to learn about our personal data collection and use practices. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back often. If you have any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy, please contact us.

Collection of Personal Information

In general, you can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information. However, if you want to access certain features offered through this web site, such as the Members Only section, you may be asked for personal information, including your name, street address, and e-mail address. We also may collect personal information when you send us a comment or question, or request information. If you do not want to give us any personal information, you can decide not to use these features of our web site.

Use of Personal Information

CHPA may use your personal information (1) to respond to your questions, comments and requests for information; (2) to understand your use of our site and to send you information about CHPA, and/or its members, and meetings and other services, and (3) to help us evaluate existing and additional services.

Disclosure of Personal Information

CHPA does not rent or sell personal information. We may share personal information with third parties in limited instances, for example, as necessary to service accounts, or for third-party technology providers to host this web site and who store your personal information. Finally, we may be required to disclose personal information by law or legal process, to protect and defend the rights or property of CHPA or to protect the personal safety of CHPA web site users and customers.

We also may share aggregate information about web site usage with third parties, such as government agencies, advertisers, and the media.

How We Protect Personal Information

CHPA takes reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access through the use of network firewalls and use and access policies for employees. We safeguard customer information from unauthorized access by limiting the number of employees permitted to access such information.

Collection, Use and Disclosure of Non-Personal Information

In some cases, CHPA may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable, as described below.

Internet Protocol Addresses
Your Internet Protocol (IP) address--the number automatically assigned to your computer when you access the Internet--does not identify your name, e-mail address or other personal information. If you request pages from this web site, your IP address will be logged and stored for a period of time to help us to identify anyone who refuses to comply with our terms of service, and to identify visitors who threaten our service, site, or others. We also use this information to measure site traffic, which helps us to understand how people use the web site and to improve it.

External Links

CHPA does not use “cookies” that identify you and track your personal use of the internet, however, we may provide links to other web sites. Unless otherwise indicated therein, CHPA exercises no control over linked sites, which may use cookies and have their own privacy policies. When you link to the other web site, you should consult the privacy policy of the linked site.

Safeguarding Children’s Privacy

CHPA does not knowingly collect personal information or other identifying data from children under 13 years of age. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to our web site, we will immediately delete that information from our database.

Terms, Changes and Questions

By using this web site, you signify your agreement to the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use or disclose any personal information through our site.

If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. If you have any questions or comments about this policy or our use of personal information, you can contact us.

Date: June 28, 2007