SPSA is committed to protecting the privacy of every individual who visits our website. This policy covers how SPSA treats personal information that we receive. Personal information is defined as information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, mailing address, email address, or other contact information that is not otherwise publicly available. This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on our website, unless otherwise posted.
This Data Security and Privacy Policy is effective for all users to coincide with the enhanced data protection rights required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
SPSA does not collect personal or business addresses or any personally identifiable information on visitors to our site without your permission. We may collect information on what pages you access or visit. We may use this information to measure usage so that we can make our website more useful and improve the content of our site. Some of this information is collected automatically through cookies. It is used for internal review only and NOT SHARED with other organizations for commercial purposes without first providing notification to you.
SPSA DOES NOT SELL personal information submitted by visitors to our site with other people or with other companies. We limit access to personal information to company employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services that you ordered and to contracted entities that agree to adhere to our privacy policy.
SPSA collects personal information from you in the following ways:
Directly from your verbal or written input (such as by becoming a member, consenting to receive marketing emails, completing a survey, or by submitting a proposal to a conference). When provided, this information can include: (1) contact details such as name, email address, postal address, phone numbers; (2) payment information such as credit or debit card numbers and purchase histories; (3) potentially sensitive personal data such as educational level, research interests, gender, ethnicity, and potential other information.
SPSA will not disclose or share your personal information with any unaffiliated third party except as follows:
Where necessary in connection with services provided by third parties (i) who provide us with a wide range of office, administrative, information technology, production, payment, or business management services, and (ii) who are required to comply with this policy;
Where you voluntarily provide information in response to an advertisement from a third party;
Where your consent has been provided, with a third party such as an academic institution, publisher, business or other entity which has provided you access to a product or service through an integration or access code, information may be shared regarding your engagement with the service or product, or other information you input into the product or service.
Where SPSA is 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 SPSA or its websites; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SPSA; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SPSA, or the public.
Our membership process is contracted through MemberSuite.com and payment services are provided by BluePay. MemberSuite provides SPSA with a web-based membership management software. It is specifically designed for employees and volunteers of nonprofit membership-based organizations such as SPSA. BluePay is an online payment company. SPSA uses All-Academic for our conference management. Although SPSA contracts with these companies, SPSA collects and controls the information
Like most websites, the SPSA Web sites 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 SPSA pages, or register with SPSA site or services, a cookie helps SPSA 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 SPSA Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the SPSA features that you customized
This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by SPSA for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the SPSA Web site. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by SPSA.
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 SPSA services or Web sites you visit.
This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by SPSA. SPSA does not control or assume responsibility for the content or privacy policies of these sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website you visit. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
You have the right to make a written request to be informed whether or not we hold or process any of your personal information (by emailing info@spsa.net). In your written request, you may:
Effective: May 25, 2018 (Rev. Feb 24, 2022)
If you have any questions or concerns about the information we hold about you, you can contact us.
