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Privacy Statement

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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 ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling site and governs data collection and usage. By using the ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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 ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling does not read any of your private online communications.

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling and ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling collects and uses your personal information to operate the ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling Web site and deliver the services you have requested. ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling and its affiliates. ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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, ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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 ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling, in order to determine what ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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 ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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 ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling pages, or register with ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling site or services, a cookie helps ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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 ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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 ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling 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

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling is protecting your information.

Contact Information

ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling has not adhered to this Statement, please contact ABGC | American Board of Genetic Counseling at webops-notifications@smithbucklin.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.


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