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Privacy Policy

About Us

AAPLOG is a professional medical organization with more than 7000 members. Our purpose is to make known the evidence-based effects of abortion on women as well as the scientific fact that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, with the goal that all women, regardless of race, creed or national origin, will be empowered to make healthy and life-affirming choices. AAPLOG’s organizational vision is to be the pre-eminent medical voice that informs the medical community, policy makers and the public on the importance of declining to use death as a therapeutic option, which respects the dignity of all human life and prohibits the taking of a life by a medical practitioner, including the lives of pre-born children. For more information, visit our About page here.

AAPLOG wants you to know how we address privacy issues. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information will be treated by AAPLOG. AAPLOG reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Please check back in order to see changes. Your use of the website constitutes your acceptance of the Privacy Policy as it may be amended from time to time.

What Information We Gather

We may gather certain information, either personal or anonymous, based on your activities or data submitted while browsing our website, in the following formats.

Form information

If you submit a form on our website, we collect any personal data submitted by you (For example, Name, address, Email Address, and for any payment forms, cardholder information, and any other information you may provide).

Statistical information

Our website uses the following tools to collect aggregate and user-specific statistical information about browsing behavior and device or browser information, including but not limited to the uniform resource locator, browser plug-in types, time zone setting, type of web browser, page views, page response times, length of visits, referral sources, page interaction information, methods used to browse away from the page, in order to improve the experience of our website:

To opt out of Google Analytics data collection, you can install this tool.

Google Recaptcha will only collect data upon form submission. By submitting a form, you consent to Google’s terms of use regarding Recaptcha, as dictated in their privacy policy (linked above).

Cookie information

We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. We collect cookies, both directly and through trusted third-parties, in order to improve the performance and user experience on our website. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information on usage and to manage your cookie settings.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may occasionally include embedded content (e.g. YouTube videos). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We do not control the information policies or practices of these third parties and therefore you should review their privacy policies. If you do not agree with their privacy practices, you should not use the embedded content.

Links

We sometimes provide links to third-party websites. While on these sites, these parties may collect information about you. Because we do not control the information policies or practices of these third parties, you should review their privacy policies to learn more about how they collect and use personally identifiable information.

How We Use Your Information

We may use your personal information in a number of ways, including but not limited to:

  • Process and respond to a directly submitted inquiry;
  • Add you to our mailing list upon form submission and consent;
  • Personalize services in order to provide a better user experience;
  • Improve our website experience;
  • To communicate with you about services or information we believe you may find useful, or to communicate information about the website;
  • To inform you about products, activities, and services related to AAPLOG and to personalize your experience. You will have the option of opting out of further communications of this type by sending an email to info@aaplog.org.
  • To build higher-quality, more useful services, such as by analyzing usage trends, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the website.
  • To support the operation of the website, troubleshoot problems, and to resolve disputes.
  • For research and development and to make our products, activities, and services, more useful to you.
  • To administer any transactions between us, to provide you with customer service or technical assistance, or to answer your questions/requests and communicate with you in general.
  • To satisfy legal obligations which are binding on us, for the prevention of fraud or misuse of services, and for the establishment, defense, and/or enforcement of legal claims.

You have the right to request that we cease to use your information. See Accessing your data for more information.

Disclosure of Personal Data Collected

AAPLOG may disclose your personally identifiable information to selected third parties in order to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or as requested by you. Non-exhaustively, AAPLOG may disclose personally identifiable information about you to Third Parties as follows:

  • With your consent.
  • To facilitate a transaction or communication with a third party that you have initiated, such as to deliver quality products and services to you or to financial companies that process payments on our behalf.
  • To AAPLOG’s agents and advisors (such as our accountants or attorneys). We only disclose the personal information necessary for them to provide their services to you or to us, and only under confidentiality restrictions.
  • As AAPLOG believes necessary to: (a) comply with law (including court and government orders, and civil subpoenas); (b) enforce or apply AAPLOG’s Terms and Conditions (if any) and other agreements; (c) to information and cooperate with law enforcement agencies or other appropriate authorities, to prevent illegal or potentially illegal activity; or (d) protect the rights, property, or safety of AAPLOG (and its officers, directors, employees and agents), our users, or others.
  • In aggregated form, i.e., information about multiple users collectively without identifying any individual user, such as the total number of visitors to a particular section in a given week.
  • In addition, AAPLOG reserves the right to disclose your personal information to third parties:
    • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal information to the (prospective) seller or buyer of such business or assets;
    • if substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, personal information held by us may be one of the transferred assets.

How We Protect Your Information

We take care in the security of your submitted information. Our website uses up-to-date Secure Socket Layers (SSL) encryption in order to protect the transmission of your data upon submission to our servers. Although we use security measures to help protect your information against loss, misuse or unauthorized disclosure, we cannot assure you that information will never be disclosed, altered or destroyed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

Where your information is stored

Depending on the type of information you have submitted, your data will either be stored securely in a database on our server; or in the database of our trusted third-party partners, if data was directly submitted by you for a particular purpose on our website. These third-party partners include:

  • MailChimp – for email mailing list subscriptions.
  • Google – for form submission data, anonymous statistical information, and/or personalized data (for visitors from outside the EU).
  • Facebook – for statistical and personalization information.

Information stored by these third-parties is protected by and subject to their privacy policy. You can find their policies at the links below:

Mailchimp Google Facebook

Data breach prevention

Our servers and website infrastructure are kept up to date and secured by a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against a data breach via a third party attack.

Note that due to a multitude of different vulnerabilities which are present during the submission of data and are outside of our control (local computer viruses, unsecured/compromised internet connections, etc.), we cannot guarantee and are not responsible for compromised data which occurs during the submission of data and as the result of such factors outside of our control.

Collection of Personal Data from Children

To the extent that AAPLOG is able to determine the age of users by their submissions to, or communications with, the website, AAPLOG will not knowingly (a) collect or post information from individuals under thirteen years of age (“Children” or “Child”) without their parent’s or guardian’s consent, or (b) provide any personally identifying information collected from Children, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.

Data Retention

Personal information submitted directly on our website through a form is stored indefinitely, or until manual deletion is requested.

Data collected by Google for statistical and personalization purposes is retained for 50 months before being deleted automatically. More information about Google’s data retention policy can be found here.

Accessing Your Data

You may modify, correct, change or update personal information that AAPLOG has collected through the website by contacting AAPLOG via postal mail or e-mail. You may opt-out of receiving communications from AAPLOG by contacting AAPLOG via postal mail, email, or the telephone number listed herein.

Google

Our data collected via Google Analytics is anonymized and therefore not personally traceable to you unless you are signed into your account. If you have a Google account, you can request a copy of your information from Google here.

Changing your cookie settings

You can adjust your cookie settings or withdraw your consent on our Cookie Policy page.

Changes To This Policy

Any changes to this Policy will be posted directly on this page. We will also list what changes were made below.

Previous changes to this policy

February 13, 2023: Released cookie policy.
February 10, 2023: Released privacy policy.