About Us
The Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (“APS”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://thesbsm.org (the “Site”) and is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Policy applies to the SBSM website and governs data collection and usage. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Collection of your Personal Information
SBSM collects personally identifiable information, such as your name, primary address, e-mail address, telephone number, birth year, gender, race, ethnicity, discipline and areas of professional interest. We retain the Personal Information provided by you for as long as the information is relevant to our business purposes or until you request that we remove the data by contacting SBSM at the email, address or telephone number of the SBSM headquarters (6728 Old McLean Village Drive, McLean, VA 22101 USA, 703-556-9222, info@psychosomatic.org).
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through SBSM discussion boards, interactive forums, or areas of the where information may be provided, that this information may be collected and used by others.
SBSM encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites to which you choose to link from APS, so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. SBSM is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the SBSM website.
Use of your Personal Information
SBSM collects and uses your personal information to operate the SBSM website and deliver the services you have requested. SBSM also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from SBSM and its affiliates. SBSM may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
SBSM may provide your data to third parties to arrange for delivery of certain member benefits such as Psychosomatic Medicine. All third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to APS, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
SBSM websites 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 SBSM or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of APS; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of APS, or the public.
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this data.
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that we feel is relevant to your interests.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 20, 2020 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.