Privacy
This notice explains our privacy policy. By visiting any website operated by the American TOS Association, you accept the practices described in this privacy notice and agree to view this privacy policy each time you visit our website(s).
Keeping your information private is something the American TOS Association takes very seriously. The American TOS Association collects personally identifiable only when the individual knowingly and willfully submits this data to any portion of our websites with interactive capabilities such as but not limited to: messages boards, featured TOS patients, blogs, and chat rooms. These pages are available to the viewing public at any time. By participating in any of the American TOS Associations interactive capabilities, you agree that any information you submit to any of these forums or any other areas of our website is available for public view. This does not however, include specific questions willfully submitted via our "contact us" form and professional password protected pages.
The American TOS Association does collect general website traffic information which includes but not limited to: time and date of access, pages accessed, search engine used, external website site traffic, continent, time and day information. This information is collected and stored externally for the purpose of improving strategic information available to the public and improving general website information. If you access our website using your personal website (ie John W. Smith.com), this information is included in our website traffic statistics. We cannot control this. The American TOS Association, Inc. highly suggest that if you do not want your personal website address stored in our traffic data, you should access our websites from another or alternative website/location.
Personal information may be requested for the following but not limited to: donations (by mail, phone or via Paypal or third party credit card processor)and any occasions when collecting personal information is necessary to sign up or an event. Donations made through Paypal are subject to PayPal’s privacy policy and our encrypted per PayPal’s site safety guidelines. We may collect the following information if you have willfully and knowingly submitted this information: first and last name, title, affiliation, street address, city, state, zip code, telephone number(s) email address(s), subject of question or comment and any other information we deem form appropriate. The American TOS Association may disclose donor information but only as required by law.
Your health-related information is privileged and confidential and is between you and your physician(s). The American TOS Association collects health-related information that is not personally identifiable through generic surveys and polls. Survey questions are generic and recorded for statistical purposed only. Any personally identifiable information you knowingly and willfully submit to any public forum or within our websites is not subject to our privacy policy and you assume all risks involved with disclosing personal and health related information for public view.
Linked sites and advertisers may record the usual website traffic patterns and purchase information. Personally identifiable information may be collected from any linked source, advertiser or retailer for the purpose of conducting a financial transaction or other purposes identified in their respective privacy policies. The American TOS Association does not record specific financial information regarding purchases made through our advertisers. We do, however, receive reports of total sales and commission amounts. This is to ensure that the American TOS Association, Inc. receives the appropriate contracted commission and to provide the purchaser with proof of a charitable donation for income tax purposes (if requested). You must knowingly and willfully contact the American TOS Association, Inc. with your purchase or donation amount, the Retailers name, your name and address to receive a receipt for you commission donation. WE DO NOT RECEIVE ANY FURTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION from any of our advertisers REGARDING ANY DONATION or OUTSIDE PURCHASE.
For researchers that have or will receive funds from the American TOS Association Inc. Permission is deemed granted upon submission of an application to the American TOS Association to receive a researcher’s personal indentifying information. The American TOS Association may disclose researcher(s) personal Information to third parties for the purpose of initiating, continuing or closing any financial transactions associated with grants, fellowships, or any other procedure requiring a financial transaction with the American TOS Association. We reserve the right to use these financial awards for the purpose of any publicity we deem necessary to promote our business growth. (This applies only to research awardees.) NO patient specific personal identification will be included in any outside research project unless informed consent has been achieved. Informed Consent is required before any American TOS Association researcher can discuss, transmit, or record any patient information in which the patient agrees to be personally referred to. Informed Consent occurs when an individual has sufficient facts about the disclosure, understand those facts in their native language, and voluntarily, knowingly and willfully consents to the disclosure. The American TOS Association requires any third party contracted for research purposes to procure Informed Consent before the American TOS Association will allow any outside research or be party to any outside research. However, this does not apply to data supplied to the American TOS Association in generic form with no personal patient identifying information attached.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide services on our behalf. We may provide only generic information to those companies and prohibit them from using even this generic information for any other purpose other than what has been contracted. We do NOT sell or rent our mailing list to other organizations. You always have the option of opting out of our mailing list service but contacting us directly through our website or by phone.
The American TOS Association makes no warranties, guarantees, or representations that our websites are invulnerable to all security breaks. The American TOS Association makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation that the use of our websites are protected from viruses, security threats, or other vulnerabilities and that your information will always be secure.
Our privacy policies apply only to your use of the American TOS Association's websites. Our site contains links to other sites of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome interest. We do not disclose personally identifiable information to those operating linked sites and we are not responsible for their privacy practices. You should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting about you.
This privacy statement is updated periodically to reflect policy change and business growth and publicly available on our websites. It applies only to our online practices and does not encompass other areas of the organization. References to "American TOS Association", "American TOS Association, Inc.", "we", "us", "our" or "www.atosa.org, 'organization" are references to American TOS Association Inc. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time without written notification to you. You agree to review the privacy notice each time you use our websites so that you are aware of any modifications. By accessing or using our websites you agree to be bound by all of our Terms of Use/Service of Privacy Notice as posted at the time of your access or use. If you have any questions about our Privacy Notice or Terms of Service/Use you may contact us at:
American TOS Association, Inc.
2903 W. New Haven Avenue #454
W. Melbourne, Florida 32904
We reserve the right to update this policy at any time without written notice to you.