| Center
for Clinical Social Work Privacy Policy
The Center for Clinical Social Work
(“Center”) appreciates your confidence and trust, and maintains
the following privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) to protect
information you provide online.
By using this website, ,
together with another website owned and operated by the Center,
that of the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work
(“ABE”), http://www.abecsw.org,
you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy, and the Terms
and Conditions of Use (the “Terms of Use”),
which govern your use of the Center/ABE Websites, do not use the
Center/ABE Websites!
This Privacy Policy does not supersede the Terms
of Use. Any conflict between the two shall be determined in
favor of the Terms of Use. Center/ABE may change this Privacy
Policy at any time and any changes will be effective immediately
upon posting to the Center/ABE Websites, so please check back
regularly to ensure you read and understand our current privacy
policy.
This Privacy Policy will tell you:
- What Information We Collect and How It is
Used by Center/ABE
- With Whom We May Share Your Personally Identifiable
Information
- How We Use Cookies
- How to Correct and Update Personally Identifiable
Information
- How We Handle Credit Card Information
- Our Policy on Retention of Personally Identifiable
Information
- What Security Procedures We Use to Protect
Your Personally Identifiable Information
- What Happens When You Leave The Center/ABE
Websites
- Certain Ways We Monitor The Center/ABE Websites
- Reorganizations
- Where You Can Get Questions Answered About
This Privacy Policy
1. What Information We Collect and How
It is Used by Center/ABE
Personally Identifiable Information. No personally identifiable
information (e.g., names, addresses, email addresses, telephone
numbers, etc.; “Personally Identifiable Information”
or “PII”) are collected through the Center/ABE
Websites unless provided voluntarily by you while participating
in the specific OnLine Services activity that asks for personally
identifiable information. Where Center/ABE does collect PII it
is generally used to help Center/ABE deliver services more easily
and efficiently. It may also permit us to design and offer specific
products and services that will be useful to our Center members
and ABE Board Certified Diplomates in Clinical Social Work (jointly
referred to as “constituents”) or provide additional value to
the Board Certified Diplomate (BCD) credential, including providing
certain services to users who are not themselves Board Certified
Diplomate constituents.
Where PII is required in order for you to use
the majority of the Center/ABE Websites’ OnLine Services, and
except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy or in the
Terms of Use, Center/ABE keeps that information
private and confidential. The PII you provide will be stored in
a secure location, accessible only by authorized staff, and used
only for the purposes for which you provided the information,
such as to reply to your request or to send you requested materials.
Center/ABE operates on the assumption that users who provide PII
would like to receive Center/ABE announcements and notices, and
Center/ABE may add such users’ names and addresses to its mailing
lists, which may be made available to third parties to enhance
the benefits of certification. Your PII may be corrected and updated,
and you may opt to suppress certain information that your prefer
to keep private, by following the instructions in Section 4, below.
Some e-mails sent in HTML format by Center/ABE
to its constituents through its electronic newsletters and future
listservers may inform us whether a recipient has subsequently
clicked through to links provided in the message. This information
is for the exclusive use of Center/ABE and is used to enhance
our products and services and the distribution of those products
and services to Center/ABE constituents.
No Collection or Tracking of Visitors’
PII. Our websites do not track, collect, or distribute
PII about unregistered visitors to our sites.
Aggregate Information. The
Center/ABE Websites may collect information about each visitors’
browser type, browser version, operating system, and IP address,
which is technical information typically relayed by the visitor’s
browser. These types of information are not stored permanently
by us and are used only as anonymous aggregate user data to determine
whether improvements can be made in our services. Center/ABE may
compile aggregate statistics that show the number of visitors
to our site, requests for particular information, and the sources
(Internet Service Providers) from which those requests come. For
instance, we may keep a total count on the number of people visiting
a certain web page, but we do not collect PII on unregistered
visitors. Center/ABE does not disseminate any of the aggregate
information we collect.
Survey Information. From time
to time the Center/ABE Websites may request information from users
by way of surveys. Participation in our surveys is completely
voluntary and the user has a choice of whether or not to disclose
information. Information requested may include contact information
(PII) and demographic information. Survey information may be used
for the purpose of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction
level associated with the Center/ABE Websites to provide Center/ABE
constituent services, or to help address issues affecting the
clinical social work community.
2. With Whom We May Share Your Personally
Identifiable Information
As noted above, where PII is required in order for you to use
the Center/ABE Websites, and except as otherwise provided in this
Privacy Policy or in the Terms of Use, Center/ABE
keeps that information private and confidential. Please note that
we may share limited PII with third parties as noted below.
OnLine BCD Directory. Center/ABE
maintains a directory of BCD constituents (the “BCD Directory”)
that is available to the public online, through the ABE Website
OnLine Services. In most cases, the BCD Directory contains the
name, address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address
(if available) of every BCD constituent. Inclusion in the BCD
Directory is a benefit of certification by ABE. Use of the BCD
Directory is subject to specific terms and conditions set forth
in our Terms of Use.
Continuing Education. Center/ABE
may provide the names and addresses of its BCD constituents to
educational organizations for use in providing, or encouraging
participation in, continuing education programs.
Center Affiliates. Certain
organizations are formally affiliated with the Center/ABE, which
may be provided names and addresses of constituents for use in
the exchange of information about their programs.
3. How We Use Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, often without
your knowledge, while visiting certain websites on the Internet.
They are used to identify your computer. For example, cookies
are used by some sites to greet you personally, to post a list
of your favorite books to purchase, to remember what you had in
your shopping basket the last time you visited.
On the Center/ABE Websites, a temporary cookie
may be placed on your computer for applications such as online
registration forms that can be sent electronically. These “session
cookies” are used to facilitate the interaction between you and
the fields in the form. The cookies are not used to collect or
store information on you and do not track you or identify you
if you return to the Center/ABE Websites. Our cookies are temporary
and will be deleted when you exit your browser. Please note however,
that Center/ABE cannot control the use of cookies by third parties.
You can prevent cookies from being placed on
your computer by accessing your browser's preferences menu and
deleting existing cookies. There are also commercial programs
available to help you manage cookies and your privacy generally.
Before taking such steps, you should be aware that some websites
may not work properly if you choose to block the placement of
cookies on your computer. You will need to decide whether enabling
cookies outweigh privacy concerns.
4. How to Correct and Update Personally
Identifiable Information
To correct, update or suppress certain information in your PII,
either use the OnLine Services feature of the ABE Website or submit
by mail or fax a Directory Information Form (DIF) to our headquarters
office.
5. How We Handle Credit Card Information
Any credit card information (a form of PII) provided to Center/ABE
will be used only for billing purposes related to the provision
of Center/ABE’s services or products, whether or not provided
through the Center/ABE Websites (e.g., BCD annual fees). In some
cases, this may involve providing your credit card information
to our third party providers or business partners. Center/ABE
and its authorized providers and partners will only use your credit
card information to process transactions you request. Credit card
information provided to Center/ABE will never be sold or shared
with any other party, except as set forth in this Privacy Policy
or pursuant to the Terms of Use.
6. Our Policy on Retention of Personally
Identifiable Information
Center/ABE may retain PII regarding registered constituents indefinitely,
and retains billing information and purchasing data for at least
five years or as dictated by legal requirements.
7. What Security Procedures We Use to
Protect Your Personally Identifiable Information
Center/ABE is committed to keeping your PII secure. Center/ABE
limits access to PII, and technology relating to PII is password
protected and access to it is limited to authorized personnel.
Center/ABE uses other industry standard technologies to keep PII
secure while residing on its servers.
However, despite our efforts to protect PII,
there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may
find a way around our security systems. In addition, please note
that normal email is not encrypted and therefore is not a secure
means of transmitting your PII.
8. What Happens When You Leave Our Center/ABE
Websites
The Center/ABE Websites contain links to other websites on the
Internet not under the control of Center/ABE, such as the Job
Center portion of the Websites. ABE is not responsible for the
privacy policies, terms of use, or content of any such websites.
If you want to know the privacy policies, terms of use, or other
information regarding other websites, please refer to the organization
sponsoring that website.
9. Certain Ways We Monitor The Center/ABE
Websites
The Center/ABE Websites and the information they contain are provided
as a service by Center/ABE. The Center/ABE Websites are monitored
to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable
security features, and for comparable purposes. Anyone using the
Center/ABE Websites expressly consents to such monitoring. Unauthorized
attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat
or circumvent security features, or to utilize this system for
other than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result
in criminal prosecution.
10. Reorganizations
If Center/ABE ever undergoes a reorganization, change of control
or is acquired by or merges with another entity, all user information
may be transferred to the reorganized, acquiring or merging entity,
which will use the information in accordance with this privacy
policy.
11. Where You Can Get Questions Answered
About This Privacy Policy
You may send your questions regarding this Privacy Policy to abe@abecsw.org.
If you do not receive adequate resolution of
a privacy related problem, you may write to the Center at:
Center for Clinical Social Work
Shetland Park
27 Congress St., #501
Salem, MA 01970
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