In accordance with APTA policy, the Oncology Section has adopted the official privacy policy of the American Physical Therapy Association:

Information You Provide to Us

The personal information we receive online comes directly from site visitors who are interested in obtaining APTA membership or purchasing various products and services from APTA. Typically, this information includes the guest’s name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number and credit card information. This information is primarily used by APTA to confirm membership status, provide billing, and fill customer orders.

E-mail Addresses

With the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (“CAN SPAM”) becoming law on January 1, 2004, APTA has revised its e-mail policy and procedures. CAN SPAM covers “commercial electronic e-mails” – those messages that have the “primary purpose” of advertising or promoting a commercial product or service, including the promotion of certain content on an Internet site. Although many of APTA’s electronic communications are not covered by CAN SPAM and the FTC has not yet provided clarification concerning electronic communications for non-profit organizations, APTA wants to provide a consistent, consumer-oriented policy that allows our customers to easily control what type of communication they receive from APTA.

Three new elements will soon be included in each e-mail you receive from APTA:

Purpose of the e-mail clearly indicated in the subject line or at the top of the e-mail.
APTA’s physical postal address.
A link to a Web page (currently under development) on the APTA site that will allow e-mail recipients to opt out of future email. The page will allow recipients to opt in or out of several categories of emails, providing you control over what type of future e-mail communications you receive from APTA.
APTA does not give, sell, or otherwise transfer e-mail addresses to any other parties for the purpose of initiating electronic email messages.

Information Collected Through Technology

APTA electronically collects information to make our Web site easier to use. Your IP address is collected upon reaching our site. By itself, your IP address cannot be used to personally identify you. IP addresses are used by APTA to track which sections of our site are most popular, allowing us to aggregate visitor information in monthly and annual reports.

APTA’s Web site also uses “cookies.” A cookie is a file sent from a Web server that stores information in your Web browser, such as your login information or page preferences. APTA uses session cookies, which are deleted when you exit the site, to hold information about your visit to our Web site. For instance, a cookie holds your login information so that you do not have to login each time you attempt to access a ‘Members Only’ page. Each browser is different, so check your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you do not have the cookies option enabled, portions of the APTA site may not function properly for you.

Secure and Private Connections

At APTA we use the following security measures to protect information for our customers:

Secure Socket Layering (SSL). This technology encapsulates credit card information securely as it is sent over the internet to its destination. When you connect to any part of the APTA Web Site where you will provide or receive your credit card number or other "sensitive" information, you will be connected via SSL. You can verify this by looking for an icon that resembles a lock in the lower-right corner of your browser - whenever you're in a secure connection, you sill see this icon. In addition, the URL will have an "s" after the "http", such as https://www.somesecuresite.com.

Encrypted Database Information. When we accept your credit card number online, we use a 128-bit encryption algorithm to store it in our database. This is designed to prohibit anyone from being able to view your credit card information by stealing our database content. Only an interface that has our unique decryption software can translate that information back into its original form.

Most organizations that provide on-line transactions use similar techniques to protect your credit card and other personal information online.