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AcademyHealth
respects your concerns about maintaining the privacy of personal information
you may provide to us, and we have taken reasonable steps to ensure that
unauthorized persons cannot access any information you provide to us.
Except as noted below, we do not sell, rent, share, or otherwise willfully
disclose to third parties any personally identifiable information shared
with us through:
| 1. |
This
Web site or other Web sites administered by AcademyHealth. |
| 2. |
Annual
elections for AcademyHealth’s Board of Directors. |
| 3. |
Membership
in AcademyHealth. |
| 4. |
Periodic
surveys of members and affiliates. |
| 5. |
Administration
of the Annual Research Meeting, National Health Policy Conference,
or similar AcademyHealth-sponsored events. |
| 6. |
Administration
of our various programs and projects sponsored by foundations, government
agencies, or other organizations. |
EXCEPTIONS:
There are
five exceptions to AcademyHealth's sharing of personally identifiable
information to third parties:
| 1. |
As necessary
for the management of membership benefits, we will share the names
and mailing information of our members and affiliates to the publishers
of journals provided to members and affiliates. These journals are
currently Health Services Research, Health Affairs,
and the Milbank Quarterly. |
| 2. |
Consistent
with accepted practice for most professional societies, third parties
may rent our membership mailing list for a fee provided they demonstrate
to our satisfaction that their planned mailing will reasonably be
of interest to our members or affiliates. Upon request, organizational
affiliates of AcademyHealth may receive, free of charge, up to two
of our membership mailing lists each year. We also occasionally trade
mailing lists with other health care-related organizations to help,
for example, promote our respective conferences or recruit new members.
However, we do not share the email addresses or telephone or fax numbers
of our members and affiliates. |
| 3. |
As
a service to participants, AcademyHealth will publicly share lists
of registrants to our Annual Research Meeting, National Health policy
Conference, and similar AcademyHealth-sponsored events. |
| 4. |
In
the course of administering programs and projects sponsored by foundations,
government agencies, or others, AcademyHealth may share personally
identifiable information with the sponsors or other third parties
to the extent necessary for the management of the program or project.
This may include such information as participants in program-related
meetings or workshops, including their contact information and biographical
sketches. |
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The
identities of our board members, officers, employees, committee members,
sponsors, and organizational affiliates are not confidential. |
Please note
that, for the purposes of this privacy policy, subsidiaries, sub-contractors,
and sponsored programs of AcademyHealth are not considered third parties.
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