This Privacy Statement covers the Renal Dietitians Practice Group (RPG) website: www.renalnutrition.org.
By accessing and using the website you consent to the terms of this privacy policy. The Renal Dietitians Practice Group is committed to maintaining the confidence and trust of our members and other customers and users of the websites. RPG maintains the following privacy policy to inform you of the RPG's collection, use and distribution of the personal information you provide online. RPG may update or modify this privacy policy at any time, which update shall become effective upon posting of the new privacy policy on the website. Please check this page periodically for updates to our privacy policy. Please Contact Us with any questions, comments or concerns.
What information does RPG collect and how is it used?
NON-PII
From General Users
RPG does not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) from users browsing our website. Only statistical data — such as the number of hits per page — is collected. This information is used only for internal and marketing purposes and does not include any PII.
Cookies and IP Addresses
"Cookies" are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. They provide greater security for sites that provide personalized information. Cookies are commonly used by websites to provide identification. The cookie you accept is uniquely yours and can be read only by the server that gave it to you. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them.
A unique number called an IP address identifies every computer on the Internet. Each time you connect to the Internet your machine is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet. RPG's site use cookies but do not track IP addresses for advertising purposes.
PII
From RPG Members, Conference Registrants and Other Customers
To gain access to members-only resources and personalization features on the RPG's website, members and other users are asked to voluntarily register and/or provide their member login, as well as provide some limited information. RPG asks members to provide their name, member number, business phone and email. Similar information may be submitted to RPG through membership applications, conference or seminar registration, publication orders, subscriptions and contest registrations. RPG uses this information to enhance its products and distribution of those products to its members.
From Email
Information sent by email to RPG is used to process the request or inquiry in the email.
E-Commerce
Our site uses forms for users to request information, products and services. We will collect visitor contact information (such as email address) and method of payment. Contact information from the form is used to process orders and to send information about RPG. User payment information is used to bill the user for products and services. This site has a secure certificate issued by a certifying agency. The organization has verified the organizational name and that RPG has the proof of right to use it. This site legitimately runs under the auspices of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. All information sent to this site, if in an SSL session, is encrypted.
Credit Card Information
RPG collects credit card account information provided by our members and customers to process authorized payments.
Surveys
Our online surveys ask respondents for contact information (such as email address) and demographic information (such as zip code, age). We also may use data from our surveys to send the user information about RPG.
RPG Website/Membership Registration Forms
Our online forms require users to give us contact information (such as name and email address), method of payment and demographic information. We use contact information from the forms to send the user information about RPG. The contact information is also used by RPG to contact the user from time to time. Information regarding method of payment is collected for member enrollment, registration, to process orders for products and services, and for other uses.
How do we Share your information?
Disclosure of Your PII to Third-Parties
Except as provided below, we do not share your PII with non-affiliated third parties without your permission.
We may need to release PII when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on our website. We may also share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
Service Providers: We also may disclose information to outside companies that help us bring you products and services. For example, we may work with an outside company to: (a) process credit card transactions; (b) manage a database of customer information; (c) assist us in distributing emails; (d) assist us with direct marketing and data collection; (e) provide us storage and analysis; (f) provide fraud prevention; and (g) other services designed to assist us in maximizing our business potential. We require that these outside companies agree to keep confidential all information we share with them and to use the information only to perform their obligations in the agreements.
In addition, RPG may use your PII or disclose your PII to third parties to contact you about products or services we think may be of interest to you.
We may disclose PII you provide via the website in connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of the business or a portion of the business of our site, including a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, sale of assets or other corporate change of our direct or indirect parent companies that affects us.
Open Forums
Any information you disclose on any electronic mailing list or other open forum hosted by the RPG may be collected by others and used, without authorization by RPG, to send you unsolicited non-RPG information or for other purposes.
External Links
RenalNutrition.org may contain links to other external websites that do not fall under RenalNutrition.org domain. RenalNutrition.org is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external websites. RPG does not endorse the content, products or services on other websites.
Security
This site have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Tell Us What You Think
RPG welcomes your questions and comments about privacy. Please use our Contact Us form.