The Alabama Association of Health Information Management has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. Alabama Association of Health Information Management is committed to honoring the privacy of our members and general users who access this site. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for Alabama Association of Health Information Management website.

On our site, we use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, derive usage statistics, and to administer our website. All usage statistics are only used as aggregated data to derive statistics and not to identify individuals accessing the websites.

Alabama Association of Health Information Management has contracted with other vendors to provide services and information to our website users. We use our best efforts to ensure the contract with such vendors only permits the vendor to use the data collected to diagnose problems and to administer our website.

Profile Data and Unique Identifiers

In our member directory, general profile data on members could be accessible to other members in aggregate form. Information provided to other members includes a member’s name, city, state, job title, workplace, and contact information as part of an online member directory. Other identifying information is not available.

Unique identifiers (such as membership identification numbers) can be collected from website visitors to verify the user’s identity, provide customized web pages, and customized information, and for use as account numbers in our record system. Such unique and individually identified information is never sold nor provided to third parties.

Cookies

Our sites could use cookies to identify specific users and user options.

Information You Provide to Us

Our site uses order forms that allow customers to request information, products, and services. We collect a visitor’s contact information (e-mail address), unique identifiers (possibly their membership identification number), and financial information (account or credit card numbers). Contact information collected from the order form is used to send orders to customers. Financial information is used to collect payment from the user for billable products and services.

Alabama Association of Health Information Management may use the personal information collected through this site to provide you with information, products and services you request or purchase; to contact you with member information; to invite you to participate in benchmark surveys and research projects; to invite you to provide feedback to us; to better understand your needs or interests; or to improve our products and services. Members and customers can opt out of any or all communications by contacting us.

How Your Information Is Shared

Alabama Association of Health Information Management does not sell or rent the contact information of its members or customers. From time to time we may share information with carefully selected organizations so that they may contact you with information of interest, such as:

Exhibitors and sponsor may receive attendee lists (name, title, employer, phone, email and mailing address). Attendees have the opportunity to opt out of these mailings when registering for an event.

Alabama Association of Health Information Management may from time to time provide personal information with companies that perform services on our behalf.

Links

These sites contains links to other sites. Alabama Association of Health Information Management is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites linked from Alabama Association of Health Information Management websites, nor does linking to other websites indicate any endorsement of the site or the products or information provided on such sites.

Data Collection

Online surveys, polls, and all demographic information collected through the sites are used for internal benchmarking and research. Identifying information is not disclosed to outside parties, other than subcontractors of Alabama Association of Health Information Management, or used to contact users unless they have indicated that they wished to be contacted for follow up.

Public Forums

The sites may use online communities and discussion forums available to its users. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Online communities may be monitored for content by Alabama Association of Health Information Management.

Choice to Opt-Out

At the point where we request information about the visitor, our site provides users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us.

You can contact us to opt-out.