Privacy Policy

POSNA Privacy Policy

What Information May be Collected?

• First and last name
• Home or office postal mailing address, including street name and name of city or town
• E-mail address (when provided)
• Telephone number(s)
• Fax number(s) (when provided)
• Personal website address (when provided)
• Birth date
• Gender
• Orthopaedic residency program
• Orthopaedic fellowship program(s)
• POSNA Fellowship/Membership status
• POSNA identification number
• AAOS identification number (if applicable)
• Credit card information (if purchases are made) POSNA is Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant; no credit card numbers are stored on our servers
• Educational background, including residency sites and dates of certification or recertification by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) the American Osteopathic Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (AOBOS), or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCSC)
• Participation in POSNA Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs
  o Records from purchase transactions for POSNA courses and from donations made to POSNA.
• At their discretion, Members may supply POSNA with certain demographic information about their practices, including age specialties (adult, child), anatomical specialties, treatment specialties, and other census dataa.  POSNA collects certain Personal Data from its Members to ensure that POSNA records are accurate and up-to-date. This information includes:
• First and last name
• Home or office postal mailing address, including street name and name of city or town
• E-mail address (when provided)
• Telephone number(s)
• Fax number(s) (when provided)
• Personal website address (when provided)
• Birth date
• Gender
• Orthopaedic residency program
• Orthopaedic fellowship program(s)
• POSNA Fellowship/Membership status
• POSNA identification number
• AAOS identification number (if applicable)
• Credit card information (if purchases are made) POSNA is Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant; no credit card numbers are stored on our servers
• Educational background, including residency sites and dates of certification or recertification by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) the American Osteopathic Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (AOBOS), or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCSC)
• Participation in POSNA Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs
  o Records from purchase transactions for POSNA courses and from donations made to POSNA.
• At their discretion, Members may supply POSNA with certain demographic information about their practices, including age specialties (adult, child), anatomical specialties, treatment specialties, and other census data

• First and last name
• Home or office postal mailing address, including street name and name of city or town
• E-mail address (when provided)
• Telephone number(s) (when provided)
• Fax number(s) (when provided)
• AAOS identification number
• Credit card information (if purchases are made)- POSNA is Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant; no credit card numbers are stored on our servers
• Gender
• Profession and job title; institutional affiliation

• First and last name
• Home or office postal mailing address, including street name and name of city or town
• E-mail address (when provided)
• Telephone number(s) (when provided)
• Credit card information (if purchases are made)- POSNA is Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant; no credit card numbers are stored on our servers

• First and last name
• Home or office postal mailing address, including street name and name of city or town
• Social Security Administration (SSA) number
• Tax Identification Number

How We Collect Personal Data

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How will this Personal Information Be Used?

• Upon request, POSNA may provide the names and postal mailing addresses of its Members for use in encouraging participation in Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs. Each mailing is subject to approval by the Society Director and the organization agrees to use the list only once.
• Upon request, the POSNA may provide the names and postal mailing addresses of its Members to other not-for-profit organizations whose missions are consistent with the mission of POSNA, upon the review and approval of the Society Secretary and Executive Director.
• POSNA makes available the POSNA Membership Directory at no charge on the POSNA website to POSNA Members only. This Membership Directory contains the name, postal mailing address, telephone, E-mail and Fax number, membership status, and year of admittance to POSNA. Use of the Private Membership Directory for the use of compiling e-mail distribution lists—for any purpose—by a POSNA member or anyone working on his or her behalf, is expressly prohibited.
• Members of the public, through the POSNA website's Find a Pediatric Orthopedist listing, may obtain limited information about the POSNA Member, including only the Member's name, office postal mailing address, telephone and fax number. Use of this information to compile mailing lists—for any purpose—is expressly prohibited.
• CME course registration lists, including the registrant’s name and postal mailing address, are available to exhibitors and sponsors in advance of and after the Annual Meeting.
• POSNA distributes surveys to Members on behalf of third parties.
• POSNA may provide the names, postal mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone and Fax numbers of POSNA Members to third party organizations with whom the POSNA has contracted to provide courses, goods or services.
• POSNA, and/or third party vendors or service providers who have been engaged by POSNA to provide products and services to users, may collect, store and use User Data to provide products and services to users or to improve the users’ experience.
• Unless directed otherwise at the time of collection, we may also share collected personal information with third parties who may have information or services that we believe could be helpful to members or visitors.

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Can the Personal Data Be Viewed and/or Corrected?

How Long will the Personal Information be Retained?

How Does POSNA Use Email Address to Communicate with Members and Others?

Rights in the European Economic Area ("EEA")

• The right to access - Upon request, POSNA will confirm any processing of your Personal Data and, and provide you with a copy of that Personal Data in an acceptable machine-readable format;
• The right to rectification - You have the right to have POSNA correct any inaccurate Personal Data or to have POSNA complete any incomplete Personal Data;
• The right to erasure - You may ask POSNA to delete or remove your Personal Data and we will do so in some circumstances, such as where we no longer need it (we may not delete your data when other interests outweigh your right to deletion);
• The right to restrict processing - You have the right to ask POSNA to suppress the processing of your Personal Data but POSNA may still store your Personal Data;
• The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to your Personal Data used in the following manners: (a) processing based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling); (b) direct marketing (including profiling); and (c) processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics;
• The right to data portability - you have the right to obtain your Personal Data from us that you consented to give us or that is necessary to perform fulfillment of member benefits with you. We will give you your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
• The right to complain to a supervisory authority - You have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of Personal Data relating to you infringes upon your rights; and
• The right to withdraw consent - We rely on your consent to process your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your prior consent.

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