Privacy Statement for ABANET.ORG Welcome to the American Bar Association web site. The American Bar Association has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy for our web site users and our membership. The following paragraphs disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices. The privacy statement may change at any time; any changes will be posted on this page. Should you have additional questions, comments or concerns please contact us:
E-Mail Privacy Are you interested in ABA events and updates from your Sections? Would you like to hear about ABA member benefits and services? Please click here to send us your e-mail address and we will send you the latest in legal resources through e-mails designed to meet your needs. Your e-mail address will only be used within the ABA and its entities. We do not sell or rent e-mail addresses to anyone outside the ABA. If you wish to be removed from our e-mail mailings, please click here and complete the form to remove your e-mail address from our list or call our Service Center at 1-800-285-2221. The ABA's Support Level Agreement The ABA is committed to providing 100 percent availability of its Internet site(s) and email aliasing service. We have implemented safeguards and alarms to notify us in the event of loss of Internet connectivity to the backbone and of hardware failures. Even with these safeguards in place, loss of connectivity or hardware failure can still occur. For this reason, the ABA cannot "guarantee" its Internet connectivity, nor can we be responsible for lost or delayed requests, email, or content. For questions regarding our web site being down or any related service outage, please send an email to help@abanet.org. Use of Cookies and IP addresses We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. We also use cookies to maintain user session identity, and, in some non-member areas, to store your username and password locally for ease of access.
ABANET.ORG Site/Membership Registration Forms Our site's registration forms require users to give us contact information (like name and email address), method of payment, and demographic information. We use customer contact information from the registration forms to send the user information about our association. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Information regarding method of payment is collected for member enrollment, registration and to process orders for products and services. External Links ABANET.ORG contains links to other external web sites that do not fall under the ABANET.ORG domain. ABANET.ORG is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external web sites. E-Commerce Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like email address) and method of payment. Contact information from the order form is used to process orders and to send information about our association. User payment information that is collected is used to check the users' qualifications and bill the user for products and services. Surveys Our online surveys ask respondents for contact information (like email address) and demographic information (like zip code, age). We also may use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about our association. Contest We run contests on some sections of our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like email address) and demographic information. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Advertising We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company and are used for advertisement banner rotation purposes only. Public Forums This site makes chat rooms, forums, List Serves and message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Although ABANET.ORG tries to protect your personal information when using these public forums, ABANET.ORG cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. It is also not the ABANET.ORG's responsibility for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information you have disclosed. Security This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Children's Guidelines We at the ABA are concerned about protecting children's privacy and follow these guidelines: ABANET.ORG DOES NOT:
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