General Statement

The International Association for Physicisn in Aesthetic Medicine (IAPAM), the association, we recognize and value your privacy and are committed to protecting the confidentiality of both your practices (business) and your personal information.

By accessing, joining, using and/or downloading materials from this Site, you agree on your own behalf and on behalf of each entity on whose behalf you act to the terms of this Privacy Policy, Copyright, Legal Notice and Disclaimer.

Copyright

This publication is protected under the US Copyright Act of 1976 and all other applicable international, federal, state and local laws, and all rights are reserved, including resale rights: you are not allowed to use information from this site without giving credit to the IAPAM.

Disclaimer & Legal Notice

The material contained on this website is intended to convey general information on our association and the aesthetic medicine industry in general. Both the website and our written materials are prepared by professionals, they are not, however a substitute for legal advice. Please consult with an attorney regarding specific situations. The information contained in these materials should not be considered legal advice or legal opinions.

Although the IAPAM have made every reasonable attempt to achieve complete accuracy of the content of this website, they assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Also, you should use this information as you see fit, and at your own risk.

Any trademarks, service marks, product names or named features are assumed to be the property of their respective owners, and are used only for reference. There is no implied endorsement if we use one of these terms.

You acknowledge that the information on the website is provided 'as is' for general information only. It is not intended to replace common sense, accounting, medical or other professional advice.

The IAPAM makes no warranties of any kind regarding this website, including but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any warranty that these pages, or the computer server which makes them available, are free of viruses or other harmful elements, and such warranties are expressly disclaimed.

Please note that the information presented on these pages is for informational purposes only. The IAPAM (or its affiliates), shall not be liable to anyone for any loss or injury caused in whole or in part by your use of this information, or for any decision you make or action you take in reliance on information you received from this web site or association events and materials. The content on this website and membership to the IAPAM is not intended to replace legal, medical, accounting or other professional advice, and is only meant to be used as a guideline for the reader.

Terms of Use Agreement

You may provide hypertext links to this website on another website, provided that: (a) the link be a text-only link clearly marked 'International Association for Physicisn in Aesthetic Medicine', (b) the link must 'point' to the URL ' http://www.theiapam.com' and not to other pages within the Website, (c) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with IAPAM's name and trademarks, (d) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not create the false appearance that an entity other than IAPAM is associated with or sponsored by IAPAM, (e) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Website full-screen and not within a 'frame' on the linked website, and (f) IAPAM reserves the right to revoke its consent to any link at any time at its sole discretion by amending this Terms of Use Agreement. You agree that any other hypertext links to this Website must be approved in writing by IAPAM.

Privacy Principles

The IAPAM believes strongly in the protection of our client's privacy and we are committed to ensuring that your commercial and personal information is appropriately safeguarded. To this end, we have adopted the following privacy principles:

• We respect all of our customer’s rights of privacy.
• We collect and use only the information needed for legitimate business and association uses.
• We will not disclose identifiable commercial or business information to any third parties unless there is an appropriate legal or business justification to do so.

1. Consent and the Collection of Personal
Information Personal information is typically collected by IAPAM to determine eligibility for association membership.

2. Using Personal Information
The IAPAM uses personal information in accordance with the authorization provided by the individual to whom the information relates, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, its contractual rights and obligations and the law.

Personal information shall not be used by IAPAM employees and representatives for purposes other than as is required in the performance of their employment duties. You are allocated to mailing lists according to either a) your own requests or b) our belief as to which of our services would be of relevance and importance to you.

3. Accuracy of Your Personal Information
We have procedures to ensure that the information we collect and use is accurate, up-to-date, and as complete as possible. However, we rely on the individuals we do business with to disclose all material information and to inform the IAPAM of any changes.

4. Disclosure of Personal Information
On occasion we will host an event jointly with a third party. We will only release your details to that third party on the basis of them conducting a specific and singular mailing. Where you respond directly to the third party you will be deemed to be giving your consent to their continued use of your details. Where we undertake administration of joint events any individual from the third party's mailing list will be added to our contacts database and may in future receive relevant mailings from us. The IAPAM also shares information to combat fraud; where permitted or required by law; or, at the request of government regulators.

The IAPAM sometimes retains an affiliated company or an independent third party (“authorized administrator”) to perform on IAPAM's behalf, certain functions in support of the products and services IAPAM provides. Such functions could include marketing assistance, education assistance, benefit administration, and/or administrative services. Accordingly, in certain instances these affiliates or third parties will be provided with personal information to the extent that it is necessary in the performance of those specific services.

5. Retention and Access to Your Personal Information
Personal information is retained only for so long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and to meet legal and contractual obligations. If personal information is no longer required, it will be destroyed or rendered anonymous.

If an individual has a right of access, the individual or a person authorized in writing to act on their behalf may, with satisfactory identification and proof of entitlement, request access or, if applicable, request a correction of personal information which the IAPAM has in its custody.

The right to access is not absolute. For example, there is no right to access and access may be declined, if the information requested is subject to a legal privilege.

A reasonable fee may be charged in advance for copying and sending requested information requested to which there is a right of access.

E-mails you send us are not necessarily secure when they are transmitted to us. If your communication is very sensitive, you may want to send it by regular mail instead.

This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time.

Contact Us

In order to continually monitor and strengthen our privacy procedure, we have on staff a Privacy Manager, who can be contacted at the IAPAM. Please contact the Privacy Manager if you have questions about information security, privacy and usage that were not answered here. We welcome any suggestions to our Privacy Policy.

last updated 12/19/2006