Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice website.

If you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice so that you can understand how those sites collect, use and share your information. Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Websites outside of the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice.

Use of your Personal Information

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice collects and uses your personal information to operate the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice website and deliver the services you have requested. Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice and its affiliates. Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you e-mail or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice keeps track of the websites and pages its users visit to determine what Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice website will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice website, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice pages, or register with Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice site or services, a cookie helps Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies, if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice services.

Security of your Personal Information

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice has not adhered to this statement, please contact Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice at admin@texasapc.net. We will make reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.