ABII WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: September 2024
The
American Board of Imaging Informatics (“ABII”), 1255 Northland Drive,
St. Paul, MN 55120-1155, operates this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”),
which describes how we collect, process, and share Personal Information, and
provides information about your rights and your choices about how we handle
your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to your use of our
website, online services, and in-person services (collectively, our “Service”
or "Services").
Your Use
of This Privacy Policy
ATTENTION: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using
the Service. Accessing, downloading content from, or using the Service indicates that you accept and acknowledge this Privacy
Policy in full. If you do not accept this Privacy Policy, do not access or use
the Service.
Unless
explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the
current Service shall be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Please review the Privacy Policy each time You use the Service. By using the
Services, you agree to be bound by the most recent version of the privacy
policy. If We materially change this Privacy Policy, We
will update this page to reflect any changes to this Privacy Policy.
How we Collect Personal Information
The following describes the
information We collect relating to identified or identifiable individuals (“Personal Information”). We collect Personal
Information from You when You create a profile, use the Service, contact or
interact with Us, fill out a form, and voluntarily provide Us with Your
comments and other content in connection with using the Service. After You register for the Service, We collect data from You and from third-party institutions
regarding Your qualifications, education, and professional records.
From You
When
You create a profile, We may collect Your name, gender, birthdate, social security
number, telephone number, email address, mailing address job title, educational
background (including education level), professional records and other
employment information, other professional qualifications, user ID, password,
account login security questions, information that allows Us to determine
through FEMA whether You have been affected by a disaster, such as a hurricane
or a fire, that impacts Your ability to complete Your education credits, and
information related to Your other non-ABII credentials.
When
You contact Us, We may collect Your name, email address, and any other
information that You provide to Us voluntarily.
When
You apply for certification, We may collect copies of and information from diplomas, and
other certificates, information about Your practice experience, Your academic
degree and institution, payment information, renewal information, reinstatement
information, information about Your credentials from other organizations, credential
valid dates, and information related to Your continuing education credit
information).
When You submit an eligibility appeal request, We
collect any Personal Information that You provide to Us voluntarily.
When
You make a payment through the Service, We may
collect Your name, address, credit card type, payment
submission date, payment settlement date, payment amount, payment response type
and code, payment status, transaction purpose (including renewal, and reinstatement),
and other Personal Information sufficient for our payment processors to process
the transaction and provide fraud screening, information security, and
compliance.
When
you interact with ABII through social media, We may collect your facial photograph, voice recording, and
any other information you provide.
When
you leave a voice message for ABII, We may
collect your voice recording and any information you provide in the message.
When
you participate in a video or audio meeting, We may collect your voice recording, facial image, and any
information you provide.
When You access and use the Service, We may collect certain Personal Information automatically. For example,
we collect Personal Information relating to your device, browser, or
application e.g. device identifiers, IP address, Your user
name, roles/permissions for the Service, the domain name of Your Internet
service provider, Your location, the Service features You use and the time of Your
use, Your mobile device information (e.g., device model and operating system
version) identifiers
from cookies, session history, Service navigation metadata, and other data
generated through applications and browsers, including via cookies, pixels, and
similar technologies when you use our Service, access our Service, or when you
open our communications. Additional information collected is described in the Analytics and Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies sections below.
From Other Sources
We may collect Personal Information about You, such as educational
background information, professional records, facial image, voice recording, and
other information related to Your professional credentials, from third-party
sources, such as employers, academic education verifiers, other professional membership
associations and societies, exam service providers, disability accommodation
providers, and continuing education providers.
We may combine all of the information We collect from or about You and use
it in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
We
may use the Personal Information that
We collect for several purposes, including:
·
To compile
and maintain a database of professional and educational credentials and the
professional record of those who obtain certification with Us or seek to obtain
or maintain our certification, and to make available the data to the public and
to various third parties, such as employers, other education organizations,
continuing education providers, and state and regulatory authorities, consumers,
and patients as a verification service;
·
The purposes
for which You provided it;
·
To provide information
and services to You;
·
To process
and respond to Your inquiries and comments;
·
To send You
information about Your relationship or transactions with Us;
·
To facilitate payment transactions (Your
information will be used to submit Your payment information to our payment
processor);
·
To administer,
operate, and improve the Service or develop new services;
·
To
personalize and enhance Your experience using the Service;
·
To send
periodic emails. The email address You provided may be used to send You
occasional news, reminders, updates, etc.
Note: You can update Your email
preferences, or unsubscribe from receiving future emails at any time;
·
To generate
and review reports and data about our user base and Service usage patterns;
·
To analyze
the accuracy, effectiveness, usability, or popularity of the Service;
·
To compile
aggregate data for internal and external business purposes;
·
To prevent
fraud and abuse of the Service and to otherwise protect users and visitors and
our organization;
·
To assist law enforcement and respond to
subpoenas; and
·
To perform other business activities as
needed, or as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
·
As explained
elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, Personal Information We collect may be processed by
our partners in providing services related to the Service (such as
administration services, technical services relating to the maintenance,
servicing, and upgrading of the products, software services, hosting services, customer
service, data migration services, and analytical services, among others).
Please note that You may choose not to allow Us to use Your Personal
Information for certain purposes as described in the Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information section below.
Your Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties in accordance with this Privacy
Policy. Please note that a user may choose not to share certain information as
described in Your Choices Regarding
Your Personal Information below.
We may use third-party service
providers and business partners to perform functions in connection with the Service
and our other services, such as delivering announcements by email and renewal
reminders by email and mail, developing, registering for, and delivering exams payment
processing, certificate printing, facilitating volunteer activities, providing
other activities to assist Imaging Informatics Professionals in maintaining
their certification, website searching, analyzing and improving the Service
usefulness, reliability, user experience, and operation, storing data, securing
data, hosting data, migrating data, advertising, social sharing, providing
users with services, and providing other services as described in this Privacy
Policy. We may share Your Personal Information with these providers and partners for their marketing and
promotional purposes and so they can provide services to You (where legally
required, We will obtain Your express consent).
· Constant Contact. We use Constant Contact to send emails. Constant
Contact may collect Your name, email address, telephone number, address, device
information (including Your IP address, operating system, browser ID, email
client type, and other information about Your system and connection), and usage
data (including the dates and times when You access emails and Your browsing
activities, such as information related to the pages You view and the emails
You open), including through the use of cookies and tracking technologies. For
more information, please visit Constant Contact’s privacy policy.
· CyberSource. We
use CyberSource for payment processing services. CyberSource may collect your
first name, last name, email address, phone number, mailing address, order and
payment information, IP address and information about the device used to access
the Service, how and which Service are used, information provided though means
such as social media or when you contact us through our website, and enrollment
numbers or demographic group information (which does not identify individual
users). For more information, please visit
the CyberSource privacy policy.
· Facebook.
By clicking on the Facebook button on the Service, You will be automatically
transported to the
official Facebook Page for ABII. By Your posting to ABII's
Facebook page, ABII may be able to collect Personal Information about You
related to Your Facebook account. For
more details on the information that Facebook collects or makes available,
please visit Facebook's
privacy policy.
·
Galaxy Digital. We use Galaxy Digital to accept and process
volunteer applications, and to store information about volunteers. Your name,
address, email address, qualifications, and related information may be shared
with Galaxy Digital if you volunteer with us. For more
details on the information that Galaxy Digital collects or makes available,
please visit Galaxy
Digital's privacy policy.
·
Google.
We use various Google products and
services to support ABII, including:
o
Tag Manager. We use Google Tag Manager and Dynamic Remarketing to deploy
marketing tags and cookies. Google Tag Manager or Dynamic Remarketing may
collect information related to tag firing, information contained in standard
HTTP requests logs, and information related to online identifiers, such as
cookie identifiers and IP addresses. For more information, please visit Google’s privacy policy.
o
APIs and Static. We may use Google APIs and Static to deliver
our website to You by deploying CDN headers and cookies. For more information,
please visit Google’s
privacy policy.
o
Analytics.
We use Google Analytics to analyze user activity on our Service for remarketing
and behavioral targeting. Google and other third parties may use cookies,
pixels, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect information from
the Service and from other Internet websites, and use
that information for the purposes of targeting ads and providing measurement
services. Google may track Your activity over time and across websites.
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How
Google Analytics uses the information it collects.
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How to opt out of
Google Analytics with the Opt-out Browser Add-on.
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How to adjust the settings for Your Google account.
·
Instagram.
We use Instagram for marketing purposes. By clicking on the
Instagram button on the Service, You will be automatically transported to the official Instagram Page for ABII,
and your Personal Information may be shared with Instagram.
· LinkedIn.
We use LinkedIn for marketing purposes. By clicking on the LinkedIn button on
the Service, You will be automatically transported to
the official
LinkedIn Page for ABII and your Personal Information may
be shared with LinkedIn.
· Paradigm Testing.
We use Paradigm Testing to assist in evaluating requests for test
accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If
You require accommodations, You
will start by answering yes to the question about ADA accommodations on your
application for ABII certification. After we receive your ABII application,
we’ll provide instructions on your payment confirmation page about how to apply
for accommodations. If you applied via a paper application, those instructions
will be mailed to you.
When You then request ADA accommodations from Paradigm, You will provide
Personal Information, including Your contact information, medical information
related to the nature of Your mental or physical impairment, and the ways in
which it limits Your major life activities, information related to the ways in
which Your mental or physical impairment impacts Your ability to examine under standard conditions, information
related to any treatments, medications, devices, or auxiliary aids You commonly
use, or plan to use, while taking Your exam, information related to Your
history with classroom, workplace, and testing accommodations, and an
explanation for the necessity of the accommodations You are requesting, and
their appropriateness relative to Your impairment, to Paradigm Testing, which
will make the recommendation as to what, if any, special accommodations You
should receive. After Paradigm Testing makes a recommendation, it will transmit
Your access code and the recommendation to ABII, which will make the final
decision regarding which accommodations are appropriate. All information that
You provide to Paradigm Testing is subject to its privacy policy.
· Pearson VUE.
We use Pearson VUE to conduct our examinations. We may provide Pearson VUE with
Your Personal Information, including Your name, address, email address, and
other state licensure information, to facilitate examinations. Pearson VUE may
collect other information from You, including Your driver's license
information, credit card information, date of birth, social security number,
employment data, education data, and biometric data, including Your photograph
and palm vein topography, to verify Your identity. More information on Pearson VUE's collection practices
and privacy policies.
· PrimaData.
We use PrimaData to deliver U.S. mail notifications
to individuals regarding their certification status. We may provide PrimaData with Your full name, ABII ID number, ABII credential
string, and postal mailing address.
· Credly. We use Credly to issue digital badges and
certificates to diplomates who earn and maintain certification with ABII. We
may provide Credly with Your name, email address, email type, ABII ID, date of ABII
certification, ABII certification expiration date, and other relevant
information. For more information, please visit Credly's
privacy policy.
· YouTube.
We host videos on YouTube that are embedded in the Service. These are hosted on
our account, viewable here. When You view the videos on the Service,
YouTube may collect Your information, including Your username, other account
information, and interactions with its site. For more information, please visit
the YouTube
privacy policy.
· X
(formerly Twitter). We use X for marketing purposes. By clicking on the X
button on the Service, You will be automatically
transported to the
official X Page for ABII and your Personal Information may
be shared with X.
Medical Community
and Public
Because
We are a healthcare profession credential provider, We
may disclose Your Personal Information and certification status in connection
with our credentialing and verification services. For example, We may disclose Your Personal Information with other continuing
education providers, healthcare systems, healthcare services organizations, specialty
professional societies (and their respective state affiliates), boards, associations,
CE Approvers, CE sponsors, researchers, marketing agencies, and management
consulting organizations. We may share Your Personal Information for their
marketing and promotional purposes (where legally required, We
will obtain Your express consent), for listing in their publications, and so
they can provide services. In addition, the public may search for Your
certification status on the Service.
Investigators, State
Medical Boards, or the Public
We
may disclose examination, credentialing information, maintenance of
certification participation, and certification status to investigators, state
medical boards, or to the public. We release individual examination scores and
credential status to state agencies. A state agency may request Your
information by entering Your Personal Information into our state entity website.
If We have a record on You, We will release a status
report back to the registered state agency. We will disclose all relevant
information in our possession for which We do not have claim of legal privilege
in response to a lawful subpoena, court order, or an authorized request by a government
or regulatory entity.
Organizational
Changes
If
We become involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, joint venture,
securities offering, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, or
other transaction, or if the ownership of all, or substantially all, of our organization
otherwise changes, We may transfer Your Personal
Information to a third party or parties in
connection therewith.
Affiliates
We
may also share Your Personal Information with
our affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. Our affiliates will be required to maintain
that Personal Information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Researchers
We
may also share Your Personal Information with
researchers from time to time for upcoming research studies that are looking
for participants. We may share Your
email address with the research organization, or
provide You with information about the study and ask if You would like to
participate.
Investigations and
Law
We
may disclose your Personal Information
to third parties if We believe that such disclosure is necessary to:
·
Comply with the law or guidance and cooperate with government or
law enforcement officials or private parties;
·
Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal
activities, suspected fraud, the rights, reputation, safety, and property of Us,
users or others, or violations of our policies or other agreements with Us;
·
Respond to claims and legal process (for example, subpoenas);
and/or
·
Protect against legal liability.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
A "cookie" is a small text file that
a website can place on your computer’s hard drive for record keeping or other
administrative purposes. We may use temporary "session" cookies to
measure the flow of visitor traffic in the aggregate and to make the site easy
to use. Once you leave this site, the temporary cookie assigned by our server
will expire and be deleted from your computer.
Most web browsers are designed to initially
accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert
you when a cookie is being sent to your computer. However, if you choose to
disable cookies or refuse to accept a cookie, certain portions of this site may
not function properly or efficiently.
We and authorized third parties may use
cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
·
for
“essential” purposes necessary for our Service to operate (such as maintaining
user sessions, content delivery, and the like); and
·
for
“functional” purposes, such as to enable certain features of our Service (for
example, to allow a customer to maintain a logged-in session); and
·
for
“analytics” purposes and to improve our Service, such as to analyze the traffic
to and on our Service (for example, we can count how many people have looked at
a specific page, or see how visitors move around the Service when they use it,
to distinguish unique visits/visitors to our Service, and what website they
visited prior to visiting our Service, and use this information to understand
user behaviors and improve the design and functionality of the Service).
We implement a variety of security measures to protect the safety
of Your Personal Information when You enter, submit, or access Your Personal
Information.
While We take reasonable measures to protect your Personal
Information against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or
modification, We cannot guarantee its absolute
security. No Internet, email, or mobile application transmission is ever fully
secure or error free. Email or other messages sent through the Service may not
be secure. You should use caution whenever submitting Personal Information through
the Service and take special care in deciding what Personal Information You
provide us.
We cannot guarantee that transmissions of Your Personal
Information will be fully secure and that third parties will never be able to
defeat our security measures or the security measures of our partners. We
assume no liability for disclosure of your information due to transmission
errors, third-party access, or causes beyond our control.
Any Personal
Information collected through the Service
is stored and processed in the United States. If You use our Service outside of
the United States, You consent to have Your Personal
Information transferred to the United States.
We will
retain Your information for as long as You use the Service and for a reasonable
time thereafter. We may maintain anonymized or aggregated data, including usage
data, for analytics purposes. We may retain and use Your information as
necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our
agreements, and/or for the period required by laws in applicable jurisdictions.
Please note that some or all of the information We
have collected may be required for transactions on the Service to function
properly.
The Service may contain links to other websites or apps or may
forward users to other websites or apps that We may not own or operate and to
which this Privacy Policy does not apply. The links from the Service do not
imply that We endorse or have reviewed these websites or apps. The policies and
procedures We describe here do not apply to these websites or apps. We neither
can control nor are responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites
or apps. We suggest contacting these websites or app providers directly for
information on their privacy policies. Nonetheless, We
seek to protect the integrity of our Service, and welcome any feedback about
these linked websites and mobile applications.
In some jurisdictions, ABII, and
certain third parties operating on or through the Service, may engage in
advertising targeted to your interests based on Personal Information that We or
those third parties obtain or infer from your activities across non-affiliated
websites, applications, or services to predict your preferences or interests (also
known as “Targeted Advertising”).
This form of advertising includes various third parties and service providers
engaged in the processing of Personal Information in connection with
advertising. These parties may be able to identify you across sites, devices,
and over time.
The parties that control the
processing of Personal Information for Targeted Advertising purposes may create
or leverage information derived from automatic collection, third party collection, or collection from you. In some cases, these parties may also
develop and assess aspects of your activity on the Service to determine whether
you are a type of person to whom a company wants to advertise,
and determine whether and how ads you see are effective. These third
parties may augment your profile with demographic and other Personal
Information, and may track whether you view, interact with, or how often you
have seen an ad, and whether you purchased advertised goods or services or took
an action.
We generally use Targeted
Advertising for the purpose of marketing our Service and third-party goods and
services, and to send marketing communications.
You have choices regarding our collection, processing, and sharing
of your Personal Information.
Changing Your
Information – You may request to review, update, or have deleted
any Personal Information collected from You through the Service. Please contact Us:
·
By email at PrivacyRights@ABII.org, or
·
By sending a letter through the U.S. Postal Service to: ABII, ATTN: Privacy
Policy, 1255 Northland Drive, St. Paul, MN 55120-1155.
In the letter, as Us to review, update, or delete Your
Personal Information. Provide information that is sufficient, in the ABII’s
sole and absolute discretion, to verify that the Personal
Information You are requesting to change is associated with You.
However, We reserve the right to retain Personal
Information as necessary for our business purposes and to comply with federal
and state laws.
Withdrawing Consent - If You are an individual residing in the EU, and You
provided Your consent for any particular processing of Your Personal
Information, You have the right to withdraw Your
consent to our processing of Your Personal Information any time by requesting that Your Personal
Information be deleted. See further information in the EU Privacy Rights section below.
This deletion is permanent, and Your Personal Information cannot be reinstated. You also agree that
you are no longer authorized to use ABII’s intellectual property such as its
certification mark and other designations. To proceed with this request, please
contact Us:
·
By email at PrivacyRights@ABII.org,
or
·
By sending a letter through the
U.S. Postal Service to: ABII, ATTN: Privacy Policy, 1255 Northland Drive, St.
Paul, MN 55120-1155.
Targeted Advertising - You
may opt out or withdraw your consent to Targeted Advertising by contacting Us:
·
By email at PrivacyRights@ABII.org,
or
·
By sending a letter through the
U.S. Postal Service to: ABII, ATTN: Privacy Policy, 1255 Northland Drive, St.
Paul, MN 55120-1155.
·
Digital
Advertising Alliance’s opt-out
·
Network
Advertising Initiative opt-out
Please note that to the extent advertising technology is
integrated into the Service, You may still receive
advertisements even if You opt out of tailored advertising. In that case, the
ads will just not be tailored to Your interests. Also, We
do not control any of the opt-out links above, and are not responsible for any
choices You make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or
accuracy of these mechanisms.
If You submit a request, We typically must verify Your identity to ensure that You
have the right to make that request, reduce fraud, and to ensure the security
of Personal Information. If an agent is submitting the request on Your behalf, We reserve the right to validate the agent’s authority to
act on Your behalf.
We may require that You match
Personal Information we have on file in order to
adequately verify Your identity. If You have an account, We
may require that You log into the account to submit the request as part of the
verification process. We may not grant access to certain Personal Information
to You if prohibited by law.
Your browser
or device may offer You a “Do Not Track” option, which allows You to signal to
operators of websites, web applications, mobile applications, and services
(including behavioral advertising services) that You do not wish such operators
to track certain of Your online activities over time and/or across different
websites or applications. Our Service does not support Do Not Track requests at
this time, which means that We, or our analytics providers or other third
parties with which We are working, may collect Personal Information about Your
online activity both during and after Your use of the Service.
Our
Service is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly
collect Personal Information from an individual under age 16. If You are under
the age of 16, please do not submit any Personal Information through the Service.
If You have reason to believe that We may have accidentally received Personal
Information from an individual under age 16, please contact Us:
·
By email at PrivacyRights@ABII.org,
or
·
By sending a letter through the
U.S. Postal Service to: ABII, ATTN: Privacy Policy, 1255 Northland Drive, St.
Paul, MN 55120-1155.
Section
1798.83 of the California Civil Code permits California residents to request
from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business
relationship:
·
Certain information about the types of Personal Information the
business has shared with third parties for those third parties’ direct
marketing purposes;
·
And the names and addresses of the third parties with whom the
business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar
year.
California
residents may make one request each year by contacting Us:
·
By email at PrivacyRights@ABII.org,
or
·
By sending a letter through the
U.S. Postal Service to: ABII, ATTN: Privacy Policy, 1255 Northland Drive, St.
Paul, MN 55120-1155.
The Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS 603A.300 et seq.) permit a Nevada
consumer to direct an operator of an Internet website or online service to
refrain from making any sale of any covered information the operator has
collected or will collect about that consumer. You may submit a request
pursuant to this directive by contacting Us:
·
By email at PrivacyRights@ABII.org,
or
·
By sending a letter through the
U.S. Postal Service to: ABII, ATTN: Privacy Policy, 1255 Northland Drive, St.
Paul, MN 55120-1155.
We will provide further information about how We verify the
authenticity of the request and Your identity.
This section applies only to
individuals located in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and other countries (excluding
the US) where individuals have a right to the information or to exercise rights
in Personal Information as specified below (“Non-U.S. Individuals”). Non-U.S. individuals
may have the following rights. (Please review our verification requirements in the Verification of Rights Requests section below. Applicable law may provide exceptions and limitations to all
rights.)
·
Access - You may have a right to access the Personal Information We
process.
·
Rectification - You may correct any Personal Information that You believe is
inaccurate.
·
Deletion/Erasure - You may request that We delete your Personal Information. We may
delete Your data entirely, or We may anonymize or aggregate Your information
such that it no longer reasonably identifies You.
·
Data
Export/Portability - You may request that
We send you a copy of your Personal Information in a common portable format of Our
choice.
·
Restriction - You may request that We restrict the processing of Personal Information to what is necessary for a lawful basis.
·
Objection - You may have the right under applicable law to object to any
processing of Personal Information based on Our legitimate interests. We may
not cease or limit processing based solely on that
objection, and We may continue processing where Our interests in processing are
appropriately balanced against individuals’ privacy interests. In addition to
the general objection right, You may have the right to
object to processing:
o for profiling purposes;
o for direct marketing purposes (We will cease processing upon Your
objection); and
o involving automated decision-making with legal or similarly
significant effects (if any).
·
Regulator Contact - You have the right to file a complaint with regulators about Our
processing of Personal Information. To do so, please contact Your local data
protection or consumer protection authority.
The use of Your Personal Information may be necessary to perform
the agreement You have with Us to provide You with a certification, provide
credential verification services to the public and to third parties, and to
respond to Your requests.
We use Your Personal Information for Our legitimate interests. We
rely on Our legitimate interest to obtain and maintain Personal Information
about an individual’s professional and educational qualifications for those who
wish to become certified and registered with Us; to deliver Our professional
credentials verification services to third parties; to administer, analyze, and
improve Our Services and the content on the Service; to operate Our business,
including through the use of service providers and subcontractors (who may have
access to Your data – see further information in the How Your Personal Information is Disclosed section above); to
send You notifications about Our services; to archive, keep records, and
perform statistical and analytical activities; or to use Your Personal
Information for administrative, fraud detection, audit, training, security, or
legal purposes.
Where
other lawful bases are not available for the processing of Your Personal
Information, We may rely on Your consent as the legal
basis for the collection and use of Your personal data. You are free to
withdraw Your consent at any time, subject to the Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information section below
and the preceding Legal Bases for
Processing Your Personal Information in this Section. Information
about Your health or medical condition will only be processed with Your
consent.
We
may use Your Personal Information to comply with legal obligations to which We
are subject, including to comply with legal process such as a subpoena.
We
use Your Personal Information to perform tasks in the public interest, namely to track and make publicly available certification
status for professionals who obtained Our credentials, including information on
credential revocation and professional sanctions against such individuals, and
to provide verification of credentials information on individuals certified and
registered with Us to regulatory and other public authorities and other
educational and professional institutions.
We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at
any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this Privacy
Policy periodically, and especially before You provide any Personal Information.
This Privacy Policy was made effective on the date indicated at the top of this
page.
For
any enquiries or complaints relating to the use of Your Personal Information or
this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact Us:
·
By email at PrivacyRights@ABII.org,
or
·
By sending a letter through the
U.S. Postal Service to: ABII, ATTN: Privacy Policy, 1255 Northland Drive, St.
Paul, MN 55120-1155.
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Personal Information that is
linked (or reasonably linkable) to a consumer that identifies the consumer's
past, present, or future physical or mental health status is considered “Consumer
Health Data” as defined under Washington State’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”)
and similar laws.
We
collect the following categories of Consumer Health Data for the following
purposes:
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Categories
of Consumer Health Data Collected |
The
purposes of collecting, using and sharing |
How Consumer
Health Data will be used or processed |
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Individual
health conditions, treatment, diseases, or diagnosis Social,
psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions |
We
use Paradigm Testing to assist in evaluating requests for test accommodations
in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
If You require accommodations, You will send ABII an application containing a request for ADA accommodations. We will then contact Paradigm to procure an identification code, which We will mail to You, in conjunction with a letter instructing You to create a Paradigm account, and to use the code which identifies You. When You then request ADA accommodations from Paradigm, You will provide to them: Personal Information, including Your contact information; medical information related to the nature of Your mental or physical impairment and the ways in which it limits Your major life activities; information related to the ways in which Your mental or physical impairment impacts Your ability to test under standard conditions; information related to any treatments, medications, devices, or auxiliary aids You commonly use, or plan to use while taking Your exam; information related to Your history with classroom, workplace, and testing accommodations; and an explanation for the necessity of the accommodations You are requesting, and their appropriateness relative to Your impairment. Paradigm Testing will then make their recommendation as to what, if any, special accommodations You should receive. After Paradigm Testing makes a recommendation, it will transmit Your name and the recommendation to ABII, which will make the final decision regarding which accommodations are appropriate. All information that You provide to Paradigm Testing is subject to its privacy policy. |
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Biometric
data, including facial photos, and voice recordings |
Identity
verification in connection with exams; social media sharing and connections;
customer service; video and audio meeting recordings |
We use facial photos to verify identity in connection with exams
and share this information with our exam vendor. We operate social media accounts and share photos, text, and
recordings as is typical for social media platforms. We occasionally ask
consumers to share photos with Us for use on Our social media accounts. We use voice recordings for the purposes for which they are
provided, such as responding to customer service requests. We record certain audio or video meetings for the purpose for
which the meeting is occurring, including hearings regarding potential ethics
violations. |
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Any
information that we or our respective processor processes to associate or
identify You with data described above that is derived or extrapolated from
non-health information (such as proxy, derivative, inferred, or emergent data
by any means, including algorithms or machine learning), also referred to as
“Inference Data.” |
Site
Analytics |
See How
Your Personal Information is
Disclosed section above. |
Sharing
of Consumer Health Data
Categories of Consumer Health Data we Share
We may share the following
categories of Consumer Health Data with third parties and specific affiliates:
·
Individual health conditions, treatment, diseases, or diagnosis
·
Social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions
·
Biometric data
·
Any information that we or our respective processor, processes to
associate or identify you with data described above that is derived or
extrapolated from non-health information (such as proxy, derivative, inferred,
or emergent data by any means, including algorithms or machine learning), also
referred to as “Inference Data.”
Categories of Third Parties with Which we Share
We may share Consumer Health Data
with the following categories of third-party recipients: See Third Party Service
Providers and Business Partners list in How Your Personal Information
is Disclosed section above.
Consumer
Health Data Privacy Rights
Your Rights
Under the Washington State MHMDA
and similar laws, residents and natural persons whose Consumer Health Data is
collected in certain states may have the following rights, subject to
verification, exceptions, and limitations:
·
Right to Confirm/Access/Know: Up to twice annually, You have the right to (a)
confirm whether We are collecting, sharing, or selling Your Consumer Health
Data, and (b) access such data, including a list of all third parties and
affiliates with whom We have shared or sold the consumer health data, and an
active email address or other online mechanism that You may use to contact
these third parties.
·
Right to Delete: You have the right to request deletion of the Consumer Health Data
held by Us and our affiliates, processors, contractors, and other third
parties.
·
Right to Withdraw your Consent/Opt-Out:
You may withdraw any consent You have provided at any time. The consequence of You
withdrawing consent might be that We cannot perform certain services for You,
such as location-based services, personalizing or making relevant certain types
of advertising, or other services conditioned on Your consent or choice not to
opt-out.
·
Right to Non-Discrimination: You
have the right to not to receive discriminatory treatment as
a result of exercising Your rights conferred by the MHMDA and similar
laws.
How to Exercise your Rights
·
You may submit requests as follows (please review verification
requirements below):
o
You may send an email to PrivacyRights@ABII.org with
Your email address and phone number or address on file, along with Your
request.
o
If You have any questions or wish to appeal any refusal to take
action in response to a MHMDA rights request, contact Us at PrivacyRights@ABII.org. We will respond to any request
to appeal within the period required by law.
·
Washington
Residents: If Your appeal is unsuccessful, You can
raise a concern or lodge a complaint with the Washington State Attorney General.
·
Nevada
Residents: If Your appeal is unsuccessful, You can raise a concern or lodge
a complaint with the State
of Nevada Attorney General.
Verification of Consumer
Health Data Rights Requests
If
You submit a request, We typically must verify Your
identity to ensure that: You have the right to make that request, reduce fraud,
and to ensure the security of Consumer Health Data. If an agent is submitting
the request on Your behalf, We reserve the right to
validate the agent’s authority to act on Your behalf.
We may require that You match Consumer Health Data We have on file
in order to adequately verify Your identity. If you
have an account, We may require that you log into the
account to submit the request as part of the verification process. We may not
grant access to certain Consumer Health Data to You if prohibited by law.