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The following discloses our information
gathering and dissemination practices for this
website. The type and amount of information
received depends on how you use the site.
Website Usage/Information
Collection
When you visit the
Alliance website, we automatically obtain
information from you about the browser and
type of computer you are using, the website
that referred you to us, and the pages you
request. We use this information on an
aggregate basis to generate statistics and
measure site activity to improve the usefulness
of the site to our visitors. For example, we
use this information to track which pages are
most popular among visitors as a whole. We do
not track the pages you or any individual
visitor may look at during a visit to our site
and we do not collect any other information
without your knowledge and permission. We do
not collect or store personally identifiable
information, such as your name, mailing
address, e-mail address or phone number, unless
you provide that information.
Collection of Personally
Identifiable Information
The
Alliance provides web forms so you may provide
your contact information to engage in Alliance
activities such as online activism (i.e.,
contact Congress), to correspond with the
Alliance or to submit a testimonial (i.e.,
share your story). Any information we collect,
such as your name, mailing address, e-mail
address, type of request you are making and any
additional information you provide, is
collected and stored by the Alliance. The
information is used to track aggregate
information about usage of these features. The
Alliance makes every effort to ensure the
secure collection and transmission of your
sensitive information using industry accepted
data collection and encryption methodologies,
such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
SPECIAL NOTICE FOR
PARENTS
We want to help you guard
your children's privacy. We encourage you to
talk to your children about safe and
responsible use of their personal information
while using the Internet. The Alliance does not
collect, use or distribute children's
personally identifiable information to any
third parties. If you have any reservations,
questions or concerns about your child's access
to this site or how information that your child
provides is used by us, please contact us.
Alliance's Sharing of Personally
Identifiable Information
The
Alliance may exchange limited personally
identifiable information (such as name and
e-mail address) with partner organizations when
people join as dues-paying members of an
affiliate union of the Alliance for Retired
Americans and become part of that
organization's regular membership list. The
Alliance website will not post your personal
contact information, including e-mail address,
street address and phone numbers, without your
consent. Without such consent, website staff
will withhold posting personal contact
information for that individual.
Financial Information and
Payments
We use a secure server
for processing payments and financial
information. Alliance staff log in to the
secure site, retrieve the information and
process it using secure credit card
processing equipment. The Alliance does not
retain, share, store or use personally
identifiable information for any secondary
purposes.
Cookies
A cookie is a
piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. The
Alliance website uses a cookie for measuring
aggregate web statistics, including number of
monthly visitors, number of repeat visitors,
most popular webpages and other information.
Alliance will also use cookies to facilitate
your online visit by maintaining data that you
provide for online activism activities so that
you will not need to resubmit certain
information. The Alliance does not use cookies
to track what specific pages an individual site
visitor views.
Opting Out of E-mail Lists
People who subscribe to e-mail lists via
the website will receive periodic updates from
the Alliance by regular mail, fax or e-mail.
You may opt out of receiving future information
via e-mail by using the unsubscribe procedure
specified on the e-mail message or by sending
an e-mail message with the name of the list you
are a member of to: aramembership@retiredamericans.org.
Outside Links
This
site contains hypertext links to other sites.
The Alliance is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such websites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site, and to read the privacy statements of
each and every website that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies solely to information
collected by this website.
Security
This site has
security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under
our control. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
encryption to protect the transmission of your
credit card information you submit to us when
you use our secure online join form. You are on
a secure page when the lock icon on the bottom
of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer become locked, as
opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are
just "surfing." All the information you provide
us through these forms is stored securely
off-line.
We use SSL encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also protect user
information off-line. All user information is
restricted in our offices. Only employees who
need information to perform a specific job
(e.g., our billing clerk or a customer service
representative) are granted access to
personally identifiable information. All
employees are kept up-to-date on our security
and privacy practices. Finally, the servers
that store sensitive information are kept in a
secure environment.
If you send us an e-mail, you should know
that e-mail is not necessarily secure against
interception. So, if your communication
includes sensitive information like your bank
account, charge card, or social security
number, and you prefer not to use one of our
secure online complaint forms, contact us by
mail or by telephone rather than by e-mail.
Corrections/Updating Personal
Information
If your personal
information changes (such as your ZIP code), or
if you wish to have your information removed
from our database, contact us and we will
endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or
remove that personal data provided to us.
Contact Us
If you
experience technical problems with the
operation of this web site, contact us by
e-mailing: arawebadmin@retiredamericans.org. | 
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