Cancer-Pain.org: Legal: Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

(This draft privacy statement is generated from the OECD privacy policy generator)

About us

Modern information and communication technologies are at the heart and play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like ACOR which operates at an international level. We are based in the USA. Our only activity is the provision and maintenance of various Cancer Online Resources.
Protecting your privacy and your personal data is an important aspect of the way we create, organise and implement our activities on-line and off-line.

Our privacy policy covers ACOR and its Web site(s):

Organisation ACOR

Address 173 Duane Street

City NY

Country USA

State/Province NY

Zip/Postal code 10013

URL http://www.acor.org , http://listserv.acor.org, http://www.cancer-pain.org

Physical Location US

Privacy Support

If you have any enquiry about our privacy policy, please contact :

Name : Gilles Frydman

email : gilles@mail.acor.org

Name : Laurel Simmons

email : laurel@mail.acor.org

Privacy Compliance

Our privacy policy is compliant with the following self-regulation instrument :

Draft Code of Ethics of the e-Health Ethics Initiative

Linkage Characteristics

Our Web sites enable you to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. When you use these services, your data may be collected by other visitors.

Purpose Specification and Data Collection

You can access our Web sites home page and browse our sites without disclosing personal data.

Our Web sites log information about you that is automatically recognised by the Web server, such as your IP address, domain name...
For more detail on these data and the reason why we log them, please click here

Except this automatically logged information, we do not collect any other data about you.

Cookies

We use cookies in order to hold session information, improve security during a visitor's session online,, tailored files.
We store the following informations in cookies : session (number, key).

We do not associate the information stored in a visitor's cookie with any other personal data about that visitor.

Visitor Choice

Disclosure

We do not disclose your personal to any third party.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Individual Participation/Access

You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you,
Upon request, which you can indicate we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you.
We will provide the information almost instantaneously on-line without any charge.
We allow you to change the data that we hold about you, by rectification.
We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with the information. However if a refusal is made we will provide you with the reasons behind the refusal.
We allow you to challenge our refusal to provide data.

Security

Direct data collection details

Purpose(s)

Data

Technical administration of the web site

Research & development

Customer Administration

Marketing

Trading in personal data

Other purposes

the visitor's domain name

the visitor's e-mail adress

the visitor's IP address

Information about the visitor's computer system

Aggregate Navigation and Clickstream Data/HTTP logs

Visitor-specific Navigation and Clickstream Data/HTTP logs

Transaction Data

The Privacy Principles of the OECD Guidelines

Collection Limitation Principle

There should be limits to the collection of personal data and any such data should be obtained by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the data subject.

Data Quality Principle

Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which they are to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete and kept up-to-date.

Purpose Specification Principle

The purposes for which personal data are collected should be specified not later than at the time of data collection and the subsequent use limited to the fulfilment of those purposes or such others as are not incompatible with those purposes and as are specified on each occasion of change of purpose.

Use Limitation Principle

Personal data should not be disclosed, made available or otherwise used for purposes other than those specified in accordance with Paragraph 9 [Purpose Specification Principle] of the OECD Privacy Guidelines except:
a) with the consent of the data subject; or
b) by the authority of law.

Security Safeguards Principle

Personal data should be protected by reasonable security safeguards against such risks as loss or unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure of data.

Openness Principle

There should be a general policy of openness about developments, practices and policies with respect to personal data. Means should be readily available of establishing the existence and nature of personal data, and the main purposes of their use, as well as the identity and usual residence of the Data Controller.

Individual Participation Principle

An individual should have the right:

a) to obtain from a data controller, or otherwise, confirmation of whether or not the data controller has data relating to him;
b) to have communicated to him, data relating to him within a reasonable time; at a charge, if any, that is not excessive; in a reasonable manner; and in a form that is readily intelligible to him;
c) to be given reasons if a request made under subparagraphs(a) and (b) is denied, and to be able to challenge such denial; and
d) to challenge data relating to him and, if the challenge is successful to have the data erased, rectified, completed or amended.

Accountability Principle

A Data Controller should be accountable for complying with measures which give effect to the principles stated above.