privacy policy

Data Protection & Privacy Statement

Data Protection & Privacy Statement

The Florida Pain Society (FPS) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy of its members and customers. This online privacy statement explains how FPS collects, uses, and safeguards information on its website. This Internet privacy statement applies only to information collected by FPS through the website.

Your use of FPS’s website constitutes your unconditional acceptance of the practices described in this privacy policy and the other terms and conditions of the terms of use. If you do not agree with and accept all of the practices described in this privacy policy, please do not use the website and please do not provide or submit any personally identifiable information via or while using the website, the software, or the services.

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically by us, and the most recent revision will be noted at the bottom of this page. We recommend that you review this privacy policy each time you visit the website to stay informed about any updates. Your continued use of the website following any changes in this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such modifications.

visitors to the FPS website

Users browsing the public areas of FPS’s website do so anonymously. We do not collect any personally identifiable information, such as name, address, phone number, or Email.

The Information That Is Collected Includes:

Time & date of your visit,

The Internet address of the computer,

Your browser & operating system,

Page views and length of time on that page,

Previous page visited.

Additionally, the type of browser you use and the method you use to access our information (via the web or a smartphone) may be collected.

FPS never collects personal information without your knowledge, such as when you create an account, make a purchase, register for an event, or complete a form on the website to submit questions, comments, take a survey, or request information.

FPS collects data using Google Analytics and Google Advertising about your activities that do not personally or directly identify you when you visit our website, the website of entities for which we serve advertisements (our “Advertisers”), or the websites and online services where we display advertisements (“Publishers”).

This information may include the content you view, the date and time that you view this content, the products you purchase, or your location information associated with your IP address.

We use the information we collect to serve you more relevant advertisements (referred to as “Retargeting”). We collect information about where you saw the ads we serve you and what ads you clicked on.

To opt out of Google’s use of cookies, visit the Google Advertising Opt-out Page; to opt out of Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Page; to opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies, see the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Page.

opt out of email

To opt out of an Email list, click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any Email.

changes to privacy policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time. This statement is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal right in or on behalf of any party.

how information is used

Information gathered from FPS’s website or electronic communications, including demographic information, is used to determine the value of the information presented on our website.

credit card information

FPS does not disclose credit card account information or activity provided by its members.

When members choose to pay using their credit cards, FPS stores and transmits encrypted information, and is Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), also referred to hereafter as PCI Compliant.

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Confidentiality & Security

When you submit sensitive information to our website, your information is protected both online and offline. We restrict access to personal information collected about you at our websites to our employees, our affiliates’ employees, or others who need to know that information to provide services to you or in the course of conducting our normal business operations. We maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information.

disclosure required

Disclosure required by law or emergency circumstances.

FPS may release personal information to third parties to comply with valid legal requests such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, or court order.

If FPS is legally required to disclose your personal information to a third party, FPS will notify you unless doing so would violate the law or a court order.

the use of cookies

FPS uses cookies to identify a user as they navigate through the FPS website, to personalize a member’s visit, to offer enhanced functionality, and/or to track visitor behavior.

The user’s browser allows FPS to place some information on the user’s hard drive that identifies the computer used.

Two Types of Cookies Are Used:

A Session Cookie is a temporary file stored in the user’s computer’s memory when a website is accessed and is deleted when the browser is closed.

A Persistent Cookie is a file stored on the user’s hard drive that may be deleted manually by the user or expired by the server.

Suppose you do not desire the functionality offered by the cookie. In that case, you can either decline the cookie when prompted or disable the cookie function in your browser.