Global Data Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 1st, 2022 

This Data Privacy Policy (“Policy”) sets forth how National Association of Family Nurse Practitioners LLC, an Illinois limited liability company (“We” or “Us") collects and uses the information you provide to us and certain other information that we automatically collect through your access and use of www.nafnp.org (“Website”) or through any communications with us generally and applies to both our members, employer users and all other visitors of our Website. Both are generally referred to throughout this Policy as “you” or “your.”

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any general questions or concerns about this Policy, you can also email us at [email protected].

MODIFICATIONS TO THIS POLICY

If we decide at any time to change this Policy, we will revise the effective revision date posted at the top of this Policy and we may also notify you by posting a notice of the change prominently on our home page (we may also elect to notify you upon the next time you log-in to access this Website after the effective date of the change(s)). Failure to opt-out after receiving notice and following the opt-out instructions contained in the notice shall be deemed to be your assent to any such changes.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION DIRECTLY PROVIDED 

Membership Account Registration 

We collect and store the email address, first and last name and physical address of each nurse practitioner-user who subscribes to become a member of our services (collectively “PII”) that is provided during membership account creation. We also collect and store the applicable business information in connection with any employer/contact project placement users also using our services including the business name (which may include the name of any sole proprietor business), physical address, phone number and other business contact information provided by such user during membership account creation (collectively “BI”).

We use this information as set forth in the remainder of this Policy. All credit card or other billing information submitted is only used for payment processing or fraud prevention and we do not share or disclose credit card or other billing information with third parties except with our third party payment processor. Any specific credit card or billing information will not be kept on our server logs longer than necessary in order to complete the subscription transaction, unless you elect that we retain your credit card information for future purchases, or pursuant to any recurring fees required to be paid in connection with our membership subscription services. 

Website Forms

When you provide any PII or other personally identifiable data through any form contained on this Website in order to contact us, we collect and store this information. We may use your email as expressly set forth in this Policy.

Personal Information from Children Under 13

Children under the age of 13 are expressly prohibited from submitting or posting any PII on this Website. If it does come to our attention that any child under the age of 13 has submitted any personal information to this Website, we will delete all such information that we have collected immediately. If you are a parent or guardian and you discover that your child under the age of 13 has submitted any of his or her PII without your permission or consent, we will remove the information immediately upon your request. All requests should be made by email and sent [email protected]. Please include your child's name and a description of the type of information you think he or she may have submitted to this Website.

HOW WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT DATA

When you access our Website, we may collect and store through our host provider certain data sent automatically by your browser using standard web server logs and automatic data collection tools such as cookies and web beacons. This information may include your IP address, which may tell us your general location information such as your country and sometimes your city, state and/or zip code, the domain name from which you access our Website, your browser type and language, the pages you access, the date and time you access pages on our Website and your operating system version. We also may determine what technology is available through your browser in order to provide you with the most appropriate version of any of our web pages. 

How We Use Cookies & Similar Tracking Tools

We use cookies, web beacons and other automatic data collection tools in the operation of this Website. Cookies and similar collection tools are files with a small amount of data, which includes a unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and transferred to your device when you log in. Visiting the login page while not authenticated, or visiting pages that don't require login, like shared reports, does not set cookies. We reserve the right to monitor your use of this Website and track you as described in this Cookies policy by the use of any automatic data collection tools at all times and you consent to the use of these tools when you use and access our Website. 

This Website uses “first-party cookies” directly through our host provider MemberClicks, which are native to MemberClicks. Our Website is hosted and provided by MemberClicks, which uses both first-party (native to MemberClicks) and third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a third-party source other than our Website. This Website uses both "persistent cookies" that remain on your device for the period of time specified in the cookie (these cookies are activated each time you visit our Website), and "session cookies," which allows us to track your actions on this Website during a browser session. 

The cookies and tracking technologies that may be used on this Website can be broadly divided into the following categories:

-Necessary cookies help make our Website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Website. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies.

-Statistic cookies help us understand how visitors interact with this website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

I. First-Party Cookies Categories

A. Website Session Management: enables users to log-in and authenticates a user or in order to store specific user preferences and settings.

B.Google Analytics Services: We use Google Analytics in order to collect information. This information is collected in the aggregate and may include the number of page visits, duration, sources of traffic, visited pages, preferred sections, keywords used to find our Website, technical details of visitors’ devices, our visitors’ age, gender, interests, and location. Google Analytics only shows us a unique user ID and does not share your personal information, Google user name or IP address, which means you can't really see and analyze how specific users behave on our Website. We pass a "first party cookie" onto your browser directly from our Website (through MemberClicks) when we use Google Analytics. You may opt-out of Google Analytics by using Google's Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  

C. Email Retargeting: We may also use tools that help us understand whether users read email messages or newsletters and/or click on links contained within those messages or newsletters so that we can deliver relevant content. Through the use of unique identifiers, we are able to record the exact time that you read our emails as well as your IP address. Requests to the server to send the additional content typically includes the IP address of the requesting computer, the time the content was requested, the type of web browser that made the request and the existence of cookies previously set by that server, which may be linked to a unique tracking “token”. 

II. First-Party & Third-Party Cookies List

We use the following first-party and third-party cookies on our Website (through MemberClicks):

You can also view the cookies used by MemberClicks by clicking on: https://help.memberclicks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003509712-Cookies

III. Jobs Board Cookies. 

When you visit our Jobs Board through your use of this Website on nafnp.mcjobboard.net/jobs, the following native cookies are also used: 

Cookie Domain/Source: Expiration:

_gid .mcjobboard.net Session

_ga_QDQG3X6EQJ .mcjobboard.net 24 months 

_ga .mcjobboard.net 24 months 

IV. How To Manage Cookies

You can block our cookies or third-party cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you will not be able to use our Website in any meaningful manner as intended. Your Internet browser allows you to change your cookie settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser.

User Communications

WE STORE ALL CONTENT UPLOADED TO EITHER YOUR NURSE PROFILE OR EMPLOYER PROFILE, AS APPLICABLE, AND ALL CHAT MESSAGES POSTED BETWEEN OUR USERS INCLUDING THE DATE AND TIME SUCH MESSAGES ARE POSTED, IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES. WE ALSO COLLECT AND STORE ALL CONTENT POSTED DURING ANY CHAT OR MESSAGING CONDUCTED BY YOU WHEN YOU USE OUR PLATFORM TO INTERACT WITH ANY OF OUR NURSE PRACTITIONER USERS OR EMPLOYER USERS, AS APPLICABLE, IN CONNECTION WITH OUR SERVICES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY PII OR BII (AS DEFINED IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY), THE REAL TIME “CHAT” TEXT OR MESSAGE DIALOGUE BETWEEN YOU AND ANY OTHER USE OF OUR SERVICES, ANY SCREEN NAME YOU USED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY NURSE PROFILE OR ANY OTHER DATA OR INFORMATION THAT IS DISPLAYED OR TRANSMITTED THEREON. The laws of some jurisdictions require the giving of notice to, or receipt of consent from, individuals prior to intercepting, monitoring and/or recording their communications.

Covered Information

Our platform allows our nurse practitioner users to upload their avatar and use a screen name when interacting privately with our employer-users. When you access and use our Website as a nurse practitioner user, we collect any screen name/user name you use and display. The manner in which we use, share or disclose this information is expressly stated in this Policy and is referred to as "Covered Information.” 

Bundled Data

We may bundle certain items constituting PII or BII with all communications history between you and any other user of our Services and your Website use history generally of both nurse practitioner users and our employer/project placement users. Such bundled information is referred to hereinafter as “Use Data.”

Social Media and Plugins

We may also provide access to services or features on our Website that enables you to share information with certain social networks and interact with us on our social media fan pages or other social media platforms that we may utilize. This may include the Facebook "Like" or share buttons or the Facebook "Comments" feature, social media "follow-us" buttons, etc., all of which are administered via third party applications or scripts that run on our Website. Your use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of information about you by these third party social media websites. Your interactions with these social media features are governed by the privacy policy of the party that provides the specific feature or application. You should carefully review the privacy policies and settings on those specific social media sites. We shall, under no circumstances, have any liability to you whatsoever for the information collection and use/disclosure practices of any such third party that has provided or made available any social media feature or application that you use on our Website.

HOW WE USE/SHARE YOUR DATA

Promotional & Informational Use of PII and BII

We use the e-mail address provided by You to send periodic informational emails about any of our services offered through this Website or about any new or upcoming services We may offer directly.

Email Marketing Opt-Out

If you no longer wish to have any emails sent to you, please click on the ’unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of any and all emails to opt-out. This does not apply to any transactional based emails sent by us.

Marketing & Business Consultants

We may share Use Information in association with certain PII or BII, or certain PII or BII by itself, that we collect through your use of this Website with our marketing and/or business consultants (or partners) and any other similar such parties. This in- formation may also include your IP address. We do this strictly in order to improve upon any aspect of our marketing strategies, subscription conversion practices or upon some other business practice. We may also share this information with third party website and SEO consultants in order to help improve the functionality or accessibility of this Website, search engine visibility or to help us increase our web traffic. This limited access is incidental to the services being provided by such third parties and no permission or consent is granted by us to use or disclose this information in any manner other than as necessary to provide the applicable services or responsibilities to us. In such instances, we require that all such third party consultants or partners are committed to securing your PII or BII, as applicable, and any other information that we may share with them.

Do We Share Your PII?

We do not directly share or sell any PII, BII or any aggregated or non-aggregated Use Data with any advertising agencies, direct marketers, lead generation companies or ad networks. We make every effort to respect your privacy and purchase history data and we will never sell, license or disclose any PII, BII or any Use Data, by itself, or bundled with any other information you provide directly, or that we collect automatically, to any third parties, for any purpose not expressly set forth in this Policy without your prior express written consent.

Required Disclosures

We may disclose certain PII if i) requested via a subpoena, court order, or local, state, federal or international law enforcement request to release any such information; or ii) in order to investigate and help prevent security threats, fraud or other malicious activity; or iii) to protect our rights or protect our property, or any of the rights of our Website users or other third parties.

Communications

When you send emails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. You agree that all agreements, notices and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. All posts submitted by you on the forums of this Website shall not be treated as confidential and shall be deemed to be accessible to the general public. You should not transmit any information in your posts that you intend only the intended recipient(s) to read. Notice is hereby given that all messages or electronic data transmitted onto this Website can and may be read by us, regardless of whether we are the intended recipient of any such message(s).

THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY PRACTICES 

Nurse practitioner users may be given the opportunity to click on third-party links provided by Employer Users through chat interactions on our Website. We may also rely on third-party service providers to operate this Website that may have limited access to PII or BII. WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER AND WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO ANY NURSE PRACTITIONER USER OR ANY EMPLOYER USER IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER FOR THE DATA COLLECTION AND USE PRACTICES OF ANY OF OUR EMPLOYER USERS OR ANY THIRD PARTY NON-SUBSCRIBERS OF OUR SERVICES, AS APPLICABLE. You should carefully read any third-party privacy policy made available to you to understand how any PII or BII may be used.

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HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

We take the security of your data very seriously. All traffic between your browser and our servers is encrypted during transmission using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. However, we make no guarantee, warranty or representation that any information provided through this Website will remain secure at all times from any illegal or unauthorized access of any data including any PII or BII by third parties. We will report any unauthorized access to your information promptly upon discovery, and we will use our best efforts to remedy any security vulnerability that contributed to unauthorized access.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Information Storage And International Transfer

Any PII or BII and all other information that we collect on this Website will be stored and processed in our servers located in the United States. If you reside outside the United States, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of any information from your country to the United States.

How to View Your PII

You can request to view any of your collected PII at any time by emailing us at [email protected].

Successors

Upon any acquisition, merger, sale or other change of control of our business/organization, we reserve the right to transfer any PII or BII you have submitted to this Website as part of the property owned by us to our successor resulting from such merger, acquisition, sale, etc. In the event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, We reserve the right to transfer your PII or BII to protect any of our rights or as required by law.