OT-ADVANTAGE.COM
PRIVACY POLICY

By registering with the OT-Advantage.com website and accepting the User Agreement, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective immediately.  

Information

OT Advantage may collect and store the following information from users and members: email address; user-chosen passwords; employment information, including, but not limited to, business address, specialization information and certification information; educational information, including, but not limited to, the name of the educational institution, type and name of program in which the user/member is or was enrolled, title and type of degree(s) or potential degree(s), graduation date; clinical affiliation information, including, but not limited to, the facility name, address and type of clinical setting; and special interests of users/members within the realm of occupational therapy.

Any personal information described above or disclosed by users/members in their user/member profiles may be available for viewing by other users/members, including, but not limited to, demographic data, specialties, education and occupational information, certifications, other “friends,” blogs, groups and favorites.

Information available to Third Parties

Some information contained on this website may be available for viewing by third parties, including non-users/non-members. However, no personal information contained in a user or member profile will be available for viewing by any non-user/non-member.

Use of Information

OT Advantage’s primary purpose in collecting this information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient and customized experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to:

• Provide the services and customer support you request;
• Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems;
• Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities and enforce our User Agreement;
• Customize, measure, and improve our services and the websites' content and layout;
• Tell you about targeted marketing, service updates and promotional offers based on your communication preferences;
• Allow user/members to modify, save and update their account or content;
• Allow website-specific groups a user/member joins to access certain information; and
• Compare information for accuracy and verify such information with 3^rd parties.

We use return email addresses to answer the emails we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

As a user/member of this website, marketing materials may be provided to you by third parties who have been approved by OT Advantage.  Such materials may take the form of advertisements on the website, including links to third party sites and emails to user/members containing marketing website updates or newsletters.  User/members can opt-out of any such emails by contacting OT Advantage by using the contact information below (“General”) and indicating they wish to be removed from the email list.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those user/members.

User information will not be sold to third parties.

If a user/member account is cancelled or terminated, their information will remain in the database and will be subject to any of the above uses.

Data Security 

To ensure the correct use of information, maintain data accuracy and prevent unauthorized access, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.  Specifically, a 164-bit Password encryption software is utilized to help ensure the safety of user/member accounts.  Members should be aware that such encryption does not extend to the database itself.  The database shall be on a different server than the website and such database server is not accessible to the internet.  All servers are protected by firewalls and stored at the following location: 954 Washington Blvd 6th Floor Chicago, IL  60607.  Web Hosting for this site is provided by: Nology Interactive, 954 Washington Blvd 6th Floor Chicago, IL  60607.  Servers for this website are kept at that location.

Cookies

OT Advantage uses "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain pages of the website to help analyze web page flow, customize services, measure promotional effectiveness and promote trust and safety.

A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

• We offer certain features that are only available through the use of cookies;
• We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status;
• Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session;
• You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of the website;
• You may encounter cookies from 3^rd parties on certain pages of the website that OT Advantage does not control. (For example, another user/member may place a “cookie” on his web page.).

Third Parties

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information OT Advantage collects from you. If you disclose your information to others, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of your information. Since OT Advantage does not control the Privacy Policies of third parties, you are subject to the Privacy Policies of those third parties.  Please see Paypal’s Privacy Policy here and Webex’s Privacy Policy here.

By clicking on a third party advertisement, the third party may receive your IP address and may be able to contact you through the OT Advantage website.  In addition, traveling to third-party websites to explore additional content developed by OT Advantage such as Webinars and Exam Preparation Session or other material hosted by a third-party site, may subject your information to that site’s Privacy Policy and not that of OT Advantage.  OT Advantage does not control such third party site’s collection or dissemination of user information.

General

OT Advantage may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the website. All amended terms automatically take effect.  You can contact OT Advantage with questions or comments about this Privacy Policy by emailing info@OT Advantage.com.