Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement
The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) respects the privacy of its members and website visitors. The ASPEN website collects data only to better serve members and other users of our website.

INFORMATION COLLECTED BY ASPEN
Individual information, including contact information and demographics, is gathered from members, bookstore customers, education and research users, conference registrants and others. To gain access to members-only areas and personalized features on the website, users must join ASPEN and provide individual information. Information submitted online may be used for other ASPEN marketing uses, such as email and mail notifications of upcoming events that match the interests you provide us. Data are submitted voluntarily.

DISCLOSURES TO THIRD PARTIES
ASPEN will not sell or rent information gathered from website access to anyone except when:

  • We have your consent to share the information;
  • We need to share your information to provide the product or service you requested; or
  • We need to send the information to companies working on behalf of ASPEN to provide a product or service.
  • On occasion, ASPEN may also provide limited data to third parties that offer related products and services. These limited data include names, job titles, companies and business addresses, but do not include business phone numbers or business fax. Users may request ASPEN to refrain from disclosing the data it collects to third parties by contacting ASPEN at [email protected] or (301) 587-6315 to express their preferences if they determine later that they do not wish to have the information shared. 

Companies that receive personal information from ASPEN in order to execute the businesses of ASPEN may use personal information only for that purpose.

CREDIT CARD ACCOUNT INFORMATION
ASPEN does not disclose credit card account information provided by its members and customers. When members and customers choose to pay using their credit cards, ASPEN submits only the information needed to obtain payment to the appropriate clearinghouse. Credit card information is not saved nor maintained in any ASPEN database and therefore cannot be used for any additional purpose other than the original purchase.

COOKIES
The ASPEN website uses cookies to track site login information, order information and other personalization. In order to use the restricted/member’s-only areas of or personalized features on the ASPEN website, your browser must be set to accept cookies. 

LINKS TO NON-ASPEN SITES
Please note that the ASPEN site contains links to other sites. ASPEN is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, or content regarding these other sites. For further information please email ASPEN with any comments, questions or concerns about the A.S.P.E.N. privacy policy or its implementation.

GDPR
For more information on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please visit www.eugdpr.org.

Terms of Use
All materials posted on this site are subject to copyrights owned by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) and other individuals or entities. Any reproduction, retransmission or republication of any or all parts of any document found on this site is expressly prohibited, unless ASPEN or the copyright owner of the material has expressly granted its prior written consent to so reproduce, retransmit or republish the material. All other rights reserved.

The names, trademarks, service marks and logos of ASPEN appearing on www.nutritioncare.org or affiliated sites may not be used in any advertising or publicity, or otherwise to indicate ASPEN's sponsorship of or affiliation with any product or service, without ASPEN's prior express written permission.

Although the ASPEN site links to other Internet sites, ASPEN takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those other sites and does not exert any editorial or other control over those other sites.

ASPEN is providing information and services on the Internet as a benefit and service in furtherance of ASPEN's nonprofit and tax-exempt status. ASPEN makes no representations about the suitability of this information and these services for any purpose.

ASPEN reserves the right to change these terms of use. ASPEN website users are responsible for regular review of these terms. Non-termination and/or continued use of the ASPEN website after posted updates to the terms of use constitute acceptance of the modified terms of use.