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Privacy Notice

  1. OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
    Your privacy is important to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, Inc ("AACS"). To allow you to better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used when you visit our web site, located at www.cosmeticsurgery.org ("Web Site"). To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. AACS reserves the right to amend, modify or change this notice at any time. Any amendment, modification or change shall be posted on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested and will be effective when posted. Accordingly, we urge you to check the date of our Privacy Notice periodically to see if it has been amended, modified or changed in any way.

  2. DEFINITIONS
    As used in this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings:
    • "Web Site" means the "www.propertyvaluecheck.com" web site and any and all information provided directly or indirectly through the Web Site including, but not limited to, information provided via e-mail.
    • "We," "Our," "Us" and "AACS" refer to American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, Inc.

  3. NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
    We collect non-personally identifiable information about visitors to the Web Site, including IP address.

  4. THE WAY WE USE NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
    We use non-personally identifiable information and aggregate information to track pages hits and decipher website trends.

  5. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
    The only personal data the AACS currently collects through this Web Site is the information you voluntarily choose to provide us when you visit our Web Site. This includes, for example, the information you provide when you send us your comments, request information, you request membership information, or apply online for membership.

    The AACS uses the information you provide for the purposes for which it was originally collected, for example, to respond to your comments or information request, or to process your membership application. The AACS also uses this information to help us improve the content and functionality of our Web Site, to better understand the needs and interests of the people and organizations that use our Web Site, and to improve our programs and services. The AACS may also use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about organizations, programs, services, and other things we believe will be of interest to you or to ask for your support. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future communications from us.

    The AACS may share your personal information with consultants and other third parties who act for or on behalf of the AACS, for further processing or analysis. In addition, there may be some other, limited circumstances in which the AACS may share or transfer the personal information in its databases, for example, to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice, to protect your vital interests, to protect the security or integrity of our databases or this web site, to take precautions against legal liability, or in the event of a corporate merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event.

  6. USE OF COOKIES
    When you view our Web Site we store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or similar file. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Cookies do not spy on you or otherwise invade your privacy, and they cannot invade your hard drive and steal information. Rather, they help you navigate a Web Site as easily as possible. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to prevent you from reentering all your registration data at each connection.

  7. OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
    Protecting the privacy of the very young is important. For that reason, AACS never collects or maintains information at our Web Site form those we actually know are under 13 years of age, and no part of our Web Site is structured to attract anyone less than 13 years of age.

  8. LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
    Our Web site contains links to other web sites. AACS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies and practices of such linked web sites.

  9. DELETING, CORRECTING, OR UPDATING YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
    To the extent AACS maintains personally identifiable information you provide, AACS allows you the option to delete, change, or update your personally identifiable information. This may be done by you by contacting AACS: 737 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60611, 312.981.6760 or info@cosmeticsurgery.org.

    Unfortunately, to the extent that such information is also stored in other databases or has been provided to third parties as discussed herein, we cannot ensure that such corrections or deletions will reach the other databases or third parties.

  10. SECURITY
    When you are presented with an opportunity to make a financial payment to AACS through the website, you be re-directed to VeriSign, AACS's third party payment processor. AACS does not have access to the financial information you provide to VeriSign to make a payment. AACS is only provided contact information for the transaction.

  11. HOW TO CONTACT US
    If you have any questions about our Privacy and Online Data Collection Notice, the privacy practices of this Web Site, or your dealings with this Web Site, you can contact AACS by accessing the Contact Us section of the Web Site.



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