Autism Spectrum Therapies Privacy Policy

Autism Spectrum Therapies, Inc. (“AST”) is committed to providing you with a website experience that respects and protects your personal privacy choices and concerns. The AST website is designed to provide you with useful information about us and our services and with employment opportunities. Our website does not promote or sell products of any kind; we do hope, however, that the information we provide on our website encourages you to use or join our organization as a client or employee.

Information We Gather
In an effort to provide our website visitors with the most useful information, we collect a limited amount of information about visits to our website, including the number of visits to the site, the date and time of day of these visits and the pages visited. This information helps us to evaluate the effectiveness of our site, improve the information available to site visitors and improve website performance.

 
Website Data Tracking (Log Files)
Our website tracking program does not provide us with personal information about our site visitors; however, as is true of most websites, we gather certain information about visitors to our site and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically data to personally identifiable information.

 

E-mail Security
Messages that you send to us by e-mail (via the Contact Us links on our website pages) may not be secure. If you choose to send any confidential personal information to us via e-mail, you accept the risk that a third party may intercept and use this information.

Cookies
AST does not use cookies on its website other than if you decide to opt-in for e-mails and click the “remember me” box, and we will not write a cookie to your hard drive when you visit our site except in such instance.

Use of Information
AST is the sole owner and user of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, give, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy; provided that AST may provide such information to its authorized agents in order to conduct its business in the ordinary course. Furthermore, we may release user information when we believe such release is appropriate to comply with the law or to enforce or apply this privacy policy or protect the interests of AST or others.

Personal Information
Our site has an employment page for interested job seekers. We provide you the option of putting your resume in our database and applying to specific job openings with AST. The functionality associated with this part of our site requests users’ contact information (such as e-mail address) and personal information (such as work histories and academic achievements). The user's contact and personal information is used to contact the user in connection with potential job opportunities. This information may be retained by AST for one year or longer; provided that AST has no obligation to retain any such information for any length of time.

 

We do not disclose information about your individual visits to our website, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, etc., to any outside parties, except when we believe the law requires it. Nonetheless, certain vendors providing services to us may have access to limited information, but all such vendors are subject to confidentiality restrictions.

Opt-Out
Our site allows a visitor to sign-up to receive e-mails from AST. You may always opt-out from our mailing list by: going to: www.autismtherapies.com, logging on to your account, clicking the Update Profile menu and, at the bottom of the page, selecting NO to unsubscribe from our mailing list and clicking the update button. An unsubscribe link is also contained in each e-mail sent.

 

Third Party Links
The AST site may contain links to sites that are neither owned by nor controlled by AST. Once you leave our website, our privacy policy no longer applies, and you will be subject to the privacy policies, if any, of the other website. AST has no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of websites it does not control or own.

AST E-mail Links
We provide an e-mail address link located on the Contact Us page so that you may e-mail us directly with any questions or comments. AST endeavors to read messages received and to respond promptly. In addition to replying to your comment or inquiry, we may also file your e-mail for future reference regarding improvements to our website or discard the information. Your personal information is not shared with third parties without your express permission.

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We use reasonable precautions to protect the personal information we receive. Nonetheless, no website is completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of such information. If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us at moreinfo@autismtherapies.com.

Notification of Changes
AST uses the information collected from you in accordance with the privacy policy in effect when the information was collected. From time to time, we may change our privacy policy; for example, in light of new technology or a change in applicable law. If AST decides to change the type of information it collects, how we use it, or under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it, we will post a notice of these changes on the website. Please check our website frequently to see recent changes to our privacy policy.

Contact Information
Physical address: 6001 Bristol Parkway, Suite 200, Culver City, CA 90230
Phone: (310) 641-1100 - Fax: (310) 641-1174
E-mail: moreinfo@autismtherapies.com
This privacy policy is effective as of July 20, 2009.