Information we collect and how we use it

The PAA website offers some information to the general public that does not require registration for an account or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services (Members Only section), we may collect the following types of information:

• Information you provide – When you register as a PAA member through the website, we ask you for personal information, such as your name, address, email address and other PAA membership information. We also request credit card or other payment account information in which to process your payment, but we do not retain this payment information on our server.
• Cookies – When you visit the PAA website as a registered member, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser.
• Log information – When you access the PAA Members Only section, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit the website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
• User communications – When you send email or other communications to the PAA, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
• Links – For your convenience, the PAA website may contain certain hyperlinks to other PAA pages as well as to external websites.  We do not exercise control over the external websites displayed as links from within the PAA website and make no promises or guarantees regarding data collection from these websites.  These external websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.  We therefore recommend that you read the privacy policy/statement for each site you visit.  This Privacy Policy applies to the PAA website only.

• Providing services to our members, including the display of customized content.
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services.
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our server.
• Developing new services.

Choices for personal information

When you register for PAA membership, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, we will sbusequently ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, access to the PAA Members Only section may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to PAA employees and approved contractors who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Data integrity

The PAA processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services.  We do not retain credit card data or other specific payment information on our server. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use the PAA Members Only section, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services, such as offline data retention, have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information.

Opting Out

You have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data on the PAA website by contacting us either by email, phone or post. By declining to submit personal information online for PAA Membership, some online services, such as the PAA Members Only section, may not be available to you.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us via email, phone or write to us at