What Information does NASW gather/collect and how is it used?
Member Information:
We are a membership organization; as a result, we collect member information on our members, including email address, username and certain member preferences. At this time, we do not expressly request a user’s proper name, address and other demographic information. However, as we move more member services to the web, we will, by necessity, request and process that information online as a benefit to our members.
Your email address will be used to send you information relating directly to your NASW membership, such as to provide username information and to recover lost passwords. Your email address may be used to send you periodic information from NASW-MN, but only upon your express consent/preferences (see NASW communications and Opt-Out sections below for more details).
Personally identifiable information is only collected when voluntarily submitted by you (e.g., when you fill out registration pages or send us feedback). NASW-MN reserves the right to collect and review communication sent through www.naswmn.org.
Session Records:
We collect user session connection information as a means to provide additional security to members. To maintain our quality of service, we may also gather additional data on connection information, including the timing and size of all packets sent over the internet during a session. The gathered information is not correlated with personally identifiable data about individuals and is used only to ensure the highest quality experience possible at www.naswmn.org.
Surveys:
In addition to required member information, we may conduct surveys and ask users to volunteer demographic information to be used on an aggregate basis for internal member research. We use such information to better focus and personalize our service offered to each individual user.
Cookies:
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. To learn more about cookies, click here (note: a new page will open and you will leave the NASW-MN website). By setting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log in a password more than once per session, thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may still use our site. However, they will be limited in the use of members-only areas of the website.
Traffic Pattern Files:
We also collect aggregate traffic statistics throughout our site to show the number of visitors to our site, the requests we receive from our website, and the ISPs that those requests came from. These statistics are used by internal NASW-MN staff to improve our website and provide better services to members. NASW-MN does not share e-mail addresses in any manner, including but not limited to renting our membership list of e-mail addresses.
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