ARA Privacy Statement


American Recovery Association, Inc. (ARA) will treat ARA potential membership applicant information as well as ARA member information as confidential and will not disclose or use that information other than as necessary to carry out the purposes for which ARA applicants and members furnished their information to ARA. ARA will limit access to ARA applicant and ARA member information to only those employees, agents, or representatives who have a need to know that information to perform their functions. ARA staff and employees follow the guidelines set forth in the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act and adhere to those guidelines.

American Recovery Association, Inc. Members (ARA) will treat ARA Client information furnished to it by ARA Clients who use the ARA directory as confidential and will not disclose or use ARA Client information other than as necessary to carry out the purposes for which the information was furnished. ARA members will limit access to ARA Client information to only those employees, agents, or representatives who have a need to know customer information to perform their functions. ARA members are well versed and continuously educated and adhere to the guidelines set forth in the Gramm Leach Bliley Act.

ARA members will take necessary technical and organizational precautions to ensure that ARA Client information is protected from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, erasure, manipulation, and destruction by third parties while ARA Client customer information is in the possession or under the control of ARA members. ARA members will ensure that ARA Client customer information is not processed in other ways contradictory to privacy and/or data protection laws.

ARA members will maintain sufficient procedures to detect and respond to security breaches involving Client customer information. ARA members will inform ARA Clients as soon as practicable when ARA members suspect or learn of malicious activity involving ARA Client information in accordance with the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act.

A copy of this statement will be sent to each ARA applicant for membership. ARA members will be sent a copy of this statement which they will sign in acceptance of these terms and return a copy to be filed.

A copy of this statement will be published in all copies of the ARA Directory and also on the ARA website.