WPSA Privacy Policy

Adopted by WPSA Executive Council on March 24, 2016

Collection of Personal Information

When you sign up as a member of the Western Political Science Association, or you register for the Association’s annual meeting, the Association collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, date of birth, home or work address, telephone number, and credit card number. The membership form also asks for you to provide some demographic information, including your gender, ethnicity, scholarly interests, and highest degree obtain. While it is helpful to the Association to know this demographic information, you are not required to provide it to become a member. 

Statement of Privacy

The Western Political Science Association is committed to protecting your privacy. As part of this commitment, we do not share personally identifiable information provided through the membership and registration forms with outside organizations or individuals, except for trusted partners who are conducting work expressly on the Association’s behalf, such as the publishers of our journals. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Western Political Science Association, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. 

The Association collects and uses your personal information to perform its business and to better serve its membership. The demographic information is gathered to better understand the Association’s membership base. On occasion, the Association may share the results of its demographics analyses with external organizations and individuals. In doing so, the Association does not share any personally identifiable information. The only information that the Association makes public is that it lists the university affiliation and email addresses of conference participants on its online program.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Western Political Science Association blog and social media sites, this information is accessible to others outside the Association.

The Western Political Science Association will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Western Political Science Association; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Western Political Science Association; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Western Political Science Association, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information

The Western Political Science Association secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Association secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. 

Contact Information

The Western Political Science Association welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that the Association has not adhered to this Policy, please contact the Western Political Science Association at [email protected]. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.