The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine

About the Foundation: 

The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine, established in 1986, is the educational, scientific and research arm of the New York State Podiatric Medical Association. As such, it is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization that depends on corporate and private grants, as well as income generated at the annual New York Podiatric Clinical Conference. The Foundation serves all podiatrists in New York state, and throughout the world, who wish to participate in its programs. The mission of the Foundation for Podiatric Medicine is to offer continuing medical education, professional development and public information services.

Educational Mission Statement: 

The scientific sessions of the Foundation for Podiatric Medicine are designed with the educational goal of presenting balanced academic discussions for the primary care podiatric physician and also to initiate education in the areas of diagnosis and management of ankle pathology. Providing cutting-edge educational programs in various learning formats, The Foundation's educational programming offers a forum for dialogue about the vital educational and clinical information that is crucial to all podiatrists, ensuring professional development that enhances quality patient care and advances the profession.

Board of Directors: 

Daniel B. Keating, DPM, President

Charles M. Lombardi, DPM, Vice President

William D. Spielfogel, DPM, Treasurer

Nicholas Argerakis, DPM, Director

Emilio Goez, DPM, Director

James Hanna, DPM, Director

Lauren Schwartz, DPM, Director

Jackie Prevete, DPM, Director

Paul Liswood, DPM, Director

Allison Hogan, ex officio

Matthew Feldman, JD, ex officio

Nora Saari, ex officio

Privacy and Confidentiality

This policy is intended to clearly communicate how The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine collects, uses, protects, and otherwise handles your Personally Identifiable Information.

Privacy Statement

The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine is committed to respecting the privacy of our attendees and all visitors to our websites. It is our belief that individuals ultimately have the right to understand and control how their personal data is used. We have instituted policies and procedures to ensure your privacy rights are protected.

The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine will, so far as is reasonably practical, comply with the privacy and data protection principles of all countries and with all laws within the United States to ensure that all data is:

• Fairly and lawfully processed
• Obtained and used for specific and clearly stated purposes
• Adequate, relevant, and not excessive
• Accurate and up to date
• Not kept for longer than necessary
• Processed in accordance with your rights
• Secure
• Not transferred to other countries without adequate protection

 

What is “Personally Identifiable Information (PII)?”

Personally identifiable information, or PII, as described in US privacy laws, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual. You can be identified from information such as your name, email address, phone number, home address, driver’s license number, and passport number. You may also be identified from information such as an online identifier, IP address, unique device ID, or website cookie; this type of information becomes PII when combined with information that further identifies who you are.

When Do We Collect Information?

Generally, those who wish to attend conventions, conferences, trade shows, or similar events will register for those events online or over the telephone. During the process of that registration, you share with us personal information about yourself which generally includes contact information, demographics pertaining to your trade or profession, and payment information. Alternatively, we may collect association membership data directly from the American Podiatric Medical Association and/or the NY State Podiatric Medical Association.

It is The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine’s policy not to accept or store personally identifiable information from children under 16 years of age without parental consent.

What Information Do We Collect?

The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine typically collect your contact information required for attendance at an event, including:

• Name
• Company/Title
• Address
• Email Address
• Phone Number

 

Additionally, we collect what is known as “demographic” information. Demographics vary widely from event to event, but in general are consist of information useful to exhibitors with whom you may wish to exchange information at the show. Examples include:

• Your role at your company
• Credentials for certain industries
• Whether you are able to purchase on behalf of your employer
• Product areas of interest to you

 

We also collect payment information to process payments, but we do not store credit card numbers.

How The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine Uses Your Data

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

• Email advance notice of and/or invitation to events
• Send email to confirm your registration
• Personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested
• Look up and print your physical badge for an event
• Generate certificates of attendance, credentials, etc. as may be applicable for your event
• Track attendance to event courses or sessions, where applicable
• Process your payment transactions
• Ask for ratings and reviews of services or products
• Administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature
• Follow up with you after correspondence (live chat, email, or phone inquiries)
• Allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests

 

How The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine May Share Your Data

• Share with the event organizer (trade association, etc.).
• Share with third parties involved in the event process at the request of event organizers (e.g., hotel booking companies).
• Potentially share with exhibitors and sponsors at the event through badge scanning onsite at the event. You control the access by physically presenting your badge for scanning.
• Share with exhibitors and sponsors you interact with in the virtual event.
• Employ tools (Attendee List and Exhibitor Emails) which allow event exhibitors to send you email and/or direct mail. These applications generally do not allow exhibitors direct access to your contact information, and you may opt out of inclusion in these marketing lists during the registration process.

Once your data has been shared with a third party, CDS no longer has direct control over that information, but we require our partners to agree to follow all state and country privacy laws.

Tracking

When you visit our websites, we may automatically collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather about your visit to our website. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site, which pages people visit, from which domains our visitors come, and which browsers people use. We use these statistics about your visit for aggregation purposes, not to track what specific individuals are doing on our sites. We do this for many reasons, including the following:

• To recognize new visitors to our websites
• To recognize past visitors
• To present more personalized content, to improve your website experience, optimize your browser experience, and provide site and service enhancements
• So we can better understand our audience, our customers, our website visitors, and their respective interests

 

Cookies are small tracking files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser that enables our systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies in our sites so they “remember” who you are as you navigate from page to page and process the items in your shopping cart. Typically, a cookie will contain a user or session identifier without containing personal information about the user. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to track website and app performance.

Your Rights

We recognize that all personal information you submit to The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine belongs to the you, and that we use your data only with your permission. You have the following specific rights:

• Informed: We will tell you exactly how we use your data in clear, plain language.
• Consent: The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine will not store or use your data without your consent. If we get your data from a membership organization or another source, we will ensure through a contract that they are also compliant with GDPR consent regulations.
• Access and Portability: View and download all personal data The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine may store.
• Modification: Request changes or updates to any personal data The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine stores.
• Erasure: Request that The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine purge all personal identifying information at any time.

 

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Specific data security measures include:

• No sensitive personal information (SPI) such as credit card numbers, bank account numbers, passport, and social security numbers is stored on CDS servers. Transactions involving credit cards are processed directly through a payment gateway such as PayPal and full credit card numbers are not stored.
• All personal data is stored on physically secure hardware behind network firewalls.
• Access to the data requires login credentials.
• All data processed through websites is encrypted in transit and at rest.
• In the unlikely event of a data breach, The Foundation has policies in place to notify affected parties.
• Data security is regularly audited by third parties.
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Other Third-Party Websites and Links

The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine corporate website may contain links to other web sites. Please note that this Data Protection and Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of the web sites of our partners and affiliates, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites, partners, or affiliates. You should be careful to review any privacy policies of such web sites, partners or affiliates. The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine does require its partners to comply with all privacy and data security policies and regulations.

Adherence to Privacy Laws and Practices

The Foundation for Podiatric Medicine recognizes principles and requirements of international and domestic privacy acts including but not limited to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act, CAN SPAM, Mexico, Canadian Anti-Spam Law, OPPA, Fair Information Practices, and Nevada privacy laws through our Privacy and Data Protection Policy.

Nondiscrimination

No person shall be denied registration or participation in any continuing education program provided by this Foundation for reasons of race, religion, sex, national origin or physical ability.