SDNMA Bylaws

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Privacy Notice

Adopted by the San Diego National Medical Association

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.sandiegonma.org. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contacts from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address on our website:

• See what data we have about you if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Non-discrimination Statement and Policy

Adopted by the San Diego National Medical Association

SDNMA, Inc. does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.

These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and firing of staff, selection of volunteers, writing submissions, vendors, and provision of services. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients that includes writers.

SDNMA, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veterans status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Intellectual Property Policy

From the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva – Copyright chapter.

Copyright

Copyright is a legal term describing rights given to creators for their literary and artistic works. The kinds of work covered by copyright include literary works, such as novels, poems, plays, reference works, newspapers, computer programs, databases, films, musical compositions and choreography, artistic works such as paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture, architectural works, advertisements, maps and technical drawings.

The creators of original works protected by copyright, and their heirs, have certain basic rights. They have the exclusive right to use or authorize others to use the work on agreed terms. They can prohibit or authorize: its reproduction in various forms, including printed publication or sound recording; its public performance, as in the case of a play or musical work; its recording, for example on compact disc, cassette, or videotape; its broadcasting, whether by radio, cable or satellite; its translation into other languages, or its adaptation, such as that of a novel into a screenplay.

Many creative works protected by copyright require mass distribution, communication, and financial investment for that dissemination to take place (as in the case of publications and computer programs.)

Copyright protection also includes moral rights, including the right to claim authorship of a work, and the right to oppose changes to it that could harm the creator’s reputation. The creator – or the owner of the copyright in a work – can enforce rights administratively and in the courts, by inspection of premises for evidence of production or possession of illegally made “pirated” goods related to protected works. The owner may obtain court orders to stop such activities, as well as seek damages for loss of financial rewards and recognition.

Copyright in the Electronic World

From ACM Publication, Ubiquity, Volume 2004 Issue June, article by Karthik Ramen.

In “Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers”, Larry Lessig, David Post and Eugene Volokh state that the copyright law applies in the electronic world as in the physical world. Therefore, they argue that “copying something in cyberspace can be just as much an infringement — assuming the copyright owner doesn’t allow you to do it — as copying something on paper”. The assumption that anything on the Web is free to take is plain wrong.

Copyright laws have protected the rights of book authors and publishers, and in this electronic age, new laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) have been introduced to protect the rights of digital media. A related law, the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act, addresses the issue of copyright in the digital classroom.

 

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