Seaplane Pilots Association and SPA Foundation Privacy Policy Statement

The Seaplane Pilots Association (hereafter "SPA") and the SPA Foundation (hereafter "Foundation") are committed to maintaining your privacy and providing you with options regarding the use of your personal information. If you ever have a question about our privacy policy or the personal information we may have on file and how we use it, please contact us at 1-888-772-8923, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern, or e-mail .

Information collected from visitors using the public areas of our Web site

SPA and/or the Foundation does not collect any personal information from visitors browsing our Web site unless they voluntarily submit it through one of our forms requesting information or enrolling in a program. Only aggregate data-such as the number of hits per page-are collected. We can see the IP address and in some cases your provider's host name, but none of this data provides any personal information that tells us your identity.

Information collected from members who have registered for access to our members-only content

To gain access to the members-only areas of SPA and/or the Foundation 's Web site, members are asked to register and provide some personal information. For members who have accepted a "cookie" or who have logged in to our site with their username and password for a single session, we are able to see the time and date you visited, the IP address, type of browser (e.g., Internet Explorer), and what pages you viewed on our site. This information is not disclosed outside of SPA and/or the Foundation and is utilized only to improve our Web site, determine what new content might be popular or valuable to our members, and to improve your browsing experience in the future.

Credit card account information

SPA and/or the Foundation  does not disclose credit card account information that you may voluntarily provide to us during transactions by phone or through our secure Web site to anyone other than the credit card company that validates the charge for processing purposes. We also encourage our members not to use e-mail to communicate credit card information for their own personal security and privacy.

The way we use information

In addition to the uses outlined above, we use information you voluntarily provided for the purpose you intended, such as to complete registrations, renewals, or any other transaction that you requested through one of the forms on our Web site.

We may use members' names, postal addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses to communicate product and service offers or important advocacy or informational updates that we think may be of interest to you.  SPA and/or the Foundation does not sell or rent our members' personal information, addresses, e-mail addresses, or phone numbers.

You may request at any time to have your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address excluded from our any type of communications. You can request that we only contact you through one of those methods of communication, or even specify what types of contacts you do not desire:

• No mail, e-mail, or phone calls from SPA and/or the Foundation

Just contact us at to let us know your preferences.

Visits made to other Web sites from links or advertising on www.aopa.org

Although SPA and/or the Foundation 's site may includeslinks and advertising to other Internet sites, SPA and/or the Foundation  takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those sites.

SPA and/or the Foundation provides these links and advertisements as a benefit and service of to our members, but we have no control over those sites. Other sites that you visit may have their own distinct privacy policies or no policy at all. They may use personal information that you may provide them differently than our policy permits. SPA and/or the Foundation strongly encourages you to review the privacy policies of any site before providing any personal information to them.

This policy is effective February March 1, 2009. If our privacy practices change at any time in the future, we will post the policy changes to this page to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses of collected personal data.