Your Choices and Obligations
Data Retention
We keep your Data for as long as you are a Member or as long as your relationship with APA Digital Assets continues and as required by law. We retain your Data while your membership is active or as necessary to continue to provide Services including fulfilling orders, accessing PsycNet, etc. This includes Data you or others provided to us and Data obtained from your use of APA Digital Assets. There may be some instances where we retain Non-Personal Data in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data
You can access, change, or delete Your Data if you have a MyAPA account by logging into your account. You can also email us at privacy@apa.org or call 1-800-374-2721 or 202-336-5500 from anywhere.
We collect Your Data in many ways, most often where you provide it to us, and we provide you with several options for collecting, using, and sharing Your Data, including deleting or correcting Data you have provided to us. We offer you settings to control and manage Your Data through your MyAPA account.
For Personal Data that we have about you:
Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of Your Data (for example if you resign from being a member) and we will work hard to honor all requests in a timely manner. In some instances we may not be able to delete your Personal Data in order to comply with applicable laws (for example, it is necessary to keep the financial records of a transaction with you).
Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of Your Data through your My APA account. You can also ask us to change, update, or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of Your Data.
Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You have the right to see Your Data and take your data and we will work with you to be sure we can provide the most complete set of Your Data and a secure way to transfer Your Data.
Resignation/Account Closure: We will keep some of Your Data even after you resign your membership with APA or close your MyAPA account in order to fulfill any final service requests. Please note that we will retain Your Data even after you have resigned your membership or closed your MyAPA account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain depersonalized Data after your account has been closed.
Your Data may continue to be accessed by others until they refresh their cache.
Please note that APA will not delete or restrict access to Data about you where you have published in an APA journal or other APA publication including Division journals and/or newsletters. We will not delete historical Data that reference your service to APA or its Divisions in governance. We will not delete any comments or posts you have made on any of APA’s social media accounts or on any other of APA’s Digital Assets.