Anonymity

“There may be some here who are not familiar with our Tradition of personal anonymity at the Public level:

“‘ Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, [TV,] and films.’

“ Thus we respectfully ask that no A.A. speaker – or, indeed, any A.A. member – be identified by full name in published or broadcast reports of our meetings, including reports on new media technologies such as the Internet.

“ The assurance of anonymity is essential in our effort to help other problem drinks who may wish to share our recovery program with us. An our Tradition of anonymity reminds us that A.A. principles come before personalities.”

Copyright A.A. World Services, Inc. Reprinted with permission.

Some areas of the Online Alano Club require a user name and password to enter. That practice ensures that search engines will not index those pages. In other areas, such as the public discussion forums, we encourage you not to post your full name or a photo. Ultimately, anonymity is an individual responsibility, for our own spiritual growth and out of respect for the anonymity of others, especially the newcomer.

Your Privacy

The Online Alano Club respects the privacy of every individual who visits. This privacy statement provides notice of the standards and terms under which the Online Alano Club protects the privacy of information supplied by visitors. This privacy statement provides notice of our information collection practices and of the ways in which your information may be used. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically to review this information.

The Information We Collect

The Online Alano Club may collect personally identifiable information in a variety of ways, including through online forms and other instances where visitors are invited to volunteer such information. The Online Alano Club may also collect information about how visitors use our web site, for example, by tracking the number of unique views received by the pages of the web site or the domains from which visitors originate. We may use "cookies" to track how visitors use our web site. A cookie is a script that a web server can store on the visitor’s computer and use to identify the visitor should they visit the web site again. While not all of the information that we collect from visitors is personally identifiable, it may be associated with personally identifiable information that visitors provide us through our web site. For example, nearly all discussion forums software uses cookies to keep track of which posts a visitor has already read.

How We Use Information

The Online Alano Club may use personally identifiable information collected through our web site to contact visitors regarding new activities services. The Online Alano Club may also use information collected through our web site for research regarding the effectiveness of the web site.

Disclosure of Information

The Online Alano Club does not lend, lease, sell, or otherwise transfer visitors’ personal information to any third party.

Maintenance of Information

Information about visitors and members that is maintained on our systems is protected using industry standard security measures. However, we cannot guarantee that the information submitted to, maintained on, or transmitted from our systems will be completely secure.