Thank you for visiting the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy and reviewing our Privacy Policy Statement. All individual agency web sites of the State of Arizona are required to contain a Privacy Policy Statement to inform you about the information that could be collected online as a result of visiting or requesting a service, how that information will be used, and what steps are being taken to ensure the security of customer data. Your rights to privacy are of utmost importance to the State of Arizona in building trust and confidence when conducting business through the Internet.

The Arizona State Board of Pharmacy offers access to its public information online that you might otherwise request in person. Our goal is to provide citizens with a more convenient and efficient means in which to interact with Arizona government. If at any time you choose not to proceed with a transaction offered online, your choice will in no way affect your ability to receive benefits or services another way. If you prefer to request information from us in person, you may still do so at our office.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically by Cookies
We do not use "cookies" to gather information during your visit unless we are conducting a survey and need them to prevent duplicate results. The web server that hosts the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy site does gather certain information about the visit automatically in a standard log file. This information never identifies you personally and consists of only the following items:

We use this information to gather statistics about the amount of use the site receives. Again, we do not automatically record information about you as an individual. This information is not shared, sold, or otherwise disseminated by the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy.

When, from time to time, we present a survey page on the site, use of cookies is limited to the minimum function necessary to prevent duplication of survey results from that page. A cookie is only transmitted at the time you submit the survey to us and consists of a unique text string to be stored on your computer and only retrieved in the event you return a subsequent survey to us. You can always avoid receiving the cookie by not submitting the survey to us. You can also refuse the cookie or delete the cookie file from your computer system by selecting various options on your computer's operating system. Refer to your browser's help facility for the specific instructions about deleting, disabling, or refusing cookies.

Information collected from an application submitted online will be treated in the same manner as the information collected from an application submitted on a hard copy to the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy. The information you disclose will generally become a matter of public record pursuant to A. R. S. §§ 39-121, et seq., which means that the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy may be required to divulge certain information in response to a public records request or in response to a warrant, subpoena, or other court order. We may require that you enter personal information (e.g., your name, home address, birth date, social security number, and credit card number) when applying for certain benefits and services. These services may also reference common infrastructure utilities that provide the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy with a means to obtain specific information or to facilitate a specific functional requirement of the online transaction being requested.

As an example, AZ.gov™ maintains a central credit card payment interface that the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy uses as part of our online services applications. This utility will accept only the pertinent credit card authorization data necessary to validate and fulfill the purchase. The cardholder's name, credit card number, and expiration date are obtained by the utility and used only to complete the credit card payment portion of the online transaction. The data is used only for the fulfillment of the payment and is not retained by the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy nor AZ.gov™.

Please be assured that your personal information will be held in strictest confidence while AZ.gov™ processes your online transaction and will not be shared, sold, or otherwise disseminated to any outside person or entity, except as required or authorized by law.

Though the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy does not specifically request information from children, as a State agency we would comply with the Children's Online Privacy Policy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), requiring parental consent before we collected any personal information from an individual under the age of 13. The text of COPPA is available at http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm.

The Arizona State Board of Pharmacy and its consultants have taken several steps to safeguard the integrity of its computer systems and networks. These steps include, but are not limited to, individual authentication, the security of transmitted data, security monitoring, auditing, and encryption of information. Security methods and measures have been integrated into the design, implementation and day-to-day practices of the entire Arizona State Board of Pharmacy website.

Neither the State of Arizona, nor any agency, officer, employee, or contractor of the State of Arizona warrants the accuracy, reliability, or timeliness of any information published by this system, nor endorses any content, viewpoints, products, or services linked from this system, and shall not be held liable for any losses caused by reliance on the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of such information. Portions of such information may be inaccurate or outdated. Any person or entity that relies on any information obtained from this system does so at his or her own risk.

This policy may be updated or revised from time to time, so please check back periodically in order to receive advance notice of any substantive changes to the manner in which the information you disclose on this web site may be collected, used, or disseminated.

To offer comments about the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy website, or about the information presented in this Privacy Policy, please contact our Executive Secretary via e-mail at chunter@azpharmacy.gov or:

If you choose to provide us with personal information - by filling out a form or a survey with your personal information and submitting it to us from this website - we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested or register your opinion. We only share the information you provide with another agency if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. Moreover, we do not create an individual profile with the information you provide or give it to any private organizations. The Arizona State Board of Pharmacy does not collect information for commercial marketing. Any comments collected are themselves subject to the protections of the privacy policy.