ESS may use your personal information in the performance of any contract we enter into with you, to comply with legal obligations, or where ESS has a legitimate business interest in using your information to enhance the services and products we provide. Legitimate business purposes include but are not limited to one or all of the following: providing direct marketing and assessing the effectiveness of promotions and advertising; modifying, improving or personalizing our services, products and communications; detecting fraud; investigating suspicious activity and other limited circumstances (including, but not limited to, reporting to law enforcement authorities, in response to subpoenas, or to fulfill our mission). In addition, we may use your information in the following ways (after obtaining your consent, if required): To provide you with information about products and services that you request from us including fulfilling our services and mission. ESS offers the following services to its members; provides the opportunity for members to network, present their research, hear the latest research in the field, and learn about career-related matters at ESS’s annual meeting.

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ESS recognizes the accomplishments of its members through awards and it subsidizes the cost of attending meetings for members who meet income criteria; publishes a journal, Sociological Forum, which is available to all ESS members. The journal is available digitally or members can request to get a hard copy from ESS’s publisher, Wiley Publications, Inc.; provides the opportunity for members to learn about job opportunities, publication opportunities, conference presentation opportunities; helps promote, through its various committees, members’ research and recognizes scholars who have contributed to ESS and to sociological scholarship, pedagogy, social advocacy, and social justice. For any other purpose that we may notify you of from time to time.

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We may disclose your information to third parties in order to perform services you request, including, but not limited to, sending your mailing address information to our publisher to mail a copy of our journal if you told us to send you a paper copy. If you object to our using your information for facilitation of our services, you may inform us via email at ess@wpunj.edu, general mail at Eastern Sociological Society-William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Raubinger 448, Wayne, NJ 07470, or by phone at 973-720-3689 and we will observe your request.

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We keep your membership information, like your name, email address, and password, for as long as your membership is active because we need it to provide you services. When you cease to be a member, we keep information about you long enough to determine that you are no longer interested in being a member and long enough to ensure accurate record keeping. Information that you provide for a specific purpose, such as dietary needs for event planning purposes, will be maintained only as long as necessary for event administration. We also retain information to comply with applicable law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, collect any fees owed, or other actions permitted by law. We will use appropriate physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect your data. Access to your personal data will be restricted to only those who need to know that information and required to perform their job function.

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