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The AMS uses personally identifiable information gathered on the public amsmusicology.org website to permit it to contact interested parties regarding its activities, services, and products; to permit members to contact each other directly; and to process requests and order forms.
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Personal information collected on the AMS website may be shared with a third party for operational purposes, such as a travel agency that helps process the hotel reservations for the AMS annual meeting. AMS may also selectively rent mailing lists of members, subscribers, or convention registrants to appropriate third parties, such as book publishers. Before renting a mailing list to a third party, the AMS reviews all the materials that will be mailed to ensure that they will be of interest to AMS members. Contact information is provided on the AMS website so that users may notify the AMS office at any time of errors in the information provided or to request that personal information not be shared with third parties.
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