Privacy Policy

AVAR respects the privacy of our veterinary members, consultants, and contributors. We will use your contact information to notify you, through alerts and newsletters, about our organization and program news. We never use telemarketing as a means of contacting you.

We use our contributor's contact information for trade (name and address only) with other similar groups in order to increase the effectiveness of our fundraising efforts. We have a strict policy, however, to never release someone's name if the person has requested that we not do so. Such people have their records marked 'private' and no release of information will occur. We will also use our contributor's contact information to solicit donations for our organization via the mail.

We provide our veterinary member's contact information to other animal protection organizations after a request is made for names of veterinarians to contact for assistance with an animal protection matter. We also provide a state list of member veterinarians to individuals who seek to use a veterinarian in a client relationship. We do not sell or trade veterinary member names. A veterinary member or consultant can also ask to have their records marked 'private' and no release of information will occur.

If you are on our mailing list and would like to not have your name shared with other groups, simply e-mail us and give us enough information to identify you in our records, and we will honor this request. The best e-mail address to use is teri@avar.org.

If you are using our on-line contributor or member application form, you can indicate your wish for privacy in the comment section after you print the form.