Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics
Privacy Notice
Thank you for visiting the Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) Web site and for reviewing our Privacy Policy.
We collect no personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored
When you browse through any Web site, read pages, or download information, certain information about your visit can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your visit, but this information does not identify you personally:
- The name of the domain you use to access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are using an America Online account, or stanford.edu, if you are connecting from Stanford University's domain).
- The type of browser and operating system you use to access our site.
- The date and time of your visit.
- The pages you visited.
- The address of the Web site you came from, if you were referred from another site.
We use this information for statistics on the traffic to our site, to find out about general user interest in various areas of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
No additional information is collected about your visit, and we do not record information about individual behavior or use of the site.
Personally Provided Information
You do not have to give us personal information to visit our Web site.
If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an E-mail message, we use that information only to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. The information provided is handled on a confidential basis within CERTs.
Disclosure
CERTs does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or by statute.
Intrusion Detection
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Such attempts are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Systems of Records
Electronically submitted information is maintained and destroyed according to the principles of the Federal Records Act and regulations and guidance from the National Archives and Records Administration, and in some cases may be subject to the Privacy Act. If information that you submit is to be used in a Privacy Act system of records, there will be a Privacy Act Notice provided.
Links to Other Sites
Our Web site has links to Federal agencies and participating institutions in CERTs. The privacy policy described here does not necessarily apply to those other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.