About USIP

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the United States Institute of Peace Web site. USIP takes the safeguarding of your personal information seriously.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

We do not require you to provide any personal information to access and browse our Web site or to use most of our online services.

We do not collect personal information about our visitors unless you choose to provide this information to us via e-mail or by filling out an online form.

If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending us an e-mail, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through our Web site to register for an event, obtain a publication, or join a mailing list, we use that information only to fulfill your request or respond to your inquiry.

If you complete an online survey, USIP collects and stores responses anonymously. You are not required to complete any survey to use any feature of USIP's Web site.

The date and time you access our site; how long you remained on our site; the domain from which you access the Internet; and the referring sites from which you linked to us are the types of information automatically collected and stored to measure the number of visitors to different sections of our site, find out what information is the most viewed, and to help us make our Web site more useful to visitors.

Cookies
Our site does not use persistent cookies, which are small files that are stored on a user's hard drive and used to monitor web browsing activity. Instead, USIP automatically creates session cookies when you access our Web site that are automatically deleted once you close your browser window. Session cookies do not collect information from a user's hard drive, rather, they collect and store information in the form of a session.

Links to Other Web sites
Documents posted on this Web site may contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided for visitors' convenience. A user is subject to that site's privacy policy upon leaving USIP's Web site. USIP does not endorse the content on Web sites that it has linked to. These links are provided purely for reference purposes.