This is the web site of the International Food Information Council Foundation ("IFIC Foundation"). This Online Privacy Policy is made available to you in order to make you aware of how the IFIC Foundation collects and uses individual identifying information from visitors to our web site. "Individual identifying information" is information that enables us to identify you, such as your name, address, e-mail address, or other information you provide to us or that is collected automatically during your visit to our web site.
The IFIC Foundation respects your privacy. We want to make use of individual identifying information that you provide to us for purposes of serving you better. The IFIC Foundation collects the following information regarding visitors to our web site: domain name from which the visitor came; information regarding which pages on our web site are accessed; name; address; telephone number; e-mail address; and other information volunteered by you in response to survey information within the web site, if any. We will never sell or share any of the individual identifying information with any third party without your consent or court order. You may review or update any of the individual identifying information that we collect online either directly on our web site or by sending an e-mail to foodinfo@ific.org.
We will be using your e-mail address to provide you with information we think you will be interested in, for example, to send you our newsletters, notify you of new publications, or inform you about updates to our web site. You can let us know at any time if you would prefer not to receive any or all of this information either directly on our web site or by sending an e-mail to foodinfo@ific.org.
We use "cookies" to track traffic patterns on our web site, to determine the usefulness of IFIC Foundation information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. A "cookie" is a small data file that the web site writes to your computer hard drive when you visit it. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other web sites. The IFIC Foundation does not correlate this information with data about individual users, nor does it share this information or sell it to any third party.
If you prefer not to receive cookies on the IFIC Foundation web site, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use any area of the IFIC Foundation web site.
You can reach us at any time by calling, writing or sending an e-mail to us:
International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation
1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 430
Washington, DC 20036
202-296-6540 (phone)
202-296-6547 (fax)
E-mail: foodinfo@ific.org
