Thank you for visiting the AHRQ WebM&M and AHRQ PSNet sites. |
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The site is produced by an editorial team at the University of California, San Francisco under a contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
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We collect no
personal information about you when you visit our Web site, unless
you choose to provide that information to us. |
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Information Automatically Collected and Stored |
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When you browse through any Web site, read pages, or download information, certain information about your visit can be collected. However, we do not collect any information about your visit, and we do not record information about individual behavior or use of the site. AHRQ PSNet’s site uses session cookies, so that you only have to log in once per visit. |
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What is a cookie? |
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A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser-along with a Web page-when you access a Web site. There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's memory. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file on your hard drive. |
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AHRQ PSNet and AHRQ WebM&M only use session cookies, and we do so only so that users do not have to log in multiple times during a single visit. We do not use any persistent cookies. |
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Personally Provided
Information |
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You do not have to give us any personal information to visit our Web site and browse its content. |
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To contribute a case to AHRQ WebM&M, we require you to
register and log on for two reasons: (1) to contact you, if necessary, for
additional information about the case, and (2) to provide you with an
honorarium if your case is selected for posting. Although some readers will be
comfortable logging in with their usual e-mail address, others may wish to
create or use a new address that contains no identifying information. There are
several commercial sites that allow one to create a free, anonymous e-mail
address. They include www.mail.yahoo.com or www.hotmail.com. |
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In addition, so that we can better understand our readers, we may occasionally send out a voluntary survey, in which you may choose to provide basic information. All registered users of AHRQ PSNet and AHRQ WebM&M have the option to receive periodic newsletters and surveys. |
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If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., 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. |
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However, note that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. |
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All communications to the Web site mailbox are removed from the server. |
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Disclosure |
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The AHRQ PSNet and AHRQ WebM&M sites do not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required by law enforcement or statute. |
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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. |
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Systems of
Records |
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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. |
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Links to Other
Sites |
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Our Web site has links to other Federal agencies. We also have selected links to other Web resources. 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. |
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