Indiana Institute on Disability and Community Web Privacy Policy

Indiana Institute on Disability and Community

Web Privacy Policy

The Indiana Institute on Disability and Community wants you to be knowledgeable about your online experience and for your experience to be informative, safe, and secure. Below is the Institute’s web privacy policy.

The confidentiality of information collected from your use of our web site is important to us. We want you to know that it will be used only for internal purposes; therefore, the Institute does not sell, trade, or share information about you to other entities unless otherwise stated on the web site or required by law to do so.

How is the Information Collected Online Used?

Surveys

The Institute conducts online surveys as part of our research activities. Data collected from the surveys will be handled following human subjects confidentiality standards established by federal regulations (45 CFR Part 46) to ensure protection of the participants.

Registration Forms & Questionnaires

Information collected about you on our online registration forms and questionnaires is used only for the purpose stated. The information will remain within the Institute, protected by this privacy policy, and will not be shared, sold, or traded with any other entity unless otherwise stated on the web site or required by law to do so.

Cookies are online identification tags that allow us to recognize your computer each time you visit our site; however, they do not allow us to identify you by name, e-mail address, or other personal characteristics. This information is used only to evaluate use of our web site. By gathering this information, we can better estimate how many people visit our site and how many of those individuals are return visitors.

IP Address

The IP address is the number assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. Like the cookie, the IP address does not allow us to identify you by name, e-mail address, or other personal characteristics. The IP address is only used internally to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our web site, and to gather broad demographic information for evaluation purposes. Your ability to access our site has been optimized by our use of your IP address.

External Sites

The Institute’s site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.

Security

For site security purposes and to ensure that service remains available to all users, the Institute employs software programs to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to the web site.

Children’s Guidelines

Parents should always be involved with their children’s activity on the web. Our web site gives children the ability to contribute material to be posted on the web without prior parental consent; however, we have undertaken an effort to develop appropriate guidelines related to the posting of such material to protect your child. Even with our efforts to implement children’s guidelines, we encourage parents to participate with their children and monitor their usage
whenever they are using the Internet.

If you have any questions about our site or comments about how we can improve it, you can always contact us.

Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
2853 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47408-2696
Phone: 812/855-6508
Fax: 812/855-9630
TT: 812/855-9396
iidc@indiana.edu

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Modified: 12/13/06