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Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and services.
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an anonymous basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information
You will provide us information about yourself when you register to be a member of the Resource Forum, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see The Family Carer Network servicing your needs and interests.
If you are registering in the Resource Forum and are under 13 years of age, or are a member of a protected population such as being physically or developmentally disabled, your parent or guardian must complete and return a form acknowledging your registration before your account can be activated. This information is stored by the Family Carer Network in order to provide functionality of the forums. This information can be changed or removed completely at any time.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site.
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our services and activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special events we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at dswanson@tre.org
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
As you use our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Protected Health Information (PHI) is individually identifiable health information. We are required by law to make sure that your PHI is kept private, provide you this notice, follow the terms of the notice currently in effect, and communicate any changes in the notice to you.
Instances where we may have to discolse information (NOT A COMPLETE LIST):
TRE does not share any personally identifiable information with any third parties unless it is required in the instances described above. All demographic information TRE collects for surveys and polls will be made anonymous and not identified with any individual. TRE may permit information from other organizations to be distributed to members of the Family Carer Network, but these organizations will never receive member information directly.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special events we think you will find valuable. As a member of this website, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request at dswanson@tre.org
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please contact dswanson@tre.org if you have any questions or concerns.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing dswanson@tre.org
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.