The
Ethics Resource Center is committed to maintaining your confidence
and trust, and recognizes your right to keep personal information
private. We maintain the following privacy policy to protect personal
information you provide online.
- Basic
Privacy Policy
We will
collect no personal information about you when you visit our
website unless you choose to provide that information to us.
If you choose to provide personal information, such as your
name, postal and e-mail address or telephone number, we will
consider and keep that information private and confidential.
-
No
Computer Tracking of Identifiable Information
When you
visit our site to view any pages or use our online reference
materials, you do so without telling us who you are and without
revealing any personal information. You are free to browse our
site without entering any personal information and therefore
remain anonymous during your visit.
While we
do not collect identifying information about visitors to our
site, we do use standard software to automatically collect the
following information about your visit for the strict purpose
of tracking activity on our site:
- The Internet
domain and IP address from which you access our website;
- The type
of browser and operating system used to access our site;
- The date
and time you access our site;
- The pages
you visit; and
- If you
linked to our site fromanother website, the address of that
website.
We use this
information to help us make our site more useful to visitors by
learning about the number of visitors to our site, the types of
technology our visitors use, and which pages and features are
most popular. This information does not identify you personally,
and we do not track or record information about individuals and
their visits.
- Information
Collected from E-mails and Web Forms
There are
instances where you may elect to provide us with personal information.
If you fill
out one of our feedback or request forms or send us email, you
are transmitting the information that appears to you in the
form or the message. This will typically include information
like your name, mailing address, email address, the kind of
request you are making, and any other information necessary
to fulfill your request.
This information
is used internally for the purpose of fulfilling the request
or for contacting you directly and is not given or sold to any
other organization. Your feedback may be used to administer
or improve or promote the site, but we will not publish your
name in association with any information you provide without
contacting you and gaining your permission.
If you
make a request for information or order one of our publications,
the information you submit may also be entered into our internal
stakeholder database. If at any time you choose not to be listed
in our database, you may request that your name be omitted by
sending an e-mail to ethics@ethics.org
and asking that your name be removed from the stakeholder database.
- No
Release of Information to Third Parties
Personal
information will not be released to third parties except as
necessary to further the purpose for which you provide the information,
such as sending your name to the mailing company which prepares
the labels for our newsletter, and where it is legally required,
such as in the investigation of a criminal offence, and in compliance
with a search warrant or subpoena.
- Off
Site Links
The ERC
is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any
site that is linked to this one. Your activity on those sites
is covered by the privacy policies on those sites.
We hope you
find our website useful and informative and are always willing to
answer questions and receive suggestions. If you have either, please
e-mail the webmaster.
Thank you.
* We reserve
the right to change our privacy policy. A revised policy statement
will only apply to data collected subsequent to its effective date.
Any revisions will be posted at least 30 days prior to its effective
date.
