Privacy Policy

Overview

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Thank you for visiting the Johns Hopkins University Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) website. This site does not collect personal information about users, other than information collected and stored automatically when someone visits our website, unless you choose to provide that information to us (see below).

Information Collected and Stored

When you visit any website, certain information can be collected. Our Web server automatically collects and stores the following information about your visit:

  • the IP address or name of the domain you use to access the Internet (for example, verizon.net if you are using a Verizon account)
  • address of the Web site that connected you to a CIDR Web site (such as google.com) as well as search words used
  • the date and time of your visit
  • the pages you viewed

We use this information for statistical purposes and to help make our site more useful to visitors. Site Meter software collects the data in the bulleted list above in an automatic and continuous fashion. The bulleted list is not inclusive of all non-personal information collected.

You do not have to give us personal information to visit our website. If you choose to provide additional information about yourself via an e-mail message, form, etc., we will maintain the information only as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.

Disclosure

CIDR does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or by statute.

Third Party Links

At our discretion, we may inlcude third party links on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

P3P Compliance

CIDR's public website complies with P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences Project) protocols. You can read our machine-readable P3P policy here. Questions about CIDR privacy policies should be sent to [email protected].

Your Consent

By using our website, you consent to our privacy policy.

Effective Date

The effective date of this policy was April 19, 2011.