Privacy Policy

Background

Your privacy is important to the National HIV Curriculum. The National HIV Curriculum is a free, educational Web site from the AIDS Education & Training Center and the University of Washington; this project is funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) The following sections summarize and disclose the information gathering and dissemination practices for our Web site.

Privacy and the Feedback Survey

The National HIV Curriculum Web site contains an optional, self-administered, online feedback survey. On our site, the survey is located in the Feedback header. The survey includes questions regarding the user’s geographic location, their employment, and specific feedback regarding the National HIV Curriculum Web site. The purpose of this feedback survey is to help us better understand the type and location of medical providers who are using the site and to evaluate comments from our users to improve our site. In this survey, we do not collect personally identifiable information.

Systems Logs for Web Site

System logs record information about the webpages served, including the URL of search engine used and text string, the browser identification, and the Web pages viewed. In addition, host information (either domain name or Internet Protocol address) can be accessed. The Internet Protocol address, however, does not identify you personally, but rather identifies the location you are computing from. We do collect IP addresses from those visiting our Web site to help diagnose problems with our server and to optimize the performance of our site. The information regarding the specific Internet Protocol address of the user will not be shared and will not be used to send any advertisements. With respect to Ad Servers, we do not have any relationship with any Ad Servers, nor do we intend to engage in any such relationships.

Registration

Registration information can include name, email address, mailing address, day and night phone number, education level, and income range. We use this information to contact users about services, courses, or training which they have purchased, requested information, or expressed interest. We do not sell or make available this information for any other reason or to any other party from which the user does not wish to have contact.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. Cookie data may be linked to personally identifiable information for data analysis and quality assurance purposes, but individual cookie data is never shared with or sold to any third parties.

Profile

We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences. This information is not tied to users' personally identifiable information. We do not share your profile with other third parties.

Log Files

Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Use of Intercom Services

We use third-party analytics services to help understand your usage of our services. In particular, we provide a limited amount of your information (such as your email address and sign-up date) to Intercom, Inc. (“Intercom”) and utilize Intercom to collect data for analytics purposes when you visit our website or use our product. Intercom analyzes your use of our website and/or product and tracks our relationship so that we can improve our service to you. We may also use Intercom as a medium for communications, either through email, or through messages within our product(s). As part of our service agreements, Intercom collects publicly available contact and social information related to you, such as your email address, gender, company, job title, photos, website URLs, social network handles and physical addresses, to enhance your user experience. For more information on the privacy practices of Intercom, please visit http://docs.intercom.io/privacy. Intercom’s services are governed by Intercom’s terms of use which can be found at http://docs.intercom.io/terms. If you would like to opt out of having this information collected by or submitted to Intercom, please contact us.