The Food Allergy Research & Education Data Coordinating Center Portal is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Statement applies to the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal site and governs data collection and usage. By using the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal only collects personally identifiable information needed to issue user accounts for users, such as your name, email address, and telephone number. The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal will not ask for demographic information such as your ZIP code, age, gender, etc. We may collect information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically captured by the web server. This information can include: your IP address, computer hardware, operating system, browser type, computer name, access date and time, and referring website address. This information is used by the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal message boards or profile entries, this information could be collected and used by others.
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the FARE Data Coordinating Center of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal does not use or disclose sensitive personal information.
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal pages, or register with the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal site or services, a cookie helps the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as organizational affiliation, DCC-related roles, and so on. When you return to the same FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal services or other Community Portal websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
Changes to this Statement
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and governmental requirements. The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal is protecting your information.
Contact Information
The FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the FARE Data Coordinating Center Portal has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at FAREDCC@westat.com.