Thank you for visiting our Women's Center for Advancement website and for reviewing our Privacy Policy. Our policy is clear:

·         We collect no personally identifiable information (PII) about you unless you choose to provide that information to us.

·         Any PII you chose to provide is fully protected.

·         Non-PII information related to your visit to our websites may be automatically collected and temporarily stored.

(NOTE: For more information on your health information privacy and security rights or the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, please visit http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/index.html.) 

TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED

When you browse through any website, information about your visit can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your visit:

·         the name of the domain you use to access the Internet;

·         the date and time of your visit;

·         the pages you visited; and

·         the address of the website you came from when you came to visit.

We use SmarterStats Professional to collect and aggregate this information to create reports and analyses, which are used to help us make our site more useful to visitors. These data and reports are only available to web managers and other designated staff who require this information to perform their duties. Women's Center for Advancement retains the data from SmarterStats Professional as long as needed to support Women's Center for Advancement's mission. Again, there is no PII included in this data. 

SESSION AND PERSISTENT COOKIES

When visiting websites, a small text file called a "cookie" may be placed on your computer. This allows Women's Center for Advancement to collect non-PII data while you are navigating through the website. WCA uses two types of cookies on its websites:

·         Session cookies are temporary text files that expire when you leave our websites. When cookies expire, they are automatically deleted from your computer.

PERSONALLY PROVIDED INFORMATION

You do not have to give us personal information to visit our web site.

If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we will only retain the information as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.

However, note that all communications addressed to Women's Center for Advancement are maintained, as required by law, for historical purposes. These communications are archived on a monthly basis. All communications addressed to Women's Center for Advancement are protected by the Privacy Act which restricts our use of them, yet permits certain disclosures.

THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS

There may be third-party applications and/or services embedded on this site to improve its functionality. Our integration of these products is intended to provide a seamless user experience. Where applicable, privacy policies particular to these applications are provided.

DISCLOSURE

Women's Center for Advancement does not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or by statute.