Privacy Policy

The following Privacy Policy shall govern the collection or use of personal information provided to the Rockville Institute (the "Institute") from this web site (the "Site"). The Institute respects the privacy of every individual who visits our Site. We want you to understand what information the Institute will collect and how we will use that information. The Institute will exercise reasonable precautions to maintain the confidentiality of information provided by you in connection with accessing this Site. The Institute does not collect personal information about individuals from this Site except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals and will not sell, rent, or trade personal information about our users to any third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Institute may disclose personal information in special cases:

1. when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the Institute's rights, obligations, or property;
2. when, after good faith research, we believe that the law requires it;
3. to the Institute's business associates, as necessary to provide service or information to you that you have requested; and
4. in situations involving threats to the physical safety of any person.

The Institute is committed to the protection of the privacy and confidentiality of data obtained through its business and research activities. The Institute's internal and study-specific procedures routinely review the use of data to ensure that it is consistent with this policy, any individual authorization, and all applicable laws and international standards regarding privacy protection.

When you give us your personal information (such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address), we will not sell, trade, or give this information to any third party. The information about you will only be used to improve our relationship and service to you.

If you have provided us with your email address but do not want to receive email, we will respect your wishes. Just follow the "opt-out" procedure described in Section 7 below.

From time to time this Site may contain links to other sites. The Institute is NOT responsible for the privacy practices or the content on other web sites. The Institute does not disclose unique identifiers to those responsible for any linked sites. The linked sites, however, may collect personal information from you when you enter their site. This collecting of information is not subject to the Institute's control. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policies of the sites you visit when linking from this Site.

Although the use of "cookies" (i.e., small data files sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive in order to track usage behavior) is common on the Internet, the Institute does not use "cookie" technology to obtain information from online visitors to the Site or store any personal information in cookies. Some information may be stored in temporary session-only cookies solely to help manage sessions in interactive portions of the Site.

In an effort to safeguard your personal information, the Institute uses a variety of procedures to insure the security of the information you provide to us through this Site. Your personal information is protected by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). We use SSL encryption to protect online forms and other confidential information from interception and hacking. We use SSL because we believe that it provides reliable and secure operations infrastructure and comprehensive security, trust, and authentication practices.

The encryption technology used does not apply to email transmissions. Therefore, if your communication includes sensitive information , please contact us by postal mail, courier, telephone, or fax rather than by email.

The content of this Site and any data provided through this Site, are housed on secure servers.

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. We do not collect or maintain information at the Site from persons we know to be under age 13, and no part of our Site is designed to attract anyone under age 13. Please do not communicate with or contact us if you are under age 13.

You can contact the Institute to ask if we are keeping personal information about you which was gathered through this Site. If we do have personal information about you gathered through this Site, we will provide you with a readable copy of such personal information at no charge. Factual errors in your personal information, including out-of-date information, can be corrected by sending us a request that credibly shows our error.

We may decline or limit requests to access and/or delete personal information (a) where such requests are not required or authorized by applicable law, (b) when such requests would have a negative impact on the privacy of others, (c) to protect our rights and properties, or (d) where the request is frivolous or burdensome. We may seek to verify your identity when we receive your request to ensure the security of your personal information.

You may always opt-out of receiving communications from us and/or from receiving or maintaining your personal information (such as your name, address and/or other contact information that you provide when you communicate with us through this site). To remove any personal information from our database or to not receive future communications from the Institute, contact us with the word "remove" in the subject line.

This website is hosted from the United States. Users located outside of the United States consent to the transfer of their data to the United States for processing and use in accordance with this privacy policy. The data you provide may be processed for any lawful purpose, including, for example, the specific purpose for which you have consented; performance of a contract or to enter into a contract with you; compliance with a legal obligation; protection of your or another natural person’s vital interests; performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority; or the legitimate interests of the data controller or of a third party, provided that individual interests, fundamental rights, and freedoms do not override those legitimate interests after reasonable consideration.

The Institute may revise this Privacy Policy over time as new features are added to the Site or as Privacy law and standards evolve. We will post those changes prominently, but we recommend that you read this Privacy Policy each time you visit the Site.