Water Research Foundation - Privacy Policy

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Please feel free to browse this site; however, your access to, and use of, this site is subject to the following terms and conditions and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing this site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these terms and conditions.

Privacy Policy
The Foundation is committed to maintaining your privacy. It is our policy that personal information, such as your name, postal and e-mail address, or telephone number, is private and confidential. To help you understand our privacy policy, we are providing this notice.

The personal information we collect

Your Internet provider's domain name and browser are automatically recognized by our Web server. This information becomes part of our Web site statistics and is used to determine the value of our Web pages and to monitor our Web traffic. The information does not identify you personally. We do not acquire any more information about Web site visitors than is required by law or is otherwise necessary to provide a high level of service efficiently and securely.
Information you submit on our Web site forms, such as your name, phone, e-mail, address, etc. is stored on our servers for business processes such as event registration.

We will not sell, trade, or receive payment for licensing or disclosing your personal information.

How We Use Your Information

We do not share Web site visitor information with any other organizations. Web site files and tables are accessible to only those employees or technical providers who require it to perform their jobs.
Information you enter on the Web site such as your name, company, e-mail, phone, etc. is used by our staff to respond to your feedback and process your requests. We train all of our employees about the importance of privacy. We give access to information about Web site visitors only to those employees who require it to perform their jobs.
Subscribers and affiliated organizations' information is kept on file and used by Foundation staff, when necessary, for standard business operations.
When volunteering to participate in a research project or on a committee, your contact information will be shared with the necessary involved parties, such as our project managers and the principal investigator for a project.
Utilities that volunteer to participate in a project will have their contact information posted on the Web site in the Request for Proposals (RFP) section and the utility name will appear in the participant list on the project snapshot.
Individuals and organizations who submit a case study of their use of Foundation research will have their names and a contact email posted if permission is given during the case study interview.
Subscribers have the option to sign up for our e-mail newsletter, Research Direct™. The e-mail you provide will be used for this purpose. E-mail newsletters can be "unsubscribed" by following the link posted at the bottom of every newsletter. E-mail communication that is essential to our business operation cannot be excluded.
Subscribers may update their personal information, such as e-mail address, by logging into the subscriber-only section of our Web site.

Subscriber-only area
Entry into this area requires a username and password. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your username / password and restricted from sharing that password with non-Water Research Foundation subscribers. Upon login to this area, a "cookie" is placed on your computer. The cookie is a small program that resides on your computer hard drive and is for use with this Web site only. Cookies do not act maliciously on computer systems. They are merely text files that can be deleted at any time by the user. Cookies cannot be used to spread viruses and they cannot access your hard drive.

How we use cookies
Cookies allow the Web server to offer specific pages to you after a single login. After login, as you browse our site, access to subscriber-only areas is determined by checking your computer for the correct cookie. Subscribers who have disabled the cookie placed on their computer will be prompted to login to every restricted page.

Links to other sites
Information that we publish on the World Wide Web may contain links to other sites. All links to other sites found on this site are publicly available on the World Wide Web and are provided solely for the convenience of users. The Foundation makes no representations about any other Web site that you may access through this site. Unless expressly stated in writing, the Foundation does not endorse any products or services offered by any company or person linked to this site. Third-party internet sites and services accessible through links on our site have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of ours. We have neither responsibility nor liability for these independent policies or actions.

Third-party service providers
To bring you the most cost-effective site enhancements, the Foundation may partner with a third party technology provider, such as an e-newsletter service. When partnering with a third-party service provider, we will not share any more information than is necessary for the service, and we will make every reasonable effort to assure, by contract or otherwise, that the third party use our technology and services in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy.

Ad servers or banner advertising

We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. the Foundation does not endorse any products.

Information Security

We have appropriate security measures in place at our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.

Indemnification

You agree to fully indemnify the Foundation and to hold the Foundation harmless from any and all claims , demands, actions, or litigations (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) resulting from your acts, omissions, or representations in any way related to your access to, and/or use of, this site.

Waiver/severability

Any failure by the Foundation to enforce any provision of this policy shall not be construed as a continuing waiver of any rights under such provision. If any provision of this policy shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this policy and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses solely within our organization not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Limitation of liability and disclaimer of warranty:

The Foundation assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in this site or your downloading of any materials from this site.

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The Foundation makes no representations about any technical information, advice, or report available on this site. Users should contact qualified personnel to review any information on the Web site to determine its efficacy and applicability before any use. Placement of information on this site is not an endorsement or sponsorship of the creators or authors of the information. The display of a Foundation trademark or logo does not constitute an endorsement of any person or any product or service offered by such person.