Our basic privacy policy is simple: in general, unless you have given us your expressed permission, we will never sell, share, exchange, or rent any personally identifiable information you give us. You will find more specific details below.

Registration

Some parts of our site are open only to registered users. You may be asked to give contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you as necessary. You may also be asked to provide demographic information (such as zip code, age or gender) so we can learn more about who is using our site. We might share aggregated demographic statistics about the users of our site with other organizations. We will never share specific individual information about a user without that user's consent.

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data sent to your computer when you visit a website that help tailor the site's use to your interests and needs. For instance, by receiving a cookie from our site, a user might not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site.

We use session cookies, which are not retained on your computer once you have left the site. If your browser refuses to accept cookies, parts of the site that require user registration may not be available to you.

Log Files

 

Like most websites, we log your computer address and page accesses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement through the site, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use, and identify potential attempts to break into the site. Generally, this information is not linked to your registration or other personally identifiable information, and any personally identifiable information would not be available without your permission. There is one obvious exception to this policy: if we discover that our site is being attacked, we will collect all of the information that we can find about the attacker, and cheerfully hand it over to the appropriate authorities.

Comments

 

We encourage your comments and suggestions about how we can improve our website. Personal information provided with these comments is used internally only to respond to specific comments, and will never be shared without your permission.

We may ask you to participate in a survey. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary. Survey information will be used for purposes of science education or improving the use of and satisfaction with this site.

Links

 

Our website contains links to other websites. We aren't responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware of what other sites may do with your information.

Notification of Changes

 

If we ever decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will request permission from you before any such new use. Without specific permission from you, we will use information in accordance with the privacy policy in effect when your personal information was collected.