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CRS Privacy Policy

 

Commitment to Privacy

The Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania is committed to providing access to services and information online in a manner that respects and protects your privacy.This statement describes our information collection practices and explains how we use and protect your personal information

Scope

This statement applies only to information collected by this web site.

What we collect and why

We collect the following types of information about you:

  • Personally identifiable information that you provide voluntarily. This includes information submitted through the “Contact Us” section of the website.

This information is used to process your request or your gift and to provide you with better service.

  • Auto-collected information (web logs). Our web server automatically recognizes the Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed our web site, the date and time of your visit, and the pages you visited on our site. This information is used to help us understand aggregate uses of our site, track usage trends, and improve our services. This information is retained on a temporary basis and then deleted completely from our systems.

 

Cookies

Cookies are files that many web sites transfer to users' hard drives to enable the site to deliver personalized services or to provide persistent authentication. The information contained in a cookie typically includes information collected automatically by the web server and/or information provided voluntarily by the user. Our web site does not use cookie technology.

Security

Our office is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We have put in place reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access to, or use of, the information collected online. Our credit card processing is provided by name of vendor, eg, Verisign. , and no credit card information is stored at the University.

Sharing your information

We will not share your information with third parties except :

  • as required by law,
  • as necessary to protect the University's interests,
  • with service providers acting on our behalf who have agreed in writing to protect the confidentiality of the data, or
  • in instances that you permit OR in accordance with your consent.

Links to other web sites

This site may contain links to other web sites not affiliated with our office. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites, including other University of Pennsylvania sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of other sites for assurance that their practices safeguard your privacy.

Children under 13

This web site is intended for use by people aged 13 or older.  If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address.  In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.  If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.

Contact Us

We welcome suggestions and questions about our privacy statement. If you have questions about privacy at Penn overall, please send email to privacy@pobox.upenn.edu, call 1-888-BEN-TIPS (1-888-236-8477), or visit www.upenn.edu/privacy

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