Privacy Policy

 

09.01.09

 

A Web site's privacy policy often has hidden messages that many users might miss at first glance. Click on each of the links below to decipher the AITES privacy policy.

 

The AITES team is committed to protecting your privacy. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer, and we are the sole owner of all information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that we have not mentioned in this statement.

 

Cookies

 

Like many other Web sites, the AITES portal uses cookies to identify members so they don't have to re-enter a user id and password when they, for example, wish to post to a discussion. Cookies also help us improve your in using the AITES portal day-to-day. If you do not have cookies enabled, you must enter your password each time you access our site or any of its member features.

 

Third parties

AITES will only provide professional and academic third parties with aggregate statistics about our AITES project and AITES portal to document progress, disseminate relevant information and present research findings. This data reflects site usage patterns gathered during participants visits to our Web site and information regarding AITES mini-grants but does not contain any identifying information about any individual member, unless that member has given us permission to share that information. We may also provide log files and other databases of user information to professional and academic third parties for analysis. AITES also may use third party companies to provide delivery of e-mail newsletters and other messages over e-mail.

Security

 

We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose in your browsing, chatting and submissions. Likewise, we only release this information to professional and academic third parties we believe share our commitment to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of these parties.

 

Obtaining your consent

 

By using our Web site, you give AITES permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics, preparing grant-related reports, and presenting research finding at professional venues. If you register at AITES, you authorize AITES to use information you. AITES may occasionally amend this policy. We suggest that you bookmark this page and check to see if it has changed from time to time.

 

Questions?

 

If you wish to change any information you have given us, or have any questions on our Privacy Policy, you may contact our Project Manager, Monica Kimbrell at mkimbrel@vt.edu.