Privacy Policy
July 20th, 2009
Introduction
This website is owned by The Harrington Institute (“we”). We reserve the right to make changes and corrections to our website and our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at any time, without notice. By using or accessing our website you indicate your consent to the collection and use of such information in accordance with the following Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue your access or use of our website.
Information Collected
While you can generally visit public areas of our website without revealing any personal details, in certain circumstances, the Harrington Institute may request that you provide your name, address, email address, and/or telephone number, or other personal information. We also may collect information about the IP address from where a user originates and use “cookies” to track user sessions and page views on our website.
Disclosure of Information
The Harrington Institute may use your information to communicate with you, to update you on our services and benefits, and to personalize our website for you. Subject to the exceptions provided in the next paragraph, we will not disclose your personally identifiable details to any organization outside The Harrington Institute and its affiliates.
Exceptions
If necessary, as may be determined by The Harrington Institute, to prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, defend intellectual property rights, protect against abuse of our website, protect the Harrington Institute or another from liability, protect someone’s safety, or comply with law or law enforcement-related requests, we may provide the information we collect about you to third parties. We may also provide your personal information to third parties acting under our direction for the purposes of marketing the Harrington Institute products and services.
Consent to Collect, Process and Transfer Data
The data we collect through our website may be processed and transferred to the Harrington Institute affiliates throughout the world. Such transfers may include personal data you provide or that is automatically collected or processed during the course of your activities on or use of our website. The legal systems in some or all of the countries to which your details may be transferred may only provide limited protection for personal data, and law enforcement agencies may have greater access to such data than exists in the country of your residence. You agree that you will not have the ability to control or prevent the processing, use or transfer of your personal data. By using our website, you expressly consent to any collection, processing, transfer and use of any such personal data.
Security
The Harrington Institute believes it employs appropriate technical security measures to protect your personal data and ensure that it is not accessed by unauthorized persons.
Relationships
The Harrington Institute’s Privacy Policy addresses the use and disclosure of information collected via the unrestricted portion of our website only, and does not affect any the use or disclosure of information in any other relationship that you or your company may have with the Harrington Institute or any of its affiliates.