Rural Health Research Gateway

Privacy

The Rural Health Research Gateway (RHRG) provides this web site as a public service. RHRG does not collect personal information about you when you visit this web site, other than automatically collected information and any information you choose to provide.

Automatically Collected Information

The following information is automatically collected and temporarily stored about your visit to our web site:

  • IP address from which you access the Internet
  • name of the domain you use to access the Internet
    (for example, aol.com, if you are using an American Online account)
  • URLs of webpages which referred (linked) you to our site
  • browser used to access our site
  • date and time of your visit
  • pages you visited
  • words you searched for on our site

This information is used for statistical purposes and to help make the RHRG site more useful to visitors. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you.

Personally Provided Information

You do not have to provide any personal information to visit the RHRG web site.

If you choose to provide RHRG with personal information by sending an e-mail, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through this Web site, RHRG staff will use that information to respond to your message and provide you with the information or material that you request. Any personally identifiable information provided will be stored in a database. This information will be used solely for the purpose of improving the efforts of the Rural Health Research Gateway and keeping all users both past and present abreast of rural issues.

Disclosure

RHRG does not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party unless required by law.

Links to Other Sites

The RHRG site links to other Internet sites that provide information about rural health and human services. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. The RHRG site also provides e-mail addresses for certain contacts outside of the RHRG office. Correspondence sent to e-mail addresses outside of ruralhealthresearch.org is subject to the privacy policy of the contact’s organization.

Security

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, RHRG uses software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. In the event of authorized law enforcement investigations, and pursuant to any required legal process, information from these sources may be used to help identify an individual.

This web site includes content provided by and adapted from the Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine under a Cooperative Agreement with the University of North Dakota.