How Is Personal Information Used?

Personal information is used by Chapin Hall for the purpose stated at the time it is collected, e.g., to reply to a question or inquiry or to provide a requested service or product, such as electronic newsletters and alerts. Such personal information is not used for unrelated purposes.

It is Chapin Hall’s policy never to share, trade, sell or otherwise disclose personal information to third parties without the registered users’ informed consent or direction except where required by law, e.g. through subpoena, warrant or other legal process.

Use of Server Logs

Chapin Hall’s web servers log the standard information about website users including the IP address of the user, domain of the user, URLs visited, and the date/time visited. We use this information to generate aggregate reports which summarize our website traffic, which we use to improve our site and its usability for our visitors. We do not attempt to track individual users and we do not link the web log information to any other database with the purpose of identifying individual website users except in the case of malicious use.

Use of Cookies

The Chapin Hall website makes use of “cookies” in order to identify user sessions and maintain information within sessions. The Chapin Hall website makes use of “cookies” in order to identify user sessions, maintain information within sessions, and identity customers when they re-visit our site, so they do not have to re-register. We do not use cookie information to identify users in any way except as noted above.

Note: If one were to visit the Chapin Hall epublishing database with cookies disabled, one would not be able to download publications.

Links to Third-Party Sites

Chapin Hall may provide links to third-party sites but assumes no responsibility for the information practices of websites a user is able to access through ours. Chapin Hall encourages all web visitors to review the privacy policies and statements of all externally-linked websites. There is no third-party advertising on the Chapin Hall web site.

Change to Privacy Policy

Chapin Hall will notify registered users when changes in its privacy policy occur.

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