Population and Health InfoShare Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy covers the treatment of information that is collected when you use Population and Health InfoShare's website or services. The website and services are managed by the Population Reference Bureau. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that PRB does not own or control or to people that PRB does not employ or manage.

Protecting your privacy and your information is a priority at PRB. We have taken careful measures to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of your information. Once we receive the information that you enter into the InfoShare website, it is stored behind a firewall. PRB employees are made aware of our privacy and security policies through our Employee Handbook. PRB shares personally identifiable information with employees who need it in order to perform their jobs. PRB will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. PRB may send personally identifiable information about you to other organizations or people when:

We have your consent to share the information.
We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested.
We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of PRB to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.)
We are responding to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.

Personal information that PRB collects includes your name, home and work phone numbers, address, and e-mail address. InfoShare maintains electronic newsletters that you may subscribe or unsubscribe to at any time. Please use the website's "Subscribe" feature to subscribe or unsubscribe.

The InfoShare website does use "cookies." Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to allow you to navigate between different functional sections of our website without having to log in with every new page. The "Help" button on the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of the website's richest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to PRB's cookies.

PRB gives you the ability to review and edit any personally identifiable information that is stored on InfoShare. Please note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in the active user database.

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using software that encrypts information you input. PRB uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions. Please protect yourself against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. For more information, please e-mail PRB at popref@prb.org.

Security Notice

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

The information posted on this website may contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided for visitors' convenience. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any linked information. Further, the inclusion of links or pointers to websites other than the InfoShare website is not intended to assign importance to those sites and the information contained therein, nor are they intended to endorse, recommend, or favor any views expressed, or commercial products or services offered on these outside sites, or the organizations sponsoring the sites, by trade name, trademark, manufacture, or otherwise.

Reference in InfoShare to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the site's visitor's, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by PRB.

The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of PRB, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Disclaimer of Liability

Every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information. However, with the thousands of materials available, often uploaded within short deadlines by different organizations, we cannot guarantee that there will be no errors. We make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of InfoShare and expressly disclaim liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website.

With respect to the content of the InfoShare website, PRB does not make any warranty, expressed or implied or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, and the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to content available from this website or other Internet resources linked from it. Additionally, PRB does not assume any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product, or process disclosed herein nor freedom from computer virus, and do not represent that use of such information, product, or process would not infringe on privately owned rights.

Links to this Website

You may freely link to the InfoShare website or any of its content. We ask only that you identify that the link is to an Internet resource.

Links to Other Sites

The InfoShare website has links to government agencies and to private organizations we believe are relevant to the site's mission. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the disclaimers and security and privacy policies of the new site.

Copyright Notice

Please contact the relevant organization/s for permission to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use content posted on InfoShare. If a copyright is indicated on a photo, graphic, or any other material, permission to copy these materials must be obtained from the original source. The Population Reference Bureau will not be held liable for copyright infringements on documents obtained through InfoShare.

PRB content is protected by U.S. copyright law. We encourage the use of PRB material by others, but ask that you contact us at permissions@prb.org to reproduce these materials for commercial use or for broad distribution. For personal noncommercial use, please credit the Population Reference Bureau and the particular publication as the source for the information.

Site Management

The Population Reference Bureau manages the overall information content, design, and, organization of InfoShare.

For More Information

If you have any questions or comments about the information presented on InfoShare, please contact us at phishare@prb.org.