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Disclaimer
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courtesy by HVTN. HVTN expressly
disclaims any representation or
warranty, express or implied,
concerning the accuracy,
completeness or fitness for a
particular purpose of the
information.
Persons accessing this
information assume full
responsibility for the use of
the information and understand
and agree that HVTN and its
funding agencies are not
responsible or liable for any
claim, loss or damage arising
from the use of the information.
Reference to specific products,
processes, or services does not
constitute or imply
recommendation or endorsement by
HVTN or any other agency or
organization.
The views and opinions of the
document authors do not
necessarily state or reflect
those of HANC or any funding
agencies. This information is
designed for educational
purposes only and is not
provided as a professional
service or as medical advice for
specific patients. It is not a
substitute for professional
medical care and if you have, or
suspect you may have, a health
problem, you should consult your
health care provider.
Privacy Policy
HVTN gathers two types of
information about users:
Information that users
provide through optional,
voluntary submissions. These are
voluntary submissions to
participate in our message
boards or forums, and from
participation in polls and
surveys; Information HVTN
gathers through aggregated
tracking information derived
mainly by tallying page views
throughout our sites. This
information allows us to better
tailor our content to readers '
needs and to help our partners
better understand the
demographics of our audience.
Under no circumstances does HVTN
divulge any information about an
individual user to a third
party. HVTN Gathers User
Information In The Following
Processes:
Optional Voluntary
Information
We offer the following
services, which require some
type of voluntary submission of
personal information by users:
Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site 's Message
Boards and Forums may be
required to register separately
for these services in order to
post messages, although they
need not register to visit the
site. During registration the
user is required to supply a
username, password, and email
address.
Surveys
HVTN may occasionally conduct
user surveys to better target
our content to our audience. We
sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these
surveys with our funding
partners. We never share any of
this information about specific
individuals with any third
party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal
Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA),
we will never knowingly request
personally identifiable
information from anyone under
the age of 13 without requesting
parental consent.
Usage tracking
HVTN tracks user traffic
patterns throughout our site.
However, we do not correlate
this information with data about
individual users. HVTN does
break down overall usage
statistics according to a user
's domain name, browser type,
and MIME type by reading this
information from the browser
string (information contained in
every user 's browser).
HVTN may track and catalog
the search terms entered in our
Search function, but this
tracking is never associated
with individual users. We use
tracking information to
determine which areas of our
sites users like and don 't like
based on traffic to those areas.
We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall.
Use of Information
We use information that users
voluntarily provide to enable
users to participate in polls,
surveys, message boards, and
forums.