Welcome to The Allen Institute for Brain Science (the “Allen Institute”) websites. The information on these websites (www.alleninstitute.org and www.brain-map.org) are provided as a courtesy by the Allen Institute. If you use the websites, you consent to the collection, storage and disclosure of information as described in this privacy policy. If you do not agree, please do not use these websites. Make sure to review the privacy policy regularly, since it may change at any time. You agree to the new privacy policy if you use these websites after it changes. Any term that is capitalized but is not defined in this privacy policy is defined in the Terms of Use.
Information Collection
There are two types of information we collect: information you submit to us and information automatically recorded by our computer server. Please be assured we will not sell or rent information collected during your visits to the website to any third party. However, we may need to provide such information to a third party if required by grant obligations or by law.
IP Address
For all visitors to our websites, our servers log your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer every time you browse the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers and otherwise to administer the websites. To maintain your anonymity, we do not associate your IP address with any personal information, unless we need to personally identify you in order to enforce our legal rights or when required by the law.
Cookies
We may also place small data files called “cookies” in the browser file of your computer’s hard drive. These cookies automatically identify your browser to our server when you interact with our websites. We use the cookies to carry information about usage from page to page through the websites. We do not use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer.
Aggregate Information
We use general aggregate traffic and website usage information derived from automatically collected mechanisms including cookies for statistical reporting. For example, we may publicly report in presentations, and there may be articles about us in the media, that includes usage trends and names of organizations (based on IP addresses) that use the websites. We may share such reporting with organizations with which we have a business relationship. We also use the traffic and usage information to help us understand usage and inform us regarding improvements to our websites. In all cases, our use of the data is not personally identifying (though, we may identify the users’ organization via the domain name associated with the IP address).
Search Related Information
If you want to run a search on the websites, you are asked to provide us with the information necessary to complete your search request. We do not save search requests or search results.
Information You Submit
If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an email message, form, survey, etc., we will not provide this information to third parties. The information you submit is maintained on a confidential basis and disclosed only as outlined in this privacy policy.
Disclosures for Legal Reasons
Notwithstanding any other provision of this privacy policy, we may disclose any information collected through the websites when we believe in our sole discretion that disclosure is necessary to:
Links
This privacy policy applies only to information collected through our websites. Other websites (including those that we may link to) may be governed by other policies. You should read the privacy policies of each website you visit to determine what information the website may be collecting about you.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail us at info@alleninstitute.org.
Last updated: October 1, 2009