Nurse Faculty Scholars Network is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the Nurse Faculty Scholars Network site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Nurse Faculty Scholars Network site, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network collects personally identifiable information, such as your email
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Nurse Faculty Scholars Network also
collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as
your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Nurse Faculty Scholars Network. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This
information is used by Nurse Faculty Scholars Network for the operation of the service, to
maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Nurse Faculty Scholars Network site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Nurse Faculty Scholars Network public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Nurse Faculty Scholars Network
does not read any of your private online communications.
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Nurse Faculty Scholars Network so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Nurse Faculty Scholars Network is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Nurse Faculty Scholars Network
and Nurse Faculty Scholars Network family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network collects and uses your personal information to operate the Nurse Faculty Scholars Network
Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Nurse Faculty Scholars Network also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from Nurse Faculty Scholars Network and its affiliates. Nurse Faculty Scholars Network may also
contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business
partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases,
your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Nurse Faculty Scholars Network
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send
you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to
provide these services to Nurse Faculty Scholars Network, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network, in order to determine what Nurse Faculty Scholars Network services are
the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Nurse Faculty Scholars Network to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice,
only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Nurse Faculty Scholars Network or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Nurse Faculty Scholars Network; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect
the personal safety of users of Nurse Faculty Scholars Network, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Nurse Faculty Scholars Network Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online
experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page
server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save
you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Nurse Faculty Scholars Network pages, or
register with Nurse Faculty Scholars Network site or services, a cookie helps Nurse Faculty Scholars Network
to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process
of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses,
and so on. When you return to the same Nurse Faculty Scholars Network Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Nurse Faculty Scholars Network
features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Nurse Faculty Scholars Network services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Nurse Faculty Scholars Network secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use
of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Nurse Faculty Scholars Network encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Nurse Faculty Scholars Network is protecting your
information.
Contact Information
Nurse Faculty Scholars Network welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Nurse Faculty Scholars Network has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Nurse Faculty Scholars Network at admin@nursefacultyscholarsnetwork.org.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.