Privacy Policy

hank you for visiting the Internet Stroke Center at Washington University and reviewing our privacy policy.

The Internet Stroke Center is committed to protecting your privacy. We do not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about visitors to our site, unless required for law enforcement or by statute.

We will not collect any personal information about you when you visit our site (other than the standard information automatically collected and stored in the web server's logs) unless you choose to provide it to us.

Detailed information regarding server logs, and voluntary submission of personal information, "cookies", security, and intrusion detection systems is provided below.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
Almost all web sites automatically collect data from their visitors. If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• Your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address. (An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you go on the Web.)
• The domain from which you access the Internet.
• The Internet address of the web site, if any, from which you came to our site.
• The date and time you arrived at our site and how long you spent visiting the site.
• The name and version of your computer's operating system and browser.
• The pages you visit: We use this information to help us make the site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you.

If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information, either by E-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it to us through the web site, this information will not be released, disclosed, sold, or transferred to any outside source unless required for law enforcement or by statute.

If You Send Us E-mail
If you send us E-mail, we will collect and store your E-mail address and the content of the E-mail, including any personal information you chose to include, and will use it only to respond to your request quickly and accurately. However, E-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. If you are worried because your communication is very sensitive, you can send it by postal mail instead.

Cookies
The Internet Stroke Center does not use "cookies." A cookie is a small file that a web site transfers to your computer's hard disk to allow the server to "remember" specific information about your session while you are connected. Requests to send cookies are not designed to collect information about you, but only about your "browser session."  We do not collect personal information about you except as described above.

Links to Other Sites
Our site has links to many other sites and organizations. Once you follow a link to any other site, you are subject to its privacy policy.

Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by the Internet Stroke Center as described in this document. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.