Privacy

The Yerkes National Primate Research Center (Yerkes) is committed to respecting the privacy and safety of your personal data. We also are committed to providing you with a rewarding Internet experience, ensuring you can easily navigate and access information on our Web site.

Yerkes understands the collection and dissemination of personally identifiable information may be of concern to users of the site. Because the Web site gathers certain types of information, users should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and release of that information. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices. Please review this policy carefully and make sure you understand and are in agreement with all terms before using the Web site.

Contact Us Comment Form
This location on our Web site permits you to provide comments to Yerkes. You may provide your name and e-mail address when providing comments. Yerkes employees will have access to any information you provide on the comment form. In addition, Yerkes may disclose any information you provide on the form to persons identified in the section of this Privacy Statement entitled "Disclosure of Information Collected by Emory." Please do not send us any information that you may consider to be proprietary. By sending us any information, you are waiving any proprietary rights in it, and we reserve the right to use any information you send without consulting you or seeking your permission.

Aggregate Information
We track general traffic on our Web site, including site use and origination of users. This type of information is collected on an aggregate basis and does not personally identify you.

Disclosure of Information Collected by Emory
Except as set forth in this Privacy Statement or agreed to by you, Yerkes will not disclose to third parties information it gathers from you on our Web site. We may release any collected information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. Yerkes also may disclose information collected to its parent entity and any affiliated entities, including any school, department, unit, division, office or employee of Emory University and any contractors, vendors, agents or affiliates, doing business or conducting activities on our behalf or for our benefit.

Third-Party Partners
Certain content and services offered to you through our Web site are served on Web sites hosted and operated by companies other than Emory. Any information you disclose or that is collected about you on these other sites is not subject to this Privacy Statement. Emory does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party sites. You should review the privacy policies posted on the other sites to understand how such sites use your personal information. Emory cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for your use or misuse of the information you transmit or receive while using third-party sites, or for the use or misuse of that information by third parties to whom you give or allow access.

Cookies
Cookies are small snippets of data passed from a Web site to your computer as you browse the Web that can be transferred back to the original site or domain with future requests from your browser. Cookies can be used in a variety of ways, including ways that have privacy implications, such as tracking your previous activities at a particular site. Most browsers allow you to choose not to accept cookies. Choosing to accept cookies, however, enables some online services to work more efficiently or makes the use of services more convenient.

Links to External Sites
This Privacy Statement applies only to your use of Yerkes' Web site. Our Web site contains links to other sites, including sites that may indicate a special relationship with us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. You should read the privacy policy of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be collecting about you.

Children's Privacy
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. This site is not designed or intended for unsupervised use by children under the age of 13. In the event that we discover that personally identifiable information has been collected from a child under 13, we will delete that information.

Encryption
Any information you supply through this Web site is NOT encrypted. Thus, such information could be intercepted and read by people who are actively reviewing exchanges on the Internet.

Changing or Deleting Information
This Web site does not give you the opportunity to change or delete information that has previously been furnished by you to us.

Changes to Our Privacy Statement
We may change the terms and conditions of our Privacy Statement at any time by posting revisions on the Web site. By accessing or using our Web site, you agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions of our Privacy Statement as posted on the Web site at the time of your access or use. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement or any revised statement, please exit the site immediately.

Contact Information
If you have any questions about our Privacy Statement, please contact Yerkes Public Affairs at 404-727-7732 or yerkes-info@rmy.emory.edu.