SBLF Privacy Policy

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by the Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation (SBLF). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION SBLF GATHERS AND TRACKS

SBLF gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys.
  
  
• Information SBLF 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' interests.  Under no circumstances does SBLF divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

SBLF Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)

We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. SBLF gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by using the "unsubscribe" link provided in every newsletter. 

2. "E-mail this to a friend" policy

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

3. Polling

We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. SBLF may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

4. Surveys

SBLF may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We do not share this aggregated demographic information 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

SBLF tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites and newsletters.  However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.

USE OF INFORMATION

SBLF uses any information voluntarily given by our users to improve the relevance of the information we provide to our visitors and newsletter subscribers. As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. SBLF never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties.

When 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.

SECURITY

SBLF operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
  
  
• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by SBLF.  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.