RH Strategic is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to our website. Outlined below is our online privacy policy for information collected through our Web site and e-mail lists. If you have questions about these policies, we encourage you to contact us at .
We do not share or otherwise disclose any personal information, including your name, address, or e-mail addresses with other organizations. Only RH Strategic staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to our site.
RH Strategic maintains several e-mail lists to keep our supporters, the press, and policymakers informed about news and events. Individuals must request to join our mailing lists. Individuals who provide optional information may also receive materials in the U.S. mail and/or be contacted by telephone by authorized RH Strategic representatives. In addition, we do not share the e-mail addresses on our lists with staff outside of RH Strategic and its authorized agents. We configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the e-mail addresses of our list subscribers to anyone but authorized RH Strategic staff and agents. Only RH Strategic staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to our site.
You have the option to opt out of receiving information from RH Strategic. This opt-out messaging will appear at the bottom of every email that is sent out. RH Strategic also gives you the option to remove your information from its database completely. If you no longer wish to take advantage of this site or to receive any form of direct contact from RH Strategic or wish us to delete your personal information from our data records, send us a request marked "Privacy-Urgent" to .
Please note that we reserve the right to keep any personal or non-personal information submitted or collected until you delete or modify it or until we choose, for business reasons such as obsolescence, to delete it.
Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulation establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13, and we have designed our site to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested.
It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the notification, we will immediately obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by e-mailing us at .
We reserve the right to utilize cookie technology. A cookie is a small data file that certain web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain various types of information, including a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. We may use cookies to enhance your experience on this Site, to determine user traffic patterns and for other purposes.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies; however, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent or you can flush your browser of cookies from time to time.
As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each web site you visit. This information, sometimes referred to as "clickstream data," can be collected and stored by a Web site's server. Clickstream data can tell us the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the Web site from which you linked to the RH Strategic site. We may collect and use clickstream data as a form of aggregate information to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our site, how visitors navigate throughout the site, and how we may tailor our Web pages to better meet the needs of visitors. This information will be used to improve our site and our services. Any collection or use of clickstream data will be anonymous and aggregate, and will not intentionally contain any personal information.
We are committed to taking reasonable steps to ensure the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put into place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and us, or information stored on the site or our servers, will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties such as hackers and your use of the site demonstrates your assumption of this risk.
You may have certain rights under the Communications Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, and other state and federal statutes that may apply, and by accepting these terms and using this site, you are waiving all of these rights as to collection, use, disclosure and storage of your personally identifiable and non-personal information as described above.
We may amend our privacy policy, but if we decide to do so, we will post those changes on this page so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Any changes will only apply to information collected after the change is posted.
This privacy policy is effective and was last updated on January 1, 2008.