The policy of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) is to respect and protect the privacy of all website visitors to the extent permitted by law. Accordingly, we will not sell, exchange, or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information without your consent, unless required to do so by law. We do not retain information gathered by this website or provided to us by you any longer than necessary for normal operations.
Our website provides links to other websites. We do not control or endorse these sites, and we are not responsible for their availability, content, or delivery of services. External sites are not bound by CURA's online privacy policy; they may have their own policies, or none at all. You can tell you are leaving CURA's website by noting the URL of the destination site. All pages on the CURA website begin with http://www.cura.umn.edu/.
The remainder of this policy informs you of the information this website collects, the uses to which that information will be put, and how we will protect information you choose to provide to us. There are four types of information this site may collect during your visit:
Network Traffic Logs | Web Visit Logs | Cookies | Information Provided By You
Network Traffic Logs
In the course of ensuring network security, our Internet service provider employs software programs to monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized access, detect computer viruses, and monitor the performance of the network. These programs may detect information such as e-mail headers and addresses from network packets. Such information is used only for the purpose of maintaining network and computer system security. Personally identifiable information from these activities will not be released to external parties without your consent, unless required by law.
Web Visit Logs
This website routinely collects and stores information from online visitors to help manage the site and improve service. Information that may be collected includes the pages visited on the site, the date and time of the visit, the internet address (URL or IP address) of the referring site, the domain name and IP address from which the access occurred, the version of browser used, the capabilities of the browser, and search terms used on our search engines. This site makes no attempt to identify individual visitors from this information; any personally identifiable information will not be released to external parties without your consent, unless required by law.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information stored by your web browser on behalf of a website, and returned to the website on request. This site may use cookies to carry data about your current session at the site from one Web page to the next, and to identify you to the site between visits. This website will not store data in cookies for any other purpose. Specifically, we do not use cookies to track your movement among different websites, nor do we exchange cookies with other entities. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can turn them off in your browser, or set your browser to ask you before accepting a new cookie. Some pages may not function properly if the cookies are turned off.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You
In the course of using this website, you may choose to provide us with personal information to help us serve you. For example, you may sign up for a mailing list, send us e-mail requesting information, or provide your name and address so we can send you print publications. Each page on the site that requests information discloses the purpose of that information, and any personally identifiable information you send us will be used only for the purpose indicated. If you do not wish to have the information used in that manner, you are not required to provide it. Requests for information will be forwarded to the CURA staff member who can best respond to the request, and the nature of the request may be recorded to help us update our website to better respond to similar requests. We do not retain the information you provide longer than necessary for normal operations. We will not sell, exchange, or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information without your consent, except to the extent required by law.
If you have other questions about this site, its collection of information, or its online privacy policy, contact our webmaster.
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