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Our Privacy Policy
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is the sole owner of
any information collected on this site. We will not make use of
this information in ways different from what is disclosed in this
statement.
The Bazelon Center collects information from visitors on our
website in the following ways:
Registration
The Bazelon Center does not request registration by users of this
website.
Inquiries
At various places in the site, links are provided to email forms
for visitors' use in contacting Bazelon Center staff. Your return
email address will come with the email. We use this only to respond
to your inquiry and do not retain it unless you have so requested
in your message.
Subscriptions to Action Alerts
When you send an email asking to be added to the list for periodic
Action Alerts, we add your name and address (email and postal) to
the subscription list. If at any time you would like to remove your
name from our Action Alert list, please email us at pubs@bazelon.org.
Publication Orders
Our bookstore is on a secure site hosted by WebCom.com, protected
with encryption software. When you order a publication through the
bookstore, we request information on the order form, including your
name and address and your credit card number and its expiration
date. WebCom.com does not retain any of this information but forwards
it, encrypted, to the Bazelon Center. The information is used to
process your order and, if necessary, to contact you for any clarification.
We retain your name and address on a customer list but do not keep
your credit card information.
Contributions
On-line donations to the Bazelon Center will be accepted through
Contribute.com,
which will process the information you provide on a secure page,
protected with encryption software, and forward it to us. Contribute.com
will send us, similarly encrypted, your name and address and any
information you have supplied about your pledge or contribution.
Contribute.com does not keep any personally identifiable information.
Unless you have checked "anonymous" on the donation form,
the Bazelon Center will retain your name and address and information
about your gift(s). We do not receive your credit card information.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data placed on the user's hard drive, containing
information about the user. When you shop at our bookstore,
we
use cookies temporarily to track items in your shopping cart.
The Bazelon Center has no access to or control over these cookies
and
does not use cookies in any other way.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends and gather broad demographic
information about visitors in the aggregate. IP addresses are not
linked to personally identifiable information.
As indicated above, we maintain names and addresses on lists related
to the purpose for which the information was provided-for example,
subscription to Action Alerts, purchase of publications and support
of the Bazelon Center's work on behalf of people with mental disabilities.
From time to time (but no more than four times a year) we may send
you mail related to this purpose, such as an announcement of a new
publication or an invitation to a special event. If you do not wish
to receive such mail, please email pubs@bazelon.org with "no
mail" in the subject line and your name and address in the
body of the message.
If you make a donation to the Bazelon Center, either on our site
or via a third-party site (such as helping.org) and have not checked
"anonymous" on the form, your personal information will
be added to our list of supporters and your gift will be acknowledged
by name in our annual report. If you decide later that you do not
want your name listed, please send a request to our Development
Office with "no listing" in the subject line and your
name and address in the body of the message.
We do not sell or rent any of our lists to third parties. However,
we do not have control over address harvesters that might invade
our website for the purpose of gathering addresses for use by other
parties (unlikely, because we do not maintain such information online).
Very occasionally we may share a list with a like-minded nonprofit
organization. For example, once a year we exchange subscribers with
the American Bar Association's Commission on Mental and Physical
Disability to send information about new publications. If you do
not wish your name to be exchanged, please email pubs@bazelon.org
with "no exchange" or "no share" in the subject
line and your name and address in the body of the message.
This web site contains links to other sites, including a Guest
Book hosted by another entity. The Bazelon Center is not responsible
for the privacy practices of such sites. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this site.
If you submit sensitive information via the website, your information
is protected both online and off-line.
When our publication-order form and donation form ask users to
enter sensitive information, such as credit card number, that information
is protected with the best encryption software in the industry,
SSL. You can tell when you are on a secure page, such as our order
form, because the lock icon of your browser, open while you were
surfing, becomes closed or locked.
We also protect user information in our office. Only employees
who need the information to perform a specific job have access to
it. For example, credit-card transactions are processed by a single
individual; once they are completed, the credit card number is deleted
from the record. Names and addresses are kept in relevant data bases
(publication purchasers, Action Alert subscribers and donors), which
are protected by passwords and accessible only to specific individuals
with responsibilities for fulfilling orders, mailing Alerts and
recording and acknowledging donations. The servers on which we store
personally identifiable information are password-protected and kept
behind a locked door.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you
can send an email to webmaster@bazelon.org.
If we change our privacy policy in any substantive way, we will
post those changes on our homepage. If at any point we decide to
use personally identifiable information in a manner different from
that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by
way of an email.
