Privacy Statement

  1. In General
    AVERT respects the privacy of every individual who visits our website. This Privacy Statement outlines the information AVERT will collect and how we will use that information.
  2. Personally Identifiable Information
    When you visit our website, we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you (such as your name, address, telephone number, social security number or e-mail address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily. AVERT may request personally identifiable information from you in order to provide requested information or specialized services.
  3. Use of Personally Identifiable Information
    AVERT may store and process your personally identifiable information to better understand your needs and how we may improve our electronic services, and we may use your personally identifiable information to contact you if so requested by you (for example, we may send you a questionnaire or we may respond to your comments or requests for information). AVERT will not give your personally identifiable information to any outside private or commercial organization. Clicking through to another site through banners or ads in AVERT pages implies your willingness to permit advertisers to collect this information in accordance with their privacy statements.
  4. Non Personally Identifiable Information
    AVERT may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include IP address, time of visit, the type of internet browser or computer operating system you are using and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site. We use this information to help administer our website and gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. Additionally, our Web Host may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "cookie". Most internet browsers enable you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
  5. Security
    AVERT is committed to keeping secure the data you provide us and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse or alteration.
  6. Non AVERT Web sites
    AVERT links to various non AVERT web sites. AVERT is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of web sites to which it may provide links to. We recommend that visitors to non AVERT sites check the privacy statements of these sites and be cautious about providing personally identifiable information without a clear understanding of how the information will be used. Visitors may also wish to consult privacy guidelines such as those recommended by the Online Privacy Alliance.
  7. Contacting Us Regarding Your Personally Identifiable Information
    If you have submitted personally identifiable information through an AVERT website or if someone else has submitted your personally identifiable information through an AVERT website, and you would like to have that information deleted from our databases, please contact the Web Master via e-mail at avertwebmaster @ avertdisasters.org (do not include spaces).