Protecting your privacy is important to us. The following will help you understand how C&S collects, uses, and safeguards the personal information you may provide on our websites.
Unregistered Users
If you are not registered for the Cattaneo & Stroud newsletter or mailing list, then we do not collect any personally identifiable information about you. We do use Google Analytics, which logs your IP address (the Internet address of your computer) to give us an idea of which pages of our websites you visit, how long you spend there, which files you download, and the type of computer, operating system, and browser you use. We aggregate this information to determine which parts of the sites are being visited most frequently and which files are being downloaded most often.
Registered Users
Anyone who signs up to be on C&S’ mailing list or who subscribes to the newsletter must provide a name and email address. We also ask for a postal address, telephone and fax numbers, other information about your organization, and the nature and geographic focus of your work. This information is kept strictly confidential in a secured and encrypted environment. C&S’ use of this information is very limited. We use it to help determine what information will be most relevant to our users. This information is not shared with any other organization. We do not associate your IP address with any personally identifiable data.
Cattaneo & Stroud, Inc. sends emails to registered users announcing new publications or findings from our research. If a registered user receives a text-format email, we do not track how they use it. If a user receives an HTML-format email, we track whether the email was opened and which links the user clicked on, if any. We use this information to determine the efficacy of our public outreach. At any time, a registered user may unsubscribe from the email list by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in any C&S mass email.
Use of Cookies
“Cookies” are small text files that websites can store on a user’s computer to recognize repeat visitors. The computer of each visitor to a C&S website receives a cookie unless the user blocks the cookie. No personal information is contained in the cookie, and no personal information is kept on any unregistered user. To improve our websites, C&S uses Google Analytics to help analyze website traffic. No personally identifiable information is ever shared with the third-party vendors.
Information Use
Before submitting any personal information, we advise you that the information submitted will be used by C&S only to keep you apprised of new publications, services, or findings from our research. We will never sell your personal information or share it with any third party. C&S does not contract with any advertising or marketing agencies to gather individual or group profile information on our visitors based on their personal profiles. C&S does not host or target for-profit advertising to visitors. C&S does promote its own work and findings of its research.
Security of Information
The security of your personal information is important to us. Any personal information that you enter on our registration forms will be encrypted. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information in our possession, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our website, please contact us.
Commitment to Privacy
C&S strongly supports initiatives to safeguard the privacy of personal information on the Internet. If you have any questions, please contact us. This privacy statement is subject to change. Please check here for updates.