WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
 

PEF owns and maintains a Web site. This document sets forth PEF’s practices which are designed to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information when visitors access this Web site.

The provisions of this privacy policy apply solely to the PEF Web site, and are not applicable to information collection practices PEF may be engaged in outside of the PEF Web site space.

Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

During normal Web site usage, the only information PEF may collect and store is the name of the visitor’s Internet service provider, the browser (including available plug-ins and browser functionality) and type of machine used by the visitor, the IP address, the Web site that referred the visitor, the pages requested and the date and time of those requests.

It is PEF’s practice to use this information only on an aggregate basis to measure Web site activity and improve the usefulness the site to visitors. For example, this information may be used to track the number of monthly visitors, or to determine which pages are most popular among visitors as a whole. PEF does not and will not use this information to learn any personally identifiable information about a visitor.

PEF does not and will not track the pages a visitor requests while visiting the PEF Web site, or collect any other personal information about a visitor, such as a visitor’s name, mailing address, e-mail address or phone number, without the visitor’s knowledge and permission. When such information is collected with the visitor’s knowledge and consent, it will be stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the collection, and may be used to understand the visitor’s interests and activities.

PEF does not and will not willfully disclose personally identifiable information received on the PEF Web site from visitors to third parties without first receiving permission for such disclosure, unless such disclosure is required by law, regulation or court order.

If a visitor grants PEF permission to disclose personally identifiable information, PEF will only disclose such information in accordance with the purposes for which such permission is granted.

Links to Third Party Web sites

The PEF Web site provides links to several other third party Web sites. While PEF will make efforts to choose the sites that PEF provides links to carefully, PEF does not own, maintain or control any of the linked Web sites. Therefore, PEF cannot and does not assume any responsibility for the content or privacy policies of any of the linked Web sites.