Privacy Policy

The Inflammation Research Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Inflammation Research Foundation website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Inflammation Research Foundation website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

The Inflammation Research Foundation collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Inflammation Research Foundation also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the Inflammation Research Foundation. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by the Inflammation Research Foundation for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Inflammation Research Foundation website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Inflammation Research Foundation public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

The Inflammation Research Foundation encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the Inflammation Research Foundation so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Inflammation Research Foundation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Inflammation Research Foundation and the Inflammation Research Foundation family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

The Inflammation Research Foundation collects and uses your personal information to operate the Inflammation Research Foundation website and deliver the services you have requested. The Inflammation Research Foundation also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Inflammation Research Foundation and its affiliates. The Inflammation Research Foundation may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The Inflammation Research Foundation does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Inflammation Research Foundation may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, the Inflammation Research Foundation may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Inflammation Research Foundation, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Inflammation Research Foundation does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. The Inflammation Research Foundation keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the website in order to determine what the Inflammation Research Foundation services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the Inflammation Research Foundation to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Inflammation Research Foundation websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Inflammation Research Foundation or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Inflammation Research Foundation; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Inflammation Research Foundation or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Inflammation Research Foundation website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web-page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Inflammation Research Foundation pages or register with the Inflammation Research Foundation site or services, a cookie helps the Inflammation Research Foundation to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same the Inflammation Research Foundation website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved so you can easily use the Inflammation Research Foundation features that you customized. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Inflammation Research Foundation services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

The Inflammation Research Foundation secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Inflammation Research Foundation secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

The Inflammation Research Foundation will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Inflammation Research Foundation encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the Inflammation Research Foundation is protecting your information.

Contact Information

The Inflammation Research Foundation welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the Inflammation Research Foundation has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.