Thank you for visiting the Bioethics Advisory Committee's ("the BAC's") web site and for reviewing its Privacy Policy. This policy establishes how the BAC handles the information it learns about you when you visit its site. The specific practices outlined in this Privacy Policy apply only to the BAC's web site.

Information Collected

The BAC collects only the following information that is automatically recognized as you browse through the BAC web site:

• the originating internet protocol address
• the domain name, type of browser and operating system you use to access the Internet;
• the date and time of your visit;
• the pages you visited; and
• the URL of the web site you visited immediately prior to visiting the CDC site.

Certain BAC web pages use "cookies", which are small amounts of information stored by your web browser software on your workstation. The following information may be stored in the cookies:

• your IP address
• the session number

Such information is used to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of the BAC's website, and to help it make its web site more useful to you by analysing the information periodically to measure the traffic through the servers, the number of pages visited and the level of demand for pages and topics of interest. The information may be preserved indefinitely, or used at any time and in any way to prevent security breaches and to ensure the integrity of the data on our servers.

Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you.

Except in the course of officially authorized law enforcement investigations, or in the event of a suspected attempt to deliberately circumvent the BAC web site's security with the intent to gain unauthorized access or to do physical damage, none of this information is reviewed at an individual level. The BAC does not associate the information stored in a cookie with any other personal data. If you do not want your information used in this manner, you may disable your cookies.

In no case does the BAC disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about its web site visitors, unless required by law.

E-Mail

If you choose to e-mail the BAC, the BAC will store the question and the e-mail address information so as to respond electronically. Any additional information you may provide will be maintained only as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. Unless otherwise required by law, the BAC will not identify publicly who sends questions or comments to its web site.

The BAC does not retain or distribute lists of e-mail addresses to any other party.

Links to Other Web Sites

This web site may contain links to other web sites whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from that of the BAC. The BAC is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other web sites. You are encouraged to consult the privacy notices of those sites.