privacy policy...
effective October 1, 2022

Your privacy is important to us. This statement describes what information we collect from you and how we use it.

If you have concerns or believe that we are not following our privacy policy, please e-mail davidson@levy.org. Please allow 2 -3 days for response.

contact...

If you submit personal information, such as your email address, to us by following a link on the contact page, we will use that information to respond to your question or request for information. We will not share your information with third parties without your explicit permission.

login...

You'll notice that in order to use some of our site's resources (our member database and our forum) you need to login. This is primarily to protect these resources from intrusion by inappropriate users. We store your name and e-mail address, and assigns you a password which you will receive by e-mail.

However, we may also use your e-mail address to contact you about news and events related to our mission. Such communications will be infrequent (no more than once a week). If you DO NOT want your e-mail address used in this way, please contact Elizabeth Dunn at davidson@levy.org.

members and specialists/experts...

We collect extensive information about our members and especially, our specialists/experts. Part of the purpose of our site and network is to put like-minded people in touch with each other, and in order to do that we need to collect professional and personal data. We require site visitors to register and login to see this data.

Whether to have your data included here is your choice. To become a member you must visit Become a Member. log in, and fill in the form. To become a specialist/expert you must fill in a questionnaire sent to you by our network administrator.

If you decide that you wish to be removed from either of our databases, please contact Elizabeth Dunn at davidson@levy.org.

cookies...

A “cookie” is a small text file that a Web site can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it easier to use certain site functions. The cookie transmits this information back to our site's computer. Many users do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit Web sites. If you want to know when this happens, or prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a Web site attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer.

We only place a cookie when you choose "remember me" on the login page.

information automatically collected by our site...

Our servers automatically collect certain non-personally identifying information, such as your computer’s IP address, the type of browser in use, and pages viewed, when you visit our site. We use this information to understand how visitors navigate through our site, to enhance your experience while using our site, and to make the materials we post as valuable to visitors as possible. We do not link this information to personally identifiable information.

personal information sharing...

We do not share your information with any other entities.

access to your personal information...

We will provide a complete list of the personal information we have collected from you, within 30 days of your request to davidson@levy.org. If we cannot provide access within the 30-day period, we will tell you when we will provide access. In the unlikely event that we cannot provide you access to this information, we will explain why we cannot do so.

links to other web sites...

We include links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is subject to their privacy statements. Our privacy policy does not apply to information you may submit to those sites. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any Web site you visit.