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Find more information at http://harvard.edu/visitors

HPAC privacy policy

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Harvard Public Affairs & Communications (HPAC, http://news.harvard.edu/) Web site:

Information gathering

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site by identifying (1) which parts of our site are most heavily used, and (2) which portion of our audience comes from within the Harvard network. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that user sessions will be tracked, but the users will remain anonymous.

Our staff occasionally monitors search terms that users enter into the Harvard Search Engine but this tracking is never associated with individual users.

We may use cookies to maintain a user’s preferences during a session.

Use of information

The HPAC staff uses the information gathered above to tailor site content to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual IP addresses. Web server logs are retained on a temporary basis and then deleted completely from our systems.

Email

We also gather email addresses from users wishing to subscribe to a fortnightly Harvard Gazette email. Subscription is entirely voluntary and can be ended at anytime. We do not share our subscriber list.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Contacting HPAC

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us.

This Web site links to other independently run Web sites within the Harvard network as well as sites outside the news.harvard.edu domain. HPAC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Changes to this policy

An announcement of any changes to this policy will be posted prominently on the Harvard News page of the Harvard Gazette Online.

Effective date

The effective date of this policy was Sept. 10, 2009.