UPDATED AUGUST 4, 2022
MSF respects the privacy of every individual who visits our web site. MSF’s Privacy Policy describes how MSF collects, uses, and shares your personal data.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICIES CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEB SITE.
All users of this Site agree that access to and use of this Site are subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and other laws that apply. Your use of MSF’s web site binds you to the terms of this Privacy Policy. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically, as we reserve the right to modify the Privacy Policy at any time.
Personal Data
MSF will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you — for example, your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address (collectively, “Personal Data”) through our web site unless you have provided it to us voluntarily.
If you do provide us with Personal Data, we may use that information unless stated otherwise. For example, we may store and process that information to better understand your needs and how we can further develop and improve our services, offerings and products. We (or another party on our behalf) may also contact you in this regard.
We do not currently, and do not in the future intend, to sell, rent or market Personal Data to third parties.
Additional Information Collected Automatically – Log Files
In some cases, we may automatically collect technical information when you connect to our web site, which does not contain Personal Data. Examples of this type of information include the type of internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our web site. We may also make use of log files, which contain information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the web site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. Such information is not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer — Cookies
When you view our web site, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “Cookie” or similar file. We use cookies to store information about visitor preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, and to customize web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that visitors send via their browser. Cookies allow us to tailor a web site to better match your interests and preferences. No data we collect contains personally identifiable information.
With most internet browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block all Cookies, or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
Advertising System Cookies
We may utilize cookies for online advertising. We may also allow “third-party” entities such as ad servers, ad networks and data collection organizations, to place and utilize cookies on our web site. Cookies enable us and third parties to present ads to users based on their visit to our web site and other sites on the Internet. These third parties use technology to deliver advertisements that appear on our web site directly to your web browsers. These third-parties automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as Cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by MSF and third parties to measure the effectiveness of advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
MSF has no access to or control over Cookies and technologies that are used by third-party advertisers. MSF’s Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such third-party advertisers or web sites. Consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers, networks and data collection organizations for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. If you wish to disable Cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) industry website at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can also be found at the browsers’ respective web sites.
For more information about our Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at MSF@msf-usa.org.