Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

CPWR — The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our visitors, as well as those who request information or advice from CPWR.

In order to fulfill government grant guidelines and track the usage of our website, we collect and store information about visits, but we do not collect personal identifying information. We collect and store only the following types of information:

  • The name of the domain from which visitors access the Internet, such as aol.com or cdc.gov, and IP address. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to a computer when surfing the Web.
  • The date and time a visitor accesses our site and the time the visitor logs off.
  • The pages that the visitor views and downloads.
  • The Internet address of the website last viewed by the visitor before coming to our site.

We use this information to [1] create summary statistics so that we can determine what information is of the most interest to our visitors, [2] help us enhance the site's quality and usefulness, and [3] report site usage to the agencies that fund our organization. We do not collect your name, your email address, or other identifying information.

We offer visitors a chance to send in questions or share information and ask for contact information. These requests require an email address in order to answer the questions, but we do not collect or maintain a database of these email addresses. But we will never share or sell your personal information with any other organization or outside party. We do not collect the email addresses of our visitors.

The www.choosehandsafety.org website contains links to many other sites. When you link to any of these sites, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

The www.choosehandsafety.org website pages use persistent "cookies" to store information about site usage. As noted above, in no case does CPWR disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about website visitors unless required for law enforcement or otherwise required by law.