Web Privacy Policy
The Heartland OSHA Training Institute Education Center wants you to be knowledgeable about your online experience and for your experience to be informative, safe, and secure. Below is the Center’s web privacy policy.
The confidentiality of information collected from your use of our web site is important to us. We want you to know that it will be used only for internal purposes; therefore, the Center does not sell, trade, or share information about you to other entities unless otherwise stated on the web site or required by law to do so.
How is the Information Collected Online Used?
Surveys
The Center conducts online surveys as part of our quality assurance activities. Data collected from the surveys will be handled following human subjects confidentiality standards established by federal regulations (45 CFR Part 46) to ensure protection of the participants.
Registration Forms & Questionnaires
Information collected about you on our online registration forms and questionnaires is used only for the purpose stated. The information will remain within the Center, protected by this privacy policy, and will not be shared, sold, or traded with any other entity unless otherwise stated on the web site or required by law to do so.
Cookies
Cookies are online identification tags that allow us to recognize your computer each time you visit our site; however, they do not allow us to identify you by name, e-mail address, or other personal characteristics. This information is used only to evaluate use of our web site. By gathering this information, we can better estimate how many people visit our site and how many of those individuals are return visitors.
The IP address is the number assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. Like the cookie, the IP address does not allow us to identify you by name, e-mail address, or other personal characteristics. The IP address is only used internally to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our web site, and to gather broad demographic information for evaluation purposes. Your ability to access our site has been optimized by our use of your IP address.
External Sites
The Institute’s site contains links to other sites. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this web site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.
Security
This web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information.
When users submit sensitive information via the web site, their information
is protected both on- and off-line.
All of our users' information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who
need the information to perform a specific task are granted access to personally
identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our
security and privacy practices. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable
information are in a secure environment in a locked facility. If users have any
questions about the security at our website, users can contact us in ways listed
below.
For site security purposes and to ensure that service remains available to all users, the Center employs software programs to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to the web site.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our site or comments about how we can improve it, you can always contact us.
Heartland OSHA Training Institute Education Center
The School of HPER
Indiana University
Poplars, Room 629
400 E. 7th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Office: 812-855-9490
Toll Free: 866-563-4820
Cell: 812-679-8535
Fax: 812-855-7092
Email: hrtland@indiana.edu
This policy was created on April 14, 2008
