The Integrated Behavioral Health Research Institute (IBHRI) Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 18, 2023

Personal information that is voluntarily entered into this site will only be used by Integrated Behavioral Health Research Institute (“IBHRI”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). Our policy is to maintain all personal information as confidential and to use it only for the purpose for which it was submitted. We are committed to protecting your privacy, and this privacy policy (“Policy”) is intended to describe our information collection and dissemination practices in connection with the IBHRI family of websites located at www.ibhri.org or any website or service that links to or refers to this Policy (collectively, the “Sites”).

We may collect the following kinds of information when you use the Sites:

Information you provide to us. By registering on this website or completing any online form, you give us permission to contact you using the contact information given, related to the inquiry or activity, and based on the data that you provided.

Information we collect automatically. We may collect certain information automatically when you use our Sites, such as device information, browser type, operating system, pages you visit before and after using the Sites, the date and time of your visit, links you click on, and pages viewed. We and third parties that provide content or functionality on our Sites, may use cookies, Local Shared Objects, and similar technologies to collect this information automatically. 

USE OF INFORMATION

We generally use the information collected online to provide and improve the Sites, contact you, fulfill your requests for information and services, send you newsletters if you subscribe to our newsletters, analyze the use of the Sites to understand and improve the Sites, customize content delivered when you use the Sites, prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities in accordance with standard terms and conditions, and for any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect your information pursuant to your consent.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

IBHRI never shares or sells your personally identifiable information with any company or organization. We are committed to maintaining your trust and want you to understand when and with whom we may share the information we collect.

Authorized third-party vendors and service providers. We may share your information with third-party vendors and service providers that help us with specialized services, including billing and donations (e.g., PayPal), payment processing, customer service, email deployment, business analytics, marketing, advertising, performance monitoring, hosting, and data processing.

Business Transfers. We may share your information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of a website, a merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Legal purposes. We may disclose information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries, and to protect and defend the rights, interests, health, safety, and security of IBHRI, our affiliates, users, or the public.

With your consent or at your direction. We may share information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent or direction.

SECURITY

We use reasonable measures to help protect information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.  You should understand that no data storage system or transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure.  Please note that information collected by third parties may not have the same security protections as information you submit to us, and we are not responsible for protecting the security of such information.

OTHER

You may opt out of our email newsletters by clicking the “unsubscribe” at the bottom of each newsletter and following the subsequent instructions.  You may also opt out of all communications from IBHRI by contacting us using the contact us form on our website.

You may be able to refuse or disable cookies by adjusting your web browser settings.  Because each web browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your web browser (typically in the “help” section). 

California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. We do not share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

Some of the Sites may contain links to content maintained by third parties that we do not control.  We allow third parties, including business partners, advertising networks, and other advertising service providers, to collect information about your online activities through cookies, pixels, local storage, and other technologies. These third parties may use this information to display advertisements on our Sites and elsewhere online tailored to your interests, preferences, and characteristics.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

Some third parties collect information about users of our Sites to provide interest-based advertising on our Sites and elsewhere, including across browsers and devices.  These third parties may use the information they collect on our Sites to make predictions about your interests and provide ads (from other companies and us) across the internet.  Some of these third parties may participate in an industry organization that allows users to opt out of receiving ads tailored based on your online activities.  Due to differences between using apps and websites on mobile devices, you may need to take additional steps to disable targeted ad technologies in mobile apps.  Many mobile devices allow you to opt out of targeted advertising for mobile apps using the settings within the mobile app or your mobile device.  For more information, please check your mobile settings.  You also may uninstall our apps using the standard uninstall process available on your mobile device or app marketplace.

Please visit their respective websites to opt out of interest-based advertising across browsers and devices from companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance or Network Advertising Initiative opt-out programs.  You may also opt out of interest-based advertising through the settings within the mobile app or your mobile device. Still, your opt-out choice may apply only to the browser or device you use when you opt out, so you should opt out on each of your browsers and devices if you want to disable all cross-device linking for interest-based advertising.  If you opt out, you will still receive ads that may not be as relevant to you and your interests, and your experience on our Sites may be degraded.

We use cookies, Local Shared Objects, and similar technologies for technical reasons to enable the efficient operation of the Sites, enhance the ease of use of the Sites, and gather statistics on how you use our Sites.  By using the Sites, you consent to our use of cookies and similar technologies.  You may opt out of cookies and similar technologies, but please understand that certain functionalities on the Site may no longer function for you if you choose to do so.

For international visitors, we maintain information in the United States of America and in accordance with the laws of the United States, which may not provide the same level of protection as the laws in your jurisdiction.

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent, unless permitted by law.  If we learn that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete it in accordance with applicable law.

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we update the Policy, we will revise the “Effective Date” date above and post the new Privacy Policy.  We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy each time you visit the Sites to stay informed of our privacy practices.