Privacy Policy

Fundamental Principles

Our Privacy Policy is based upon the following three fundamental principles.

1. We will not use information about you without your permission.
2. We will provide the means for you to manage and control the information that you have provided to us.
3. We will provide mechanisms for you to communicate your privacy concerns to us and that we will respond to them thoroughly and thoughtfully.

We thank you for your participation in the services and products provided on our Web site.

Cookies and How We Use Them

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to help us provide customizable services and to allow you to sign-in to our site. For example, we may store your zip code in a cookie and this would enable us to show you your local weather when you visit our site.

You can choose whether to accept the cookies that we send to you by changing the settings of your browser. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site may be inferior and some features will not work as intended.

Third-Party Relationships

You will find direct links on our Web site to sites offered by third parties. Some of these sites are authorized to use the National Quality Forum brand and/or logo. We carefully evaluate all parties that are authorized to use our brand and logo and believe that all such sites have adopted acceptable privacy policies. However, no third-party sites are covered by this Privacy Policy. If you feel that a site using our brand and/or logo does not follow an acceptable privacy policy, please send us an email at info@qualityforum.org. We will forward your comments to the appropriate third parties and may, in particular circumstances, decide to advocate on your behalf to attempt to cause the third parties to change their privacy policies.

Security

We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our control. For example, we impose strict rules on our employees who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the servers that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we make efforts to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

Contacting Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this site, please contact:

Privacy Information
National Quality Forum
601 Thirteenth Street NW
Suite 500 North
Washington, DC 20005

You can send email to info@qualityforum.org.