Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting sciencecafes.org. We want your visit to sciencecafes.org to enlighten, inform, and entertain you. We know you don't want the information you provide us shared indiscriminately. Here we explain how sciencecafes.org collects information, what we do with it, and what controls you have over it. We're committed to ensuring the privacy of your personally identifiable information, and to protecting your ability to transmit your personal data with full confidence.

The privacy policy set forth here refers solely to sciencecafes.org. Please read it carefully, and if you have any questions or concerns, please contact us. Also, note that sciencecafes.org links to numerous other sites, such as WGBH, PBS, and Sigma Xi. Please consult those sites to learn more about their policies.

Gathering and Use of Information

Sciencecafes.org will not willfully disclose any personally identifiable information about our online users to any third party without first receiving the user's permission, unless required by law. The sciencecafes.org Web site only collects personally identifiable information from our visitors on a voluntary basis (such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and/or other identifying information). You should recognize that under certain circumstances, if you choose not to voluntarily submit requested information, you may not be able to engage in certain activities.

Minimum Requirements and Security

To serve you better, we offer visitors the option to register their science café events on the online map and create their own science café event Web page. These services are free of charge, entirely optional, and designed to enhance your enjoyment of sciencecafes.org.

To administer these services we require a minimum of information from you. This includes your e-mail address, other relevant contact information, and acknowledgment that you are 18 years of age or older. While no computer system is 100 percent secure, we have taken reasonable steps to ensure the security of any information you provide to this Web site. Our goal is to offer service while adhering to the best security practices possible; to do so requires your shared cooperation and commitment. Thus, to participate in these optional services you agree to abide by the following terms and conditions:

• All registration information submitted by you is accurate and updated.
• You will not select or use an e-mail address of another person with the intent to impersonate that person.
• You will not use the e-mail address in which another person has rights without that person's authorization.

Cookies and Browsers

In general, cookies—the informational files that your Web browser places on your computer when you visit a Web site—are used on sciencecafes.org pages to track how you and other visitors use our site, and to identify the source of visitors and what pages you use while on our site. By looking at this traffic we can better understand our community, which allows us to improve our Web site and to provide you with an optimal experience and better service. At no time does the cookie reveal your name, address, or e-mail address (even if you have entered these in specific areas of sciencecafes.org). The sciencecafes.org Web site cannot extract any personally identifying information about you from what we receive via a cookie and your browser.

You can set your browser software to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, some parts of sciencecafes.org may not function properly if you do so. You always have the ability to disengage the cookie software on your browser without limiting your ability to view our home page, among other features of our site.

Acceptance of this Privacy Policy for sciencecafes.org

By using this site, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy for sciencecafes.org. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of sciencecafes.org following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.