IRIS Center Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the IRIS Center-sponsored web site of the Georgia Rule of Law project. Please be assured that the privacy of our visitors is of utmost importance to us. We will not obtain personally-identifying information when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.

Privacy Statement

We collect general information we gather about you from your registration data. All information collected, regardless of type, will be protected pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act . The specific practices outlined in this privacy statement apply to all web sites maintained by or on behalf of the IRIS Center.

Some of the pages within this site contain links to sites outside of IRIS legally registered domains, including those of federal agencies, government entities, and private organizations. Please be aware that when you follow a link to another site, you are then subject to the privacy policies of the new site.

Information Collected from Site Visitors

If you visit our site to read or download information, such as country information or additional information on a project or activity, we collect certain pieces of information.

For each HTTP request received, we collect and store only the following information:

• Date and time
• Originating IP address
• Type of browser and operating system used — if provided by the browser
• URL of the referring page — if provided by the browser
• Object requested
• Completion status of the request

We use the information that we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our sites and to help us make our sites more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing these logs periodically to determine the traffic through our servers, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for pages and topics of interest. The logs may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to insure the integrity of the data on our servers.

We do not seek or collect any other data related to the specific users of IRIS servers, nor do we use web browser cookies of any type, for any purpose, on these servers.

Sending an E-mail to IRIS

By sending us an electronic mail message, you may be sending us personally identifying information. In these cases, we may retain the information as long as necessary to respond to your request or otherwise resolve the subject matter of your e-mail. Please be aware that e-mail is not necessarily secure from interception or misdirection. For your own protection you may wish to communicate sensitive information using a method other than e-mail.

General Disclaimer

The material on this site is copyrighted. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or inclusion in any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of IRIS. IRIS encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission promptly.