Effective January 1, 2018
Policies and Disclaimers
By accessing and using our website, you agree to these policies and disclaimers.
Privacy Policy
We value your privacy. We have put in place procedures to safeguard the information you provide to us online. However, no transmission or storage of information submitted online can be completely secure, so any submissions are at the submitter’s risk. We collect personal information voluntarily submitted by visitors to our site for various purposes. This information enables us, among other things, to respond to requests for information and to correspond with grantees and with applicants for grants. We also compile aggregate information on our site’s traffic. That information is anonymous and we use it to improve our site.
General Disclaimers
We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information on our site and we are not responsible for any damages of any sort, including indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, arising out of the use of our site or reliance on the information available on our site.
Links to Other Sites
We provide links to other websites solely for your convenience, as pointers to information that may be useful to users of our site. We have no control over the content on other sites. If you use our links to go to other sites, we make no warranties concerning the content of those sites, that those sites are free from claims of copyright, trademark, or other infringement, or that those sites adhere to an appropriate privacy policy. We do not endorse, sanction, or verify the information that is provided on linked sites. Unless we otherwise specifically indicate, we have no affiliation with any other organization mentioned or described on our site.
Changes
The information contained on our website, and our policies and disclaimers concerning your access to and use of the site, are subject to change and we reserve the right to modify them at any time without notice. Please check this page for changes from time to time to make sure you aware of our latest privacy practices.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your computer’s hard drive that allows a website’s server to keep track of and facilitate certain activities on the site. Cookies help provide information to us about how users are using the our site. Among other purposes, we may use cookies to collect information about how visitors use the website and what pages and features visitors find more or less interesting, to make it easier for you as a user to log in, or to make visits to the website otherwise more efficient. We use information that we obtain by cookies, to the extent it is or becomes personal information, in accordance with the terms of this policy. You may be able to set your browser to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser, or block all cookies. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information on cookies generally.
Sharing of Information
There are circumstances where we will transfer and/or disclose to third parties personal information. Those circumstances, subject to the limits of applicable law, are as follows: (a) in response to subpoenas or other legal process or otherwise to resolve disputes and/or protect the rights, safety or property interests of our users, the public, the site, or our website vendors; (b) with our vendors and other service providers for the purpose of maintaining or improving the site or to perform functions on our behalf; (c) with any successor organization in the event we combine with or otherwise reorganize; and (d) where we are expressly authorized by applicable law to do so. We will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties.
Accessibility
We are committed to addressing the needs of persons with disabilities who access and use our website. We have incorporated into our site a variety of shortcuts and text description that make our site easier to navigate with assistive technologies. We welcome your comments and suggestions about how to make our site more accessible to the disabled community.