Privacy Policy

Purpose
R2Metrics recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of the users of this web site. The R2Metrics.com website is a fundamental communication tool for providing critical, informative and interactive services to its members and the community at large. The goal of R2Metric's Web site is to encourage member/client participation, to enable electronic service delivery to both members and the public, and to privide better, more timely, information and data.

Personal/Confidential Information
R2Metrics does not use its Web site to collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to a user's request or input, or to complete an online transaction.

Except as provided below, R2Metrics does not create individual profiles with the information provided by users of this site, nor does it give such personal information to third parties or private organizations. Web usage summary statistics are gathered for site management, and other purposes such as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance issues. We automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address from which you access the R2Metrics.com website;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access the R2Metrics.com website;
3. The date and time and duration of the visit;
4. The pages visited;
5. If you link to the R2Metrics.com website from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

R2Metrics does not collect information for commercial marketing from its Web site. R2Metrics will not send you unsolicited email regarding any commercial offers or advertisements at any time.

If a user chooses to provide R2Metrics with personal identifying information, such as sending an e-mail to a R2Metrics employee or by filling out and submitting an online application/submission form (that may require submission of personal identifying information) located on R2Metrics's Web site, R2Metrics may use that information to respond to the user's message, to assist in obtaining information the user may have requested, or use the information in the manner contemplated by the online submission form. R2Metrics treats e-mails and submitted online forms the same way it treats written corresponcence. As further stated below, an online application/submission form containing personal identifying information will not be disclosed except as permitted by law.

In order to provide electronic commerce capabilities, the name, address and payment information (if applicable) that the user might provide when using this Web site may be collected, processed and disclosed to complete an online transaction and for record-keeping for such activities as billing and other business-related purposes.

Cookies or other technology may transfer information from R2Metrics's Web site to your hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies or similar technology can make the Internet more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. The use of cookies or similar technology is an industry standard, and many major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their users. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of R2Metrics's website if you do so.
Notwithstanding the above provisions of this section, information submitted to R2Metrics's website may be subject to disclosure to another party pursuant to various provisions of the law.

Security
Unless a particular web page on R2Metrics's website indicates that encryption technology is being used, the user should not assume that information uploaded through that web page to R2Metrics's Web server will be treated as confidential. If a user submits information to R2Metrics's server through a web page containing visible indicators of active encryption technology, R2Metrics will take all reasonable precautions to safeguard the confidentiality of such information, but shall nevertheless not be held liable for any injury caused by the disclosure of that information, whether caused by security breach, accident, inadvertence, or any other act resulting in disclosure.

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