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Visitor Privacy Policy
About Us
This is a privacy policy for The Ohio State University College of Medicine
and Public Health. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://medicine.osu.edu.
We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You
may contact us by e-mail at webmaster@medicine.osu.edu.
Data Collection
P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to
as "statements"). This policy contains 1 data group. The data practices
of each group will be explained seperately.
Group "Safe-zone data"
We collect the following information:
- Click-stream data
- User agent information
- Search terms
- HTTP cookies
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Web site and system administration.
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. The following explanation
is provided for why this data is collected:This group contains the data
that is collected by servers when handling "safe-zone" requests from clients.
Cookies
Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored
information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web
site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system.
You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving
you the chance to decide whether to accept it. Our site makes use of cookies.
Cookies are used for the following purposes:
Policy Evaluation
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy
whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what
privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium
High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether
the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether
the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the
cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will
attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated
behavior for IE6
Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according
to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied
by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All
Cookies settings.
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