Privacy Policy for the HHMI Catalog and News Alerts

Thank you for visiting the HHMI website. The following policy describes how HHMI collects and uses information from visitors to this site who order items from the HHMI Catalog or subscribe to HHMI's e-mail news alerts.

What Information May Be Collected
If you wish to request a subscription to the HHMI Bulletin or to order items from the HHMI Catalog, you will need to set up an account with HHMI. To set up an account for you, HHMI will ask for your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and certain other information about you.

If you subscribe to HHMI's e-mail news alerts, HHMI will ask for your e-mail address.

Use of Information
The information collected from you to set up an account is used to respond to your request(s) for a subscription to the HHMI Bulletin or items from the HHMI Catalog. The information collected from you when you subscribe to e-mail news alerts is used to send you the news alerts as requested.

HHMI may also track and use for internal purposes aggregate information about visitors to the HHMI website. For example, HHMI may use this aggregate information to identify which scientific topics covered in the Bulletin are of greater relative interest to visitors, to compare numbers of visitors from different geographic locations inside and outside the U.S., or to assess the level of interest in specific HHMI publications. HHMI collects information about your occupation in order to direct the editorial content of the HHMI Bulletin.

Disclosure of Information
Your account with HHMI is protected by a password you select. HHMI will not intentionally disclose your account information, or the e-mail address you provide to subscribe to news alerts, except to the extent necessary to process your request(s) or as required by law. In order to process your request(s) for items from the HHMI Catalog, HHMI may need to share your name and mailing address with its order fulfillment company.

HHMI may also publish aggregate information about visitors to specific parts of the HHMI website, for example the number of visitors to the HHMI Bulletin from different geographic locations. This aggregate information will not include names, mailing addresses, or e-mail addresses of visitors.

Retention of Information
You may request that your HHMI account be closed at any time by notifying the HHMI Webmaster. HHMI will not retain your account information after you close the account.

You may request that HHMI remove you from a subscription list(s) for e-mail news alerts at any time by notifying the HHMI Webmaster. After you have been removed from all subscription list(s), HHMI will not retain the e-mail address you provided in order to subscribe.

Changes in this Policy
Although no changes in this policy are currently contemplated, it is possible that the policy may change in the future. If you visit the HHMI website in the future, please check this portion of the site for any changes.

Policy Effective March 2006