Thank you for visiting the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) website.
Privacy Policy
NSIC takes the safeguarding of your personal information seriously. We do not require you to provide any personal information to access and browse our website.
Submitting information is strictly voluntary. By doing so, you are giving NSIC your permission to use the information for the intended purpose. If you do not want to give NSIC permission to use your information, simply do not provide it. However, not providing certain information may result in NSIC’s inability to provide you with the information or services you desire.
We never collect information for commercial marketing purposes.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
We may collect and temporarily store certain technical information about your visit for use in site management and security purposes. This information includes:
1. The Internet domain from which you access our website (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from an educational institution);
2. The IP address (a unique number for each computer connected to the Internet) from which you access our website;
3. The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) used to access our site;
4. The operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site;
5. The date and time you access our site;
6. The URLs of the pages you visit;
7. If you visited this site from another website or search engine, the URL of the forwarding site.
This information is only used to help us make our site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to different sections of our site, find out what information is the most viewed, the types of technology our visitors use, and to help us make our web site more useful to visitors.
Personal Information Volunteered by Visitors
If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending us an e-mail, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through our website, we use that information only to fulfill your request or respond to your inquiry.
We do not collect personal information about our visitors unless you choose to provide this information.
Some of our pages may ask visitors who request specific information to fill out a registration form. Information collected through questionnaires, feedback forms, or other means, enables us to determine visitors’ interests, with the goal of providing better service to our visitors. If you complete an online survey, NSIC collects and stores responses anonymously. You are not required to complete any survey to use any feature of NSIC’s Web site.
Please keep in mind that email isn’t necessarily secure. You should never send sensitive or personal information like account numbers or Social Security numbers in an email.
Information from Children
In general, this website is not intended for use by persons under 13 years of age unless they have a parent or guardians’ permission. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children, other than that detailed in the previous sections that is automatically collected on every visitor unless you choose to provide information to us.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. Your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the website that provided it, and no other website can request it. There are two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for longer periods of time.
Stragegycenter.org may use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through the site, or to allow you to customize your preferences for interacting with the site.
At no time is your private information, whether stored in cookies or elsewhere, shared with third parties who have no right to that information. If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies stored on your machine, you can turn them off in your browser. However, this may affect the functioning of some sections of our site.
Links to Other Web sites
NSIC may provide links to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. We provide links to these sites as a service to our users. The presence of a link is not an endorsement of the site or its contents by NSIC. These links are provided purely for reference purposes.
When users follow a link to an outside website, they are leaving NSIC and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website(s). NSIC is not responsible for the information collection practices of non-NSIC sites.
Intellectual Property/Copyright Statement
NSIC regularly publishes an array of comprehensive analysis and policy recommendations on current domestic and international affairs issues in the form of books, reports, and other materials for printing on physical material and as files for electronic distribution. The views expressed in them are those of the editors and authors alone. They do not necessarily reflect views of the National Strategy Information Center.
Materials on our site are copywritten by their various owners unless otherwise noted. Please contact the source of the material for full copyright information.
Materials credited to NSIC: © Copyright 2011. All rights reserved.
To request permission to use NSIC-owned materials, please contact us at info@strategycenter.org. For other materials, please contact its source for full copyright information.
Image Copyright Statement
Images credited to their various sources retain the copyright of their owner. Please contact the source of the image for full copyright information.
NSIC-owned photos are available for download. We do, however, require that you credit NSIC by including the following information with your photo: (Photo Courtesy: NSIC). We also ask that you link back to our Web site, www.strategycenter.org, if possible.
Website Technology Accessibility Statement
We continually strive to ensure the pages on this website are accessible to individuals using assistive technologies. If you have any difficulty viewing any page with assistive technology, please contact the webmaster for this site.
Documents on strategycenter.org are presented in many formats. These formats are generally accessible to users using screen reading software. Some files on this website may be posted as Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe provides their Acrobat Reader software as a free download.
Website Contact
If you need assistance with this privacy policy, statement, or website, please contact the webmaster for this site via e-mail or by writing:
Webmaster
National Strategy Information Center 1730 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W., Suite 500 Washington, D.C. 20036
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