Privacy Policy

As a non-profit organization, BHSI recognizes the importance of protecting information collected from visitors to our site. This privacy policy was created to demonstrate BHSI’s firm commitment to the privacy of our website users. This policy explains the types of information collected by BHSI’s website and how that information is used.

What Personal Information is Collected
BHSI may collect personal information. This information is voluntarily provided to BHSI by the user with regard to registration for training events, requests for BHSI publications, and contact and mailing list correspondence. Users voluntarily provide information such as name, email address, agency, county, and job title. All information collected is used to process the user's request and is never sold or shared with a third-party for commercial purposes.

How Your Information May Be Used
BHSI does not collect information under any conditions except when a user purposely communicates with us. Our policy is to use the information we acquire for internal purposes only, and we maintain appropriate measures to keep this information private.
Users can visit the site without revealing any personal information. If a user chooses to give us personal information via the Internet for the purposes of correspondence, a publication order, to join our mailing list, or to participate in BHSI's educational trainings, the data we collect is used for that purpose only. 
BHSI takes precautions to keep the user information secure, and such information will not be disclosed to third parties for commercial purposes.

Email Privacy
Email is handled as normal communications and may be stored for the purpose it was sent. BHSI does not sell or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.

External Links
BHSI’s website includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the http://www.bhsi-dbhids.org domain, and BHSI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these external websites.

Use of Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your web browser software (for example, Internet Explorer) on your computer's hard drive or temporarily in your computer's memory. BHSI does not use cookies to collect personal information about the user.

IP Addresses
An IP (Internet Protocol) address serves as a unique identifier of computers on the Internet. BHSI uses your IP address for statistical metrics used to glean important information about site usage.

Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy policy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Continued use of this website after such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed.