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This site is owned and operated by Northland Institute. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. Northland Institute, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. Northland Institute uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule ( depending on the newsletter ), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Northland Institute never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search functions as one of many measures of what interests our users, but we don't track which terms a particular user enters. Northland Institute creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for sponsors and partners. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, a partner or sponsor will never know that a specific user viewed our website. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. Northland Institute uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help better understand our audience's demographics. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. Northland Institute operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers. By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Northland Institute. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.