Privacy Policy
The Dannon Institute, an independent, non-profit foundation, has created this
privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The
following discloses our information gathering and use practices for the Dannon
Institute website, www.dannon-institute.org.
INFORMATION COLLECTION NOTICE
This website does not offer the ability to site visitors to post personal
information or personally identifiable information. It collects personal
information only from site visitors who send emails to us and forwards that
information to various third parties who may provide market research, customer
service or web related services. Dannon Institute does not rent, sell or
distribute personally identifiable information or email addresses to third
parties.
As noted above, Dannon Institute does not collect any personal information about
you during your visit to this website unless you provide that information
voluntarily by sending an email. You may choose not to send us an email. It will
not prevent you from requesting services or products from Dannon Institute by
other means and will not normally have an impact on your ability to take
advantage of other features of the website, including browsing or downloading
publicly available information.
COOKIES
For each visitor to dannon-institute.org, our web server automatically
recognizes and stores information such as the visitor's IP address/domain name
combination, type of web browser, computer operating system (e.g., Windows or
Mac OS), and any referring web sites. When you visit dannon-institute.org, our
server sends a "cookie" to your browser. Cookies are small amounts of data that
our website sends to your computer while you are visiting the website. This
information gets stored on your computer's hard drive and among other things, it
allows our website to distinguish between visitors and analyze traffic patterns
through dannon-institute.org. Most web browser software automatically accepts
cookies, but you can change your browser setting to prevent that if you do not
wish to store the information on your computer. How to turn off all cookies
differs for each web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) so you
may wish to consult your browser's "Help" menu for additional information.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA FROM CHILDREN
Dannon Institute will not collect or post personal information from children
under the age of thirteen without following the requirements of the Children's
Online Privacy and Protection Act. Non-personal information may be collected via
cookies. Dannon Institute encourages parents and guardians to spend time online
with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on
the sites.
CHANGING PERSONAL INFORMATION
It is not necessary for visitors to the Dannon Institute website to provide
personal email information unless they want information to be sent to them.
Visitors who send emails to us may request that personal information be changed.
Visitors who wish to change or update personal information can do so by sending
emails to us indicating the changes to be made. The email address to use to
change personal email information is dannon-institute@dannon.com.
SECURITY
Our hosting agency institutes commercially reasonable security systems including
firewalls to guard against access to the data.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by us. 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 this information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For questions regarding this website, please click
here to send an email to Dannon Institute.