Privacy Statement

IHDA may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. IHDA may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. IHDA secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. IHDA secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

IHDA will not sell, rent or lease your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) to any third party and will only use your unique personally identifiable information to respond to your requests for information. There may be times when IHDA does not have information responsive to your requests and, instead, another agency or other source may have the information. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information is not transferred to the third party without your explicit consent.

Information about your computer hardware and software also may be automatically collected by IHDA. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by IHDA for the operation of the website, to maintain the quality of the website, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the IHDA.org website.

You should note that IHDA will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

(a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on IHDA or the IHDA.org site;

(b) protect and defend the rights or property of IHDA; and,

(c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of IHDA.org, or the public.

The IHDA.org website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page.  You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

IHDA encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from IHDA.org so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. IHDA is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the IHDA.org website.