Privacy Policy

This privacy policy covers the Population Reference Bureau's treatment of personally identifiable information that PRB collects when you are on the PRB sites and when you use PRB's services. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that PRB does not own or control or to people that PRB does not employ or manage.

Protecting your privacy and your information is a top priority at PRB. We have taken careful measures to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of your information. Once we receive the information that you enter into our website, it is stored behind a firewall. PRB employees are made aware of our privacy and security policies through our Employee Handbook. PRB shares personally identifiable information with employees who need it in order to perform their jobs. PRB will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone. PRB may send personally identifiable information about you to other organizations or people when:

• We have your consent to share the information.
• We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested.
• We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of PRB to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.)
• We are responding to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.

Personal information that PRB collects includes your name, home and work phone numbers, address, e-mail address, and credit card information if you order publications from PRB.

PRB maintains electronic newsletters that you may subscribe or unsubscribe to at any time. Please use this website's "E-Mail News" feature to subscribe or unsubscribe.

The PRB website does use "cookies." Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to allow you to navigate between different functional sections of our website without having to log in with every new page. The "Help" button on the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of the website's richest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to PRB's cookies.

PRB gives you the ability to review and edit any personally identifiable information that PRB has stored on its websites. Please note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in our active user databases.

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using software that encrypts information you input. PRB uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions. We do transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing. We do not store your credit card information in our database.

Please protect yourself against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

For more information, please e-mail PRB: [email protected].

USAID Privacy Policy for PopNet and MEASURE Communication sites

The MEASURE Communication website and the PopNet website are funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the MEASURE Communication Project (HRN-A-00-98-000001-00). USAID requires us to post the following Privacy Policy for the MEASURE Communication and PopNet websites:

If you visit MEASURE Communication or PopNet to read or download information, such as country information or information about one of our projects:
We collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet; the date and time you accessed our site, the Internet address of the website from which you linked to our site; and what information you view while you visit our website. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our sites, find out what information is accessed most often, and help us make our websites more useful to visitors. This gathering and storing of information is separate from the activity described as "monitoring" in our Security Notice. The information gathered is used for two purposes: site management and, in the case of suspected unauthorized activity, for law enforcement and possible criminal prosecution (see Security Notice).

If you identify yourself by sending us a comment by e-mail:
You also may decide to send us personally identifying information in an e-mail message with a comment or question. We use personally identifying information to respond to your comment or suggestion and to count the number of people sending us comments. In certain instances, your comment or suggestion may be forwarded to other U.S. government agencies or departments if they are in a better position to respond to your message. We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide such information to us.

Security Notice

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

General Disclaimer

Information presented on the MEASURE Communication and PopNet websites is considered public information and may be distributed or copied freely unless identified as being subject to copyright protection. Please cite the sources of any information copied from this site. Photos and images from this site may be copyrighted and unauthorized use of the images is not allowed unless permission is obtained by the copyright owner.

We strongly recommend that MEASURE data be acquired directly from this website and not through other sources that may change the information in some way or exclude material crucial to the understanding of that information. While we make every effort to provide accurate and complete information, some information may change between site updates. Substantive changes may be noted when content is next updated.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

The documents posted on this website may contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided for visitors' convenience. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any linked information. Further, the inclusion of links or pointers to websites other than the MEASURE Communication or PopNet websites are not intended to assign importance to those sites and the information contained therein, nor are they intended to endorse, recommend, or favor any views expressed, or commercial products or services offered on these outside sites, or the organizations sponsoring the sites, by trade name, trademark, manufacture, or otherwise.

Reference in MEASURE Communication or PopNet to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the site's visitor's, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or USAID.

The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the U.S. Government or the USAID, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Disclaimer of Liability

Every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information. However, with the thousands of documents available, often uploaded within short deadlines, we cannot guarantee that there will be no errors. We make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of MEASURE Communication and PopNet and expressly disclaim liability for errors and omissions in the contents of these websites.

With respect to the content of the MEASURE Communication and PopNet websites, neither the United States Government, nor USAID, nor their employees and contractors make any warranty, expressed or implied or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, and the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to content available from these two websites or other Internet resources linked from it. Additionally, neither the U.S. Government nor USAID assume any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product, or process disclosed herein nor freedom from computer virus, and do not represent that use of such information, product, or process would not infringe on privately owned rights.

Links to these Websites or their Content

You may freely link to the MEASURE Communication or PopNet websites or any of their content. We ask only that you identify that the link is to a Internet resource.

Links to Other Sites

The MEASURE Communication and PopNet websites have links to United States Government agencies and to private organizations we believe are relevant to our mission. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the disclaimers and security and privacy policies of the new site.

Copyright Notice

Unless a copyright is indicated, information on MEASURE Communication and PopNet are in the public domain and may be reproduced, published, or otherwise used without permission from the Population Reference Bureau. Please cite the source of the information. If a copyright is indicated on a photo, graphic, or any other material, permission to copy these materials must be obtained from the original source. This copyright notice does not pertain to information at websites other than these two websites.

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on MEASURE Communication and PopNet are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under Title 18 U.S.C., Sections 1001 and 1030.

Site Management

The Population Reference Bureau manages the overall information content, design, and, organization of MEASURE Communication and PopNet on behalf of USAID.

Verification or Hard Copy of Content

If you would like verification or a hard copy of information released on MEASURE Communication or PopNet, please contact the webmaster at: [email protected].

For More Information

If you have any questions or comments about the information presented on MEASURE Communication or PopNet, please contact the webmaster at: [email protected].