Privacy Policy
Your privacy on this website
The MS Care Partners team is committed to providing our users with a website that respects their privacy. This page summarizes the privacy policy and practices for the MS Care Partners website.
When logging onto our website, your unique password will be recorded. Your unique password will not be directly linked to your identity anywhere on the website. However, the researchers that provided you with your password will be able to connect your password to your identity. Using the password, researchers will record:
- The type of browser and operating system you used
- The date and time you accessed the website
- The uniform resource locator (URL) of the pages you visited
- Which videos or links you clicked on
This information will allow the research team to learn how many different participants use the website and which pages they visit the most. This will help us learn whether the website helps people.
The MS Care Partners web servers log information that identifies the computer you used to access the website - the Internet domain and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. This information is immediately scrambled so that it cannot be read or linked to your computer or your password.
No other personal information, such as your name, phone number, or email address will be automatically collected by the website.
Links to other sites
Our websites may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of other websites.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred (through your browser) from a website to the hard drive of your computer. The cookie identifies your browser and will NOT let a website know any personal information about you, such as your name and address. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot run on your computer, search your computer for other information or transmit any information to anyone.
The MS Care Partner’s website will use cookies to keep track of which user is logged in. This will allow the research team to assess whether the website helps people.
The MS Care Partner website will not use any third party cookies.
If you are concerned about the use of cookies, you can refer to the help information in your browser software for information on how to disable cookies. If you wish to delete cookies from your machine, consult your browser’s help files for instructions on how to do so.