Home Institute's Privacy Policy
We take our user's privacy very seriously. If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
www.homeinstitute.com, hereafter "Home Institute," is wholly owned and operated by Conjecture Corporation.
By using Home Institute content, you accept our Terms and Conditions which includes this Privacy Policy. If you do not want to be bound by Home Institute’s Privacy Policy, or Terms and Conditions, your only remedy is to stop using Home Institute’s content.
Information Sharing
Home Institute takes the privacy of our visitors very seriously. Home Institute does not share the information it collects, whether general or personal, in any specific way with third parties without visitor consent or as otherwise required by law.
Home Institute may collect (1) personal or (2) general visitor-related information:
(1) Personal Information Including Email Addresses
Home Institute will never sell, lease or share personal information, including names and email addresses, with any third party.
Visitors will not be required to provide personal information for ordinary use of the site. Visitors may have the opportunity to provide Home Institute with their personal information in response to specific services or tasks (e.g., signing up for Home Institute's newsletter). In order to receive additional services, visitors may be required to provide personal information such as names and email addresses.
(2) General Information
Like many other web sites, Home Institute tracks general information tied to our visitors to enhance our visitors’ experiences by analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking user’s movement around the site, and gathering demographic information. This information that is tracked, also referred to as log files, includes but is not limited to, internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), access times, referring web sites, exit pages, and click activity. This information that is tracked does not identify a visitor personally (e.g., by name).
One way Home Institute collects this general information is through cookies, a small text file with a unique identifying string of characters. Cookies help Home Institute store information about visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information about the pages users access, and customize web content based on a visitor’s browser type or other information that the visitor sends through their browser.
You can disable cookies in your web browser so that cookies are not set without your permission. Note that disabling cookies, may limit the features and services available to you. The cookies that Home Institute sets are not tied to any personal information. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
Other Sites
Home Institute's Privacy Policy only applies to Home Institute content. Other websites, including those that advertise on Home Institute, link to Home Institute, or that Home Institute links to, may have their own policies.
When you click on these ads or links, these third party advertisers or sites automatically receive your IP address. Other technologies, like cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons, may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
Home Institute has no control over, and is not responsible for, the ways these other websites collect or use your information. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more information on their practices as well as for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices.
Google's DoubleClick DART Cookies
As a third party advertising vendor, Google will place a DART cookie on your computer when you visit a site using DoubleClick or Google AdSense advertising. Google uses this cookie to serve ads specific to you and your interests. The ads shown may be targeted based on your previous browsing history. DART cookies only use non-personally identifiable information. They do not track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You may prevent Google from using DART cookies on your computer by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Policy Changes
Please note that we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. Users can view our latest Privacy Policy at any time by visiting: http://www.homeinstitute.com/privacy-policy.htm
This page was last updated in April 2009.
