NWRI Privacy Policy

National Water Research Institute Website Privacy Policy

Welcome and Contact Us

Welcome to our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email by clicking on the “Contact Us” button in the navigation bar, under "More," above. You may also contact us:

By Mail: National Water Research Institute

18700 Ward Street, Fountain Valley, California, USA, 92708

Policy Overview

We have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain what information may be collected on our website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. It is National Water Research Institute’s (hereinafter “NWRI”) policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while you use our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://nwri-usa.org (hereinafter, "us," "we," or "https://nwri-usa.org"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the website. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our website. Depending on your activities when visiting our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, NWRI collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, including but not limited to, browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. NWRI’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how its website users interact with its website. From time to time, we may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of NWRI’s website. NWRI also collects potentially personally identifying information, including but not limited to, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://nwri-usa.org blog posts. Currently, we do not require registration to use the website or have an area to solicit comments. We only disclose user and/or commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances described below.

Gathering Personally Identifying Information

Certain visitors to NWRI’s websites choose to interact with us in ways that require NWRI to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter to provide a username and email address. Our purpose in gathering this information is to provide information and services to users upon their request.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect any personal information transmitted to us its security cannot be guaranteed.

Advertisements

We do not accept advertising on the NWRI website; therefore, you will not receive any third-party cookies.

Links to External Sites

Our website and its related services may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Protection of Potentially Personally Identifying Information

NWRI discloses potentially personally identifying information only to management and select employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available at NWRI’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using NWRI’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. NWRI will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, we disclose potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when NWRI believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of NWRI, affiliated third parties or the public at large.

Registered Users

If you are registered to receive our periodic email newsletter and have supplied your email address, NWRI may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with NWRI and in our industry. We primarily use our newsletter to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to use your information to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. NWRI takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

We may collect website statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website (e.g., when they visit, what pages they visit, how long they remain on the website). NWRI may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose your personally identifying information.

To enrich and perfect your online experience, NWRI uses cookies to store your preferences on your computer. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. NWRI uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of https://nwri-usa.org, and their website access preferences. NWRI visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using NWRI’s website; however, certain features of our website may not function properly without cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to NWRI's use of cookies.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole and unilateral discretion. NWRI encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.