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Information Collected from SPH Web Site Visitors

Information on website visits is collected for the purpose of optimizing our website for our visitors. Except for various web forms, we do not collect personal information. We use two methods to collect information, server logs and Google Analytics.

Information We Do Not Collect (except by various web forms)

Names
Phone Numbers
E-mail Addresses
Mailing Addresses

Information We Never Collect

Social Security Numbers
Bank Account Numbers
Credit Card Information

Information Collected by our Server Logs

When you visit the Site, our web server may record the following information in its server log:

your IP Address,
the URLs you have requested to access,
the dates and methods of requests,
the status code of your requests,
URLs of pages that referred you to the Site,
number of bytes transferred, and
your web browser and operating system platform.

Web server logs are retained indefinitely and their contents are accessible to administrators, website managers and website usage statistics packages.

Information Collected by Google Analytics

Visitors to this website who have JavaScript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google") that collects the following types of information from users:

Type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number.
Type of operating system
Screen colors (color processing ability of the users screen)
JavaScript support
Flash version
Screen resolution
Network location and IP address
- Can include country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data.
- Host name
- Bandwidth (internet connection speed)
Time of visit
Pages visited
Time spent on each page of the website
Referring site statistics
- The website (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this website (example: clicking on a hyperlink from Yahoo.com that took the user to this website)
- Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine)

Information Collected by Web Forms

Our website often includes online registration pages for conferences, symposiums, ICS help requests, etc. Personal information such as name, mailing address and e-mail address are collected in these cases.