Lateblight.org's Privacy Policy

Michigan State University's potato diseases and late blight monitoring sites understand that people who visit our websites may have concerns about how we use the information they furnish. To address these concerns, we have developed a Web Site Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is based on federal and state privacy laws. The policy may be updated from time to time, so please check back to this page occasionally.

Information Collection
Users of potatodiseases.org and lateblight.org browse anonymously. However, whenever a user requests a page from our web server, our server automatically records certain pieces of information in what are referred to as "log files." We capture and store only the following limited information:

The name of the domain through which you accessed the Internet (for example, aol.com if you are connecting from an America On Line account or umich.edu if you are connecting from the University of Michigan).

The date and time you accessed our web site.

The pages you visited.

The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our web site (for example, www.yahoo.com).

The browser used to view the site (for example Internet Explorer).

This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of this web site. This helps us make the web site more useful to visitors.

Cookies
We do not use "Cookies" on this site. (A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online "shopping cart" to keep track of items you wish to purchase.)