Privacy Policy

We believe that your privacy is very important. At NIRC and InsulinResistanceCouncil.org, we will never knowingly disclose personally identifiable information about you to any third-party without your prior consent.  You agree and understand that web sites involve multiple layers of control including those of server hosts and communications providers, and that NIRC does not determine their various privacy policies, which may or may not coincide with ours, nor does NIRC control their actual behavior which may or may not meet our standards.   

Information Collection and Use
NIRC does not sell, share or rent any of the information collected on our sites to any third party in manners different from what is disclosed in this privacy policy. Below is a list of the various ways in which we may collect information.

Publications Sign-up
If you choose to subscribe to or obtain one or more of NIRC’s publications, we would need e-mail or other address information for delivery. You may unsubscribe at any time by following indicated procedures. 

Traffic Patterns
We, our suppliers and affiliates may collect traffic patterns and site usage information throughout our Site. As part of this, the URL you come from as you enter our site, what browser you are using, your IP address, and the URL you go to when you leave our site whether or not it is a link or advertiser on our site may be collected. In addition, we may use Cookies to identify your computer when you revisit. Cookies, by themselves, cannot identify you or any other individual using your computer. Cookies allow web sites to keep track of shopping carts, login information and site traffic patterns and usage.

Disclosure of your Information  
We do not knowingly sell, rent or otherwise disclose personally identifiable information about you to any third party, without your prior consent. We may share non-personal, aggregate information regarding customer demographics, traffic patterns, sales, and site usage with our suppliers, partners, sponsors or affiliates. NIRC may disclose or access information, including personally identifiable information it has been provided, when we believe, in good faith, that the law and/or public safety requires it.  NIRC may disclose any information under its control, including personally identifiable information, in order to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating or causing injury to or interference with NIRC's rights or property, or those of other users, or those of any other party that could be harmed by such activities.

Your Consent  
By using the NIRC web site and any of the services available to you on it, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described above. If we change our privacy policy, we will immediately post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of our policies.

Links on our Site
NIRC may provide links to various sites that we believe may provide valuable information to you, or be of interest to you. However, by using such links on NIRC’s Site, you agree that unless it is specifically indicated on NIRC’s site, NIRC and its officers, advisors, employees and agents are not responsible for the privacy or other policies, practices, content, or actions of such web sites and have no obligation whatsoever in that respect.

Notification of Changes
Using contact information we may have been provided by you, we will attempt to notify you of a major change in our privacy practices. However, you shold revisit this posted version of our policies from time to time to be sure of the current policies in effect.