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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the RapidTech web site. Please note that we collect no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us. All information submitted by visitors is voluntary.

If you are visiting the RapidTech website to browse through our site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  1. The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  3. The date and time you access our site;
  4. The pages you visit; and
  5. If you linked to the National Science Foundation site from another web site, the address of that web site.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors—to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record personal information about individuals and their visits.

If you request information or services from RapidTech and submit personal information to facilitate response to your request, we use the information provided to respond to your message. Pressing the “submit” button indicates your consent to use the information you provide for this purpose. We will not share the information you give us with another government agency unless your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise provided by law.

For website security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, RapidTech employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage to the information on our Web sites. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

If you have questions or concerns about RapidTech’s privacy policy, please contact Ed Tackett, Office of the General Counsel, phone: (949) 582-4239, email: edtackett@rapidtech.org