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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting The Veteran’s Memorial to the Living (VML) website and reviewing our website Privacy Policy. VML applies leading privacy practices and adheres to data stewardship principles in managing our web user data. The data stewardship principles guiding our efforts include the following goals:

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  • Protection of web user privacy;

  • Maintaining the confidentiality of web user data; and

  • Ensuring appropriate levels of security for web user data.
     

This policy describes how VML applies these principles to the handling of personal information you provide to us via a VML web page and online forms.

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Personal information may include your name; email, home, and/or business address; phone numbers; Social Security Number; or other information that identifies you personally.

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Key features of our privacy policy include:

  • This General Web Page Privacy Policy ("General Policy") applies to all VML web pages.

  • We will not require you to register or provide personal information in order to visit our website. However, certain pages or areas of our website may require you to register or provide personal information before you will be granted access.

  • VML does not collect personal information from web users, unless the personal information is provided by you.

  • We will never sell or rent your personal information to outside parties.

  • We use web analysis tools (e.g. cookies) for limited uses authorized in this policy.

  • This General Privacy Policy promotes the privacy, confidentiality, security, and responsible handling of any information collected by VML over the Web.
     

Information Privacy Protection

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties outside VML without your consent, except to facilitate required business activity to act on your behalf at your request, or as authorized by law.

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We will use your information to process requests for services or information. VML follows the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. § 552a), which requires VML to protect your personal information that VML maintains.

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A System of Records is a file, database, or program from which personal information is retrieved by name or other personal identifier. The Privacy Act provides a number of protections for your personal information. These typically include how information is collected, used, disclosed, stored, and disposed.

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Information Collected and Stored Automatically

We automatically collect certain information about your visit to VML web pages.  We limit the data collected to meet specific business needs and to protect your privacy.  We may know what path(s) you took on our web site, but we don’t know who you are.  We do not use this information to identify you personally without your express consent and an authorized purpose.

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We automatically collect and store the following information about your visit to the VML website:

  • General log information – Examples of general log information include, but are not limited to: Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" or "yourschool.edu"); Internet Protocol (IP) address; operating system; the browser used to access our Web site; the date and time you accessed our site; and the pages that you visited.

  • Referral and statistical information where we have links to or from the site you visited.  Such data may include aggregate data such as the number of offsite links occurring during a visit to a VML web page.  It may also include specific data, such as the identity of the site which you visited immediately before or after our site.  We do not use such data to identify you personally.
     

We use the general log information to help us make our web site more useful to visitors. We use it to learn about how locations on our site are being used, what information is of most and least interest, and how we can enhance ease of use by ensuring our sites can interface with the types of technology our visitors use. We also use such statistics to tell us of any possible site performance problems. Except for oversight, law enforcement investigations, or protection of the VML information technology infrastructure as authorized by law, no other attempts are made to identify you or your usage habits.

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General logs are used for no other purposes than the purposes described above, and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with General Records Schedules published by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and agency record control schedule requirements.

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Use of Cookies and Tracking Technologies

What is a Cookie?

When you visit certain web sites, they send a small piece of information called a “cookie” to your computer along with the web page.

There are two kinds of cookies.

  • A Session Cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer’s random access memory (RAM). A session cookie is destroyed as soon as you close your browser.

  • A Persistent Cookie is a line of text that is saved to a file on your hard drive and is called up the next time you visit that website. This lets the website remember information about your previous visits and use of the website. Persistent cookies are not used by VML.
     

We use Session Cookies in the following manner:

Log-on and log-off process — you do not have to log-on and register to browse our site.  If you decide to register with our site to use one of our online services, session cookies help with the log-on and log-off process.  The cookies enable us to recognize your log-on ID when you log on so that we do not create a duplicate registration record for you.

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Information Collected from Online Forms

Our website allows you to use online forms.  We will use the information you provide to respond to you or process a request.

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Information Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personal information to outside marketers. Information collected via the VML website may be shared with employees, contractors, and other service providers as necessary to respond to a request, provide a service, or as otherwise authorized by law.

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Links to Other Sites

This website provides access to other websites outside our control and jurisdiction. When you link to these websites, you leave our website and your communications no longer are protected by our privacy policies. VML is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of non-VML websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy or terms and conditions of those sites to fully understand what information is collected and how it is used.

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Contact VML:

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy or use of your information. You can email us on info@v-m-l.org or you can mail us your question or concern at The Veteran’s Memorial to the Living, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226.

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Your inquiry will be treated confidentially and will not be shared with third parties, except as necessary to respond to your inquiry and for other purposes as authorized by the Privacy Act and other relevant legal authority.

The VML Privacy Policy works to minimize the impact on veteran's privacy, particularly veteran's personal information and dignity, while achieving the mission of the Department of Veteran Affairs.

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