Privacy Policy

INFER (INtegrated Forecasting of Events and Risks) is a program run by the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland.

Topics:

• What data do we collect?
• How do we collect your data?
• How will we use your data?
• How do we store your data?
• Marketing
• What are your data protection rights?
• What are cookies?
• How do we use cookies?
• What types of cookies do we use?
• How to manage your cookies
• Privacy policies of other websites
• Changes to our privacy policy
• How to contact us

What data do we collect?

 collects the following data:

• Personal identification information (email address)

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide INFER with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Register online
• Transact with our application by making a forecast or comment, or perform other functions
• Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

How will we use your data?

 collects your data so that we can:

• Process your forecasts or comments for reporting purposes
• Email you with program updates, events, or relevant system alerts

If you agree, INFER will share your data with our partner companies so that we may conduct additional analytics on user behavior and application performance.

• Google (Google Analytics)
• New Relic

How do we store your data?

 securely stores your data at an Amazon AWS datacenter in the state of Virginia in the United States.

INFER will keep your data for 1 year following the end of the performance period of this project.

What are your data protection rights?

 would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

 – You have the right to request INFER for copies of your personal data.

 – You have the right to request that INFER correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request INFER to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

 – You have the right to request that INFER erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

 – You have the right to request that INFER restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

 – You have the right to object to INFER’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

 – You have the right to request that INFER transfer the data that we have collected directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: [email protected]

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
• Status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
• Personalization - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you;
• Security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
• Analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services; and

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses cookies used by our service providers

• Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
• We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website and services. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
• We use New Relic to track the speed and performance of our website and services. New Relic’s privacy policy is available at https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

The INFER website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

 keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 24 May 2023.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about INFER’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: [email protected]