Information We Collect
We do not collect personally identifiable information (e.g., name, address, phone number, email address) unless you provide it to us. No other attempts are made by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to identify individual users or their personal usage habits. We collect only aggregate information about the numbers of individuals who visit our web site and what those individuals look at. This website uses industry-standard software to create summary statistics, which are used for such things as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
When you click on our site’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or YouTube icons, your browser will open a new window linking you to the associated website and you are subject to that website’s privacy policy. Each platform posts a Privacy Policy for you to review regarding their service, the types of information they collect and how they use and share it. We highly recommend you understand the privacy policies of the services you use. Please also review NCSA’s social media guidelines for more information.
In addition, when you click on either the Facebook or Twitter social share icon, each of the icons open in a new window to share the content that’s applied to what you’re trying to share.
We also use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.
You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.
Information You Willingly Provide
When you subscribe to communications from NCSA (newsletters, email alerts, etc.) you can expect we will contact you about ways to get involved in your community regarding online safety; you will receive updates from NCSA about free resources and upcoming events; we do not share our contact lists (period); at times we use our lists to inform people of important events in cybersecurity by our partners (industry, non-governmental organizations and government); you can expect to hear from NCSA on average a couple of times per month and, in the ramp-up to National Cyber Security Awareness Month (October) and Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28), more frequently; you can opt out at any time.
How We Protect Information
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this website employs industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this web site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.