Basic Confidentiality Policy

It is The Council’s policy that personal information, such as your name, postal and e-mail address or telephone number, is private and confidential. Accordingly, the personal information you provide is stored in a secure location, is accessible only by designated staff, and is used only for the purposes for which you provide the information (such as to reply to your request or handle your requested service or business). For example, when you register for an event, the personal information you provide will be used to process your registration only. If you also indicate on our sites that you would like to receive information about other Council programs and services, such as mailing lists or e-bulletins, your personal information will be given to the appropriate Council staff to add to the list. If at any time you change your mind and would like to add or remove your name from the Council’s mailing list, or correct your personal information, please email us at info2@council-houston.org.

Our computers are not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information about its visitors. It does recognize the home server of visitors, but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell which Internet Service Provider our visitors use, but not the names, addresses or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify the particular visitors to our sites. This information is used only for internal purposes by The Council technical support staff.

In addition, our web sites track information about the visits to our web sites. For example, we compile statistics that show the daily number of visitors to our sites, the daily requests we receive for particular files on our web sites, and what U.S. states and countries those requests come from. These aggregated statistics are used internally to better provide services to the public and may also be provided to others, but again, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

The Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of organizations to which it refers for other services.

Links to Other Internet Sites

At certain places on this website, live 'links' to other Internet addresses can be accessed. Such external Internet addresses contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of The Council. The Council does not endorse, approve, certify, or control these external Internet addresses and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of information located at such addresses. Use of any information obtained from such addresses is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness. Reference therein to any related alcohol, drug or other addiction service, treatment methodology, research information or practice does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by The Council.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

The Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston will review and update its Privacy Policy periodically and always post the most current form of our Privacy Policy on our website. You may also request a copy of our current Privacy Policy at any time by contacting us.

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