<p>Please read this privacy policy from Rural Development Initiatives in order to understand your rights with regard to participating in the RIPPLE website.</p>
<p>Rural Development Initiatives (RDI) reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this privacy policy simply by posting such changes on the RIPPLE site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting. Any information you submitted previously is covered by the new policy.</p>
<p>If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact Rural Development Initiatives by sending an email to <a href="mailto:ripplehelp@rdiinc.org">ripplehelp@rdiinc.org</a>. Please reference this privacy policy in your subject line.</p>
<p><strong>What Information We Collect and How We Use That Information
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Certain forms on the RIPPLE site require users to give us personally identifying information, such as name and email address. This helps ensure the credibility of users’ comments and other posts and allows us to manage the site overall.</p>
<p>RDI does not disclose or share any personal information, including your name or email address, with other organizations for any reason, except if required by law. Only RDI staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to the RIPPLE site, as part of our regular site maintenance. Site maintenance may include contacting users to inform them of concerns regarding data they submitted on RIPPLE.</p>
<p><strong>Browser Information and Use of Cookies</strong><br />
RDI uses an external service to provide real-time reporting to us and our authorized agents regarding browser access to the RIPPLE site. Reporting includes information on page views, unique views, unique visitors, repeat visitors, frequency of visits, and peak-volume traffic periods. We do not use this service to request, record, require, collect, or track any Internet users’ personally identifiable information.</p>
<p>Cookies are pieces of information that websites transfer to visitors’ computers. The RIPPLE site may use cookies to enhance visitors’ experiences while using it, such as generating personalized content. You may choose to configure how your web browser deals with cookies. If you have cookies turned off in your web browser, some features of the site may not be fully accessible.</p>
<p><strong>Security
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To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personally identifiable information we collect online. Information submitted to RIPPLE is securely stored, and passwords entered on the site are encrypted when submitted. No data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information in transmission, RDI does not ensure or warrant the complete security of such information during transmission.</p>
<p><strong>Validity of Information</strong>
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While users are allowed to post comments and resources on RIPPLE, RDI does not warrant the validity of any information contained in those posts. RDI performs regular site checks to ensure that users are not abusing the site by posting spam or abusive language, but we cannot guarantee the accuracy or relevance of any user-contributed posts.</p>
<p><strong>Other Websites</strong><br />
Our site contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which Rural Development Initiatives has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.<br />
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