document: title: privacy / use policies
text: Basic information about our mission, staff, advisory board and privacy, reprint and citation policies.

  
Privacy Policy  
The Pew Internet & American Life Project respects the privacy of users who visit its site. We do not collect names, address, phone numbers or any other information by which we could identify you personally. When a visitor requests pages at the Pew Internet Project site, our Web servers automatically recognize the browser's domain name, and IP address. Our servers do not record e-mail addresses. We collect the domain names and IP addresses in order to aggregate information on what pages users access or visit. This information is collected solely for statistical and routine system maintenance purposes and is not used to identify individuals. If you choose to email us and provide personally identifiable information about yourself, we will not use the information for any purpose other than to respond to your inquiry. All researchers wishing to access the Pew Internet Project data sets will be required to register with their contact information. We collect this information solely for the purpose of contacting scholars who have accessed a particular data set in the event that errors are discovered in the data. The information collected will not be used for any other purposes, ever. This site contains links to other sites. Pew Internet Project is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. If you have any questions or comments about our website or privacy policy, please contact the Webmaster. Permissions/Reprint Policies:  
Reprint, Redistribution and Web-posting Guidelines: Our reports and slide sets are free and available to all who download or request them for personal use. If you wish to reproduce them either on paper or online, please follow the guidelines below: It is okay to reproduce a whole document, though we prefer that you link to it on our website. We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization and as such we do not endorse people, products, businesses or positions on issues. Therefore, none of our material may be reproduced in a manner that suggests that we are endorsing anything. It must be obvious that the information/data/report was produced by us. Please credit the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and include the author and title of the document and its release date, and the URL (web address) from which you accessed the document and the date on which you did so. If you'd like to use anything other than a report in its entirety, we ask that you email us at webmaster@pewinternet.org with the selection that you wish to use and how you wish to use it. We respond to all requests promptly. Citation Guidelines: If you intend to cite a Pew Internet & American Life Project report, report excerpt, chart or data point, we suggest that you cite us in your bibliography, endnotes or footnote in the following manner: Report Author(s), Report Title, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Report Release Date, URL from which the report was accessed, date URL accessed. Page no. or Report Author(s), "Chart or Chapter or section title," Report Title, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Report Release Date, URL from which the report or chart/chapter was accessed, date URL accessed. Pg no. An example: Horrigan, John. A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users. Pew Internet & American Life Project, May 6, 2007, http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/213/report_display.asp, accessed on May 10, 2007.