Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene operates the Data Portal, which provides information about infectious diseases of public health concern in Wisconsin.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use the Data Portal.
If you choose to use our Data Portal, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Data Portal. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Acceptable Use Policy, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.
For a better experience while using the Data Portal, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and email address. The information that we collect will be used to contact you when the contact us form is used.
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Data Portal, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Data Portal that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate the usage of the Data Portal;
- To provide the Data Portal on our behalf;
- To perform Data Portal-related services; or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Data Portal is used.
- We want to inform our Data Portal users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Our Data Portal may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.