The Metro Elder Services Association regards your privacy with great respect and only gathers the minimum amount of information from you to provide the usability that you ask for. We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site or read pages we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit: The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site; The type of browser and operating system used to access our site; The date and time you access our site; The pages you visit; and If you linked to www.MetroElderServices.com web site from another web site, the address of that web site. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

If you register for either the MESA Forum or the MESA Event Calendar, personal information will be requested from you to provide this service to you. For example, your e-mail address, full name and your organization's phone number. This information will only be used by MESA. It will not be disclosed to a third-party unless required to do so by law.

Cookies, a text file not a computer program, store small amounts of information sometimes including information you have given us, and are only used to make your visit to the MESA web site more usable and friendly. At no time is information you have given us, whether stored in cookies or elsewhere, shared with third parties. If you do not wish to have web cookies stored on your machine, you can turn them off. However, this will impact the functioning of some features on the MESA site. We do not store any privacy information in cookies at this site.

Our web site has links to other web sites. This will open in a separate window so you can identify that you have left the MESA web site. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.