The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury at TIRR

Internet Disclaimer and Privacy Policy

The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury Web site is intended to provide general educational information about traumatic brain injury. Information on this Web site is generally written by faculty and staff affiliated with the RRTC on Community Integration, while other information may be from sources outside of the RRTC.

You assume full responsibility for using the information on the RRTC Web site and understand and agree the RRTC on Community Integration is not responsible or liable for any claim, loss, or damage resulting from its use by you or any user. While we try to keep the information on this site as accurate as possible, we disclaim any warranty, expressed or implied, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The RRTC on Community Integration also does not warrant that access to the site will be error free or virus free.

Copyright law protects material on the RRTC Web site. Reprinting or otherwise reproducing any document in whole or in part is prohibited, unless prior written consent is obtained from the copyright owner.

By choosing to use the RRTC Web site, you acknowledge and agree to the terms of this Disclaimer. We reserve the right to modify these terms and policies and recommend that you review them periodically.

Health Information

If you are a health care consumer who chooses to use the health related information on the RRTC on Community Integration Web site, you should not rely on that information as professional medical advice or use it to replace any relationship with your physician or other qualified healthcare professional. The RRTC on Community Integration Web site is not an attempt to practice medicine or provide specific medical advice and does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. Health-related information on the RRTC on Community Integration Web site should not be used to make a diagnosis or to replace or overrule the advice of a qualified healthcare provider.

Users of the RRTC Web site should not rely on the information contained in the Web site for emergency medical treatment. Users should consult with a qualified healthcare professional for answers to specific health related questions.

Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors is important to the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury. We understand that visitors to this site need to be in control of their personal information.

Therefore, the following is this RRTC's Internet Privacy Policy:

Your personal information is not required to visit our site. If you choose not to provide personal information, you can still visit the tbicommunity.org pages.

Some areas of our site may request some of your personal information. In that case, this personal information will only be collected if specifically and voluntarily provided and authorized by you. Personally identifying information collected will be used only in connection with tbicommunity.org, or for such purposes as are described at the point of collection.

Some information collected is for statistical purposes only. The RRTC on Community Integration performs analyses of user behavior in order to measure customer interest in the various areas of our sites.

The RRTC on Community Integration will make every reasonable effort to protect the personal information that you share with us. The RRTC does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information to third parties, unless specifically and voluntarily provided and authorized by you. If we share demographic information with third parties, we will give them de-identified aggregate information only.

You do not need to have cookies enabled to visit www.tbicommunity.org.

A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser, along with a Web page, when you access a Web site. A cookie might track the pages you've visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific page. There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's memory. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file on your hard drive.

The RRTC on Community Integration uses both session cookies and persistent cookies.

We use cookies to count the number of visitors and to improve the usability of our websites. We have set our software so that your browser will only return cookie information to the domain where the cookie originated (in this case, tbicommunity.org). No other site can request it. Note: Regardless of the particular uses for cookies on the RRTC on Community Integration web site, we will not share any cookie information with any third parties.

While the RRTC on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury will make every attempt to protect the personal information that you share with us, the use of electronic mail (email) is not secure against interception. You should take any appropriate steps to assure yourself that your communication is protected.

The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information.