Privacy Notice

This is a government resource provided by the National Institute of Health (NIH) -National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Protecting your privacy is important to us. NCATS complies with the requirement for privacy and security established by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This page outlines our privacy policy as they apply to our site as well as third party sites and other publicly available NCATS resources or applications.

NCATS will not collect any personal information about you unless you choose to explicitly provide it to us. We do, however, collect some data about your visit to our website to help us better understand the site's public use and make it more useful to visitors.

When you visit any public website, certain information about your visit is collected. For example, NCATS Inxight Drugs automatically collects (and temporarily stores if applicable) the following types of information about your visit:

• Domain from which you access the Internet.
• IP address (A numeric address automatically assigned to a computer accessing the Internet).
• Operating system and information about the browser used while visiting the site.
• Date and time of your visit.
• Pages you visited.
• Address of the website that connected you to the site.

The NCATS Inxight Drugs website uses Google Analytics software to collect information described in the bullet list under Type of Information Collected. Google Analytics collects information automatically and continuously. No PII is collected. NCATS staff and contractors conduct analyses and reports on the aggregated data from Google Analytics. The information collected and generated as reports is only available to the website managers and other designated staff who require this information to perform their duties. NCATS retains the data from Google Analytics as long as needed to support the mission of this website.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memo M-10-22, Guidance for Online Use of Web Measurement and Customization Technologies, allows Federal agencies to use session and persistent cookies.

When you visit any website, its server may generate a piece of text known as a ‘cookie’ to place on your computer. The cookie allows the server to “remember” specific information about your visit while you are connected. The cookie makes it easier for you to use the dynamic features of Web pages. Cookies from NCATS Web pages only collect information about your browser’s visit to the site; they do not collect personal information about you.

There are two types of cookies, single session (temporary) and multi-session (persistent). Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer for longer periods.

We use session cookies for technical purposes to enable better navigation through our site. These cookies let our server know that you are continuing a visit to our site. The OMB memo 10-22 guidance defines the use of session cookies as "Usage Tier 1—Single Session.” The policy says, “This tier encompasses any use of single-session Web measurement and customization technologies.”

We use persistent cookies to enable Google Analytics to differentiate between new and returning visitors. Persistent cookies remain on your computer between visits to NCATS Inxight Drugs until they expire. The OMB memo 10-22 guidance defines the use of persistent cookies as "Usage Tier 2—Multi-session without Personally Identifiable Information (PII).” The policy says, “This tier encompasses any use of multi-session Web measurement and customization technologies when no PII is collected.

If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies placed on your computer, you can disable them using your Web browser. If you opt out of cookies, you will still have access to all information and resources at ncats.nih.gov. Find instructions for disabling or opting out of cookies in the most popular browsers. Note: By following the instructions to opt out of cookies, you may be disabling cookies from all sources, not just those from https://drugs.ncats.io/.

You do not have to give us personal information to visit the NCATS Inxight Drugs or browse the information hosted on this site. However, should you choose to provide information that identifies your through an email message, form, survey, etc., we will maintain the information you provide only as long as needed to respond to you.

Third-party websites and applications are web-based technologies not exclusively operated or controlled by NCATS, NIH, or within the NIH domain. NCATS may use these technologies and social media tools to communicate and interact with the public. These applications could make personally identifiable information (PII) available or accessible.

Visitors who access or follow a third-party site's embedded link will be subject to the destination site’s privacy and security policy. Any information you choose to provide to third-party organizations through registration, posting, blogging, or other interactions is voluntarily contributed and is not collected by NCATS. Linking to a non-federal site does not constitute an endorsement by NCATS.

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