SMHAI Awards Program does not use cookies, beacons, Java, JavaScript, or any other means to gather personal information. Personal information is gathered only by using the email links and submission forms on this site, and is submitted voluntarily, and is collected only for the purpose of gathering the information as is stated on each form. The information submitted will NEVER be sold or otherwise disclosed to third parties without permission.

The following information is collected by a third party statistics system that we use, called StatCounter. (StatCounter's Privacy Statement is at the bottom of their Main page.)
Use of third party statistic systems is a common pratice used by many webmasters to monitor the activity on their site and to decide what changes need made to encourage return visits and to make the site more inviting to a wide range of different types of visitors. The changes may include adding a translator to the site and etc.
SMHAI Awards Program use of this system is done in accordance with normal industry practices.
The statistic system does use cookies to collect information from guests to provide the statistics to the SMHAI Awards Program webmaster.
The information provided SMHAI from the StatCounter includes:
ISP;
City, State and Country;
Visitor's computer system used, such as Windows XP, Mac and etc.;
Time the visitor accesses the site and
Areas of the site the visitor has viewed.