Privacy Policy

The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) puts high priority on protecting your privacy.

When you register on our site (to subscribe to our free email bulletin, make a donation, register for an event, etc.), you give us personal information about yourself (such as name, address, zip code, email address, etc.). We use this information to keep you updated on our programs and other important developments in sustainable transportation.

You can always opt-out of our contact list by clicking on the “Opt Out” link at the bottom of any of our electronic communications, or by sending a request to smayers@itdp.org, to keep from getting any unwanted messages or solicitations.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Personally Identifiable Information of Mine is Collected?

Personally identifiable information tells us something about who you are, such as your name, phone number, email address, mailing address, or even credit card number (if you use a credit card to make a donation).

If you visit our site to read or download information, such as planning studies or press releases, we collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton University’s domain); the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the web site from which you may have linked directly to our site.

If you use our site to sign up for our eBulletin, register for an event, or make an on-line donation, we will ask you to provide us with personally identifiable information, such as your email address, mailing address, and credit card number when appropriate.

What Organization is Collecting My Information?

We are the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), a non-profit, tax-deductible sustainable transport planning and advocacy organization.  Our organizational site is http://www.itdp.org.

How May My Information Be Used?

We use your personal information to be able to to send you quarterly eBulletins or occasional special announcements (e.g., upcoming events we’re hosting, our high financial management rating by Charity Navigator, etc.); or to let you sign up for our eBulletin, make a donation, or register for an event. You can easily opt-out at any time to stop any further contact from us.

We also use it to track your and others’ use of our web sites; this lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs.

What Choices Are Available to Me Regarding Collection, Use, and Distribution of Your Information?

Now, or at any time in the future, you can correct or update information about you, and you can tell us not to send you any messages or solicitations at all.

What Kind of Security Procedures Are In Place to Protect Against the Loss, Misuse, or Alteration of My Information?

We store your personally identifiable information on secure servers. We also use other “anti-hacking” security measures and employ security consultants. We accept credit card donations only via a secure server.

How Can I Access, Update, or Delete My Information?

Please send an email to smayers@itdp.org or call +1 (212) 920-4686 to obtain, change, update or delete our records of your personal information, or to change your privacy options.

How Are “Cookies” Used?

Some of our web sites use “cookie” messages to automatically help us provide better information to our visitors. They remind us who you are and how you like to use our web site, based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our web site. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in.

They also let us track your and others’ usage, so we know which parts of our site are most popular. You can reject cookies or very easily cancel them later.  If you would like your browser to reject cookies, you can instruct your browser to do so.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

Should our practices change, this notice will be immediately updated. Regardless of later updates, we will never use the information you submit under this current notice in a new way (in a way not described in this notice) without first providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prevent that use.

Official Terms and Conditions

Copyright and Re-publication. We want you to use information you find on our web sites. You can use information you get from our web sites for free for any non-commercial purpose, as long as you include the copyright notice below and the address of the web site where you found it.

“The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) hereby grants a non-exclusive license to any person to copy and use individual pages or portions of our website for non-commercial purposes, and to any member of the media for media purposes, on the condition that the appropriate copyright notice is displayed.” Example:

“Copyright © 2007 Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. Used by permission.”

Disclaimer. We do our very best to make all our information accurate. But we do not and cannot guarantee its accuracy. This means that if you rely on it, you cannot hold us at fault for any inaccuracies.  ITDP makes no warranties, express or implied, about the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any of the information it provides to the public.

Changes without notice. We may change any part of this policy, without any separate notice to users. The current policy will always be posted here. We will not change the overall purpose of this policy, which is to protect your privacy in a manner consistent with our goals as a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to promoting environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transportation worldwide.