Our Privacy Policy

Most web sites collect some sort of information about their visitors in order to gather statistics about how many visitors they get each month, what are the most and least popular pages on the web site, where there may be problems in serving certain pages to visitors, etc. In an effort to answer questions such as these, Maryland Humanities Council also collects certain basic information about its visitors.

Please note, however, that Maryland Humanities Council has no interest in personally identifying its users. This would be practically quite difficult, and quite an unnecessary task to accomplish anyway. The only thing that Maryland Humanities Council is interested in is the overall statistics of its readership. Cumulative figures that provide a picture of visitor traffic to our site allow us to monitor how well our web server is keeping up with our ever-increasing readership.

So what information does Maryland Humanities Council collect about its visitors? Each time someone visits the site, our web server logs a number of details--if they are available--including the IP address of the visitor's computer and/or Internet service provider, the domain name and country of origin of that computer, its operating system, and the type of web browser being used.