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NVIC is dedicated to the prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to defending the informed consent ethic. As an independent clearinghouse for information on diseases and vaccines, NVIC does not promote the use of vaccines and does not advise against the use of vaccines. We support the availability of all preventive health care options, including vaccination, and the right of consumers to make educated, voluntary health care choices. 

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Privacy

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is committed to providing access to services and information online in a manner that respects and protects your privacy.  Information given to NVIC assists in our ability to better represent the right of every individual to exercise informed consent over the vaccines administered to themselves or their children.  By granting NVIC permission to follow-up on inquiries and reaction reports, etc., contact information given to NVIC will be used to for informational and educational outreaches such as our free e-newsletter and other educational outreach information.  We will not share your information with third parties except

• as required by law,
• with service providers acting on our behalf who have agreed in writing to protect the confidentiality of the data, or
• in instances that you permit OR in accordance with your consent

NVIC treats all contact information as confidential and does not share contact information with third party entities. This statement describes our information collection practices and explains how we use and protect your personal information. This website is intended for use by adults. If you are not an adult, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a minor without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. This statement applies only to information collected by this website and we reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time and will post the changes on our website.

Your email subscriptions: NVIC uses a secure third party - Constant Contact - to maintain its email subscription contact list. Constant Contact complies with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Canada's Anti Spam Legislation (CASL) and U.S. privacy laws by utilizing a permission based system with safe unsubscription which require your express permission for inclusion into NVIC’s contact list. Constant Contact acknowledges NVIC’s right of ownership of our contact list and provides a written agreement to protect your privacy here in accordance with our privacy requirements noted above for service providers.