Privacy Policy
About Us
This is a privacy policy for Financial Research Institute. Our homepage
on the Web is located at http://fri.missouri.edu.
The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://fri.missouri.edu/w3c/fri_p3p.htm Users
may go to for information on how to opt-in or opt-out
of use of their information.
We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy.
You may contact us by mail at the following address:
Financial Research Institute
404 Cornell Hall University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, Missouri 65211
United States
You may contact us by e-mail at fri@missouri.edu.
You may call us at (573) 882-3800.
Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals
We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms.
If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they
can help you resolve your concern.
Additional Information
This policy is valid for 1 day from the time that it is loaded by
a client.
Data Collection
P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred
to as "statements"). This policy contains 2 data groups. The data practices
of each group will be explained separately.
Group "Access Information"
We collect the following information:
- Request date
- Request time
- Client's IP address or hostname
- URI of requested resource
- HTTP request method
- Response status code
- HTTP cookies
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Completion and support of the current activity.
- Web site and system administration.
- Research and development.
- Anonymous user analysis.
- Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
The site's servers do automatically collect the IP address,
date/time, and other information sent by the user's machine. This information
can not identify a user by name.
Group "Web Forms"
At the user's option, we will collect the following data:
- User's Name
- User's Birth Date
- User's Gender
- User's Job Title
- User's Home Contact Information
- User's Business Contact Information
- Name of User's Employer
- Department or division of organization where user is employed
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Completion and support of the current activity.
- Web site and system administration.
- Research and development.
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.
Cookies
Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored
information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a
Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your
system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie,
giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following
purposes:
- Site administration
- Completing the user's current activity
- Pseudononymous analysis
- Pseudonym-based decision-making
- Research and development
Compact Policy Summary
The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:
CP="ALL DSP CURa ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa OUR IND PHY ONL COM NAV INT DEM"
The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact
policy.
| Field |
Meaning |
| CP= |
This is the compact policy
header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy. |
| ALL |
Access to all collected
information is available. |
| DSP |
The policy contains
at least one dispute-resolution mechanism. |
| CURa |
The data is used for
completion of the current activity. |
| ADMa |
The data is used for
site administration. |
| DEVa |
The data is used for
research and development. |
| PSAa |
The data is used for
pseudononymous analysis. |
| PSDa |
The data is used for
pseudononymous decision-making. |
| OUR |
The data is given to
ourselves and our agents. |
| IND |
The data will be kept
indefinitely. |
| PHY |
Physical contact information
is collected. |
| ONL |
Online contact information
is collected. |
| COM |
Computer information
is collected. |
| NAV |
Navigation and clickstream
data is collected. |
| INT |
Interactive data is
collected. |
| DEM |
Demographic and socioeconomic
data is collected. |
The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies
it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.
Policy Evaluation
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact
policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take
depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser
(Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition,
IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory
or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent
cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party
context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact
policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.
Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should
not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.
Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according
to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies
accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low,
and Accept All Cookies settings.
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