Confidentiality Policy

The NFL Life Line is committed to maintaining the confidentiality of callers to the service. The confidentiality of any information disclosed during a call to NFL Life Line staff will be upheld at all times. The only potential exception to preserving confidentiality is in the circumstance in which an individual is at immediate risk of injury or death, and in such cases, the sharing of their information will be exclusively with emergency service providers and persons considered to be essential to ensuring the safety of the individual in immediate danger. The NFL Life Line adopts and practices the industry’s standard Policy for Helping Callers at Imminent Risk of Suicide, developed by the SAMHSA-funded National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and its network of more than 150 crisis call centers nationwide.

Web Site Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our Web site and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will not collect any personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically: If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Web site, do searches, read pages, or download information, we will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally. No information about users/visitors will be sold, shared, or utilized in any commercial way. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  1. The Internet domain (for example, “company.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Web site;
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  3. The date and time you access our site;
  4. The searches you make;
  5. The pages you visit; and
  6. If you linked to this site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors—to learn about the number of visitors to our site, what part of the site they are interested in, how long they use the site, and the types of technology our visitors use. WE DO NOT TRACK OR RECORD INFORMATION ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR VISITS.

Sometimes we write a small file on the user’s computer called a “session cookie.” Session cookies automatically expire when users leave a Web site; session cookies retain information only during the session or for the purpose of completing a particular online transaction, without any capacity to track users over time and across different Web sites. Other than a session cookie, and the six items described above, we do not obtain any information from the user or the user’s computer. We do not use “persistent cookies,” and we fully comply with the HHS IRM Policy for Usage of Persistent Cookies, HHS-IRM-2000-0009; this policy prohibits the use of persistent cookies and permits the use of session cookies.

Links to Other Sites

Our Web site has links to many other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.