Who we are

International Association of Forensic Nurses
6755 Business Parkway, Ste 303
Elkridge, MD 21075
Phone: 410.626-7805
Our website address is: www.forensicnurses.org.

Contact Forms

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Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies and Information We May Gather & Share

We use cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to provide our services and help collect data. Cookies allow us, among other things, to store your preferences and settings and analyze how our services are performing.
We also may use web beacons to help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data about our products and services. Our services may include web beacons and cookies from third-party service providers. You have a variety of tools to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to opt out of data collection through web beacons. Your browser and other choices may impact your experiences with our services.
We gather anonymized information about you through Google Analytics and other similar technologies, and with data analytics providers that help us understand our website audience. We also may share anonymized information with contracted marketing agencies that sell advertising on our behalf.
At certain times of the year, we may gather personally Identifiable Information about you for promotional purposes; this is limited to your device ID and is otherwise anonymous. We may share that information with contracted marketing agencies that sell advertising on our behalf.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

When visitors or users submit a contact form, we won’t retain the data in the database but it is sent to the responsible staff.

What rights you have over your data

IAFN user accounts are not part of this website; user accounts are managed outside of this website. Users are granted various levels of access to the website based on their IAFN membership status.
You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.