IBDIS.Privacy Policy
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Thank you for visiting IBDIS and UNIDATA web sites. The site is produced by our editorial group of UNIDATA GEODESIGN in vienna, austria in association with IBDIS GROUP AUSTRIA We collect no personal information about you when you visit our Web site, unless you choose to provide that information to us. Information Automatically Collected and Stored When you browse through any Web site, read pages, or download information, certain information about your visit can be collected. However, we do not collect any information about your visit, and we do not record information about individual behavior or use of the site. IBDIS.NET site uses session cookies, so that you only have to log in once per visit where available. What is a cookie? A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser-along with a Web page-when you access a Web site. There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's memory. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file on your hard drive. IBDIS.NET and AUSTRIA only use session cookies, and we do so only so that users do not have to log in multiple times during a single visit. We do not use any persistent cookies. Personally Provided Information You do not have to give us any personal information to visit our Web site and browse its content. To use some parts of our site, we require you to register and log on for the following reason: to contact you, if necessary, for additional information about our projects. We also require registration and log in for users who wish to submit comments to any of the site's forums. In addition, so that we can better understand our readers, we may occasionally send out a voluntary survey, in which you may choose to provide basic information. All registered users of IBDIS.NET and UNIDATA have the option to receive periodic newsletters and surveys. If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we use that information only to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. The information provided is handled on a confidential basis. However, note that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. All communications to the Web site mailbox are removed from the server. Disclosure The IBDIS.NET and UNIDATA sites do not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required by law enforcement or statute. Intrusion Detection For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Such attempts are strictly prohibited and will be punished by national and international laws. Systems of Records Electronically submitted information is maintained and destroyed according to the laws of the european union, and in some cases may be subject to the Privacy Act. If information that you submit is to be used in a Privacy Act system of records, there will be a Privacy Act Notice provided. Links to Other Sites Our Web site has links to other sites. We also have selected links to other Web resources. The privacy policy described here does not necessarily apply to those other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site. |
