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Privacy Policy

April 30, 2009

This privacy policy sets out how ICLEW.org (ICLEW) uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

ICLEW is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should ICLEW ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

ICLEW may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time. Your continued use of the ICLEW after ICLEW revised this Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised Policy.

What ICLEW Website Collects

The specific information ICLEW collects from may vary depending on how and when you use ICLEW. Generally ICLEW may collect the following information:

contact information including email address

demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests

other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What ICLEW Browser Plugin Collects

Some of ICLEW services require you to install a browser plugin or addon (the Plugin) on your machine. The Plugin respects your privacy.

The Plugin is installed and runs in an absolutely anonymous manner. It does not collect any personally identifiable information, including but not limited to

Your user account at iClew.org.

The IP address of your machine.

When the Plugin is enabled, it analyzes the public web pages that you visit via http protocol and sends the abstract of the page to ICEW server. The server immediately indexes the abstract and erase it permanently. Only the index data are kept on the server and these data are NOT human readable.

The Plugin does NOT analyzes the following web pages:

Web pages that you view via https protocol;

Web pages that you view after being authenticated, by providing user name/password pair or other method.

The Plugin does NOT collect the URLs of your visits.

Finally, when you think it necessary, you can easily disable the Plugin. When the Plugin is disabled, it does NOT collect or send any data to the server.

How ICLEW Uses the Information

Generally the only purpose of ICLEW requires or uses the information is to provide or improve the services.

ILCEW uses data collected by the Plugin for Instant Q&A service.

ICLEW may send newsletter emails to you if you register for the newsletter.

We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail regarding the topic on which you express interest when interacting with us.

We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Internal record keeping

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secured. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure ICLEW have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information ICLEW collects online.

How ICLEW Uses Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by ICLEW and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that ICLEW do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, ICLEW cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling Personal Information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
(i) whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, check if you are happy with the way of using the information before you provide it.
(ii) if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for any purposes, you may change your mind at any time by unsubscribing it. If you encounter difficulty in unsubscripting, you may contact us via email or mail.

ICLEW will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless ICLEW have your permission or are required by law. ICLEW may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which ICLEW think you may find interesting only if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
If you believe that any information ICLEW are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on ICLEW are sometimes delivered or served directly to Users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and beacons to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. ICLEW does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on ICLEW unless you choose to share it with them.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on ICLEW is readily available through the profile editing tools. ICLEW users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Users who wish to terminate their ICLEW account may send termination message according to system prompts and all information within the account will be deleted from server. But your communication with and the messages that you sent to other Users on ICLEW cannot be removed.