Privacy Policy

Institute for Civil Society Ltd. is strongly committed to protecting your privacy while interacting with our content, products and services. We want to provide a safe and secure environment for our clients and visitors. Institute for Civil Society Ltd. is concerned about protecting the safety and privacy of all people using our services.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to tell you what kind of information we may gather about you when you visit our site, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct this information. Our policy allows you to choose what kind and how much information you provide to us and to control how we use whatever information you give us. Our goal is to provide you with a satisfying experience while allowing you to control your privacy and to give you a means to voice any questions or concerns you may have.

This policy applies only to Institute for Civil Society Ltd. and not to other companies’ or organisations’ websites to which Institute for Civil Society Ltd. may be linked.

Collection of information

Information is collected from you primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked to provide information such as your name, email address or information about what you like and do not like. It is entirely your choice whether to respond to these questions or not.

Institute for Civil Society Ltd. collects two types of information. The first type is anonymous information. For instance, we may collect information to tell us that five thousand people visit this Privacy Policy today, but we do not know their names, where they live or their date of birth – they are ‘anonymous’ to us.

The second type of information that Institute for Civil Society Ltd. collects is personal information. Institute for Civil Society Ltd. will collect personal information that lets us know the specifics of who you are such as your name, email address, or postal address, when you provide it to us. With this information, Institute for Civil Society Ltd. can provide a variety of personalised and enhanced services that are not available to anonymous users. We hope that you will find it beneficial to provide individually identifiable information about yourself to us because it will make our services more valuable to you.

Sometimes, we may specifically ask for personal information about you when you sign up to use a service. Certain information may be required, such as your name, age, internet address or screen name, billing address, type of computer, credit card number, in order to provide that service or product to you. This information may also be used to inform you of additional services and products which may interest you. You can choose not to receive such information when you are undertaking service or product registration on our website. We may also ask about your interests, but it is your choice whether to respond.

How much of your personal information that you choose to disclose to Institute for Civil Society Ltd. is completely up to you. The only way we know something about you personally is if you provide it to us.

Use of anonymous information

Institute for Civil Society Ltd. automatically gathers anonymous information to monitor the use of Institute for Civil Society Ltd. like the numbers and frequency of visitors to Institute for Civil Society Ltd. and its areas, very much like television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. We only use such data in the aggregate. This collective data helps us determine how much our visitors use parts of the site, so we can improve Institute for Civil Society Ltd. to assure that it is as appealing as we can make it for as many users as possible. Institute for Civil Society Ltd. may publish or provide this aggregate data to other people.

Use of personal information

Institute for Civil Society Ltd. will only use the personal information you have chosen to provide us for the purpose for which you provided it. Institute for Civil Society Ltd. will not use it for any other purpose without your consent.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file that a website sends your computer. It records information necessary for certain website functions, such as remembering your preferences or settings.

Institute for Civil Society Ltd. uses cookies for interactive features such as forums, voting, login, and online shopping. These cookies collect only enough information to enable website functions. Institute for Civil Society Ltd. does not collect personal information for other purposes.

If you don’t want to accept cookies, you can set your browser and/or firewall to block them. You will still be able to access most Institute for Civil Society Ltd. content but some interactive features will be unavailable.

Disclosure

There will be occasions where it will be necessary for the Institute for Civil Society Ltd. to disclose your personal information to third parties. The Institute for Civil Society Ltd. may be required by law to disclose the information, or Institute for Civil Society Ltd. may be required to disclose your personal information to third parties to provide the service you have requested, for example, if you purchase products online from the Institute for Civil Society Ltd. store, the Institute for Civil Society Ltd. will need to disclose your personal information to third parties in order to bill and deliver your products. However, the disclosure will only be made where it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which you disclosed your personal information. Otherwise than stated above, we do not disclose personal information that you may give us, such as your name, address, email address or telephone number, to any organisation or person outside the Institute for Civil Society Ltd. unless you have authorised us to do so. For example, when you contribute to an online forum you may want to publish your name and email address.

No sale of personal information

Under no circumstances will Institute for Civil Society Ltd. sell or receive payment for licensing or disclosing your personal information.

Interacting with Institute for Civil Society Ltd.

There are many interactive features on Institute for Civil Society Ltd. that you can contribute to. These include: Guestbooks, Forums, Event Diaries, Reviews, Online Voting, Community, Mailing Lists and Email.

When interacting with Institute for Civil Society Ltd., we suggest that you use your discretion and exercise caution when providing your personal information.

Note that whenever you post personal information in publicly accessible places, such as chat rooms or message boards, this information becomes available to anyone with access to the internet. This information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Therefore, we recommend that you refrain from posting any information that you do not want seen in these public areas. For example, when participating in a guest book or chat area, your name will appear on the message board. Institute for Civil Society Ltd. recommends that applicants registering online do not use their real names, but a pen name or pseudonym. You must not intentionally use the name of another living person.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any personal information. Be responsible whenever you are online.

Access and correction: personal data

If Institute for Civil Society Ltd. holds your personal information we will where possible provide you with access to the information. The Institute for Civil Society Ltd. will take reasonable steps to correct the information so that it is accurate, complete and up to date.

Security

When donating to the Institute for Civil Society Ltd., card details are transmitted through a secure server using PayWay.  Card data is not stored by the Institute for Civil Society Ltd. after processing.

Complaints about privacy

If you have any complaints relating to online privacy issues on our websites, please notify Institute for Civil Society Ltd. While Institute for Civil Society Ltd. accepts no liability for any material or links posted to the service, we will investigate all complaints.

Changes to Institute for Civil Society Ltd. privacy policy

If we decide to change the Institute for Civil Society Ltd. Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here.