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Privacy Statement:
The World Chelonian Trust has created
this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.
The following content, discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for this website:
http://www.chelonia.org .
This information below is how we handle information we learn about you from your
visit to our website. The information we receive depends on what you do when you
visit our site. For each visitor to our Web page, we collect aggregate
information on what pages our users access or visit, etc. ( see list below ).
This is accomplished via services provided by Hostek, OneStat and Nedstat. We also
acquire information via personal information volunteered by the user in on-site
registration for our help line through Yahoo and in our on-site subscription
form for our Newsletter. The information which we collect with the Hostek
service is based upon where you visit when on our web site. We compile a
database each month related to our users which tells us about our services being
used by each visitor as follows:
Operating system
Browser
Screen Resolution
Screen Color Depth
JavaScript Version
Referral Protocols and Types
Referring Hosts
Top Referring Pages
Pages viewed
Hit Reports By Time and Date
Visitor's Network and Physical Location
Site Type and Country
Top Domains Visiting Our Site
Search Engine Being Used
The information we collect is used for internal review only. The information is
used to improve the content of our Web page, help diagnose any difficulties we
may encounter with our server, and to administer our Web site in a proficient
manner with the least amount of inconvenience to our users. We record past
activity at our site in order to provide better service when visitors return to
our site, yet fall within the scope of our content guidelines, which in turn are
in accordance with regulations set forth by the Federal Trade Commission. None
of the information collected is shared with other organizations for commercial
purposes or gain. It is our policy to delete the information after 30 - 60 days.
We do not use "cookies" on this site. A "cookie" is a small text file that
a website can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to
collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for
you to use an online "shopping cart" to keep track of items you wish to
purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the Web site's computer
which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most consumers
do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit
websites. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from
happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a website attempts to place
a "cookie" on your computer.
The World Chelonian Trust will do everything in our power to protect the
privacy of information provided to us on this website and will never
deliberately share your personally identifiable information with any third party
(except as required by law) without your consent. We never require anyone to
disclose more information in the subscription form than is reasonably
necessary to make use of any services the World Chelonian Trust has to offer and
serve our members in a proficient manner.
External Links
This site contains links to many other sites. Although the World Chelonian Trust
tries to review every single link to make sure it is of appropriate content, we
cannot provide any guarantee of the content on external links. The World
Chelonian Trust is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of
such external link Web sites.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control via our Internet Service
Provider. We exercise strong measures in the security of your privacy and
personal information.
Submitted Materials:
It is the practice of the World Chelonian
Trust to fully accredit information submitted from the public. If it is
the desire of the submitter to withhold their identity and contact information,
this request will be accommodated.
Children's Guidelines:
If you are a child, we have pooled together a collection of guidelines we strongly suggest you follow. As for parents, please review these guidelines with your children to help minimize any risk of your child using the Internet.
I will NOT provide online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for my parents to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information must only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent
I will NOT provide personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent
I will NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent
I will NOT be enticed by the prospect of a special game, prize, or other activity without prior parental consent.
If choose to contact us, we may use the information you provide in the ways we
have described in this privacy policy.
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