Privacy policy

Privacy policy of the Global Editors Network We are absolutely committed to protecting your privacy. Our policy can be summarized in one sentence: we will not share your information with others without your prior consent. Introduction To promote confidence in using our internet products and services, Global Editors Network wishes to explain what happens with personal data that it gathers. The following explains what kind of information is collected and how that information is used. First of all, you can access most pages on our website without divulging any information about yourself. In case we ask you for personal data, in connection with registration for an event, requests for information, or acquiring products or services, we store it for two main reasons : 1. To help us to monitor and improve the services we offer. 2. To provide personalised services unique to our users. Our principles We are following the below principles : 1. We will respect your email privacy. We will be the only party to email you with information or queries about you, your needs, your subscription account or postings, for example, with reminders, warnings or copyright requests. 2. We will not pass on any individual user details (including your email address) for third party use unless we have your prior consent, neither will we sell your personal details to third parties or market this information in any other way without your explicit permission. 3. We will only share anonymous aggregate statistics about our users, sales and traffic patterns with our partners. 4. Persons under the age of 18 years should not communicate personal data to us without the prior consent of adults authorised to act on their behalf. 5. Most of the time, Global Editors Network uses only sessions’ cookies to allow its website visitors to connect properly to pages. In case you turn off cookies in your browser, it could inhibit the connection to the website. 6. At your request, we will refrain from using your personal data to contact you and/or delete it. Please submit any such request by e-mail to: itmanager@globaleditorsnetwork.org Please be advised that, if you cancel, you cannot use any member services anymore, as this is linked to your member data. 7. Our site is accessible via the Internet and so may potentially be accessed by anyone around the world. Other users may access the site from outside the European Economic Area. This means that, where you choose to post your data on the site, this could be accessed from anywhere around the world and therefore a transfer of your data outside of the European Economic Area may be deemed to have occurred. You consent to such transfer of your data for and by way of this purpose. Where we or our contractors transfer data outside of the European Economic Area this is only ever done with the relevant protections required by law in place. Changes to privacy policy Should we elect to change our privacy policy we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new details. What information do we collect? We collect information on our users as follows: through cookies, through registration and where you choose to disclose data in postings. Most of the time, the minimum information we need to register a user is an email address, a password and a country. Unless stated, all registration questions are compulsory. No disclosure of the information we collect to third parties We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others unless you have given us your permission. With your permission we will only share your information with carefully chosen, reputable and trustworthy third parties. In case we may provide statistics about our members to reputable third-party partners, these statistics will be aggregate and no personally identifying information will be given. Global Editors Network follows the relevant legal requirements and uses all reasonable precautions to ensure only responsible third parties see the information. However we are not responsible for any breach of security or any actions of any third parties who receive the information. Please note that we reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users. Any data processors with access to your data in providing services on our behalf are subject to contractual restrictions to ensure that your data is protected, and not used independently by such third party. As the Global Editors Network can contain links to other websites, we inform our visitors that GEN has no influence on the content of outside web pages, nor on the adherence or non-adherence of these websites to data protection regulations. Data protection and the French law For any information on data protection ruled by the French law (GEN is a French association), go to http://www.cnil.fr/english/ See also the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Council of Europe): http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/108.htm And the Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data: http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/information_society/l14012_en.htm Questions and comments For all queries related to our privacy policy, please contact: director@globaleditorsnetwork.org