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This policy is about your personal information. Personal information identifies you and allows others to trace back to you, it might be your name but could be something else such as a photo, description or address which points to you. Please be careful about what you post to areas of this site which are publicly viewable. We all need to guard our identity on the internet.

When you provide personal information about yourself to this website you are deciding to allow us to use that information in certain ways in order to provide we20. we20 will only use your personal information in-line with your instructions. These instructions are set out here so that we know what we can and cannot do. If you don't agree with any of these please let us know. Using the website shows that you are directing us to use your personal information in this manner.

We encourage you to use your real name when using the site. we20 is about changing reality rather than simply a place to be someone else. We hope that using your real name will help build trust in our community. However, please limit the information you post to that which is entirely necessary. For example, please do not post details of your home address, date of birth, telephone number or other personal details and be careful if a user requests this information from you.

Personal information you may provide to us

We may collect personal information about you as follows:

1. (a)Personal Information that you provide by filling in forms on this website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use this website, information posted on your profile and discussion topics;
2. You may also provide personal information when you report a problem with this website and if you contact us, we may keep a record. Please note that personal information you send via email is not necessarily secure; and
3. we may also ask you to complete surveys or other research for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

If at times you choose not to provide personal information, we may not be able to make some services available to you. Sorry.

You may not provide us with any personal information if you are under 13 years old.

IP Address and Cookies

In order to track your use of the website, "cookies" may be employed. Cookies are pieces of information that are sent by website and stored in your computer's hard drive, which help you by allowing us to recognize your computer to save you from having to re-enter the same data every time you visit our website. They also allow us to learn how visitors use our website. This user data is aggregated for tracking purposes primarily by tallying pages viewed throughout our website and logging Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and browser types.

Aggregated usage data may enable us to better provide for your interests.

We currently are not employing advertising on the website. However, there may come a time when we need to support the website with advertising or some other venture. We will consult with our users if this is ever considered. If this is the case we may use the information obtained from cookies to help advertisers better understand the preferences of our audience. We would not think that this would reveal your identity.

If you do not want to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject them. However, if you turn cookies off, you may not have access to some of the website's features and services. Sorry.

Where we store your personal information

The Personal Information that we collect from you will be stored for hosting this website via secure servers operated by third party contractors. Please note that your personal information may not necessarily be stored on servers in the country where you live. The server is currently in USA. Therefore your personal information will be transferred to the USA, unless you already live there of course. By submitting your personal information, you agree to any such transfer, storing or use of your personal information. We will do all we can to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of this website, you are responsible for keeping this password secure and confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

How you are letting we20 use any personal information you provide

You are allowing we20 to use personal information you post as follows:

1. to ensure that content from this website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer and to administer and run this website;
2. to make sure you and us are upholding the responsibilities of taking part in we20 (although because of limited resources, we are not undertaking to monitor this website so rely on you to share responsibility for its safety);
3. to allow you to use the interactive features of the website such as posting we20 plans; and
4. to notify you about changes to we20 and send any information you will need to use we20.

We will only use or retain your personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy and only for so long as is needed for the purposes you have allowed or to comply with the law.

If you leave we20, we will remove from our accessible data any personal information you have provided to us privately (for example, your email address) and not contact you again. we20 plans which you create will not be deleted and your posts beyond your own profile may not be deleted as we need to make sure that the website still makes sense when you're gone.

We may have to provide your personal information to law enforcement agencies.

Providing your personal information to others

We will never sell your personal information to anyone nor provide it to anyone unless we are legally required to do so, for example, for the prevention of fraud.

We may need to provide personal information to other companies who are helping us to provide we20 to you. For example, web designers or hosting companies.

Although we do not have any plans to do so (and certainly not without consulting you first), we may need to disclose your personal information to others if we sell any part of we20, in which case we may disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

If we do ever need to show your personal information to anyone else, we will always try and ensure that those people or organisations take appropriate organisational and technical measures to protect your personal information.

Your rights and who to contact

You have rights in respect of your personal information. Any questions regarding this privacy policy should be addressed to feedback@we20.org.

Changes to this privacy policy

Any changes we may make to this private policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate and you should check back to make sure you are happy with what we20 are doing with your personal information.