At IFIS Publishing we are committed to your right to privacy. We have developed the following privacy statement to demonstrate to you how we will use and safeguard the information you provide on this website.
What personal information will IFIS Publishing gather?
Information you give us
Through on-line forms, you will be prompted to enter various pieces of information in order to identify yourself. The data collected is strictly voluntary however; not providing certain information may affect your ability to use our site and/or our ability to process any orders you may place. You may give some or all of the following details:
- Name
- Organisation
- Job Title
- Email Address
- Login names and passwords in order to access the site
- Areas of interest
Automatic information
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Examples of the information we collect and analyse include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; password; computer and connection information including date and time and products viewed or searched for.
How collected information is used
Your information may be used by IFIS Publishing to allow:
- you to purchase a product or service;
- you to sign up for a free product trial;
- you to provide feedback;
- us to create a user name and password;
- us to create personalisation on screens;
- us to carry out internal analysis of customer type, location and organisation type;
- us to keep you fully informed (via email or conventional mail) of new and existing products and services – with your consent.
The information you provide or we obtain from you via the website will be held primarily by IFIS Publishing. We may show the information you provide to such of our employees as need to see it and we may send it to our other companies within the IFIS group.
Transferring the information outside the EEA
For any of the above purposes we may send your information outside the European Economic Area. Some of these jurisdictions offer differing levels of protection of personal information, not all of which may be as high as the UK.
Does IFIS Publishing use cookies?
Like many other commercial websites we use cookies. A cookie is a text file in the browser directory of your computer’s hard drive. Any website other than the one that set up the cookie cannot read the cookie. Cookies will enable our website to recognise personally identifiable information you have voluntarily given us and may use it to present you with custom web pages.
Accuracy of information
We want to help keep your information accurate. You can review and modify the information we hold on you at any time by contacting us directly at IFIS Publishing Limited at Lane End House, Shinfield Road, Shinfield, Reading, RG2 9BB, United Kingdom. (Email: ifis@ifis.org)
Sharing personal information
We will not under any circumstance, sell, trade or rent your personal details to a third party without your specific permission to do so. However, this will not stop us from sharing some of your information with third parties that may be involved in processing your order(s), nor will it prohibit us providing individually identifiable information to third parties in any case where it is required by law.
Opt out
As we previously explained the information you give us is of a voluntary nature. You may decline to provide the information requested or you may ask us to permanently delete or deactivate individually identifiable registration information from our data base and/or have your name removed from our mailing list. If you choose to withhold information we may not be able to process an order you have made or send out information you have requested.
Links
IFIS Publishing’s website contains links to other sites and vice versa. Our privacy statement applies solely to information collected by IFIS Publishing via our website. IFIS Publishing cannot be held responsible for the content or the privacy policies of external websites to which we may link, nor the information those websites may gather expressly or automatically.
Acceptance of these terms
By using this site, you signify your assent to the Privacy Statement. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, add or remove portions of this statement at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept the changes.
Updating the privacy statement
We may update this privacy statement from time to time. If you have any comments or questions regarding this statement or IFIS Publishing policies, please feel free to contact us [using the e-mail address above].
Security
We protect the privacy of your information by storing it on password protected servers that are protected by firewalls and we utilize encryption technologies to protect customer information.
