IAD PRIVACY

International Association of Designers (“IAD”) operates several websites including iaod.net, iaod.net index, and iaod.net forums. It is IAD’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. Please mind that IAD is not a nonprofit organization. Members of IAD accept also usage terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, IAD collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. IAD’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how IAD’s visitors use its website. From time to time, IAD may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

IAD also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on discussion works. IAD only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to IAD’s websites choose to interact with IAD in ways that require IAD to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that IAD gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for IAD membership to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with IAD – by purchasing guidelines or kits, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, IAD collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with IAD. IAD does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

IAD may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, IAD may monitor the most popular discussions in the forum or use suggestions by members to improve or undertake initiatives. IAD may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, IAD does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

IAD discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on IAD’s behalf or to provide services available at IAD’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using IAD’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. IAD will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, IAD discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when IAD believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of IAD, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an IAD website and have supplied your email address, IAD may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with IAD and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. IAD takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Contact Exchange

During your application, if you wished to see other members' contact details, you are required to fill your contact exchange details and you are also granting other members to see your contact exchange details in this condition. If you do not provide contact exchange details, other regular members will not be able to contact you, however moderators and the board could still contact you.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. IAD uses cookies to help IAD identify and track visitors, their usage of IAD website, and their website access preferences. IAD visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using IAD’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of IAD’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If IAD, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that IAD goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of IAD may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by IAD and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, IAD may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in IAD’s sole discretion. IAD encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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