Your privacy is very important to us. At the International Civilitics Institute we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our programs, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

The International Civilitics Institute operates several websites including civilitics.org and ivicivi.org. It is the International Civilitics Institute’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, the International Civilitics Institute 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. the International Civilitics Institute’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how the International Civilitics Institute’s visitors use its website. From time to time, the International Civilitics Institute may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The International Civilitics Institute also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The International Civilitics Institute 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 the International Civilitics Institute’s websites choose to interact with the International Civilitics Institute in ways that require the International Civilitics Institute to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that the International Civilitics Institute gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, the International Civilitics Institute collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the International Civilitics Institute. The International Civilitics Institute 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

The International Civilitics Institute may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, the International Civilitics Institute may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The International Civilitics Institute may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, the International Civilitics Institute does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The International Civilitics Institute 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 the International Civilitics Institute’s behalf or to provide services available at the International Civilitics Institute’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 the International Civilitics Institute’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The International Civilitics Institute 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, the International Civilitics Institute discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when the International Civilitics Institute believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the International Civilitics Institute, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an the International Civilitics Institute website and have supplied your email address, the International Civilitics Institute 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 the International Civilitics Institute and our programs. We primarily use our various program 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. The International Civilitics Institute takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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. The International Civilitics Institute uses cookies to help the International Civilitics Institute identify and track visitors, their usage of the International Civilitics Institute website, and their website access preferences. The International Civilitics Institute visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the International Civilitics Institute’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of the International Civilitics Institute’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If the International Civilitics Institute, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that the International Civilitics Institute 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 the International Civilitics Institute may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Social Media

Facebook: We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Twitter: We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

LinkedIn: We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-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 the International Civilitics Institute and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Civilitic Letter of Commitment (CLoC) Reviews

Comments and review of CLoC statements collect information about name, email, and relationship, which are stored and available to administrators and the CLoC owner. However, none of this information is published publicly with the exception of the textual content of any review itself, and the star-rating posted in combination with the review.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to 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, the International Civilitics Institute may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in the International Civilitics Institute’s sole discretion. the International Civilitics Institute encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.