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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use and protect your personal information.
 

About our privacy policy

This privacy policy applies to our websites including programs and events, that refer or link to this privacy policy. This policy may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms or notices provided to you. 

 

Information we collect

We collect information about you from your input and your institution. The user must ensure that the content filled in is true and effective. For users who submit false information, we will reserve the right to pursue legal liability.

 

Information you provide to us

The personal information that we collect directly from you depends on the content and features of the form we provide, it may include:

• Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number;
• Account login credentials, such as usernames and passwords, password hints and similar security information;
• Other account registration and profile information, including educational, professional and other background information, such as your field of study, current position, practice area and areas of interests, gender, ID number and photo;
• Content that you upload and share or store in your account, such as annotations, comments, contributions and replies;
• Information that you communicate to us, such as questions or information you send to customer support;
• Communications preferences, such as your preferred language and the frequency, type and format of the alerts you sign up to receive.

 

Data from your institution

We may obtain information about you from the institution with which you are employed or affiliated in order to activate and manage your access to ICTP-AP, including:

• Contact details, such as your name and institutional email address, postal address and phone number;
• Other account registration information, such as job title; and/or
• Institutional user ID.

 

Device and usage data

The system may collect information about how you and your device interact with the system, such as:

• Computer, device and connection information, such as IP address, browser type and version, operating system and other software installed on your device, unique device identifier and other technical identifiers, error reports and performance data;
• Usage data, such as the features you used, the settings you selected, URL clickstream data, including date and time stamp and referring and exit pages, and pages you visited on the Service;
• For location-aware services, the physical location of your device.

 

How we use your information

We might use your personal information to:

• Provide, activate and manage your access to and use of ICTP-AP website;
• Process and fulfill a request, order, download, subscription or other transaction;
• Offer you customized content and other personalization to make our service more efficient for you and more relevant to your interests and geography;
• Enhance and improve our services, such as add new content and features;
• Notify you about changes, updates and other announcements;
• Deliver targeted advertisements, promotional messages, and other information related to your interests;
• Provide technical, product and other support and help to keep our website working, safe and secure; 
• Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for the purposes of research, audits, reporting and other business operations.

We may also use your personal information to:

• Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments or concerns;
• Conduct and administer user testing and surveys as well as sweepstakes, competitions and other activities;
• Provide you with relevant messages about events and opening positions of us.
• Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

 

Legal reasons

We also will disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:

• meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;
• detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues; 
• protect the rights, property or safety of ICTP-AP, our users, employees or others;

 

Accessing and updating your information

The system may allow registered users to directly access their account information and make corrections or updates.

Keeping such information up to date is the responsibility of the user. Registered users may also close their account by contacting our site administrator’s support.

You have the right under privacy and data protection laws, as may be applicable, to request:

• Access to and correction and deletion of your personal information;
• Restriction of our processing of your personal information, or to object to our processing; 
• Portability of your personal information.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through ictp-ap@ucas.ac.cn. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to verify your identity. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf subject to proof of identity and authorization.

 

Data retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.

 

Data security

We take precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction through the use of appropriate technical and organizational measures.

 

Changes

We will update this privacy policy from time to time.  Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice through our website or by other means.

 

Contact

If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact the ICTP-AP Office via email: ictp-ap@ucas.ac.cn