Privacy policy

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read Nature Online privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

 

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website or email us?

We collect the following information:

·         Your email address

·         Your Last Name

·         Your Given Name

·         Your approximate age: whether you are underage or not

·         Times when you passed or attempted to pass education courses published on our website

·         Results of your attempts

 

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you to the following:

·         Login with any of your accounts on our website. 

·         When you attempt to complete or complete any education course

·         Write an message or e-mail to the website owners

 

What part of your information is stored in our system?

We store the following information:

·         Your email address

·         Your Last Name

·         Your Given Name

·         Times when you passed or attempted to pass education courses published on our website

·         Results of your attempts

 

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

 

How do we protect your information?

We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards. We use regular Malware Scanning.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems and by the law are required to keep the information confidential.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

 

Do we use ‘cookies’?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to help us track your web browser session and minimize number of times you required to login into our system.

 

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we notify you with advance notice using your email stored in our system.

 

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

 

How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?

We do honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

 

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify you via email within 7 business days.

 

Your rights regarding your personal data

You have the following rights regarding your PII:

·         You can request your PII to be completely removed from our system

·         You can request us to provide you the following information stored in our system in the form of CSV files:

o   Times when you passed or attempted to pass education courses published on our website

o   Results of your attempts

·         You may not share your PII in the first place, however part of the website functionality will not be available to you in this case.

 

 

If you have any other questions about our privacy policy, you can contact us:
science.natureonline@gmail.com