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''the original version is available here: https://forums.contribs.org/index.php?action=gpdr;sa=privacypolicy''
Valid from 8 February 2016
 
  
Your privacy matters to us. This policy outlines the information we collect from you — and what we do with it.
 
  
Koozali Inc. collects personal information from you in a number of different ways. For example, when you download one of our products, receive services from us or use one of our websites (including www.contribs.org and www.koozali.org).
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This privacy policy sets out how  Koozali Foundation inc. on Koozali.org formerly contrib.org uses and protects any information that you give Koozali Foundation inc. when you use this website.
  
At Koozali Inc., we consider your privacy to be extremely important to us. These are the fundamental principles that we follow in relation to your personal information:
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Koozali Foundation inc. is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
* We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
 
* We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to provide you with services, products, to comply with the law, or to protect our rights.
 
* We don’t store personal information unless required for the on-going operation of services to you, to provide you with products, to comply with law or to protect our rights.
 
* We will use personal information that you provide to us in accordance with this privacy policy.
 
  
'''What we collect'''
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Koozali Foundation inc. may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 25, 2018, 5:19 am.
  
We may collect the following types of personal information from you:
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'''What information we collect about you'''
  
''Websites''
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'''We may collect the following information when you use our website:'''
  
When you register to use certain parts of our websites, such as wikis, bugtracker or forums, or register for free accounts, we may ask for personal information such as your full name, email address and a password.
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-Username
  
''Forums and mailinglists''
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-Email Address
  
These are available to our community. Any information that you disclose in these areas becomes public information and may be recorded, archived and republished by anyone. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in such areas.
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-Date of Birth
  
When you register for services from Koozali Inc. (Including donations), we may ask for information such as your email address, billing address, and credit card information. Credit card information is only used in processing your transaction. Please note that we may use a third party payment processing merchant to process your payments.
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-IP Address
  
''Non-personally identifying information''
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-Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.
  
Koozali Inc. may collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor’s request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use our websites and services.
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'''Cookies and other tracking scripts'''
  
''General''
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A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
  
If you contact us and provide us with information, we may keep a record of that correspondence and information
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We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
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Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
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You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
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If at any time you have questions about our privacy practices or any of your rights described below, you may reach us at admin@koozali.org
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'''How we use information we collect'''
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We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
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-Internal record keeping including service optimization, website stats.
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-We may use the information to improve our products and services.
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-We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. 
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'''Sharing with trusted third parties.'''
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We may share your personal data with third parties with which we have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our own Services, and with trusted third party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:
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-Serving advertisements
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-Performing analysis of our Services and customers demographics
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'''Data about Usage of Services'''
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Is automatically collected when you use and interact with our Services, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content and links (including those of third-parties, such as social media plugins) contained within the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data, information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected might be capable of and be used to approximate your location.
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'''How we store and secure information we collect'''
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We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard.and secure the information we collect online.
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While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.
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'''Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests.'''
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We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (such as subpoena requests), to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.
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'''Communicating with you.'''
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We may contact you directly such as necessary to deliver transactional or website related communications.
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We may also contact you with offers for additional services we think you'll find valuable if you give us consent, or where allowed based upon legitimate interests.
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These contacts may include:
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-Email
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You may also update your subscription preferences with respect to receiving communications from us and/or our partners by signing into your account and visiting your Profile -> Notifications page.
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'''Transfer of personal data abroad.''' 
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If you utilize our Services from a country other than the country where our servers are located, your communications with us may result in transferring your personal data across international borders. While Koozali Foundation inc, is registered in Oregon, USA,  our main server is currently in France, and our staff is all around the Planet. Hence it is possible that your data may be treated by trusted members of the community all around the word. Our backup server may be either in the USA, Canada or Europe.
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'''Links to other websites'''
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Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
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'''Controlling your personal information'''
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We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
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You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under by visiting your profile and clicking export data.
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If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us at admin@koozali.org as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Latest revision as of 04:45, 25 May 2018

the original version is available here: https://forums.contribs.org/index.php?action=gpdr;sa=privacypolicy


This privacy policy sets out how Koozali Foundation inc. on Koozali.org formerly contrib.org uses and protects any information that you give Koozali Foundation inc. when you use this website.

Koozali Foundation inc. is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Koozali Foundation inc. may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 25, 2018, 5:19 am.

What information we collect about you

We may collect the following information when you use our website:

-Username

-Email Address

-Date of Birth

-IP Address

-Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.

Cookies and other tracking scripts

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

If at any time you have questions about our privacy practices or any of your rights described below, you may reach us at admin@koozali.org

How we use information we collect

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

-Internal record keeping including service optimization, website stats.

-We may use the information to improve our products and services.

-We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

Sharing with trusted third parties.

We may share your personal data with third parties with which we have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our own Services, and with trusted third party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:

-Serving advertisements

-Performing analysis of our Services and customers demographics

Data about Usage of Services

Is automatically collected when you use and interact with our Services, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content and links (including those of third-parties, such as social media plugins) contained within the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data, information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected might be capable of and be used to approximate your location.

How we store and secure information we collect

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard.and secure the information we collect online.

While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.

Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests.

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (such as subpoena requests), to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.

Communicating with you.

We may contact you directly such as necessary to deliver transactional or website related communications.

We may also contact you with offers for additional services we think you'll find valuable if you give us consent, or where allowed based upon legitimate interests.

These contacts may include:

-Email

You may also update your subscription preferences with respect to receiving communications from us and/or our partners by signing into your account and visiting your Profile -> Notifications page.

Transfer of personal data abroad.

If you utilize our Services from a country other than the country where our servers are located, your communications with us may result in transferring your personal data across international borders. While Koozali Foundation inc, is registered in Oregon, USA, our main server is currently in France, and our staff is all around the Planet. Hence it is possible that your data may be treated by trusted members of the community all around the word. Our backup server may be either in the USA, Canada or Europe.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under by visiting your profile and clicking export data.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us at admin@koozali.org as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.