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The Emerging Health Threats Forum is committed to providing quality information to the scientific and business communities. In order to do this, we need to know a little about you. You may be asked to submit personal information about yourself in order to use or receive services from us or through our website. Such services include email alerts of news stories and articles from the Emerging Health Threats Journal.
If you provide information to us, we will treat that information in accordance with this privacy policy. By submitting personal information to us, you are agreeing to use of this information by us and our service providers as described in this policy. |
| Cookies |
| We use cookies so that you don’t have to tell us information about yourself each time you use our website. This enables us to offer a more personalised service. You don’t need cookies to use the Forum website, although certain features do require the use of cookies, for example, if you choose to use the ‘Save My Password’ option when you login to save you having to enter your username each time. These details are then stored in a cookie on your computer. You can delete the cookie at any time you choose. |
| What about the information requested during registration? |
| When registering at the Forum’s website, we need information from you that identifies you personally. This includes your name, e-mail address, and country. We also ask some further questions so we can gain a clearer understanding of our users. We use some parts of your personal information (such as your general field of interest) to operate certain functions, for example filtering, contained within the website. We need your e-mail address in order to send you confirmation of your user identity and password. |
| Information we collect from visitors to our website |
We collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address of visitors to our web pages, and any additional information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations. We also collect aggregate and user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit. The information we collect is used for internal review, to improve the content of our web pages, to notify consumers about updates to our website, and occasionally used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes. It is not sold or traded with other organisations for commercial purposes.
We may use information that you provide to improve the website, design, marketing strategy, and our products. We will keep your details for a reasonable period to allow us to do this work.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been fulfilled, or if you no longer wish to continue being registered for our services. |
| E-mails from the Emerging Health Threats Forum |
| After registering on the Forum’s website, you can opt in to receive: |
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daily or weekly news alerts from the Forum; |
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the weekly digest, the Emerging Health Threats Monitor; |
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updates to meetings, conferences, events, and grants and funding; |
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published article alerts from the Emerging Health Threats Journal; |
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| You may opt to change these at the registration stage, or any time thereafter, by following the instructions at the bottom of the alert, or correcting this information by logging in and modifying your account. Every newsletter comes with an unsubscribe link, which allows you both to unsubscribe and, should you choose, to remove all your details from our system. We hope you’ll never use it, of course. But it does work. |
| Links to Sponsors |
| The Forum is funded by the social responsibility budgets of large international corporations, thus we provide a number of links to our sponsors. Sponsors may send their own cookies to users, or otherwise collect data or solicit personal information. We assume no responsibility for the information gathering practices of websites that you are able to access through ours. We encourage you to review each website’s privacy policy before disclosing any personally identifiable information. Wherever possible, clicking on the logo of one of our sponsors will cause their website to appear in a new window. |
| Access to Information / Delete / Unsubscribe |
| You have the right to access any personal information that you have submitted to us. We give you the following options for managing or removing your information from our database: |
| To remove your details |
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Email the unsubscribe address at the bottom of any newsletter email we send you. |
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Contact us here. Be sure to include your name and request full removal from our database. |
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Write to us at the Emerging Health Threats Forum, 61 Old Street, London EC1V 9HW, UK. Be sure to include your name, email address, and clear instructions on what you would like us to do. |
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| To amend your details |
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Access and amend your details from the Forum website by using the Login link at the top right-hand corner of the home page. |
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Contact us here. Be sure to include your name and request which items you would like to amend. |
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Write to us at the Emerging Health Threats Forum, 61 Old Street, London EC1V 9HW, UK. Be sure to include your name, email address, and clear instructions on what you would like us to do. |
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| If you require us to supply you with details of the personal information that we hold about you, then we reserve the right to make a small charge. |
| Our Commitment to Data Security |
| We take reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk. |
| Your privacy is important to us |
We strive to do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. We do not sell or exchange personally identifiable information with any third parties unless we are obliged by law to disclose it.
Your information will be disclosed where obliged or permitted by law. If you post offensive or illegal material to one of our forums or public areas of our website or otherwise engage in behaviour that is not permitted under our Terms of Use, we will use your personal information to stop this behaviour, which may include contacting your ISP or the relevant authorities.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes on our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.
If you would like to ensure that we do not contact you as a result of having used our site, please contact us here. |
| Changing this policy |
| We update this policy from time to time. When we change it, we place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it. |
| English law |
| The laws and regulations in different countries impose different (and even conflicting) requirements on the Internet and data protection. The Forum is located in the UK and therefore English law governs all matters relating to this website. If you are located outside the UK and you contact us, please note that any information you provide will be transferred to the UK and by submitting the information you authorise this transfer. |
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