Privacy Policy for the UN Refugee Agency
The UN Refugee Agency has created this privacy notice to demonstrate our firm commitment to internet privacy. The following describes our policy concerning the gathering and sharing of information through this web site. In brief, our policy is:
- we monitor general trends in the use of our web site but do not ever track individual visitors;
- we do not collect information concerning individual visitors unless that information is voluntarily disclosed, for example by filling out our online donation form;
- we do not sell or rent information voluntarily disclosed to us, nor do we share it with any third parties except for completing a donation transaction that you initiate;
- individuals who join the UN Refugee
Agency online or who sign up for specific services will
only be contacted by UNHCR for purposes related to the
work of the Organization;
- at any time, visitors who have
signed up for a specific service can have their names
removed from the relevant mailing list.
For further information, please see below.
Normal web site Usage
You
can visit all portions of the UN Refugee Agency's web site
without telling us who you are and without revealing any
personal information. The only information we collect from
a normal web site visit is the name of your Internet service
provider, the browser and type of machine you are using,
the web site that referred you to us, the pages you request
and the date and time of those requests.
This information is collected on an aggregate basis only.
For example, UNHCR tracks which pages are most popular
among visitors as a whole, but we do not track information
on which pages an individual visitor might look at during
a visit to our site. We do not collect any other information
-- such as the name, mailing address, email address, or
phone number of the visitor -- without the visitor's knowledge
and permission.
All information that we collect is used for internal review
only and not shared with third parties. We use this information
to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve
the usefulness of the site to our visitors.
Collection of Personally Identifiable
Information
There are instances where the UN Refugee
Agency requests personally identifiable information, such
as name, mailing address, email address, and possibly additional
information, to provide you with specific services or correspondence.
Personally identifiable information that you provide in
this way will not be given to any third parties except
for the use of completing a donation transaction that you
initiate.
The UN Refugee Agency web site will not post personal contact
information for volunteers, including their email address,
street address and phone numbers, without that individual's
consent.
Opting Out
Persons who
provide an email address and/or donate via the web site may
receive UNHCR Enews, an electronic newsletter, sent out bimonthly
from the UN Refugee Agency. Each Enews includes an option
to remove your address from the mailing list and you may
also opt out by sending an e-mail to HQPA00.
Disclaimer
This site
contains hypertext links to other sites. The UN Refugee Agency
assumes no responsibility for those sites including the privacy
practices or the content of such web sites.
The on-line donation site has security measures in place
to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control. The UN Refugee Agency makes every effort
to insure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive
user information, including credit card information, using
industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies.
The confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed
by UNHCR. The UN Refugee Agency shall not be responsible
for any harm that the visitors or any person may suffer
as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to
the use of this site or any information transmitted to
this site.
While UNHCR makes every effort to ensure that any software
available to be downloaded from UNHCR's web site is free
of any software virus, it cannot guarantee that the material
is free from any or all software viruses. The UN Refugee
Agency is not responsible for any loss or damage howsoever
caused by the software and related codes, including viruses
and worms.
Nothing in or relating to this notice or the UN Refugee
Agency web site shall be deemed a waiver of any of the
privileges and immunities of UNHCR in conformity with the
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United
Nations adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations
on 13 February 1946 and with the provisions of the agreement
between the Swiss Federal Council and the Secretary-General
of the United Nations of 19 April 1946.
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