News About the World recognizes and values the protection of your personal information.
We recognize that you have an interest in our collection and use of your personal information via our website, which is located at www.turksolu.org. We have implemented this Website Privacy Policy in order to be open and transparent about how we collect, hold, and use your personal information, and under what circumstances we may disclose or transfer your personal information.
The Website Privacy Policy also outlines your rights to gain access to, and seek corrections of, your personal information we hold. Finally, the Privacy Policy provides information about how you can approach us about your privacy-related concerns and complaints, and how we will deal with such communications.
This policy applies only to information that News About the World collects via this Website.
Please note that this Website Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms of Use document, which is displayed at the footer of each page of the Website.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOLD
Wherever possible, you can elect to remain anonymous or use a pseudonym in interacting with us e.g. when making an inquiry.
From time to time, we may ask you to supply personal information such as your name, address, date of birth, telephone number or e-mail address.
For example, we ask for your contact information when you sign up for a free product, respond to a job application or an email offer, participate in community forums, join us on social media, take part in training and events, contact us with questions or request support.
If you don’t want to provide us with personal data, you don’t have to, but it might mean you can’t use some parts of our websites or services.
Under no circumstances will we request any information from you that may disclose your:
- political, religious or philosophical opinions, beliefs, associations or affiliations;
- health and sexuality;
- racial or ethnic origin;
- membership of a trade union, or a professional or trade association; or
- criminal records.
We may also conduct surveys or market research and may seek other information from you on a periodic basis. These surveys will provide us with information that allows improvement in the types and quality of services offered to you, and the manner in which those services are offered to you.
PERSONAL INFORMATION VIA THE WEBSITE
We collect some information about you automatically when you visit our websites or use our services, like your IP address and device type. We also collect information when you navigate through our websites and services, including what pages you looked at and what links you clicked on. This information is useful for us as it helps us get a better understanding of how you’re using our websites and services so that we can continue to provide the best experience possible (e.g., by personalizing the content you see).
Some of this information is collected automatically by cookies or similar tracking technologies. ‘Cookies’ are pieces of information that websites send to the browser and are stored in the computer hard-drive. Cookies make using the Website easier by storing information about your preferences on the Website. This allows the Website to be tailored to you for any of your return visits. Cookies will not identify you personally.
This website includes advertisement and those advertisers may collect, use, store and disclose data and information collected from visitors, including information related to your demographic information. Our trusted advertising partners include AdThrive.com and Google.com Each of these advertising partners has their own privacy policy for their site, which you can review at each of their sites.
We use this information to supplement the personal data we already hold about you, in order to better inform, personalize and improve our services, and to validate the personal data you provide.
If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter your security settings on your web browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, by disabling the cookie function in your web browser you may impede your ability to use parts of the Website.
When you leave a comment on this website, you are giving implied consent for this comment and your information to appear on our website. In leaving a comment, your name and email address will not be shared with any third party. We may use your email address solely to respond to your comment. However, we are not liable or responsible for the actions of other individuals and the unauthorized use by such information that you voluntarily share.
We have public social media accounts and social sharing options on our website. If you choose to interact on social media with us or our accounts, you are advised that any interactions on those accounts are publicly available.
If you choose to share a testimonial on this Website, we will first obtain your written permission via email before including your name and testimonial on our website.
YOUR OPTION NOT TO PROVIDE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Providing us with your personal information is absolutely optional, but may be necessary for us to provide you with our services. Whenever it is optional for you to provide us with non-essential personal information, we will make this clear to you. When you provide us with your personal information, you are consenting to our storage, use and disclosure of that information as outlined in this Website Privacy Policy.
We may from time to time run competitions or offer additional benefits to you and we may ask you to provide us with your personal details for these purposes. Providing us with this information is absolutely optional to you. However, if you do not provide your personal information to us we may not be able to contact you or give you access to the additional benefits.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
When we hold your personal information it will be used for the following primary purposes:
- to ensure the proper functioning of the Website;
- to ensure the proper functioning of the News About the World business; and
- to assist News About the World with our auditing, marketing, planning, billing, product development, and research requirements.