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Privacy Policy
Global Memory Net understands
your concerns about privacy. We are committed to protecting
the integrity and security of your personal information. To
that end, this Privacy Policy presented here is to provide
you with notice of what information we collect on this Web
site ("Site") and how such information may be used.
This Privacy Policy is subject to the
"Terms
of Use" posted on this Site. Please review these statements
from time to time, as they are subject to change without notice.
INFORMATION ON YOU AND HOW OUR SITE MAKES USE OF IT
As a general policy, registration is required to browse the Site. Such information
may include contact information (such as your name and e-mail address) and geographic
information. In addition to this, we also collect aggregated information (such
as the number of users who log on to the Site on a daily basis). The personally
identifiable information you submit to us will only be used by us to carry out
your requests and respond to your inquiries. It may also be used for internal
research and marketing purposes, which may include contacting you (by e-mail or
by mail) about features of the Site. Some data will be used to determine research
questions related to the behavior of users of digital libraries [thus we appreciate
greatly for your complete and accurate user information as requested when you
login to our system.] We do not provide your personally identifiable information
to any third parties whatsoever.
Please note that if you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable
information on our Registration, that information can also
possibly be collected and used by others and may result in
unsolicited messages from other people. We may aggregate information
which does not personally identify you to create statistical
data. Such information can include the type of browsers being
used (e.g. Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox), the operating
system you are using (e.g. Windows XP, Mac OS), and the number
of users that visit a specific page on the Site and the character
and duration of such visits. This aggregated information will
be used to help analyze site traffic and improve our services.
We may also use such aggregated information to describe the
Site's services to potential partners or other third parties.
At no point, however, will the aggregated information identify
you. We reserve the right to disclose any personally identifiable
or aggregated information if required to do so by law or if
we believe that such action is necessary in order to (a) conform
with the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process
served on Global Memory Net; (b) to protect or defend
the legal rights or property of Global Memory Net,
the Site, or its users; or (c) in an emergency to protect
the health and safety of the Site's users or the general public.
You may remove your name from our list by contacting us at:
Global Memory Net
c/o Dr. Ching-chih Chen
GSLIS, Simmons College
300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Email: gmnet@simmons.edu
Links - Our Site may contain links to other sites that are
not maintained by Global Memory Net. We have not reviewed
in depth all of the sites linked to our Site and cannot guarantee
the security of your personally identifiable information on
those sites. We provide these links as a convenience only,
and a link does not imply endorsement of, sponsorship of,
or affiliation with the linked site by Global Memory Net.
Please review their privacy policy statement before submitting
any personally identifiable information to such sites.
Security Procedures - Protecting the security of all personally
identifiable information associated with our users is of utmost
concern to us. We exercise great care in providing secure
transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.
Once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable
precautions to endure its security on our systems. However,
since no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure, Global Memory Net cannot guarantee
or warrant the security of any information you disclose or
transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft,
destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally
identifiable information.
Contact Us - If you have any questions about this
privacy policy or any matter pertaining to the use of your
personally identifiable information on this site, or if you
would like to review or change the personally identifiable
information you have provided to us, please contact us as
mentioned above.
Consent - By your use of our Site, you consent to the use
of your personally identifiable information as expressed in
this privacy policy. We reserve the right to amend this privacy
policy at any time, with any such change in the policy effective
immediately on the posting of the revised policy on this site.
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