[devinfo] GDPR and Koozali Foundation inc privacy policy

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

Dear all,

as most of you cannot ignore, there is a new regulation in Europe and
this force corporations all over the world to inform you about what they
do about your personal data, so here is another message concerning this
situation.

Here is our policy update, please be aware of the particularity of
mailing lists over forums and other web services. Those lists are public
exchanges, we maintain an archive, but anyone being subscribed can
maintain one and might make it available. Any email you send will have
in its headers information about your IP, your provider, your email in
the header. Most probably your name also will be in the header depending
on your configuration, and you might also sign with your name or other
personal data in the body of the email. All those information might be
cited by others by replying to your email and citing it. So think before
posting and making those data available if you are not comfortable with
the situation.


Our global Privacy statement is available on our Forums : 
https://forums.koozali.org/index.php?action=gpdr;sa=privacypolicy


Here is a copy:


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 ***@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 ***@koozali.org as soon as possible.
We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

[John Crisp]

Post by Jean-Philippe Pialasse
Dear all,
as most of you cannot ignore, there is a new regulation in Europe and
this force corporations all over the world to inform you about what they
do about your personal data, so here is another message concerning this
situation.

Good work JPP.

Clearly done a lot of hard work.

Many thanks.