Privacy Policy

Your information will be held by the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Rights of Wetlands Initiative.

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Topics:

• What information do we collect about you?

• How will we use the information about you?

• How we keep your information secure

• Access to your information and correction

• Cookies

• Other websites

• Changes to our privacy policy

• How to contact us

What information do we collect about you?

We collect information that you voluntarily share with us when you complete this online declaration sign up to be shared with government officials. We will not share your information with anyone unless you give us permission to do so.

How will we use the information about you? 

When you fill out or sign up to the declaration, your name, postal code, and country are treated as public information. We only use your email address to verify your identity but we will not share with anyone else unless you give us permission to do so.

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We use your information collected from the website using cookies to monitor the performance of our website. For more information see the cookies section of this privacy policy.

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For some online actions, we partner with allied organisations. In this case we may use your name but we will never share your contact information with these organisations.

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How we keep your information secure

When you sign up to the SWS Rights of Wetlands Initiative online, we use a secure server and end-to-end SSL encryption to protect your personal information during transmission. Our network system is fully PCI compliant, using best practice security tools.

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Access to your information and correction

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please use the contact form.

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We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

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For further information visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.

Other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies. SWS Rights of Wetlands Initiative is not responsible for privacy practices of other sites accessed from our website.

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Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 28th January, 2021.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you.