humanopinion's Privacy Policy
humanopinion was created to provide an unbiased, non-partisan web platform for users to freely express their own opinions, view others opinions and also request opinions of others . A place where all these valuable opinions and the priceless statistics they create are then recorded and presented for all possible time (within reason), and for all of humanity - for every person on the planet to access freely.
The very essence of humanopinion is based upon the effectiveness and reliability of the information which you provide, this means at humanopinion it is part of our core principle to take your personal privacy very seriously.
Please read on to learn more about our privacy policy.
PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy is designed to explain, and covers, the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by Humanopinion Ltd ("humanopinion"), when you visit or use the humanopinion website ("website") or any humanopinion services ("humanopinion services").
This Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties which are not under humanopinion's ownership or control, or to individuals which are not employed or managed by humanopinion.
By visiting or using the website or any of the humanopinion services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
DATA PROTECTION ACT
humanopinion is registered with the Data Protection Act. This means we will comply with this act when running the website or any humanopinion services.
TRUSTe PRIVACY PROGRAM
humanopinion is currently in the process of applying to become a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices.
Because humanopinion wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, in the event of acceptance by the TRUSTe Program it will agree to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy, you should first contact our privacy staff using the form provided HERE.
In the future - subject to humanopinions acceptance by the TRUSTe Privacy Program - if you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you will be able to contact a "TRUSTe Watchdog". TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns. Though we will do our best to make sure the need for this will never arise.
FREEDOM OF PRESS INDEX
We are about freedom of speech, freedom of opinion. We are about supporting democracy. We are against government suppression. We are about keeping our users data sancrisant - keeping your privacy YOUR privacy.
Therefore on top of being registered with the Data Protection Act, and applying to become a licensee of the Truste Privacy Program, to ensure that user data is afforded as much protection and freedom from suppression as possible, humanopinion has committed to processing and hosting its data in only the countries which, according to Reporters Sans Frontiers (see their website HERE or http://www.rsf.org), are ranked with one of the best possible scores on their Press Freedom Index ("PFI").
We are in a time where people are continuing to voluntarily entrust website services with more and more personal information, and where, humanopinion believes, this trust should be upheld.
But we are also in a time where various governments continue to enforce more and more regulations restricting freedom of speech -freedom of opinion- and yet simultaneously grant themselves more power and lee way to access others personal information, other peoples personal privacy.
We have seen, and there have been cases, where certain governments have used their power to demand that web companies hand over the personal information on others of which the web company holds, and more importantly, which the user has entrusted theses companies/organisations with - nobody else.
In hoping to minimise any possibilities of this occurring, humanopinion undertakes to monitor the PFI scores of countries in which we host data and move data from any country that's PFI score changes significantly as soon as is possible.
SAFE USE OF THE WEBSITE
If you're under 16 you are required to get a parent’s or guardian’s permission before taking part in the website or using any of the humanopinion services.
Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (eg. telephone number, home address or email address) where it is publicly accessible. eg. within your public profile, RFO titles, in-depth articles or discussion etc.
We encourage parents and guardians to have an active involvement in supervising their child’s use of the website and the internet as a whole.
INFORMATION HUMANOPINION COLLECTS
When you visit humanopinion you provide us with two types of information - personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us, and website use information collected by us as you interact with our website.
INFORMATION WHICH YOU PROVIDE
When you register with humanopinion you provide us with certain personal information which is needed to help us run the site effectively and keep your own details secure. The minimum requirements consist of: your email address, a username, your age, gender, and country. At the time of registration and when you access your myopinion page or other features of humanopinion, you may also be prompted to enter more details about yourself such as occupation, marital status, religion etc. It is of course your choice whether or not to provide this further information. The additional details that are provided aid the functionality, and purpose of our site in providing you and all our users with an enhanced, reliable and effective experience. We do understand your circumstances and beliefs may change over time, and so this information is also always accessible for you to change/update or delete.
Whenever you raise an RFO (request for opinions), provide a title, summary or description for an RFO, voice your opinion on an RFO, enter into any discussion on an RFO, register for any other humanopinion services, submit or enter anything else on the humanopinion website, humanopinion services, or to humanopinion in any other way (eg. via phone or snail mail etc.) you are also providing humanopinion with information.
humanopinion receives and stores any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way, (within our reasonable capability).
Please be aware that whenever you post any information to RFO discussions, within RFO titles, descriptions, in email invites, in your 'My Public Profile' or in any other publicly accessible areas of the site, that that information can be accessed by others and could in turn be used improperly by others. We are not and cannot be held responsible for any information you or another chooses to submit to these areas, or for others’ use or misuse of such information and we advise you to take great care in posting such information. Any misuse or improper collection of personal information provided on humanopinion is a violation of the humanopinion Terms Of Use and should be reported using the contact us or help pages.
humanopinion members can invite friends to join the service or voice their opinion on particular RFO's by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. humanopinion may store the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, to send reminders of the invitations, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. humanopinion does not rent or sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, and invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations from humanopinion may contact us to request the removal of this information from our database by using the information on the relevant help page / contact us form??
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
humanopinion receives and stores certain types of information whenever you interact with us.
humanopinion may indirectly and automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on our servers logs. We may collect: each IP address that accesses the site; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; your behaviour on the Site and related services, as well as the URL you come from and go to next and humanopinion cookie information.
We use this data, as well as other data in our databases, to analyze site and user behaviour, troubleshoot technical problems, resolve disputes, address complaints, prepare aggregated reports, administer the website, stop the misuse of our services, and customize and provide you with an effective, reliable and secure user experience.
COOKIES
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computers hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people.
humanopinion may uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including: ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements, and to customize advertising, and web page content based on browser type and user profile information. humanopinion cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of humanopinons most attractive features and your browser must also be set to accept cookies from humanopinion in order to access the site as a registered member
Please note that 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on our pages may use their own cookies on our website. However, advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the humanopinion Privacy Policy and we have no access to or control over these cookies.
OTHER DATA COLLECTION
We may get data from or about you in other ways not specifically described in this statement. For example, you might contact humanopinion through customer support, or we may get a third party complaint about you, etc.
USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED BY HUMANOPINION
The humanopinion website core is based upon gathering and recording information - eg. your opinions - and being able to use and display that information and the resulting statistics in both a useful and meaningful way, which is then beneficial to all humanopinion users, and all humanity. In this respect it is critical that this information can be effectively analysed.
For example, if a particular RFO 'B' is raised which is pertinent to all the residents of a particular country 'Z', the results of this RFO must be able to be analysed and dissected so people can then tell, for example, how many users which participated in RFO 'B', were actually residents of country 'z'.
Without these capabilities the immense value of humanopinion to all humanity is automatically deflated.
humanopinion therefore uses the information we collect to help provide these deemed necessary abilities and extra features to you - humanity, so we may deliver you a high quality user experience.
We do not present your personally identifiable information to others unless you choose to submit and display it - making it publicly available - eg. within your 'My Public Profile' feature. This is your choice and responsibility and we are not responsible for, and strongly advise you to consider, any ramifications this may have.
humanopinion allows other users to browse (and subsequently also participate in) RFO's that you have raised. This information is made available to other users via your humanopinion public profile, or when veiwing an RFO you have raised through the link - "other RFO's raised by same author", unless you raised an RFO anonymously. The settings of which you can, and are encouraged to control, within the 'My Public Profile' link in your 'My Opinion' page
From time to time, humanopinion or a partner, may sponsor an award, promotion, sweepstake, particular poll, or contest/competition on the website or through the humanopinion services. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address, home address or to answer particular questions, accept particular terms in order to participate or collect their prize. humanopinion when conducting a promotion (or any of the such above) will make it clear: who is organising it and so collecting the personal information, whose privacy statement will apply and also any Details and/or Terms and Conditions which apply.
humanopinion will send you only service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance: if someone invites you to participate in a particular RFO, or as controlled by you - if someone posts discussion on one of your RFO's, or other notices you may choose to receive; you may receive an email, or a notice within your 'My Opinion' page alerting you to that fact.
humanopinion allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the website, and may choose to use this and other information we record, on other site features or services we may provide in the future - without of course identifying you personally as an individual or making this information available to any 3rd party.
SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Information about our users is an integral part of humanopinion. We neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone, nor ever will.
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement we may share or disclose the information we hold under the following circumstances:
A) It is reasonably necessary to offer any of the humanopinion services
B) It has been proved in a court of law we are legally required to
C) We believe that, in good faith, it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or particularly the safety of any person/people.
D) To prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the humanopinion service or using the humanopinion name
E) In some cases we may share data with any parent company or subsidiaries of humanopinion, or other companies under a common control. In the event of the ownership of part or substantially all of the humanopinion business, or individual business units owned by humanopinion, were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner/s so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
Moreover, if humanopinion, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred.
With Your Consent:
Except as set forth above, and in any of the events above (aside from case A) you will be notified when your personal information may be shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and where legally possible, you will be able to prevent the sharing of this information by opting out.
ADVERTISERS
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the website. These companies may set cookies and use information about your visits to the website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. When we do this, we do not provide your name, address, email address or other personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any 3rd party advertisers.
LINKS
humanopinon may contain links to other web sites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by humanopinion.org.
CHANGING OR REMOVING INFORMATION
humanopinion reserves the right to remove any data. humanopinion operates under the principle of free speech banner, we are aimed at enabling free speech, but not totally unfetted, in a considered and measured manner. The type of data that we will consider for removal on an ongoing basis will be unauthorised direct commercial advertising; spam; data related to incitement to murder; data related to pornography; data related to paedophilia; data related to emotional or physical abuse and/or any other such data which in good faith is deemed by humanopinion necessary to remove.
humanopinion understands that your circumstances, opinions, or beliefs may change and so we allow you to also change and update your information as needed. Registered members may update or edit personal information, or delete their humanopinion account through their My Opinion page, their My Profile and their My Public Profile pages or the form provided HERE. If you wish to change your opinion on a particular RFO you have participated in, you may also do so (on the majority of RFO's) through your my opinion page.
However, when you update or change information, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
You are not generally able to change any RFO's which you have raised (and which have already been participated in) or any discussion you participate in (though you may update such discussion or in-depth information through adding more).
Where you make use of any communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on humanopinion, e.g. raising an RFO, participating in an RFO, or posting on a discussion etc. you generally cannot remove such communications.
Once a humanopinion user account has been deleted that users My Opinion page and relevant present user information shall be removed from access and view, though as described above any public communication etc. they partook in generally cannot be removed. The user’s information (if it was ever public) on what RFO's they raised may also still be available for others to view. Certain information and records of the users account may also remain on the humanopinion database; however this information will generally not be accessible.
The user has the right at anytime to request humanopinion removes their unique personal data. The user understands that humanopinion reserves the right to keep all RFO and other non-unique personal data that a user submits.
SECURITY
humanopinion member accounts are secured by member-created passwords and humanopinion takes all reasonably capable precautions to insure that member account information is kept private, and our site and site information kept secure.
We use all reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access of member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff.
Please note that, though we will do our utmost within all our reasonable capabilities, we cannot (as cannot any website) guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time which cannot be controlled by humanopinion.
We also urge you to take any precautions you can against unauthorised access to your password and computer, for example, making sure you log off after using the humanopinion website and your computer. For any additional information about the security measures we use on humanopinon, please contact us using the contact us form (link provided at the bottom of the page).
CONDITIONS OF USE, NOTICES AND REVISIONS
If you visit and/or use the humanopinion website or any of the humanopinion services, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and the website Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of Irish law.
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A user is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on the website for 30 days.
The section titles in this Privacy Policy are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
CONTACT
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the website or your dealings with humanopinion, you may contact us using the form provided HERE.