Effective date: June 6, 2022
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Iran Human Rights Barometer (IHRB). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us.
Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
In Short: Some information — such as your browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our website.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) or your IP address, but it may include device and usage information, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our website and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA?
You directly provide us with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
- Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback via email.
- Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR COLLECTED DATA?
In general, we use the collected information to:
- Improve user experience, performance, and debugging of the website
- Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for purposes of research, audit, reporting, and other business operations, including but not limited to determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and evaluating our performance.
GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING
When we collect or otherwise process any information, we do so to:
- Evaluate information on our user’s recent visits to the website;
- Understand how users navigate the website;
- Evaluate analytics of the website;
- Utilize the above information in order to improve the website for users.
WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
No. We will only use your collected information for the purposes discussed in this privacy notice
CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information.
HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including Understanding how you use our website.
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website only uses functionality cookies. These cookies recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. This could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. We use a mix of first-party and third-party cookies.
You can set your browser to not accept cookies. This website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our website is at your own risk. You should only access the website within a secure digital environment.
DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you by posting a notice of such changes on U4I websites and social media. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may contact us.
HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request by emailing us. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
Analytics
We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website. For example, we use Google Analytics and Truconversion.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads within its own advertising network.
You may opt-out of certain Google Analytics features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings, or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit Google’s Privacy & Terms.
TruConversion Privacy Options allows us to configure the type of data that we collect from website visitors. To ensure your privacy, we avoid gathering and storing IP addresses, and we only store the country and region locations of website visitors. We have also enabled DATA OBFUSCATION, which allows TruConversion to replace keystroke inputs on all text-area fields with random characters. You can learn more about this feature on this webpage.
For more information, please read TruConversion’s Privacy Policy and if you would like to opt-out of this service, please visit their Opt-Out page.
Links To Other Sites
Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.