Our Privacy Policy

Who we are

SOGW website address is scienceofgroupwork.net.  We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.

When accessing sciencofgroupwork.net website, we will learn certain information about you both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take during your visit.  This policy applies to information we collect on the website, in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the website.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We collect and use your personal information to operate our website and to provide a customised experience in delivering the services and products you have requested.  When you access our website, we may learn certain information about you during your visit.

We collect personal data from people who visit our site or become members of our community, including name, email, geographical information, transactional data, and technical data.

This data is collected when a person completes the following actions: registers for an event, registers for a course, makes a payment, subscribes to a newsletter, or leaves a comment.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images (profile pics, etc) to the website, you should avoid uploading images with the embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.  Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

We keep contact form submissions indefinitely for customer service purposes and to enable us to contact you with information that may be of interest such as events and new publications.

Use of Cookies

Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes to improve your online experience.  

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from other Sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Tracking User Behaviour

We may keep track of the websites and pages you visit within our website, in order to better understand your interests.  This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising to those of you whose behaviour indicates that you are interested in a particular subject areas. 

 

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.  You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.  This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

On receipt of a verifiable request from you at (needs an email address), we will:

    • Delete your personal information from our records; and
    • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records

If you are outside the European Union and opt to participate in complimentary programs, receive complimentary resources, register for a webinar, register for a live event, or purchase any product sold on the website, we will enrol you to receive email communications in the future, including updates that we believe you may find of interest.

If you are in the European Union and opt to participate in complimentary programs, receive complimentary resources, register for a webinar, register for a live event, or purchase any product sold on the website, we will only enrol you to receive email communications in the future, including updates that we believe you may find of interest, if you affirmatively consent to it.

If you are subscribed to receive updates, you may unsubscribe at any time. You can unsubscribe by using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of your e-mail or by sending an email message to info@scienceofgroupwork.net

Who we share your data with

This website is hosted by Green Geeks; your personal information and files for this website are securely stored on their server.

When you subscribe to our email list, your information (name, email) is sent to our email account.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Where we send your data

As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected automatically or through your voluntary action.  We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.  We use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us.   We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to develop the content program for which you have signed on.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new ideas, offerings, programmes, site launches, or changes to this privacy policy.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How we protect your data

We use all reasonable technical and organizational precautions to protect your personal information and see that it is stored securely.  When you place an order on our website, the information you send is protected by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.   SSL is the industry standard in transferring credit card information to process your orders.

If your browser does not support SSL, you will not be able to connect to the secure sections of our website. You may contact us to place your order by sending a request to info@scienceofgroupwork.net   Please DO NOT include credit card information, as email is not a secure method of sending private financial information over the Internet. 

Updates

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page.  Your continued use of the website and/or services available through the website after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

We welcome your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.  If you believe we have not adhered to this Statement please contact us at:

Email: info@scienceofgroupwork.net