Privacy Policy

The European Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (“EURICSE,” “we,” or “us”) respects your individual privacy and has put this Privacy Policy in place to communicate how we collect, store, and use your information. The policy is effective as of November 3rd, 2011 and applies to information collected as part of stories.coop, and covers the following areas:

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
As part of the stories.coop digital campaign, EURICSE may collect information from you when you register for the site and may collect additional information from you if your story appears as a story of the day on the www.2012.coop web site. You are not required to submit personally identifiable information, but you may not be able to register if you do not submit some information. We may collect and retain your name, address, telephone number, and/or e-mail address in order to provide you with information. We do not collect credit card or other financial information, and you should not send us credit card or financial information. We may also collect and retain other personally identifiable information that you voluntarily submit through our Site, and the information that is contained in any written story, video or slideshow which you submit.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
EURICSE will never give or sell your personally identifiable information to be used for the purposes of sending you unsolicited commercial offers (such as spam) from any third party. We will not ourselves use your personally identifiable information to send you unsolicited commercial offers. Currently, EURICSE does not sell, rent, or share customer information to or with any third party not affiliated with or owned by EURICSE, except trusted third parties who provide services to us. We may need to contact you for purposes other than marketing. For example, we may need to contact you regarding the status of the EURICSE Site, updates to this Privacy Policy, or respond to questions you pose. You may not opt-out of these kinds of communications.

USE OF AGGREGATE INFORMATION
We may store information that we collect through log files to create a profile of our users. Log files record internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the Site, track your movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Log file data is not linked to personally identifiable information. A profile may be stored detailing how individual users use the Site. It is used solely for internal purposes, to help us improve the experience of users of the Site. We may share your profile with third parties who assist us in processing the information, analysing aggregated information, and optimising our Site.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AS REQUIRED BY LAW
We will disclose personally identifiable information when required by law, or if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us, (b) protect and defend our rights, or (c) protect the rights, property, and other interests of our users or others.

BUSINESS TRANSITIONS
In the event EURICSE goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, personally identifiable information of users collected through this Site may be part of the assets transferred. The information transferred or shared remains subject to the promises made in this Privacy Policy, unless you are notified of new terms.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The Site may contain links to other web sites. EURICSE is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these other web sites. We encourage you to be aware when you 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 our Site.

SECURITY
EURICSE takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect any personally identifiable information collected through this Site. However, given the nature of the Internet and the fact that network security measures are not infallible, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. When registering for access to a secure area of the Site, we may ask you to select a username and password. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also, remember to sign out of the registered Site and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personally identifiable information and correspondence when accessing your computer.

CORRECTING, UPDATING, DELETING and DEACTIVATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
If your personally identifiable information changes, you may contact us at the address below to correct, update, or delete and deactivate our record of your personally identifiable information.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If, however, we propose to use your personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by email and by posting a notice on this Site. You are responsible for ensuring we have a current working e-mail address for you in order to receive these updates. If the e-mail address you have given us is incorrect or no longer operable, we will have no further obligation to notify you apart from posting the notice on our Site. Your continued use of the Site or submissions of stories after modifications have been made indicates that you have read and accepted such modifications.

CONTACT INFORMATION
European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises
Via San Giovanni 36
38122 Trento, Italy
info@stories.coop