Herbert Street Technologies Limited (“HST”)
Herbert Street Technologies Ltd., of Dublin, Ireland
(“HST”) is the maker of GroupFactor software, on which this website and network
is based. HST also manages this network.
This
statement relates to the privacy practice of HST in connection with this
website. The website contains external
links to other websites. We are not
responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites, including
linked websites.
General Statement
HST respects
your right to privacy and will not collect any personal information about you
on this website other than as volunteered by you, for example, by completing
our Registration and Profiles Forms.
Any
personal information which you provide to HST will be treated with the highest
standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the
(Irish) Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003 (as may be amended from time to
time).
Collection and Use of Personal Information
All
personal information collected on this website by HST is for the purpose of
website and network management. The only information collected about an
individual person is that which is provided voluntarily when he or she
registers ( name, UserName, Password, email address and country or residence
being the only mandatory information required). Information provided by a member in the form of the Member’s
Profile is made available to other members as part of search results, if they
also have submitted profiles but the information is returned under Usernames
only. Personal information which a member may keep in his Private Box is
accessible only by that member and is not collected by HST nor provided in any
form to other members by HST. No personal information is made available to third
parties save as otherwise provided below.
Collection and Use of Technical Information
This
website uses “cookies” to allow your web browser (software used to read web
pages) to recall those pages of this website which have already been visited by
you and to enable your personal preferences, weblinks, bookmarks and such data
to be efficiently served to you. We use
“session” cookies only, to assist in serving you during one session on the
website, and do not use cookies for any purpose outside that one session, nor
for tracking in any other sense, nor for helping to aggregate data about our
members in any way, nor in any other way or for any other purpose. (Even when
you logon, unlike in many other websites, it is your Username and password
which the system uses to locate and serve to you your particular preferences,
not cookies)
Technical
information may be collected when you access this website, which may be logged
by HST or our Internet Service Provider [HST’s ISP] in order
to determine statistical and other information regarding our website. The technical information is not personal
information but may or may not personally identify you. The technical information is used so that we
can monitor and improve our website.
Such technical information may include:
i) your IP
address (the Internet protocol coded address for your computer which may
uniquely identify your computer);
ii) your
domain server;
iii) type of
web browser (software used to read web pages);
iv) the
top-level domain name used by you.
HST
will make no attempt to identify you from the technical information, or to
associate the technical information with you.
HST
reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update
or modify this Privacy Statement, simply by posting such addition, change,
update or modification on this website.
Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately
upon posting on the website.