The GLOEA respects your privacy, and we are committed to protecting the personal information you choose to share with us while using this website. Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including name, email address, home, postal or business address, or other information of a personal descriptive nature, such as a title or occupation or information about personal interests or other similar types of information.
Handling of Personal Information
Note that any personal information you provide to others apart from our vendors or us is optional. As an example, you might disclose something in a blog post comment. That “private” information is now “public,” and we have no control over that. In like fashion, your sharing information with any other third party not functioning as a service provider to us puts that information beyond our control and becomes subject to the policy that the party has in place.
Our primary intention for collecting personal and private information from you is to conduct our business. We can use this internally to better serve you. Accordingly, we see no reason to share your personal information with other parties and outside interests unless you have authorized us to do so.
Of course, there are instances where your information is stored with third-party service providers, such as email service providers, as they provide services that are industry-leading in quality and security and are far more beneficial to our end user than attempting such services “in-house.” However, you are never required to deal with any such third party directly, they are limited in how they use your information, and they cannot sell or transfer it to others in any way.
However, of course, your information does comprise part of an overall whole. This aggregate of information, by contrast, may be used to understand our overall user base. Further, we may share this information about our website visitors as a whole, not individually, with third parties for various purposes, at our sole discretion.
While we are staunch privacy advocates, there are times when even we may be forced to abandon these ideals. Just as major search engines face ongoing compulsion to provide data against their will, so may the same occur with our website. Illegal activity or other serious acts or allegations could create legal liability for our website. In those cases, we reserve the right to share your information or else may be compelled to do so by law.
On the other hand, there may be times when we would need to share your private information in order to protect our own interests. For instance, in cases of suspected or alleged copyright infringement or other intellectual property violations, it may be necessary to share personal information.
Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, our website will never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18.
Under our Terms of Service and Conditions of Use, children under 18 are not allowed to use our website or access our services. It is not our intention to offer products or services to minors.
Other Collection of Personal Information
When visiting our website, the IP address used to access our website may be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer our website, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for internal use, such as statistical assessments and website improvement. Most importantly, recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Other information may be collected as well, which is rather typical of most websites. For instance, the source that referred you to our website is generally known. Likewise, your duration on our website and your destination when you leave our website can also be tracked. Other common data collected includes the type of operating system the computer you are using to access our website. Similarly, the type of web browser is often noted. Again, this is common data collection and helps ultimately produce a better end-user experience.
Cookies are another common internet practice. Cookies are a key means of improving user experience by allowing us to customize your use of our website. Simple information is transferred to your computer to allow the content and experience to reflect your actions, preferences, and so on. You should make the assumption our website uses cookies, and note that you are free to make adjustments in your web browser to disable these or otherwise receive notification of cookies so you can take whatever desired action you so choose. Please understand that refusing cookies may cripple some of our website features and render some aspects useless.
At times, you will be fully aware of the information received, as you are the direct source providing it. For instance, you may comment on a blog post, reply to an email (whether broadcast message or autoresponder), provide an email address, complete a survey, requests SMS, or otherwise. Likewise, purchases necessarily involve collecting certain information, such as credit card information, Paypal addresses, your physical address for billing and/or shipping, phone number, and so on. Refusing to provide some of this information may lead to us being unable to provide you with the products or services you’ve requested.
A prime example of limited access to our website is where content may be protected by a username and password. Whether a username and password are generated by our website or created by you, these will almost always be connected with some other information related to or connected with you. This is true since much content that is protected on the internet is subscription-based and often paid for. Thus, the username and password must necessarily be tied to your other account data. Usernames and passwords, by their very nature, should be kept private.
Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third-party advertisement vendor, may use cookies to serve ads on this website. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website, including past visits, as well as other websites on the internet.
To opt out of the DART cookies, you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following url http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other Third-Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users’ activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies. Our website has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third-party advertisers. However, you can opt out of some, though likely not all, of these cookies in one easy location at http://ww.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Links to Third Party Websites
We have included links on this website for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these websites may differ from our own.
Other Collection of Personal Information
Ordinarily, when you browse our website, you do so anonymously, and the GLOEA does not automatically collect your personal information.
However, the GLOEA may log your IP address (your computer’s internet address) to give us an idea of which part of our website you visit and how long you spend there. But we do not link your IP address to any personal information unless you have logged in to our website. Like many other commercial websites, the GLOEA may use a standard technology called a cookie to collect information about how you use this website. For example, we may use traffic log cookies to help us compile and analyze data about webpage traffic so that we may improve our website to tailor it to your needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.
You may also provide us with personal information by inputting your data into fields on our website when prompted to do so. We may use this information for internal record keeping or statistical purposes or to compile mailing lists, or we may periodically send promotional emails or other information to you about Belize. We may use your personal information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by telephone, email, or mail.
You may choose to restrict the use of your personal information at the time when you are asked to enter your personal information into a field by clicking the box that indicates that you do not want the personal information you provide to be used by anybody for marketing purposes.
Please be aware that our online communications assets are managed by third parties, so the personal information you provide us is accessed by these third parties. We may also disclose personal information to third parties who conduct our market research or analysis. Whenever we disclose your personal information, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that our third-party partners handle your information with the same respect for your privacy as we do.
We may also disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to satisfy any applicable law or legal process or for the investigation of potential violations of law or to detect or prevent fraud, or for any security or technical issues or to protect against harm to the GLOEA, its users or the general public.
Our website may contain links to other websites. Once you have used these links to leave our website, we are no longer responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information you provide while on that other website.
CHANGE NOTICE: As with any of our administrative and legal notice pages, the contents of this page can and will change over time. Accordingly, this page could read differently as of your very next visit. These changes are necessitated and carried out by Global Ocean Energy Alliance (GLOEA) in order to protect you and our Global Ocean Energy Alliance (GLOEA) website. If this page is important to you, you should check back frequently, as no other notice of changed content will be provided either before or after the change takes effect.
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This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Belize, and the courts of Belize shall have jurisdiction.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please get in touch with us through this website, secretariat@gloea.org, or write to us at the GLOEA Secretariat, C/o Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics and E-governance, Government of Belize, NEMO Building, Melhado Parade, Belmopan, Cayo District, BELIZE.