Privacy Policy

Civilitas Research takes the privacy of its users seriously. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our users and clients in accordance with worldwide practices for customer privacy and data protection. We will not release your personal data to any third parties without your consent or as required by law.

Information collected

We collect personal information from you through the use of enquiry and registration forms and every time you e-mail us your details. We also collect information automatically about your visit to our site. The information obtained in this way, which includes demographic data and browsing patterns, is only used in aggregate form. We do not attempt to identify individual users.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. We may use customer contact information from the registration form to contact a user when necessary and to provide new information about our activities. Users may opt-out of receiving mailings.

With regard to the 'Inform a Colleague' function on our site, we do not collect either the name of the sender or the email address of the recipient.

Use of personal information

We process personal information collected via our site for the purposes of:

• providing a personalised service
• conducting market research surveys
• providing you with information about products and services we offer If you do not wish to receive information about our products or services, or the products or services offered jointly with or on behalf of other organisations, please tick the appropriate box on the registration form.

We also use information in aggregate form (so that no individual user is identified):

• to build up marketing profiles
• to aid strategic development
• to audit usage of the site

Use of cookies

In order to assist us in our development we use "cookies" to identify our users when they visit our site. These cookies are an important tool in our efforts to build up a demographic profile of our users in order to develop a better service in the future.

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information back from the browser. If you are uncomfortable with cookie technology, you have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies.

Choice/opt-out

You may receive periodic email newsletters from us. These newsletters contain information on new features and facilities of note at the web site. We provide our users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us in the future.

Internet-based transfers

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data across state boundaries. Therefore, by browsing this site and communicating electronically with us you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

Changes to these Terms

Civilitas Research reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes to any part of the Site. Due to its policy of updating and improving the site, Civilitas Research may wish to change these Terms (including those relating to your use of the Content). When terms are changed, we will notify you either by e-mail or by publishing details of those changes in this policy. If you use the Site after we have published or notified you of the changes, you are agreeing now to be bound by those changes. If you do not agree to be bound by those changes, you should not use the Site any further.

General

You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights under these terms. If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect. Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy. Headings in these Terms are for convenience only and will have no legal meaning or effect.

Contacting Civilitas Research

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the practices of this site, please contact us.

This privacy policy statement applies solely to the Civilitas Research site. It does not apply to any third party sites that can be accessed via this site.