Privacy Policy

Revised April 21st, 2005

JADE and your privacy

At JADE Europe we respect your right to privacy and we understand that, as a visitor to jadenet.org, you prefer to control your own personal information and preferences. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide personal information and preferences when you visit certain areas of jadenet.org, download files, request information, or subscribe to JADE Services e.g. the newsletter.

We will guard the personal information you share with us to ensure the content, services, and advertising that we provide on jadenet.org are always tailored to your current, designated preferences.

When you provide JADE with your name (or alias), e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number, JADE and JADE partners and affiliates may use the provided information to alert you to updated information, new services, upcoming events and other JADE-related information. Representatives and affiliates may include JADE cooperations partners and supporters. Beyond its representatives and affiliates, JADE does not offer or allow the selling of any user-provided information to third parties.

JADE respects the rights users give us when opting to receive e-mail communications and enforces internal policies to preserve those rights. It is our objective to retain the long-term ability to continue to communicate with our users.

If you do not want JADE or JADE representatives to contact you, you may “opt out” of this preference at any time, whether you’re online or contacting JADE directly. As part of your preference flexibility, you’ll always have the option to opt back in and have JADE contact you based on your previous or new preferences. For instructions, please see the section “Contact Us,” below.

If you choose not to register, login or provide personal information, you can still visit most JADE websites; however, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification.

Personal information that you post to online forums is accessible by other forum participants.

JADE and the use of log files (cookies)

JADE and the JADE websites may remember you by placing a log file (cookie) that contains only enough information to identify you upon return visits. A “cookie” is a small line of text that is stored with your web browser for record-keeping purposes and helps JADE provide better service to you. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent.

No information, other than that found in the JADE cookie, will be accessed by any JADE system.

JADE also utilizes visitor log files (cookies) and hosted tracking with our website. Once a user enters our site, a cookie follows them through their click stream path. Examples of information being collected by these cookies and the hosted tracking include the number of times a user came to our site(s), and the paths they took to get there. JADE uses the data collected from website visitor cookies and hosted tracking in aggregate form only and does not collect any personally identifiable information. Use of this information helps us better understand what users are seeking and learning at our website(s) and helps us identify potential navigation issues.

We also gauge effectiveness of our communications by inserting transparent GIF images in our HTML e-mails. These GIF files are not unique identifiers and do not gather any personally identifiable information. They simply let us know the number of e-mails that have been opened.

How JADE will protect your personal information

JADE will always protect the personal information that you share with us. JADE stores information internally in a controlled, secure environment. As we relay on a outside partner for hosting the JADE websites, we can not guarantee the same level of security for external controlled services.

If JADE requests general demographic information, this information is limited to reporting purposes only; members remain anonymous. Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses are not shared for demographic reports with outside entities. JADE may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s), we will provide an up-front statement to that effect.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.

Contact us

How to update your personal information and preferences: You can help JADE maintain the accuracy of your personal information (and the information we hold about your Junior Enterprise) by notifying us when you change your name, address, title, phone number, e-mail address, or other preferences. If at any time you wish to update your information or preferences, or you prefer to stop receiving communication from JADE, feel free to contact us at any time.

Online
http://www.jadenet.org/help/feedback/

E-mail
privacy@jadenet.org

Postal Mail
JADE AISBL
Attn: Privacy
Rue Potagere 119
B-1210 Brussels
Belgium

JADE would like to receive your comments and questions about this Privacy Policy

Please address comments or questions regarding the JADE Privacy Policy to one of the addresses listed above (online, e-mail, or postal mail). JADE may occasionally update, amend, or change this Privacy Policy based on user feedback and as needed or appropriate. If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so that our members are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. Users will always have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in accordance with, and in respect to, the posted privacy policy. If users have opted out of all communication with the site then they will not be contacted.

Links

JADE websites may contain links to other sites. JADE assumes no responsibility for the content or the privacy policies and practices of such websites. JADE encourages you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites; their privacy practices may differ from ours.