Who we are

Our website address is www.cormen.org

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Things that you and others do and provide.

• Information and content you provide. We collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content and message or communicate with others. This can include information in or about the content that you provide (e.g. metadata), such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. It can also include what you see through features that we provide, such as our camera, so we can do things such as suggest masks and filters that you might like, or give you tips on using camera formats. Our systems automatically process content and communications that you and others provide to analyse context and what’s in them for the purposes described below. Learn more about how you can control who can see the things you share.
  • Data with special protections: You can choose to provide information in your Cormen profile fields or life events about your religious views, political views, who you are “interested in” or your health. This and other information (such as racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership) could be subject to special protections under the laws of your country.
• Networks and connections. We collect information about the people, Pages, accounts, hashtags and groups that you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products, such as people you communicate with the most or groups that you are part of. We also collect contact information if you chose to upload or import (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which we use for things such as helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes listed below.
• Your usage. We collect information about how you use our Products, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the people or accounts you interact with and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. For example, we log when you’re using and have last used our Products, and what posts, videos and other content you view on our Products. We also collect information about how you use features such as our camera.
• Things others do and information they provide about you.We also receive and analyse content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Products. This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you or upload, sync or import your contact information.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How we share information

Profile

Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services. Subject to your setting, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines). As detailed in your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Member, the subscriptions they may have, their usage of our services, access channels and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certain fields in your profile.

Posts, Likes, Follows, Comments, Messages

Our Services allow viewing and sharing information including through posts, likes, follows and comments.

• When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video or article) publicly it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere (subject to your settings). Members, Visitors and others will be able to find and see your publicly-shared content, including your name (and photo if you have provided one).
• In a group, posts are visible to others in the group. Your membership in groups is public and part of your profile, but you can change visibility in your setting
• Any information you share through companies’ or other organizations’ pages on our Services will be viewable by it and others who visit those pages.
• When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower.
• We let senders know when you act on their message, subject to your setting where applicable.
• Subject to your settings,we let a Member know when you view their profile.
• When you like or re-share or comment on another’s content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate it with you (e.g., your name, profile and photo if you provided it).

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Legal Disclosures

You are only allowed to use our services if you are 18 years and above. It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Cormen, our Members, personnel or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.

Additional information

How we protect your data

All Cormen accounts are already protected by a series of automatic checks that are designed to thwart unauthorized sign-in attempts and keep your data safe

What data breach procedures we have in place

Immediate response will include a mandatory password reset for all accounts we believed were compromised as a result of the unauthorized disclosure. Additionally, we will advised all members of Cormen to change their passwords as a matter of best practice.

We take the safety and security of our members’ accounts seriously. we have reviewed every password in our database, and we have offered protection tools such as email challenge. We encourage our members to to use strong passwords in order to keep their accounts as safe as possible.

Disclaimer and limit of liability

No Warranty

This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the quality, safety, or reliability of our Services.

CORMEN AND ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY ABOUT THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY REPRESENTATION THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND PROVIDE THE SERVICES (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, CORMEN AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Exclusion of Liability

These are the limits of legal liability we may have to you.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW (AND UNLESS CORMEN HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT OVERRIDES A CONTRACT), CORMEN , INCLUDING ITS AFFILIATES, WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CONTRACT FOR LOST PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION (E.G., OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS), LOSS OF DATA (E.G., DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OF, OR CHANGES TO, YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT) OR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.

CORMEN AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CONTRACT FOR ANY AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS (A) THE TOTAL FEES PAID OR PAYABLE BY YOU TO CORMEN FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT

Termination

Both you and Cormen may terminate contracts with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the services provided.

STANDARDS

We remove and terminate the accounts of anyone who post content that glorifies violence or celebrates the suffering or humiliation of others, or encourages any form of violence, criminal behavior, incitement, coordinated harm, distribution of regulated goods, publicize news that do not conform to verified local or international standards, fraud and deception

We remove and terminate the accounts of anyone who post contents that encourages suicide or self injury,child sexual exploitation,abuse or injury,bullying and harrassment, Human exploitation or privacy violations.

We remove and terminate the accounts of anyone who post contents that encourages Adult nudity or sexual activity, sexual solicitation, hate speech

We cooperate with relevant authorities on issues related above as required (See legal disclosures)

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We can make changes to our privacy policy as required. If you have agreed to our privacy policy, you have accepted that we will review the policy as often as required. You may or may not be notified when this changes are made. You should read the privacy policy as often as possible to identify changes made.