From Diplomatic Standards

Diplomatic Standard takes very seriously the private nature of your personal information. It is the goal of DS to bring you information that is relevant and targeted to your individual needs and, at the same time, protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat the information we collect when you visit our Web site and/or register for the privilege to contribute to Diplomatic Standards. Please read this notice carefully.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

The information that you provide about yourself will only be used for the effective administration of the Site, to help improve our services and to help us communicate with you. We will not provide the personal information you supply to us to third-parties, unless we are obliged by law or you grant us explicit permission.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may also request non-personally identifiable information, for example, buying preferences, and age. This information, also known as demographic and profile data, is optional. We may use this data to improve our site and/or personalize your experience at our site, in order to bring you more targeted and relevant content and to display such content according to your preferences.

USAGE INFORMATION

In addition to collecting personal and non-personal information, DS may also collect non-personal, aggregated information about contributors' use of our emails and our site. This information is not personally identifiable and will only be used to find out how contributors use our service and site. For example, this information will tell us how much time users spend on our site, from which other sites contributors came, and to what other sites contributors and users go. The collection of this information allows us to, among other things, prepare for traffic load demands and to efficiently distribute email publications and so forth.

CHOICE/OPT-OUT

If we ever send you information by e-mail concerning new information or announcements that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an e-mail address by which you may request no future notices.

TRACKING & THIRD PARTY COOKIES

You may have read about “cookies” or bits of information that are placed by a Website in a storage place on your own computer. As with most other Web sites, DS does use cookies but only to allow us to quickly check your status as a contributor and facilitate access to your preferences. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time.

Some of our advertisers may serve you cookies as well. Unfortunately, we do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. If you don’t want cookies, your Web browser likely includes an option that allows you to not accept them.

IP ADDRESS

Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university. We may, from time to time, use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, gather broad demographic information and administer our Website.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

As part of the service, DS may create links allowing you to access third party sites. DS is not responsible for the content that appears on those sites and does not endorse these sites. Please consult those sites’ individual privacy policies in order to determine how they treat user information.

SECURITY

All information described above is stored on restricted database servers.

MODIFICATION TO THIS POLICY

Diplomatic Standards reserves the right to change this policy from time to time, however, all changes will be posted to this Privacy Policy at the time such changes are made. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page so please check back.

Please note that continued access of DS will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Policy. Thank you for taking the time and interest to review our policies. If you have concerns or questions about any aspect of the DS Privacy Policy, please contact us using the contact form on this site. We welcome your questions and feedback.

Thank you,

The Diplomatic Standards Community

Last Updated: March 15, 2010