Privacy Policy

Introduction

This policy covers how the Tropical Legumes Hub will collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your data via our website. Please read this policy carefully and revisit this page regularly to review any changes that we have made. By using this website, you accept the terms of this policy and the terms and conditions on this website.

General Terms

The Tropical Legumes Hub is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the General Data Protection Regulation.

The Tropical Legumes Hub website contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third-party websites have their own privacy policies and we urge you to review them. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third-party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

Data Collected

The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and the username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of data collected include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates.

We also collect standard internet log information to track the behaviour of visitors to the Tropical Legumes Hub website. We do this to receive information on activity such as the number of visitors to our site. This information is collected in a way which does not identify individuals. We make no attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website and we do not associate any data gathered from the site with any personal identifying information from any source.

We collect this standard information by using ‘cookies’.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser. Cookies also contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive if you allow this. The Tropical Legumes Hub website uses cookies as part of Google Analytics to allow us to measure information about how visitors use our site. This includes identifying each unique site visitor and the details of each page visited. No cookies used on the Tropical Legumes Hub website collect personal data. Any information gathered by these cookies is stored on the Google server for 14 months, the minimum retention policy permitted by Google.

Types of Cookies Used

The Tropical Legumes Hub website uses four Google Analytics analytical/performance cookies:

The Tropical Legumes Hub website uses three AddThis social sharing cookies:

For more information, please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners

If you wish to disable Google Analytics on your browser please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

For any further information on Tropical Legumes Hub’s privacy policy, please contact icrisat-smc@cgiar.org