PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of personally identifiable information collected by Action Aid India when you view the Action Aid Rights Focus newsletter. This policy also covers Action Aid's treatment of any personally identifiable information that Action Aid India's business partners including Indlaw Communications Pvt Ltd (Indlaw), shares with Action Aid India. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Action Aid does not own or control, or to people that Action Aid does not employ or manage.
1 Collection and Use of Personal Information
1.1 Action Aid collects personally identifiable information when you register for a subscription account with the Action Aid Rights Focus newsletter, or Action Aid may also receive personally identifiable information from its business partners.

1.2 When you register with the Action Aid Rights Focus newsletter, we ask for your name and email address. Action Aid also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Indlaw cookie information and the page you requested.
1.3 Action Aid uses the information collected for two general purposes:
· to customize the content and advertising you see on our pages, and
· to fulfill your requests for certain products and services.

2 Information Sharing and Disclosure

2.1 It is Action Aid's policy to respect the privacy of its members and subscribers. Action Aid will not monitor, edit, or disclose, to any third person, any personal information about you or your use of the service, including its contents, without your prior permission unless Action Aid believes in good faith that such action falls within the categories specified in 2.3.
2.2 Action Aid will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
2.3 Action Aid will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
· We have your consent to share the information;
· We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
· We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of ICPL to provide a product or service to you.;
· We respond to court orders or legal process;
· We need to protect and defend the rights or property of ICPL or enforce the ICPL Terms and Conditions; or
· We find that your actions on our web sites violate the ICPL Terms and Conditions or any of our usage guidelines for specific services.
2.4 Notwithstanding what is contained herein, Action Aid shall be entitled to use the information provided by the subscribers or the visitors in aggregate form for demographic characterizations and internal marketing surveys.

3 Cookies
3.1 Action Aid may set and access cookies on your computer.
3.2 A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
3.3 You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use Action Aid services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings.
3.4 Action Aid uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
· Access your information when you "sign in," so that we can provide you with customized content.
· Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Action Aid's website.
· Display the most appropriate content and advertising, based on your interests and activity on Action Aid websites.
· Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
· Conduct research to improve Action Aid's content.
4 Changes to this Privacy Policy
Action Aid may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

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