Privacy Statement
This journal is committed to protecting your privacy and values your trust. This Privacy Policy describes the information that we collect from you, how we collect this information, and what we do with it after we collect it.
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED?
Personal Information: We collect Personal Information that you provide to us, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, and society membership.
Non-Personal Information: We also collect non-personal information from you, such as your browser type, the URL of the previous website you visited, your ISP, operating system, and your Internet Protocol (IP) address. This enables us to know how many users visited our website, which pages were accessed and other information about site usage that will help us to improve our offerings. Non-Personal Information cannot be easily used to personally identify you.
The information we ask for is voluntary, although some services are only accessible by registering user details.
HOW COLLECTED INFORMATION IS USED
The primary purpose of gathering information is to allow the journal to link a name and contact information to a user ID or to enhance your browsing experience. Once you have provided appropriate information, you will be enabled to use a variety of products or personalized services, and to access online help or support.
We may share aggregated (i.e., non-individual) demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This aggregated information cannot be related to identifiable individuals.
HOW WE KEEP INFORMATION SECURE
The journal is committed to safeguarding your information. We make commercially reasonable efforts to protect your information both online and off-line.
DATA SECURITY
To maintain data security we have put in place appropriate procedures to safeguard all sensitive information. We continually monitors the security status of its networks and has taken appropriate measures to ensure intrusion prevention.
COOKIES
This journal uses session cookies which are not permanent or persistent. The session cookie is designed so that, once you close your browser, the cookie will simply terminate. If you configure your browser to reject cookies, you may still use some, but not all, portions of our site. For example, accessing our online journals requires that your browser accept cookies. We recommend closing browsers on publicly available machines (such as those in libraries) after use.
LINKS
Focus on Sciences sites contain links to other sites, and other sites have links to Focus on Sciences. Please be aware that this journal is not responsible for the privacy practices (or other practices, goods, services, or content) of other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this journal.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION
This journal sites are general audience sites and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we make material changes to our privacy policy, these changes will be posted to this page. You should review this page regularly for updates.