International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (iFOREST), is committed to protecting your privacy and the security of all data on https://iforest.global website (the “Site”). In order to protect your privacy and security, we have established this policy to let you know the kinds of personal information we may gather during your visit to the Site, what we use your personal information for and our efforts to protect it. This policy is subject to change at any time by iFOREST without notice to you. Changes will be considered applicable immediately after they are posted on this site. We encourage you to review the policy from time to time. By accessing the Site, you are indicating your agreement to this Policy.

Information collected
We collect two basic types of information from you, personal information and non-personal information. Personal information helps us identify you individually. This includes name, mobile number, email and postal address etc. Such information becomes available to us when you leave a comment, submit a question, download our publications, complete a survey etc. on our website. Our server may also automatically keep an activity log of your use of our website. This constitutes non-personal information and includes but not limited to device type, browser type and language, IP address, time and location used to access our website, average time spent on the website and pages viewed.

Usage of Information
Information submitted by you is stored in a database, which we use to construct our mailing lists for alerts on new publications or events, dissemination of our research work, promotional e-mails and newsletters. The personal information that users supply to us will not be used for any other purpose without their consent.  We do not share our mailing list with any third-party. We will, however, comply with any court order or other requirement of law, which requires us to disclose your personal information.

We also perform statistical and demographic analysis of user behavior to measure interest in our website pages and other services to improve the content of our Site.

Security
iFOREST uses industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies to ensure secure collection of user information. While we try our best to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

General
This Policy is governed by the laws of New Delhi, India. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under or out of this Policy shall lie exclusively with the state courts in New Delhi, India. If any provision of this Policy is found to be invalid by a court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Policy, which shall remain in full force and effect. Under no circumstances shall iFOREST have any liability whatsoever for any consequential, incidental, indirect or special damages arising out of the breach of this policy, however occasioned.