Privacy Policy

At several points, IRCICA collects information through this website. IRCICA may collect the following information including your contact details (your name, address, phone number and email, field of expertise); and your demographic, social and economic data where appropriate.

Demographic data collection is for user request completions, content customization and website improvement.

IRCICA cannot validate the correctness of this information since all collected information is given voluntarily with the truly informed consent of the users/visitors.

On IRCICA website are registration forms which ask users appropriate questions falling into the related website sections. IRCICA uses these forms as a means for information collection. IRCICA website users are free to fill in these forms.

IRCICA does not use cookies to track user traffic patterns and browsing behaviors. An HTTP cookie is a parcel of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. An HTTP cookie is used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences and the contents of their electronic shopping carts. If you would like to know more about cookies, or would like to disable cookies in your browser settings (i.e. refuse cookies) please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

IRCICA uses the collected information for user request completion, content customization, website operation and improvement. IRCICA may send email announcements about the recent upcoming events at IRCICA and recent publications by IRCICA to the users who provide their information.

IRCICA may share data with OIC member country agencies and OIC sub-organs. Users may opt out to have their information shared with third parties.

IRCICA website may contain links to other websites whose privacy policy standards may be different from that of IRCICA. IRCICA encourages its users to read their privacy policies, when they click on the external links found at IRCICA website.

IRCICA offers contact information of experts in specific fields. Please be advised that information posted in these venues becomes public knowledge.

IRCICA policy on information collection or uses may change without any notice. Please be aware to regularly check this page for the most recent version of our Privacy Policy.

IRCICA applies the following technological measures to ensure safety and to prevent loss, theft, leakage, modification or damage of the personal information:

1. Personal information of users is protected with password, and file and transmitted data are encoded, thus cannot be accessed by other users.
2. IRCICA undertakes all possible efforts within its budget to prevent damage from computer virus, using antivirus programs. The antivirus programs are updated on a regular basis.
3. In defense against intrusion from outside, such as hacking, IRCICA stores all information provided by the user in another server computer completely separated from the Internet, establishing 100% security system fundamentally blocking the hacking threats. Furthermore, IRCICA makes full efforts for security using firewalls and weakness analysis system in each server.