The globalfn.org Privacy Policy sets out to explain how any personal information you supply will be processed and used. globalfn.org undertakes to make use of your personal information only in the ways described in this policy. The policy is applicable only to the Global Facilitators Network web pages located on the http://www.globalfn.org website and includes the discussion forums, events, member sign-up and information requests operated by globalfn.org.

The Global Facilitators Network web server will recognise all the domain names and IP addresses of visitors to the site. This information will be used to study the collective visits to the site but not individual visitors.

Occasionally globalfn.org will send a 'cookie' to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system. We use cookies to identify which areas of globalfn.org site you have visited or customized, so the next time you visit, those pages may be readily accessible. Data from cookies placed by globalfn.org will not be used to keep track of visitors.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at the Global Facilitators Network site and other web sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

Information we may request

On several parts of the website (like the the sign-up for membership or the information pack request) we request your e-mail address or postal address in order to inform you. At such times the reasons for the request will be made clear to you before you are asked to submit the information. At all times a 'No-Spam' policy will be in place meaning that your e-mail address will not be made available to any third-party without your consent.

The information you submit when you apply for website membership on globalfn.org is primarily for verification and statistical purposes. Your e-mail address will just be used to send you verification emails and to inform you about new information on the website. Your address might be used to send hardcopy information, but only if you request it (e.g. when you register for an event)

If you enter a Global Facilitators Network competition at any time, we may ask for your name, address and e-mail address so we can administer the competition and notify winners.

Our legal obligations to disclose information

If required to by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary, globalfn.org will disclose personal information to:

1. Comply with a legal process served on globalfn.org or to conform to the edicts of the law;
   
2. Protect and defend the rights or property of globalfn.org or visitors to globalfn.org
   
3. Identify persons who may be violating the law, the legal notice or the rights of third parties,
   
4. Cooperate with the investigations of alleged unlawful activities.

globalfn.org uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure. We are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties which receive the information. globalfn.org links to a number of other sites of third parties. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users.

globalfn.org does not share any of the individual personal information you provide with the sites to which globalfn.org links, although globalfn.org may share collective data with such web sites, for example, number of visitors to the site.

Please check with those sites to determine their privacy policy.

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, for example through e-mail, discussion lists or elsewhere, that information can be collected and used by others. If you provide personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

You alone are ultimately responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

Your Consent To This Agreement

By using the globalfn.org web site, you consent to the collection and use of information by globalfn.org as specified above. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will publish those changes on this page and you will be notified so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.

If you have any queries with regard to this Privacy Policy, please contact the Data Controller, Mary Henson by email: mary@globalfn.org or telephone +44 (0) 1233 500113.