Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how IPAT/Interpeace uses and protects any information that you give IPAT/Interpeace when you use this website. Please find below our Cookie Policy and Terms and Conditions.

IPAT/Interpeace is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

IPAT/Interpeace may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

This policy is effective from May 1, 2018, in accordance with GDPR regulations.
Request our services and/or provide us with feedback
- If you request our services and/or provide feedback by contacting us at ipat@interpeace.org, we collect your name, e-mail address, phone, company/organization, country and any other personal information that you disclose to us.
- We use this information to contact you and improve the site and the resources we offer.

Apply to an IPAT course
- If you apply to an IPAT course, we collect personal information, including your name and e-mail address.
- We use this information to contact you and provide other related information

We may also collect
- Gender, date of birth, passport/ID number, and how you heard about an event or course.
- We collect this information for internal record keeping; we may periodically send promotional emails relating to our work which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided; and from time to time, we may also use your information to contact you to ask your opinion on a question related to our work.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to us.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may, however, disclose information about you to the following, for the express purposes set out below, if:

You request our services or submit a review

  • to our employees and agents for them to improve our services. If we post a review to our site, we will not disclose your name or e-mail address

You apply to an IPAT course

  • to our employees and third parties that may be hosting the course

For legal or regulatory requirements

  • if we are required to comply with any applicable law or valid legal process or if we have to enforce our Terms, we may disclose your personal information for those purposes

If we do give your information to the third parties set out above, we will always require they use your information in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Aggregated statistics data

We may share non-personal aggregated statistics data about visitors to the site with third parties and download and traffic patterns with our publishing partners and other third parties. Just to be clear, this information does not identify users in any personal capacity; it just gives generalized information about the users of the site.
We may transfer your information to, or store it in, countries located outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) which do not have as developed data protection laws. Please do not send us your information if you do not want it to be transferred to or stored outside the EEA. By providing your information to us you agree and consent to us transferring to, and storing your information at, a destination outside the EEA.
As required by Data Protection laws, including the Personal Data Act, we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given to us, to prevent unauthorized access. In particular, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encode your personal information. SSL encrypts your contact details as it travels through the Internet.

Despite using this technology, we cannot guarantee the security of the information that you disclose to us. You accept the inherent risks of providing information and dealing on-line and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or willful default.

If you have any concerns about security, please email us at ipat@interpeace.org
We want to make sure that your personal information and your choices are accurate and up to date.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to ipat@interpeace.org

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time by sending you an email with the modified terms or by posting a copy of them on the site. Any changes will take effect immediately after the date of our email or the date on which we post the changed policy on the site, whichever is the earlier. Your continued use of the site after that period expires means that you agree to be bound by the changed policy.

Cookie Policy

On this page we explain what cookies may be set when you visit the site and how to reject or delete those cookies.

By continuing to use this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in the way described in this policy.
A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your device to allow a site to recognize you as a user when you return using the same device and web browser, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (a ‘persistent cookie’). Other similar files work in the same way and we use the word ‘cookie’ in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

Cookies are an extremely common technology for remembering certain information about a visitor to a site. The vast majority of sites currently make use of cookies and they are commonly used for a wide range of tasks. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• to analyse use of the site by, for example, recognizing and counting the number of visitors and how they move around the site. This helps us to see what parts of the site are popular and which sections need improving to make the experience better for users; and

• to record your visit to the site and the pages you have visited and the and links you have followed. We will use this to make the site more relevant to your interests.
When you accessed the site, you were presented with a message that notified you of our use of cookies. We had to use a cookie to present you with that notice. If you continue to use the site, more cookies and other tracking technologies will be placed on your device as described in this Cookie Policy in order to enhance your user experience.

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you, but If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this site (or, indeed, on any other site) you can do this through your browser settings.

Alternatively, you might wish to visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ which contains detailed information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer, as well as more general information about cookies. Please note that, as these sites are not owned or operated by us, we are not responsible for any of the content on them.

Please note that restricting cookies may mean that you will not be able to take full advantage of all the features or services available on this site.
We may make changes to this Cookie Policy at any time by sending you an e-mail with the changed provisions or by posting a revised copy of the Cookie Policy to the site. Any changes will take effect immediately after the date of our email or the date on which we post the changed policy on the site, whichever is the earlier. Your continued use of the site after that period expires means that you agree to be bound by the modified policy.

Terms and Conditions

When you use this site or our Resources and Publications, you are agreeing to the terms below. For that reason, please read them to understand your rights as well as your responsibilities. If you are using this site on behalf of an organization for whom you work, then by using the site, you are confirming that you are authorized to agree to these Terms, on behalf of that organization, and that it agrees to be bound by these Terms.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you cannot use the site or our content.
You are free to browse the site and view our Resources, Publications, Videos, etcetera, without registering with us.

By accessing this site, you are agreeing:

    • to use our Resources and Publications in accordance with their license terms. In particular, you are not permitted to benefit commercially from their use
    • to use the site only for lawful purposes, so you are not to:
    1. use the site to knowingly transmit, send or upload any data or other material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to impair the functionality of a device or operation of any content; or
    2. access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of the site, any equipment or network on which the site is stored or any software used in the provision of the site.
Who owns what? 
We or certain third parties own all intellectual property rights of our Resources and Publications. Where any of part of the Resources and Publication is owned by a third party, we will identify that party in the relevant resource.

How can you use it? 
You are free to use the text of the Publication or Resource, but not any other aspect of it (e.g. images, graphics or logos) provided that:
  • you only make noncommercial use of the text;
  • you agree that we are entitled to change and to license and assign any work that arises out of your use;
  • you credit the original author;
  • if you make the text available on the internet, you will display a link from the site hosting the text to www.ipat-interpeace.org;
  • you will acknowledge our copyright on any use of the text by including the following ‘’[insert year] © IPAT-Interpeace.
If you want to translate the text, then as well as the above terms:
  • you will not change or edit the meaning of the original text;
  • if you engage a third party to translate the text, you will ensure you own all intellectual property rights in that translation (including all moral rights), so that you can transfer ownership to us; and
  • you will include the following in the copyright page of the translation ‘This is a direct translation of the [insert edition] of IPAT-Interpeace's [insert title]. The accuracy of the translated text was not verified by IPAT-Interpeace. In case of doubt, the original English version prevails [insert ISBN of original version]. The translation was undertaken by [insert name of your organization].
We promise that we have the rights to make the content that is available from our site, to you on the terms set out in Using our Resources and Publications.

What we don’t promise
  • we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, quality or completeness of the Resources and Publications or other information and content made available through the site or their usefulness for a particular purpose;
  • we make no promises that your access to the site or its content will be delivered uninterrupted or error-free or that the site or its content will be free of viruses or other harmful properties. You download any content and/or software from the site at your own risk and you will be solely responsible to install suitable anti-virus and security software on your computer hardware and other devices to protect against any such viruses or other such harmful properties.

We disclaim liability for
We disclaim all liability for any loss or damages in respect of the site or any content on it.

What we don’t restrict our liability for
Nothing in these Terms restricts our responsibilities relating to:
  • death or injury as a result of our negligence; or
  • any other liability that we cannot restrict by applicable law.
General Content on our site

To understand how you are permitted to use the Resources and Publication on our site, see Using our Resources and Publications.

All of the other content on our site (e.g. videos, images) is either owned by us or others who have licensed that content to us. It is protected by international copyright and other intellectual property laws.

That content is made available for your non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices. You may also share any content capable of being shared on our site, by using the share functionality. Otherwise, you are not allowed to copy, change or distribute or use any of the content on this site without our written permission.

No permission is given to use any of the trademarks appearing on this site, including the trademarks of IPAT-Interpeace.

Third Party Software

You might need to download and activate certain software in order to use certain content made available on our site. We will tell you, where that is the case.

Where that happens, you will have to explicitly accept the terms of a license agreement with that third party. You accept that we have no responsibility or control over such third-party software.

Links

Our site may include links to third-party websites. We have not reviewed these and we don’t have any control over them, so we are not responsible for those sites or their content. If you decide to access any of these third-party websites, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Remember that if you use a linked site, any personal information you give them will be dealt with in line with their privacy policy, not ours, so please read their terms and conditions and privacy policy before you use their sites and provide any personal information to them.

You may only link to our site provided that:
  • the homepage is not loaded into frames on your site, unless we expressly agree;
  • our site or services do not misrepresent your relationship with us or present false information about us or otherwise harm our business or conflict with our interests; and
  • we reserve the right to withdraw linking permission any time without prior notice.

Contact us

We welcome questions, comments or requests concerning our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Please e-mail us at ipat@interpeace.org

Posted: May, 2018