Privacy policy

Your privacy on the Internet is of utmost importance to GNP+, its employees and affiliates. As a general policy, GNP+ does not collect any personal information on its websites that identify you or any demographic information about you.

This privacy statement describes GNP+ policy concerning the gathering and sharing of visitors' information through the GNP+ web site.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DOES GNP+ COLLECT?

Normal web site usage

In general, you can browse the GNP+ site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. The only information we gather during general browsing is from standard server logs. These include your IP (Internet Protocol) address, domain name, browser type, operating system, and information such as the web site that referred you to us, the files you download, the pages you visit, and the dates/times of those visits.

Collection of personally identifiable information

When you register to the GNP+ website as a friend, participant or positive professional, you will be asked to provide personal information such as your name, postal address and e-mail address. This information is collected only with your knowledge and permission, and is kept in a secure GNP+ database. If you are making a donation, you may be asked to provide your credit card or wire transfer details. These details are transferred to a secure, online payment service, hosted outside GNP+. Credit card information is not retained by GNP+.

Registering to GNP+ sets a cookie*. By setting this cookie, GNP+ will remember your general details the next time you visit, so you don't have to re-enter the information. This helps us to provide you with a better service.

When registering you are asked which classes of the registrants (friends, participants, professionals, employers) are allowed to see personal information that you have volunteered. When you are logged in, you are able to change these permissions yourself through your personal account.

* What is a Cookie
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent from a web server to your browser. It is normally used to assign a unique identification to your computer and securely store information such as user IDs, passwords, preferences, and online profiles. It is stored on the hard drive of your computer. You can choose not to have cookies delivered by the GNP+ site by changing your browser settings. Different web sites can send their own cookies to your computer. To protect your privacy, your browser only allows a web site to access the cookies it has already sent you, not the cookies sent by other sites.

2. WHAT DOES GNP+ DO WITH THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS?

Normal web site usage

The information gathered during general browsing of the GNP+ site is used to analyze trends and usage of the site , to improve the presentation of much visited sections or documents, and to improve the general usefulness of the site. The analysis of the website usage will be used in the GNP+ annual report. It is not connected with any personal information.

Personally identifiable information

GNP+ may use the personal information you provide to:

• Contact you either in response to a query or suggestion, or to mail newsletters, documents, publications etc. to you, or to consult you on certain political, advocacy or policy issues which are relevant to the mission and vision of GNP+;
• Obtain payment for donations through the site (via credit card);
• 'Remember' your online profile and preferences;
• Help you quickly find information that is relevant to you based on your interests, and help us create site content most relevant to you;
• Statistical analysis.

In addition, for those users that have chosen to be part of the Positive Professionals network, GNP+ enables organisations and companies that are looking for expertise, experience, consultancies, or advise from positive professionals (hereafter called 'employers'), to browse the resume database. These employers are subject to the following criteria (also noted in the registration information):

NGO applicants must be a signatory to Renewing our Voice - The Code of Good Practice for NGOs responding to HIV/AIDS. UN agencies and programs must be guided by and working towards the implementation of the ILO Code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work.

All applicants must be able to show clear efforts to adhere to the GIPA Principle of the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS.

In the application the potential employer must clearly state the following information:

• Name of the organisation
• Contact details including phone, email and name of contact person within organisation.
  
• Purpose of the Organisation
• The project or program for which the position is available
• Nature and length of employment

If need be the contact person listed must be available to provide extra information around the application.

When choosing to open your personal information to employers you agree for GNP+ to grant employers access to the information based on these criteria.

3. WHAT IF I DON'T WANT TO PROVIDE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Providing personal information on the GNP+ site is optional. If you choose not to provide personal information, you can still browse and use the GNP+ site, but you will not be able to carry out certain actions such as making donations or registering as friend, participant or professional.

4. WHAT IF I WANT TO OPT OUT AND CHANGE MY INFORMATION

At any time, you can cancel your registration by writing an email explaining what you want. In case you want to change the information in your registration, you are able to do this yourself when logged in through your personal account.

5. WHAT ABOUT INFORMATION SECURITY

We do not sell or share any personally identifiable information volunteered on the GNP+ site to any third party. Any information provided to GNP+ by users of the GNP+ site is held with the utmost care and security, and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this privacy policy, or in any site-specific policies, or in ways to which you have explicitly consented. GNP+ employs a range of technologies and security measures to protect the information maintained on our systems from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

All our employees who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of official business matters, including personal data.

The GNP+ site contains links to sites external to GNP+. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.

6. OUR CONTACT INFORMATION

For questions or queries regarding this privacy policy, please contact us .

7. WEBSITE USAGE AGREEMENT

Use of this Site constitutes agreement with the following terms and conditions.

GNP+ maintains this web site (the "Site") as a courtesy to those who may choose to access the Site ("Users"). The information presented herein is for informative purposes only. GNP+ is pleased to allow Users to visit the Site and download and copy the information, documents and materials (collectively, "Materials") from the Site for User's personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell, create derivative works, subject to the terms and conditions outlined below, and also subject to more specific restrictions that may apply to specific material within this Site.

8. Date of last update to Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy was last updated on April 12, 2007