Privacy Policy

You will be required to register when you visit the Insights Without Borders blog site and wish to contribute your respective insights and comments, posts with photos, video, graphics, music and sound. If you do so, you should be aware that we will obtain some additional information about you such as your email address. When you create an account with this blog site, we use cookies to secure that account.

Insights Without Borders does not share any of the information you provide whatsoever with any third-party for any reason. The only exception to this standard operating procedure (SOP) would be when we are legally summoned to do so. Upon this occurrence, we would notify you regarding this action.

Similarly to websites online, Insights Without Borders collects information about your browsing preferences and behaviors (but not in a personally identifiable manner) regarding this blog site. This respective information is aggregated for statistical analyses such as page popularity, topics of interest, and geographic representations of visitors and members of this blog site.

Your privacy is of utmost importance to Insights Without Borders. This Privacy Policy applies to all aspects of this blog site. If you have questions regarding this Policy, you can contact Insights Without Borders through this blog site by emailing Mark A. Rogers, Editor, at ngurra@me.com.

When you create an account and become a Member of this blog site, we may collect the following types of information:

• We will ask for personal information such as your name, email address, and an account password. For certain services now or in the future we may combine this information provided you give Insights Without Borders the opportunity to do so or have the opportunity to opt out of combining such information (e.g., third parties that can provide you with a better experience or to improve the quality of our services).
• When you visit Insights Without Borders one or more cookies will be sent to you. This is a small file that contains a string of characters sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your respective browser. Insights Without Borders uses these cookies to improve the quality of services by storing user preferences and respective tracking of user trends (e.g., how users search). The majority of browsers today are set up to accept cookies. Alternatively, you can reset your respective browser to refuse all cookies or option in notices that indicate when a cookie is being sent to your computer.
• Server log information automatically records information that your respective browser sends whenever you visit a web site. These server logs can include web request information, Internet Protocol addresses, browser types, browser languages, the date and time of a user request, and one or more cookies that can uniquely identify a user’s browser.
• We might retain user email or other communication to Insights Without Borders so we can process inquiries, respond to requests, and improve blog site services.
• Insights Without Borders can present links in a format that lets it keep track of whether these links have been followed. This information is used to improve the quality of Insight Without Borders’ search technology, customized content, and other services.
• This Privacy Policy only applies to Insights Without Borders. This blog site does not exercise control over sites displayed as external links within Insights Without Borders services. You should know that these other sites might place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you as a user on the Insights Without Borders blog site.

Insights Without Borders will always obtain members and users prior consent to collect personal information or use sensitive information for any purposes other than the ones described in this Policy. Members and users will have the option to decline this request while being informed that doing so could prevent them from receiving or participating in these respective services.

Insights Without Borders will only share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of this blog site in the following limited circumstances:

• We always offer opt-in consent for sharing any sensitive personal information.
• When we provide this information to other trusted businesses we will require that these parties agree to process this information in compliance with this Policy and any other confidentiality and security measures imposed by Insights Without Borders.
• Insights Without Borders has a good faith belief that access use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Insights Without Borders, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Users and members of the Insights Without Borders blog site should be aware that this blog site may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information. This information does not identify individual users or members.

Insights Without Borders takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These measures include data collection reviews, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures with the third party server to guard against unauthorized access to systems where Insights Without Borders stores personal data. Restriction to personal information  is limited to contractors and agents who need this information to operate, develop, or improve services provided by Insights Without Borders. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Insights Without Borders only collects, stores and processes personal information needed to provide or improve on services. The blog site takes reasonable measures to ensure this personal information processed is accurate, complete, and current. However, Insights Without Borders depends on users and members to update or correct their personal information whenever it may be necessary to do so regarding participating or contributing to content and services on the blog site.

Whenever users or members use services on the Insight Without Borders blog site, good faith efforts are taken to provide users and members access to their personal information and the option to correct this data if inaccurate or to delete this information at their request when it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. When this occurs, Insights Without Borders will require individual users or members to identify themselves and the information to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests.

Insights Without Borders regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Users or members can direct questions or concerns regarding this Policy to Mark A.Rogers, Psy.D., Editor at ngurra@me.com. It is Insights Without Borders policy to contact users or members who direct a formal complaint regarding their concerns. In these instances, Insights Without Borders will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Insights Without Borders and an individual.

Users or members of the Insight Without Borders blog site should note that this Privacy Policy can change depending on dynamic operational constraints. These issues will not minimize or eliminate users or members rights under this Policy without users or members explicit consent. Such changes are expected from this point forward to be minor.

When such changes are needed, Insights Without Borders will post any changes to this Policy on this blog site page. When or if changes would be significant, Insights Without Borders would provide users and members a directed notice such as an email notification of Policy changes.

Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the bottom of the page by its effective date. If users or members have additional questions or concerns regarding this Policy, they should contact Insights Without Borders through Mark A. Rogers, Editor at ngurra@me.com.

Last reviewed: By Mark A. Rogers, Psy.D. on 4 Mar 2009