Privacy

This privacy policy sets out how the International Fund for Houbara Conservation (IFHC) uses and protects any information that you give IFHC when you use this website.

IFHC 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.

IFHC 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 1st February 2012.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

• name and job title
• contact information including email address
• demographic information such as place of residence, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to campaigns or web site surveys
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.houbarafund.gov.ae (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. Some of the information you may provide to us may include the following:

• We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of your visits to our site

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
• In order to improve our website or any services we provide
• We may use the information to improve our website and other services we provideWe may periodically send promotional emails about other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for survey and research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Disclosure of your information

• We may disclose your personal information to any member of the Abu Dhabi Government.
• We may disclose your personal information to third parties where we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of IFHC, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.

Security

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.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

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.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@houbarafund.gov.ae