By signing up as a member or supporter, or by subscribing to a mailing list or petition, or by sending email to an FFII email address, you accept this privacy policy and authorize FFII to collect, store and process your information in the ways mentioned below and for the purposes you submitted it.
If you have any questions relating to this policy, please address them to board@ffii.org.
General
We do not collect personally identifiable information unless you voluntarily choose to give it to us via this website, email, a phone call, by signing up as a member or supporter, or by postal mail. Even when you choose to give us information, we keep it confidential, and we bind suppliers, contractors, employees, interns who work with us by these conditions as well.
We do not sell or rent mailing lists or other personally identifiable information outside the FFII.
We do not share or otherwise disclose our files to other organisations. However we may share files with affiliated organisations to effectively inform and activate the public to win campaigns and help raise money to fund our activities. (Affiliated organisations are non-profit organisations that share the same purpose with the FFII; an example are local branches of the FFII such as FFII France.)
We do not provide data to outside agencies unless they agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you sign up as a supporter using our membership system, you may occasionally be receiving emails (one or two per year) that bring attention to some important action.
In addition, if you apply for membership and your application is accepted, your name (but nothing beyond that) will be made known to all other members. You will also be receiving emails announcing organisational decisions as specified by the statutes (around 10 emails per year).
If you subscribe to one of the FFII mailing lists, your address may be exposed to the other subscribers. The list archives of most mailing lists are available to all subscribers. Your email address may find itself quoted in messages. Mails are usually not deleted from the archives or modified, but it may be done in extreme cases.
If you send email to an FFII address, such as board@ffii.org or polis-help@ffii.org, your email may be automatically archived and trusted people may have or later gain access to it, but it will not be further disclosed (except when required by law).
It is not guaranteed that your emails will ever be deleted from the archives, unless this is required by law.
Contributing to the wikis
This section applies only to wikis hosted in FFII servers; you can tell that if the hostname in the URL ends in .ffii.org.
When you edit any page in the wiki, you are publishing a document. This is a public act, and you are publicly identified with your user id as the author of the edit. With your user id, we can determine any of your other private data given to us, but will not further disclose it (unless required by law).
Even if a wiki page is readable by trusted people only, it may later be disclosed to the public, together with the history of edits, for example if it is considered that keeping it private does not any more help strategically.
Removing text from wiki pages does not permanently delete it. Normally anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If a page is "deleted", the "deleted" content may still be publicly available.
You should thus consider that any contribution to the wiki will be publicly viewable and identifiable with your user id for ever. Information can be permanently deleted by those people with appropriate access to the servers, but there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action or when required by law.
Removal of user accounts
Once you sign up as a member or supporter, it cannot be guaranteed that your account or any personal information you have given will be removed due to technical constraints, except if required by law.
Security of information
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to members, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices, and they are notified and reminded about the importance we place on privacy.
