Privacy information

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site.

With respect to this website, the World Diabetes Foundation will collect, store or use personally identifiable information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or other information only when it is voluntarily submitted to us on our site. This information, when voluntarily submitted, is used for your registration to the site and will permit us to provide you with updates or respond to your requests. From time to time we may refer to the information to better understand your needs and how to improve our website and services. We may also use the information to contact you.

The World Diabetes Foundation may also collect and aggregate non-personally identifiable information to track data such as the total number of visits to our website, the number of visitors to each page of this website, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. We use this information to understand how our visitors use our website so that we may improve it. We may also share this information with our partners or other organisations. No personally identifiable information is disclosed in this process.

This website may provide links to other websites as a service to our visitors. We believe these websites provide helpful information. However, the World Diabetes Foundation does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of third-party sites. Nor does the World Diabetes Foundation have any control over the information that you may choose to provide on these sites. The privacy policy described here does not apply to those sites.

We will use reasonable efforts to protect the personal information you give us from unauthorized access or disclosure, but we cannot and do not guarantee the security of such information.

To enhance your experience with our site, many of our web pages may use "cookies". Cookies are text files that we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish our site(s) with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the Cookie.

We use Cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site. For example, we may use Cookies to personalize your experience on our web pages (i.e. to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, etc. We also may use Cookies to offer you programs, products or services.

At any time, you may contact us requesting that we stop providing you updates or delete your personal information from our records by simply sending us an e-mail.