This website is owned and operated by data Vinci Inc. ("DVI"). DVI considers your privacy to be of the utmost importance. The following discloses DVI�s information gathering, use and disclosure practices with respect to your personal information collected in connection with this website. This privacy policy may be updated from time to time and you should review it periodically to keep up to date.

1. DVI�S COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

DVI values the trust you have placed in it and is taking all appropriate measures to safeguard your personal information and maintain your confidence. This Privacy Policy has been established to ensure that your personal information is protected and that all of DVI�S practices and procedures comply the privacy principles set out below, which are based on the principles set out in Schedule 1 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada). As used in this privacy policy, the term "personal information" means information about an identifiable individual, but does not include the name, title, or business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization.

2. ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountability for compliance with this Privacy Policy rests with DVI�S Chief Privacy Officer; however, other individuals within DVI may have responsibility for the day-to-day collection and processing of personal information. Contact information for DVI�S Chief Privacy Officer is set out below:

3. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES DVI GATHER?

DVI operates this website for the scientific, technical and business members of selected scientific communities worldwide to provide an online search tool for events; to provide an online discussion forum; to provide an online database for recruiters and human resource professionals to post job opportunities and for job seekers to search for jobs; and to provide or enable access to related tools, functions or content.

Information You Provide: Unless otherwise provided, DVI receives and stores any information you enter on its Website or you disclose to it in any other way. This includes, without limitation, personal information you provide online when registering to participate in an online discussion forum, including, without limitation, your name, e-mail address, user name and password.

Credit Card Information: When purchasing products online from this website, you will be asked to provide and DVI will collect a credit card number from you to pay for the products or services. Please see below concerning the procedures that have been implemented to secure your privacy related to credit cards.

Information From Your Computer: DVI may collect personal information concerning or from your computer hardware and software. This information can include, without limitation, your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses.

Website Usage: DVI may track certain general or specific usage pattern information, including, without limitation, what pages people visit, what links they open, what discussion forums they participate in, and how long they have been registered users.

4. WHAT DOES DVI DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Website Performance: DVI uses the information it gathers on this website, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving the website, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that are offered. Your consent for this purpose may not be revoked while you continue to use this website.

DVI may use your personal information to inform you, without limitation, about products or services available from DVI, updates at this website, such as new job listings, discussion forums or events or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered.

Third Party Disclosure: DVI may use your personal information (such as the interests and preferences you have expressed or demonstrated) to determine whether you might be interested in the products or services of a particular third-party or a job posted by a third party.

DVI may supply your contact information to third parties such as employers, recruiters, data aggregators, marketers or others for the purpose of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating with you.

Transfer of Ownership of DVI: In the event of a transfer of ownership of DVI such as acquisition by or merger with another company, your personal information shall be disclosed to the buyer who may then use it for any of the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy. Your consent for this purpose may not be revoked while you continue to use this website.

Aggregated Information: DVI may disclose aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the number of users who searched using a selected keyword or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Your consent for this purpose may not be revoked while you continue to use this website.

Contractors: DVI may disclose such information to companies and individuals it employs or contracts with to perform functions on its behalf. Examples may include, without limitation, hosting DVI�s Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, and will treat your personal information in accordance with their respective privacy policies. Your consent for this purpose may not be revoked while you continue to use this website.

Required Disclosures: DVI may disclose your personal information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if it believes in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of DVI; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.

Discussion Forums: If you post any of your personal information in public areas of this website, such as in online forums or chat rooms, it may be collected and used by others over whom DVI has no control. DVI is not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of this website.

Cookies: DVI may use "cookies" on this website to help personalize and optimize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature that saves you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize pages on this website, or register for services, a cookie helps DVI to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences). Because of DVI�s use of cookies, it can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized website experience. When you return to this website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. DVI also uses cookies to track click streams and for load balancing.

You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer. Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on this website.

Web Beacons: This website may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow DVI to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on this website; they are a technique used to compile aggregated statistics about usage of this website. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.

5. OBTAINING CONSENT

Consent shall be implied for all purposes above (based on your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement and your use of this website) unless the purpose indicates that express consent will be collected. In some circumstances, such as when DVI wants to use personal information for a purpose that was not previously identified, it may have to seek your consent after your personal information has been collected but before the use for that purpose.

You always have the choice of whether or not you wish to supply personal information. If you wish to "opt-out" of receiving certain informational and promotional materials from DVI or you wish to withdraw your consent to a particular use or disclosure of your personal information, you may do so by amending your profile. Please note that such amendment may take up to sixty (60) days to become effective..

DVI does not sell, rent or trade personal information that it collects from you. It will not knowingly disclose personal information to any third parties except in the following circumstances:

1. When it has received your informed consent to do so or under limited circumstances specifically described at such time as your personal information is collected;
2. When it believes in good faith, that the law permits or requires such disclosure; and
3. For any of the purposes indicated in section 4, unless your consent is revoked in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

DVI will use its best efforts to assure that its business partners and sponsors use the information provided to them solely for their own business purposes and do not disseminate this information to any other persons; however, DVI cannot guarantee their compliance with these provisions. DVI has no control over the use of your information by any business partner or sponsor after it has been provided to them. With respect to the removal of your information from the databases of any business partners or sponsors to whom DVI previously provided your information, you must contact those business partners or sponsors directly in order to remove such information.

7. SAFEGUARDS

DVI protects your personal information with safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information. Appropriate safeguards are employed to protect personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification, regardless of the format in which the information is held. DVI makes its employees and business partners aware of the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of personal information, and it will exercise appropriate care in the disposal or destruction of personal information to prevent unauthorized parties from gaining access to the information.

Notwithstanding the above, it is important to remember that whatever you transmit or disclose online can be collected and used by others or unlawfully intercepted by third parties. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While DVI strives to protect your personal information, it cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to it.

8. LINKS

This website contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which DVI is not responsible. You are encouraged to read the privacy statements of all such websites as their policies may be materially different from this one.