Terms & Conditions

WIN welcomes organisations and individuals that view anti-corruption measures as central to equitable and sustainable development, economic efficiency and social equity. Membership is open to all organisations and individuals interested in the fight against corruption in water who agrees with network’s beliefs and standards including accountability, transparency, integrity, poverty-orientation and mutual support and information sharing. These characteristics, to which any member should adhere, unite the network.

WIN membership is free of charge. To apply for membership you only have to fill in the registration form. After you have submitted your registration, it will be screened by the WIN Steering Committee for their no-objection. As soon as your membership application has been approved, we will send you your login information for the WIN online community.

You may change your account information or preferences at any time, or temporarily or permanently unsubscribe from the WIN online community. We will never give or sell your personal information to third parties. Your privacy is an important concern for the WIN. All users should review the privacy policy for the use of this website.

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Privacy Policy for the Water Integrity Network Website

The Water Integrity Network Website (http://www.waterintegritynetwork.net), including all information and materials contained on it (the "WIN Website") is managed by Water Integrity Network - Secretariat ("WIN-S"), Alt Moabit 96, 10559 Berlin, Germany

1. Overview
The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the domain and subdomains of http://www.waterintegritynetwork.net, owned by the Water Integrity Network. By visiting this website or registering as a WIN member, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use or access our website.

2. Consent
WIN is committed to ensuring the privacy of all our users. This Privacy Policy governs all pages on the WIN Website. It does not apply to pages hosted by other organisations, including the websites of WIN members or related organisations or third party sites. The WIN Website may be linked to the websites of such other parties but those other sites may have their own privacy policies which apply to them.

By using the WIN Website you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. WIN may change the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time and if such changes are made, we may place notices on the WIN Website so that you can be aware of them. Your continued use of the WIN Website will be on the terms of this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time.

3. What types of information do we collect and store?
The type and amount of information we receive and store depends on how you use the WIN Website. You can access most of the pages on the WIN Website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. Our web servers collect anonymous logs during user visits to the WIN Website. This information is used to create aggregate statistics, for example about when the WIN Website is accessed, the pages which refer visitors to the WIN Website, the type of web browsers visitors use and which pages are viewed. These statistics help us understand how the WIN Website is used and provide us with valuable information for future improvements.

In general, you can browse the website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself.

We ask for personally identifiable information, when you request to become a WIN member or receive the WIN Newsletter. You are required to provide some contact information (name, email and country of residence). Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. No other personally identifiable information is collected without your consent (please also read: WIN member information).

Personal details you submit through the WIN Website are kept confidential and are stored securely only for as long as they are required for the purpose for which they were given. The information you provide will not be sold or rented nor will it be shared with third parties unless we have your permission, or are required to disclose the information by law or under the following circumstances:

Hosting and processing: the WIN Website is hosted by a third party service provider. We may also use third parties to process donations to WIN on our behalf. These third party services providers will process your personal information only on WIN‘s behalf and are bound by strict confidentiality conditions.

4. How do we use information collected?
Your e-mail address and other personal information will be retained by WIN and its service providers in a secure environment, and will only be used to provide you with information about the Water Integrity Network and its activities, and to send you email updates if you subscribe to them.

Processing of your information by WIN and its service providers is regulated by German data privacy law and protected by appropriate security measures.

5. Use of cookies
A cookie is a text-only piece of information that a website transfers to your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will normally contain the name of the Internet domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

We use cookies on the WIN Website known as session cookies which are temporary cookies that are stored in your computer's memory and are deleted once you close your browser or after a period of inactivity, usually around 20 minutes. These cookies may for example control the behaviour of automatic pop-up windows to ensure that such windows do not pop up every time you visit the relevant page. Instead, once you have visited a page which contains an automatic pop-up window, a cookie may be deposited on your computer to ensure when you next visit the page the pop up window does not appear. Cookies are used to monitor movements across the site, but these usually can not be traced back to information that identifies a person, and we will not attempt to do so. Instead, these are used only to identify typical usage patters and aggregate data.

To prevent the download of cookies, or otherwise control how cookies are used on your computer, please read the help information supplied with your Internet browser software or go to: www.allaboutcookies.org

6. WIN member information
Use and Disclosure of Information

When you are on an area of http://www.waterintegritynetwork.net and are asked for personally identifiable information, such as during the registration process to become a WIN member, you are providing that information to WIN.

We use your personally identifiable information to facilitate the services you request (e.g., WIN newsletters, email alerts and member directory). WIN-S staff members monitor personally identifiable information to facilitate interaction between users. If you choose to display your user profile when registering as a WIN member, your profile information (except for your e-mail address) may also be accessed and viewed by other members. Further you agree that WIN may use your name, photograph and country information for the purpose of promoting WIN membership within our own website and in other WIN marketing materials. You may opt out of this upon registration. You may change the setting for the public display of your user profile under "Edit details" when you're logged in.

As a matter of policy, we do not rent or sell any of your personally identifiable information to any third parties. Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this privacy policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personally identifiable information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

WIN reserves the right to publish non-personally identifiable, summary information regarding our visitors and users for promotional purposes and as a representative audience for potential sponsors of our work. Please note that this is not personally identifiable information, only general summaries of the activities of our visitors and customers and no one will be able to identify or contact you on account of that information.

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing of Personally Identifiable Information
For registered WIN members, we offer you the ability to review and directly change the information you submit to us by logging into the WIN member area and going to the “Edit details” in the right hand menu. You can update your personally identifiable information if it changes or is inaccurate. You can deactivate your registration and contact information from our active database by emailing us and letting us know.

We will retain in our files some personally identifiable information to resolve technical problems, enforce our Terms and Conditions and comply with legal requirements. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

7. Access to your personal information
You may have rights of access to personal information that we hold about you, to correct that information or, in some circumstances, to object to our processing of your information, under data privacy law. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have any questions about this policy, please contact:

WIN Secretariat
c/o Transparency International Secretariat
Alt Moabit 96
10559 Berlin
Germany

Or please email us: info@waterintegritynetwork.net

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