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Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
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The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) operates the https://tropicalstudies.org website.
This page is used to inform visitors to the website about our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information from anyone who visits our website. Your privacy and personal information is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it.
WHY DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We collect certain personal information to provide you with information about our programs, to facilitate your completion of application or reservation forms, and to process payments you make to us.
COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
In order to fulfill your request or to provide you with an optimal experience on our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number and mailing address. If you pay for services or make an online donation, we may also collect payment information.
If you apply for one of our educational programs, in addition to the above, we may collect your date of birth, citizenship, GPA, emergency contacts, official transcripts, letters of recommendation and more.
We do not sell any information about our students, researchers, visitors or donors.
LOG DATA
Each time you visit our website, we collect information that your browser sends to us called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
COOKIES
Cookies are files containing small amounts of data that are commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website you visit and stored on your computer's hard drive. Our website uses these cookies to collect information and improve our service. You have the option to accept or decline these cookies and to know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to reject our cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our website.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may hire outside companies and individuals to facilitate our work (such as content management), to perform certain services on our behalf (such as website hosting and customer relationship management) or to help us operate our website.These third parties have access to your personal information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
SECURITY
We value your trust in providing us with your personal information, so we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect it.Personal information stored on our web server is securely encrypted and is stored outside the publicly accessible areas of the web site.But please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Web site may contain links to other sites.
If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site.Please note that these external sites are not operated by us.Therefore, we recommend that you review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third party sites or services.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Our Services are not directed to anyone under the age of 13.We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Therefore, we encourage you to check this page periodically for changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately upon posting on this page.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at info@tropicalstudies.org.
Updated: August 10, 2018