Privacy policy

The CTO is committed to protecting your privacy, and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the CTO.int website and relates to data collection and usage. By using the CTO.int website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

We will be transparent about the information we are collecting and what we will do with it.
We will use the information you give us for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy, which include providing you with services you have requested.
We will also use the information to help us understand you better and so that we can give you relevant offers.
If you tell us, you don’t want to receive marketing messages we will stop sending them.
We will put in place measures to protect your information and keep it secure.
We will respect your data protection rights and aim to give you control over your own information.

You can access our full Privacy Policy below to help you to understand better how we use your personal information. In it, we explain in more detail the types of personal information we collect, how we collect it, what we may use it for and who we may share it with.

CTO.int collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. CTO.int also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by CTO.int. This information can include the following information: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by CTO.int for the operation of the service, to maintain and improve the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the CTO.int website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through CTO.int public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Please note that CTO.int does not read any of your private online communications.

CTO.int encourages you to review the privacy statements of all webstes that you choose to link to from CTO.int so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. CTO.int is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside the CTO.int and CTO.int family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

CTO.int collects and uses your personal information to operate the CTO.int website and deliver the services you have requested. CTO.int also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from CTO.int and its affiliates. CTO.int may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

CTO.int does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. CTO.int may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of our members or external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, CTO.int may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you e-mails or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to CTO.int, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

CTO.int does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

CTO.int keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within CTO.int, in order to determine what CTO.int services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within CTO.int to those whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

CTO.int websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on CTO.int or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CTO.int; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CTO.int, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information

CTO.int secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. CTO.int secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this statement

CTO.int will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect organisational and customer feedback. CTO.int encourages you periodically to review this Statement to be informed of how CTO.int is protecting your information.

Contact information

CTO.int welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that CTO.int has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the webmaster at info@cto.int . We will use commercially reasonable efforts promptly to determine and remedy the problem.

About the wesbite platform

Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.