Our Privacy Policy was last updated and posted on 19 February 2017. It governs the privacy terms of our Website, located at www.material-properties.org. Our Website follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains what kind of information about you we collect, when you visit our Website.
Personally identifiable information (PII), or sensitive personal information (SPI), as used in information security and privacy laws, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.
While using our Website, we do not ask you to provide us with any personally identifiable information. Therefore:
We do not collect any personally identifiable information and we do not store any personally identifiable information.
Since we do not store your personal information, we do not share, sell, trade or otherwise transfer to outside your personally identifiable information.
When you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide (your e-mail address, if applicable your name and your telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or limit the processing if statutory retention obligations exist.
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We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. If we make material changes to this policy, we may notify you on our Website, by a blog post, or by any method we determine. The method we chose is at our sole discretion. We will also change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy are effective as of this Last Updated date and replace any prior Privacy Policies.
Cookies Statement
This Cookie Statement is part of our Privacy Policy. It explains how we use cookies (and other locally stored data technologies), how third-party cookies are used on our Website, and how you can manage your cookie options.
A “cookie” is a tiny data file that we transfer onto your computer, mobile phone, or any other device that you use to access the material-properties.org, generally used for authentication and tracking. Every cookie expires after a certain period of time, but that period varies depending on what the cookie is used for and how your browser is configured.
Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered non-personal information.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website. This approach is usual and typical for entire World Wide Web.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.However, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Third Party Tracking Tools
We also use third party tracking tools to improve the performance and features of our Website. These third party tracking tools are designed to collect only Non-Personal Information about your use of our Website. However, you understand that such tools are created and managed by parties outside our control. As such, we are not responsible for what information is actually captured by such third parties or how such third parties use and protect that information. This site uses cookies via use of the following features:
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Google AdSense
This website uses Google AdSense, a service for including advertisements from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google AdSense uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, to allow to analyze the use of the internet. Google AdSense uses also web beacons (invisible images). Through these web beacons information such as the visitor traffic are evaluated on these pages. The information generated by cookies and web beacons about the usage of this website (including your IP address) and the delivery of advertising formats are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. This information can be given by Google to contractors of Google. Google will not bring your IP address together with other data stored by you. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, but we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website. By using this website you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described and for the aforementioned purpose.
Facebook Share Button
We implement « Social Plugins » such as the Facebook like button and the Facebook share button which are both operated by Facebook Inc. 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). For more information on the Facebook Privacy Policy.
Twitter Inc.
Functions from Twitter services are integrated into our webpages. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. By using Twitter and the function “Retweet”, the webpages that you visit will be linked with your Twitter account and made public to other users. Information is also transmitted to Twitter in this way. We would like to point out that we, as providers of the website, do not receive information about the contents of the transmitted data or their use by Twitter. For more information, please see Twitter’s privacy statement. You can change your privacy protection settings for Twitter in your account settings.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.