Data Security

We, UNEP/CMS, take the protection of your personal data very seriously and adhere strictly to German data protection laws. Personal data are collected on this web site only if technically necessary or for further purposes explicitly requested by you. Under no circumstances will collected data be sold or passed to third parties for any reason.

The following explanation gives an overview of what kind of data are collected and for what purpose.

1. Data processing on this website

Any access is recorded in a protocol file with the following data, which your browser conveys to us:

• Name of retrieved file/page
• Date/time of server inquiry
• IP address
• Browser type/version
• operating system
• Referrer URL (webpage visited before)
• Volume of data transferred

These data are not personal. It is therefore not possible to ascertain which web pages and files you personally have accessed. The data are evaluated statistically and deleted thereafter.

Personal data provided by you (e.g. when subscribing to the newsletter, using the “tell a friend” option, or registering for the “virtual sea”, the events section or the dolphin diploma) are stored in a machine-readable format, in order to enable the use of the selected services. After completion of the relevant procedure these are deleted, unless you have consented to their further use – this is only possible with your own data. You can withdraw permission to store and/or use your data at any time.
The Year of the Dolphin Partners will collect the following information:
Name of participant, e-mail address, country
Use of Data
The Partners shall use the information to allow participants to

• o take the Dolphin Diploma
• receive a personalized diploma certificate
• receive notifications of competition results
• receive information relevant to their requests
• be informed about the achievements of the YoD and the especially the dolphin diploma at the end of the year.
• Be informed about other activities, including ways to help protect dolphins / support the work of CMS and/or WDCS.
  

The Partners will not disclose any information collected to third parties, except to those who use it solely to provide support for the internal operations of the website or service, including technical support.
Any parent/legal guardian can review their child's personal information, ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child's personal information at any time.
Please contact us if you wish to access or amend your data.


Cookies

The webpages use so-called cookies. They are used to make our internet presence more user-friendly, efficient and safer. Cookies are small text files, which are stored on your computer by your browser. Our cookies are not harmful to your computer nor do they contain viruses.


Right of access to personal data
At any time you have the right to be informed in regard of data we store relevant to your person, their recipient as well as the purpose for storing them. For more information concerning data stored please contact (laddis@cms.int).


Further information

Your trust is important to us. We are available to answer any questions concerning the processing of your personal data. If you have questions not answered by this privacy policy statement or if you wish to receive more detailed information on a certain topic please contact (laddis@cms.int).


2. Information in regard of texts and/or functions for particular services

2.1 Abstract:

Only data will be collected which are necessary for the respective service.


2.2 Registration

Registration serves to navigate within certain interactive web pages. For the dolphin diploma, for example, it is necessary in order to ascertain whether all conditions for receiving a personalized dolphin diploma have been met. In the Event section and the Virtual Sea registration enables YoD Partners to send users further information on the Year of the Dolphin and inform the participants when their contributions are commended.


2.3 Newsletter

Each month in our newsletter we will introduce a new dolphin species. You can learn more about the threats they face and about our commitment towards protecting these marine mammals.

Only after your confirmation can the newsletter be sent to your e-mail address. Each edition of the newsletter must contain an option to cancel the subscription in form of a link or an e-mail address.


2.4 Tell a friend
The data of the recommended recipient may not be used beyond the one-time-only dispatch of an e-mail, unless a positive response is received from the recommended recipient.


2.5 Dolpin diploma

The dolphin diploma is an initiative to protect dolphins. Children and teenagers demonstrate by their successful participation that they have obtained expert knowledge and made a positive contribution to dolphin protection. The data are collected to send a personalized certificate by e-mail and to provide information about results obtained.

The explicit permission of a parent or legal guardian is required in order to allow the collection of the personal data of minors. This must be indicated by marking the appropriate box by means of a mouse-click.