Privacy

Personal data and Privacy Policy

Ensuring the privacy of our Visitors' personal data is of the utmost significance for us. Unless service-specific rules on personal data and privacy apply, the processing of personal data by us through its website (and other online services) is subject to the following terms to which the user agrees by browsing this website and using its online services:

Categories of personal data processed by us

When accessing our webpage and other online services, us may process personal data in the course of the creation of a us Account or the use of certain other us websites and services (e.g., IP Portal, ePCT, our newsletter, Contact Form, Conference Registration, etc.). The personal data processed may, inter-alia, include the User's first and last name, address, phone number and email address.

Purpose of the processing

We process the Visitors' personal data to fulfill its objective and functions as stipulated in the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization. These objectives and functions consist, inter-alia, of promoting the protection of intellectual property worldwide, maintaining services facilitating its protection and assembling as well as disseminating information concerning the protection of intellectual property.

We also processes the Visitors' personal data to reply to requests, to maintain daily operations and systems administration and to improve its services. We may contact Visitors regarding account status, to confirm registration and to advise Visitors of major changes to the system.

Using the Visitors' e-mail addresses, us may periodically send Visitors information, survey requests or promotional e-mails about services, events, webinars or publications offered by us. Upon request, Visitors may "opt out" of further e-mail contact (except for notifications regarding major changes to the service).

Cookies

Cookies are small texts sent from a web server and stored on a user's device, for instance, a computer or mobile phone. Our website and its online services use cookies to offer the User an improved browsing experience, including features such as a single sign-on across different us services or remembering the user's language settings, as well as continuous enhancement of our website and online services based on monitoring their usage and corresponding trends. For the latter purpose, our website and other online services may also use various web analytics tools to collect, inter-alia, the Account username (for logged-in Visitors), information on the Internet Protocol address of the Visitors, the time spent on this website or online services, which webpages are visited, or the time and date of the visit.

The information collected via cookies and analytical tools is used in aggregated and anonymous manner for statistical purposes, and not to identify individual Visitors.

Visitors may, depending on their respective web browser, delete cookies at any time and/or make general settings with regard to the acceptance, rejection and deletion of cookies. This may however render certain features of our website and online services unavailable.