Markets in Crises Privacy Policy
The Markets in Crises Community of Practice respects privacy and your rights to control your personal data. Your support, your privacy and your trust are very important to us and inform our policies about how we use and protect your personal information.
This Privacy Policy describes the personal data we collect, and explains why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties. Our Privacy Policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect, use and store your personal data.
Who are We?
The Markets in Crises Community of Practice is a global network engaging with and supporting markets in emergencies. It is hosted on an open-source discussion forum called Discourse. You can learn more about Markets in Crisis if you click on the link About MiC.
What information do we collect?
This describes how and what information is collected when you register on the MiC website and what data is gathered when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here.
When registering on the MiC website, you may be asked to enter your name and e-mail address. You may, however, visit the site without registering. Your e-mail address will be verified by an email containing a unique link. If that link is visited, it will verify that you control the e-mail address.
When registered and posting, the IP address that the post originated from is registered. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to their server.
How is your personal information stored?
The MiC website stores data in CDCK’s (Civilized Discourse Construction Kit) data centers and Amazon Web Services S3 in the United States and may be stored in data centers in other jurisdictions, such as Canada and the European Union. More information can be obtained here
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience — your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
- To improve our site — we continually strive to improve our site offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
- To improve customer service — your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
- To send periodic emails — The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications that you request about changes to topics or in response to your username, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
Your rights over your personal data
CRS recognizes the rights of Data Subjects, including the right to access and the right of intervention (i.e. to rectify, erase, and restrict) over the processing of their personal data. Data Subjects also have the right to object to the processing of their Personal Data and to receive their data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to have such data transmitted to another data controller. Data Subjects can exercise their privacy rights by submitting a request via email to CRS’s Data Protection team. The request should clearly state the right(s) they wish to exercise, such as the right to access, the right of intervention (i.e., rectify, erase, or restrict), the right to object to the processing of their Personal Data. CRS must respond to the request and provide information on the action taken in response to the request within a reasonable time frame in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection regulations.
How to control what we send you
We will always honor your wishes. If you have any concerns about how your information is handled, or to add your name to our do-not-share list please e-mail, call or write us. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is not on any list we share with other organizations.
Write to: mic.cop.facilitation@gmail.com
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.
The MiC website uses 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. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
The MiC website uses these cookies:
| Name | Essential | Expires | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| coupon_code | Yes | 24 hours | Applies the corresponding discount to a trial signup via promotional campaign |
| referral_code | Yes | 24 hours | Applies the corresponding referral code to a trial signup via referral URL |
| Yes | Session | remembers your e-mail as you create an account | |
| destination_url | Yes | Session | helps redirect you to your requested page after logging in |
| sso_destination_url | Yes | Session | helps redirect you to your request page after single sign on |
| sso_payload | Yes | Session | used during SSO authentication when two-factor authentication is enabled |
| authentication_data | Yes | Next Page View | temporarily stores user information during login flows |
| theme_ids | Yes | 1 year | remembers your theme personalization if you don’t tick “Make this my default theme on all my devices” |
| color_scheme_id | Yes | 1 year | remembers your color personalization if you don’t tick “Set default colour scheme(s) on all my devices” |
| dark_scheme_id | Yes | 1 year | remembers your color personalization if you don’t tick “Set default colour scheme(s) on all my devices” |
| cn | Yes | Session | temporarily stores notification read state |
| _bypass_cache | Yes | Session | allows the server-side cache to be bypassed during login flows |
| _t | Yes | 1440 Hours | remembers who you are when you log in |
| _forum_session | Yes | Session | associates an ID, and other security-related information, with your browsing session |
| dosp | Yes | Next Page View | enables client denial of service protection, a security protection |
| text_size | Yes | 1 year | remembers default text size when a user wants to change it on only one device |
| cookietest | Yes | Session | checks if cookies are enabled when authentication fails |
| __profilin | No | Session | used by software developers to bypass rack-mini-profiler |
The MiC website also uses Google Analytics cookies. Refer to Google’s page on Google Analytics cookies for the latest details.
Your web browser can show you the cookies you have for any website and help you manage them.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our site. 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.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If this server is in the USA, and you are under the age of 13, per the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), do not use this site.
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our site and not to information collected offline.
By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or other operational needs. When we make significant changes, we will notify you by posting the updated Privacy Policy on our website with a revised “Last Updated” date.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information. Your continued use of our services after any updates constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.