Your Privacy Is Important to UCICIC

In the course of serving you as an individual client or as someone associated with a corporation or institution, UCICIC may obtain personal information from you. Obtaining this information is important to our ability to deliver the highest level of service to you, but we also recognize that you expect us to treat this information appropriately.
 This policy describes the types of personal information we may collect from you, the purposes for which we may use the information, the circumstances in which we may share the information and the steps that we take to safeguard the information to protect your privacy. The term “UCICIC” used throughout the policy refers to United Cultures Innovation Center for International Cooperation, LLC. and its affiliates worldwide.

The Sources of Information
The personal information we collect from you comes primarily from the account applications or other forms and materials you submit to UCICIC during the course of your relationship with us. We may also collect information about your experiences with UCICIC relating to the services UCICIC provides.

Our Use of Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information to:
 

• Administer, operate, facilitate and manage your relationship and/or account with UCICIC. This may include sharing such information internally as well as disclosing it to third parties, as described in the following two sections, respectively;
 
• Contact you or, if applicable, your designated representative(s) by post, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., in connection with your relationship and/or account; 
 

If your relationship with UCICIC ends, UCICIC will continue to treat your personal information, to the extent we retain it, as described in this policy.

Disclosures of Your Personal Information within UCICIC
In order to provide efficient and reliable services and to improve product and service options available to you, more than one entity within UCICIC may be given, or given access to, your personal information.

Disclosures of Your Personal Information to Third Parties
UCICIC does not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as described in this policy. Third party disclosures may include sharing such information with non-affiliated companies that perform support services for your account or facilitate your transactions with UCICIC, including those that provide professional, legal or accounting advice to UCICIC. Non-affiliated companies that assist UCICIC in providing services to you are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information to the extent they receive it and to use your personal information only in the course of providing such services and only for the purposes that UCICIC dictates.
We may also disclose your personal information to fulfill your instructions, to protect our rights and interests and those of our business partners or pursuant to your express consent. Finally, under limited circumstances, your personal information may be disclosed to third parties as permitted by, or to comply with, applicable laws and regulations.
You should know that UCICIC will not sell your personal information.

Information Security: How We Protect Your Privacy
UCICIC is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. We limit access to your personal information to authorized UCICIC employees or agents and, as described above in Disclosures of Your Personal Information to Third Parties, our service providers are held to stringent standards of privacy. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorized access or disclosure. Some of the other central features of our information security program are:
 

• A dedicated group – the Information Security Department – that designs, implements and provides oversight to our information security program;
• The use of specialized technology such as firewalls; 
• Testing of the security and operability of products and services before they are introduced to the Internet, as well as ongoing scanning for publicly known vulnerabilities in the technology; 
• Internal and external reviews of our Internet sites and services; 
• Monitoring of our systems infrastructure to detect weaknesses and potential intrusions; 
 
• Implementing controls to identify, authenticate and authorize access to various systems or sites; 
• Protecting information during transmission through various means including, where appropriate, encryption; and
• Providing UCICIC personnel with relevant training and continually updating our security practices in light of new risks and developments in technology.

 
Privacy and the Internet
The following additional information will be of interest to you as a visitor to this site:
 

• Users of private UCICIC Web sites are required to identify and authenticate themselves prior to accessing our services. Generally, identification and authentication take place through the use of your user name and a password.
• The private UCICIC Web sites are built upon a secure infrastructure with multiple layers of protection, including measures ranging from proper physical security of our machines to system intrusion detection capabilities. Within such private sites, UCICIC uses industry standard encryption technologies to protect your information from external compromise. 
 
• Security is a cooperative effort between UCICIC and the users of the UCICIC Web sites. Please remember that your password and username should not be made available to any other person. Also, you should discontinue their use and notify us if you have any reason to suspect that someone else may have access to this information. 
 
• “Cookies” are small text files that may be placed on your Web browser when you visit our Web sites or when you view advertisements we have placed on other Web sites. For more information about cookies, how our Web sites use them, and your options with respect to their use see…..
• “Clickstream” data (e.g., information regarding which of our Web pages you access, the frequency of such access, and your product and service preferences) may be collected by UCICIC itself, or by our service providers, using cookies, Web beacons, page taUCICIC, or similar tools that are set when you visit our Web site or when you view an advertisement we have placed on another Web site. Clickstream data and similar information may be shared internally within UCICIC and used: for administrative purposes; to assess the usage, value and performance of our online products and services; to improve your experience with our Web sites; and as otherwise permitted by applicable law or regulation. If you are a UCICIC client, this information helps us suggest products or service offer in UCICIC that may be of interest to you. This information may be processed by us for the purposes described above, or on our behalf by third parties, solely in accordance with our instructions. 
 
• When you visit this site, your browser may be momentarily directed to the Web site of an ad server or other third party service provider. This re-direction process will not be apparent to you. These third party Web sites automatically receive your IP address when this happens, and they may also collect information from your interaction with our Web sites including computer and connection information, standard Web log information, and ad information. Such information does not identify you individually. 
 
• UCICIC may make available on this Web site third party applications such as content linking or sharing facilities. Information collected by providers of such applications is governed by their privacy policies.

 
Other Privacy Policies or Statements; Changes to Policy
This policy provides a general statement of the ways in which UCICIC protects your personal information. You may, however, in connection with specific products or services offered by UCICIC, be provided with privacy policies or statements that supplement this policy. This policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our practices concerning the collection and use of personal information. The revised policy will be effective immediately upon posting to our Web site.