SWORLD - Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Use

Introduction

SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® developed, designed and maintains www.globalscribes.org / http://sworldyouth.org Phase I Public with Ceylon Solutions, Inc. and genzis.net as a platform for our mission, a network for our constituents, our donors, service providers, volunteers and staff. We allow access to and use of SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® website, links to other websites and information to forward our mission of fostering International Friendships and Cultural Knowledge. Privacy and data protection issues are serious issues to us and we have established this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions of Use to explain how we handle personally identifiable information collected from users of the Platform.

Privacy

By accessing and using the Platform, you agree that you have read and understand this Policy and you accept and consent to the privacy practices (and any uses and disclosures of information) that are described in this Policy. These Terms and Conditions constitute the "Terms of Use Agreement" ("Agreement") and set forth each of the legally binding terms and conditions for use of the SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App, Website and all the Global Scribes Inc. Services and content offered permanently or from time to time therein or related thereto (all collectively referred to herein as " SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®").

By using, joining, visiting or otherwise interacting with SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Website) or you are a "Consumer" (which means that you have registered with SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®) or you are a "Business" (which means you have registered to use SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® for commercial purposes) or you are a "Non-Profit" (which means you have registered with SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® for collaboration or endorsement) or you are interacting in any and all other ways with SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®.

Within our policies, the term "User" refers to a Visitor, individual, Non-Profit, or Business. You are only authorized to use the SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App/Website (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. If you access SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®, you will be deemed to have agreed to and be bound by this Agreement and all Terms and Conditions set forth. Please read this Agreement carefully. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Website and discontinue use of the SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Services immediately.

In order to participate in certain SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Services, you may be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by an adjunct additional terms and conditions applicable to SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® (which will be published herein) in which you choose to participate, any and all such other or additional terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information from you when you fill out a form and register. When ordering or registering on our Mobile App/Website, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: identity, name, e-mail address, mailing address or phone number, and information relative to be a registered participant in our protected SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App/Website. You may, however, visit our website anonymously. Please note: Parents and guardians can review any personally identifiable information collected about their children and request that such information be deleted and/or that no further information be collected and their children are removed from participation in the Mobile App/Website.

How Do We Use Your Information?

Information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs), optimize participation and increase security.
  • To process transactions. Please note: your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
  • To send periodic emails. With the email you provide, we will send you information regarding registration, company news, updates, related product or service information, any boutique order processing, certificates, etc.

Choice/Opt-Out

Every email we send to you will provide you with the option to unsubscribe. Please note that if you choose to unsubscribe, this could cancel your subscription/registration to a channel or class series.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such system. They are required by law to keep the information confidential.

Credit Card Security

Global Scribes Inc. uses PayPal to process and accept donations for the support of SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® and any campaign related. PayPal adheres to international PCI (payment card industry) compliance standards for data security. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of 12 requirements that all businesses who handle credit or debit card payments must comply with. The PCI Security Standards require all merchants, regardless of size or number of transactions, who accept, store, transmit or process any cardholder data to comply with PCI DSS. You can find out more about PCI here. PayPal's PCI Compliance can be validated here.

Email Messages and Electronic Postcards

Email Messages will be generated to all who register to SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App/ Website to relay information regarding registration, company news, updates, related product or service information, any boutique order processing, certificates, etc. This option may be turned off at any time. Another feature of SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® provides users the ability to send electronic postcards and other items between constituents. Which means we may send on behalf of the user, email messages to family and friends and SWorld buddies. To do so, users must provide the email address of the recipient of such electronic postcards or email messages. Users must only provide the email addresses of people they know will be happy to receive a sep (SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Electronic Postcard) or email messages.

Interactive Features

Some of our SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® features and services are interactive, such as message boards, chat rooms, electronic mail services, comment boxes, messaging services, member profile pages etc. For certain countries, on SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App/ Website that either are directed to children under 18 or have actual knowledge that a user is a child under 18 years old, we will obtain the consent of the child's parent/ guardian before allowing the child to use these interactive features and services or will use reasonable technical measures to delete all or virtually all personal information from a child's postings before they are made public and also delete such information from our records. We use the information collected through interactive features and services to enable you to participate in such features and services.

Electronic Blog Messages and Newsletters

Users may provide their personal email addresses to receive electronic blog messages and newsletters from the various Global Scribes Inc. Channels, Mobile App, Website and programs and our business partners. Users may change their preferences regarding emails at any time through the unsubscribe link in the newsletters or, for certain Global Scribes Inc. platforms, by logging into and changing the preferences for their account.

When visitors to SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® that either are directed to children under 13 or have actual knowledge that a user is a child under 13 years old ask to receive our email blog posts or newsletter(s), they will be asked to provide their first name, email address and the email address of their parent/guardian. We will send the child's parent/guardian a notification email informing them of the child's request to participate in SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App and receive by email the newsletter on an ongoing basis and give the parent/guardian the option to have his or her child's information removed from our newsletter database. The link to remove the child's information will expire approximately 60 hours from the time it is sent, but at any time after receiving this notification email, the child's parent/guardian may request that we stop sending the child the newsletter(s) by following the "unsubscribe" instructions found at the end of any of the newsletter emails. Parents/guardians may at any time review any personally identifiable information collected online about their child. See section V (B) below. When a child provides a parent's/guardian's email address when signing up for newsletter(s), that email address is used to send the notification email message and is subsequently deleted from our system.

Do We Disclose Any Information To Third Or Outside Parties Or Advertisers?

Global Scribes Inc. does 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 Mobile App, Website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® does contain Links on our Mobile App/Website. We may release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our app and site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. We may also transfer your personal information to a third party successor in interest if we are involved in an acquisition, merger or other transfer of control or sale of assets. Also, nonpersonally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites or entities. We encourage our users to read privacy statements of each website or entities you visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Global Scribes Inc. and does not apply to these third party websites. The ability to access information of third parties from us (Global Scribes Inc.) or links to other websites is for your convenience only and does not signify our endorsement of such third parties, their products, services, other websites, locations or their content.

Posting to Public Areas of SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®

Please Note! When you post Personal Information in public areas of SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®, such as in our ‘Share Something' or online forums or chat rooms, or in the Global Scribes Inc. database, such information may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of our app/site or in any service offered by Global Scribes Inc. and under no circumstance shall Global Scribes Inc. be held accountable for any loss, damage or injury you might suffer as a result thereof. The Global Scribes and SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® name and logo and/or link bearing the name and logo may not appear on any pages of any websites that include content or advertising for tobacco, alcoholic beverages, pornography, religious material, partisan material, political material or firearms.

Do We Use Cookies, Plug-ins and Flux?

Yes! Cookies are used to help personalize and maximize your online experience with SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®. A cookie is a text file placed onto your hard drive by a web page server for the purpose of the maximization–including a convenience feature to save you time. Cookies allow Global Scribes™ platform to retrieve your previously provided information so you may continue to use features you customized. Cookies do not run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but most allow one to accept or decline cookies. Please note, if you decide to decline cookies, you may negatively impact your online experience with SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®. SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® also uses "pixels," or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These pixels do not collect identifying information. The mechanisms identified here are used to improve the user experience on the SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App and website, and are employed irrespective of "Do Not Track" requests.

SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® does permit users who are at least 13 years old to register or log into their account via a social networking platform such as Login with Facebook or Flux, or permit you to use social media plugins such as the Facebook “Like” or Google “+1” buttons. When you use these social networking platforms and plugins, your username and password for the services and other information available about you are collected from you and these services may be shared with us.

When you use social networking platforms and plugins, you share your information with them and their privacy policy applies to their collection, use, and disclosure of such information. In addition, they may be able to collect information about you, including your activity on our SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App/ Website, and they may notify your connections on the social networking platform about your use of SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations®. Such services may also employ unique identifiers which allow your activity to be monitored across multiple websites for purposes of delivering more targeted advertising to you. For more information about Login with Facebook, please go here. For more information on Flux, please go here. Please note that their privacy policies may be different from our own and we encourage you to read them.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), as well as data privacy laws in the United States and other applicable countries. Younger visitors to our Mobile App/Website should always check with their parents or guardians before entering information on any website or mobile application. We encourage parents and guardians–families– to discuss their personal guidelines for sharing personal information/data online. We do not collect any information from anyone under 18 years of age UNLESS WE HAVE PRIOR PARENTAL APPROVAL (included in SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® registration). Our Mobile App, Website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 8 years old or older. WE DO NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN: We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to provide us with their personal information without parent or guardian consent. If you are under 18, do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address, unless you have your parent's or guardian's permission. In the event we learn that we collected personal information from anyone under the age of 18, and do not have a parent or guardian's consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible

Prohibited Activities on Global Scribes Inc. and SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App, Website, Channels or other Programs

The List below contains some (not all) prohibited activities that may result in action by Global Scribes Inc.

  1. Using our Mobile App, Website, our channels, our programs, our material, electronic products and services to harass, threaten, embarrass, or do anything else to a third party that is not wanted.
  2. Posing as someone you are not.
  3. Using vulgar language, abusive behaviour, or other conduct which might inhibit the flow of communication and normal flow in our chat rooms, on our comment files and or in correspondence through our social media.
  4. Posting, transmitting or facilitating in the promotion of illegal content through our Mobile App, Website or any electronic or other services &/or channels.
  5. / Facilitating or transmitting distribution of content that is untrue, threatening, harassing, abusive, in anyway offensive racially or ethnically, sexually explicit, vulgar, defamatory, abusive or objectionable.
  6. Using our Global Scribes Inc. and SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® name or logo or links bearing our name and logo on websites which Global Scribes Inc. deems objectionable or which includes denigrating, tasteless, intolerant, obscene, violent or sexually oriented content or materials.
  7. Trying successfully or not to get a password, private information or any other account information from others or harvest email addresses or other information.
  8. Posting, without normal permissions, any advertising or promotional materials to our website or our other channels and platforms.

Do You Consent?

By using our site, you consent to SWorld: Youth Uniting Nations® Mobile App, Website privacy policy

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our Privacy or Security Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Since offerings and technologies change, we reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of our Policy at any time without prior notice.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Global Scribes Inc, its members, managers, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your use of the Mobile App, Website or any services or products offered.

Disclaimer

Global Scribes Inc. uses every reasonable effort to maintain our website. Global Scribes Inc. is not responsible for any defects or failures associated with the website, the Content, or any damages (such as lost profits or other consequential damages) that may result from any such defects or failures. We make no guarantees as to websites and the information contained therein, located worldwide throughout the internet to which you may access as a result of the use of the Mobile App/Website including the accuracy, content or quality of any such sites and information.

Governing Law

It is improper, and may be a violation of law, for you to post or download and distribute any material that you do not own or for which you do not have permission to use. PLEASE BE AWARE: violation of someone's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights may subject you to civil and/or criminal penalties. The validity and effect of these Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflicts of laws principles. In the event litigation is instituted hereunder, each user consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of any federal or state court situated in the State of Delaware. ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING CONCERNING THE WEB SITE, ITS USE, THESE TERMS OF USE, OR CONCERNING ANY OTHER POLICY OR PROCEDURE OF GLOBAL SCRIBES, INC, MUST BE BROUGHT IN A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN DELAWARE, AND YOU HEREBY IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURT (AND OF THE APPROPRIATE APPELLATE COURTS THEREFROM) IN ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING; AND YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION WHICH YOU MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT OR THAT ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING WHICH IS BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.

Contacting Us

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about this privacy statement, the use of your personal information, or the practices of our platform. Contact admin (@)sworldyouth(.)org. This website is operated by Global Scribes, Inc. All inquiries may be directed to: PO Box 35, Harmony, NC 28634 or admin(@)sworldyouth(.)org