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What personally identifiable information is collected on this site?
Visitors may provide personally identifiable information (such as name, address or telephone numbers) for various purposes on this site. These purposes include applying for inventor certification, requesting further information about our products, registering to receive e-mail newsletters, or to ask a question about The International Institute of Gizmology(IIG). The IIG does not collect personal information from you unless you supply it to us. This means that you can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself.

How is it used?
When you provide information about yourself for a specific purpose, we will use that information for only that purpose (such as providing a service or information you have requested). The International Institute of Gizmology does not sell or share or otherwise provide any information collected with on it's site with the exception of the Inventors Standards Bureau Inc. in order to properly register diploma, certificate and degree holders..

Should any material changes be made to the ways in which we use personally identifiable information, The International Institute of Gizmology will take commercially reasonable measures to obtain e-mail consent from you. Any changes to our use of personally identifiable information will be posted on our website at least 30 days prior to a change.

Security
Personally identifiable information is stored on our Web server and is not publicly accessible. Further, personally identifiable information is only accessed by The International Institute of Gizmology employees on a "need to know" basis. The International Institute of Gizmology meets or exceeds all industry standards for the protection of personally identifiable information.

Choice/Opt-out
If you have chosen to receive e-mail communications from us and later change your mind, you may contact us in order to have your name removed from our contact list. You have the following options to do this:

You can send an e-mail to privacy@gizmology.org

You can send mail to the following address:

Privacy Office
The International Institute of Gizmology
Unit# 45
7142 - 138 St.
Surrey
British Columbia
V3W-7V7
Canada

Correct/Update
If you would like to verify the data we have received from you or to make corrections to it you may contact us directly at either the e-mail or postal addresses provided above.

What anonymous information is collected on this site?
Anonymous clickstream information is collected for every visitor to this site. This includes pages viewed, date and time, and browser type. IP numbers are not stored, but are temporarily used to determine domain type. We do not make any association between this information and a visitor's identity.

How does this site use cookies?
The International Institute of Gizmology uses cookies to identify your browser as you visit pages on the www.gizmology.org website. Cookies allow The International Institute of Gizmology to gather anonymous clickstream information to provide a more relevant and coordinated registration and ordering process. Cookies may be turned off in your browse but this may impede any registration or ordering processes.

Links
This site may contain links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another site and are encouraged to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.

E-mail Links
We use e-mail links located on this site to allow you to contact us directly via e-mail. We use the information provided in your e-mail to respond to your questions or comments. We may also store your comments for future reference. Your personal information is only shared with third parties with your explicit permission.

Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the The International Institute of Gizmology or it's parent company the Inventor's Standards Bureau Inc.

For more information
If you have any questions, concerns or comments, please e-mail privacy@gizmology.org.


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