Privacy Policy Statement

This blog is called International Development Issues at this URL, http://international-development.hondabay.com/.

International Development Issues is a group blog. It is a collaborative effort of students and grassroot development workers aiming to provide access to research information on major policy and research issues. We work towards the promotion of sustainable development worldwide.

We can be reached via e-mail at yugen.shibui at YAHOO dot com or you can reach us by Yahoo messenger, our ID is yugen.shibui.

International Development Issues blog take online privacy extremely seriously and we will actively protect the the privacy of the users of blog site and those who subscribe to our mailing list.

Web Server Traffic: We record information about how people access the web site and this includes your IP address (or DNS), your browser, and your operating system.

For each visitor to our blog page, the script installed automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).

Subscription Lists & Email Addresses: We only collect the names and email addresses of subscribers to the email newsletter and hold them confidentially. We will not release or disclose any specific subscriber information under any circumstances unless demanded by law. General aggregate information about the list itself (total number of subscribers, etc.) may be disclosed.

We collect the e-mail addresses of those who spam us and report to proper authorities for proper action.

The information we collect is used to improve the content of the blog, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor, used to notify consumers about updates to my blog site and to improve the spam filtering of our email.

Comments: Comments left on the site are the responsibility of the commenter. We reserve the right to remove comments or edit them due to errors (usually HTML related errors). We won’t censor comments. As for email addresses included in the comments, please see the Subscription Lists & Email Addresses entry.

With respect to cookies: We use cookies to record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site .

With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to no information that we have collected and that we maintain about them.

External Links: The web site contains many links to other sites and due to the constantly changing nature of the Internet, we make no promises as to the reliability of those sites or their privacy policies.

With respect to security: We think Google have appropriate security measures in place in their physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that they have collected from our Blogger account.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses.

This privacy statement is also applicable to this URL: http://www.hondabay.com.