Privacy Policy
Solution Exchange regards the privacy of its visitors and its members to be of utmost
importance, and this privacy statement outlines Solution Exchange’s commitment to your
privacy.
Your use of the Solution Exchange Website and Services is governed by the Membership
Agreement and Terms and Conditions of usage. This Statement supplements the general
terms and conditions of usage and is incorporated into and governed by all of the terms of
the Agreement.
If you are merely visiting the website and not participating as a member, then Solution
Exchange will not solicit or collect any personal information or information regarding your
use of the site. As a standard protocol, your IP address may be noted automatically on our
registry.
However, if you register with Solution Exchange as a member and participate in the
Solution Exchange mail-group, or register to receive Solution Exchange material, you will
be asked for personal information, such as your name, organization, designation, address,
phone number and email address. This information is essential for us to ensure that you
are a bona fide user. It will be maintained in a page on the relevant Solution Exchange
website (“My Profile”), accessible using your password.
Solution Exchange will make Consolidated Replies available to non-registered users
through its publicly viewable website, including the information and documentary material
provided by you which may include reports, expert recommendations and other proprietary
knowledge. The website may also make available information you provide about events
and other items of interest to the Solution Exchange members. Material posted on our
public website will cite your name, organization and location, and will not include your email
or contact address.
You have the option of not revealing your identity when sending an e-mail or other
contribution to Solution Exchange. In such cases the mail-group moderator, on your
request, will post your contribution anonymously and keep the source confidential.
To help us improve Solution Exchange and foster a positive user experience, we may
contact you and ask your opinion on areas related to our performance. We may document
your feedback and use it for reporting purposes, but we will not reveal the source of this
information without your permission. We will also seek your permission to use solicited or
unsolicited feedback for purposes of publicity about Solution Exchange, including
quotations for brochures or leaflets.
We assure you that the information provided by you shall only be used for bona fide
purposes, and it shall not be commercialised or otherwise made available to any database
service provider.
To facilitate us to constantly improve our services and understand the needs of our users
and members, Solution Exchange may implement software on our websites that enables
us to track information about the nature of usage, navigation through site, services
availed, queries posted and discussion frequented. Additional information may also be
collected through small data pieces known as Cookies, stored on Solution Exchange’s,
which may also be written to your computer system.
A cookie is a small piece of information stored by a website on your computer’s hard
drive. Cookies are extensively used by most websites as a convenient way to store
information it knows about you.
The information will be used internally only for website traffic analysis. If the User
specifically provides unique identifying information, such as name, address and other
information on forms stored on this site, such information will only be used for statistical
purposes and will not be published for general access. Solution Exchange can however
assume no responsibility for the security of this information.
In addition, Solution Exchange may also record your IP address, which is the Internet
address of your computer, and information such as your browser type and operating
system. This information enables us to learn about the geographical distribution of our
website visitors and the technology they use to access our site. This information is never
connected with the personal information you supply to us if you register on our website.
In the event that Solution Exchange desires to use your information for any offline
purpose, we shall seek your permission before doing so.
What happens to my Intellectual Property Rights?
Posting ideas, examples and solutions on a space sponsored by the United Nations brings
them into the public domain. In order to ensure that contributors are sufficiently
recognized for their ideas and innovations, Solution Exchange has a “Creative Commons”
license. Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors
and artists, building upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a
voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. This form of licensing, used by “Open Content”
advocates worldwide, allows authors and artists to determine the terms and conditions for
sharing their intellectual property. For more information on the Creative Commons
concept, visit their site at
http://creativecommons.org
The Creative Commons license for Solution Exchange is
“Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike 2.5”. This license lets others build upon your work, except for commercial
reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical
terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license. This simply means that if
you got an idea or material from Solution Exchange you should give Solution Exchange
and the original contributor credit, and if you further develop this idea or material you
should return the favor and post it on Solution Exchange as well. “Non commercial”
means that you can use the work for non-profit purposes only, unless you get permission
from Solution Exchange and the original contributor.
An Open Content model means that instead of profiting from the sale of your work, you
profit from the fact that your name stays associated with the work. An Open Content
approach is also in keeping with the spirit of Solution Exchange – by sharing rather than
protecting your intellectual property, you are widening the field of professional peers who
give recognition to your ideas, thereby enhancing your status and reputation.
For further information contact the Moderator of Solution Exchange Bhutan