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Privacy Policy

Yayasan Strategik Sosial (YSS) wants to demonstrate its commitment to its users’ privacy and has disclosed its information practices to the users. This policy will reveal the following:

  1. Collection of personally identifiable information by YSS.
  2. Collection of personally identifiable information by third parties through the Web site.
  3. The types of organization that collects the information.
  4. The ways that YSS utilizes the collected information.
  5. The body that YSS shares the collected information.
  6. The choice available to users regarding the collection, distribution and use of information.
  7. The ways that users are able to rectify any inaccurate information.
  8. The security measures taken to protect the loss, misuse or alterations of information under YSS control.

If users have any questions or concerns regarding the statement, they should contact the webmaster by email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). If they do not receive any response or acknowledgement or if it is not satisfactorily addressed, please contact YSS by phone (603-4041 5958).

Collection of information

Yayasan Strategik Sosial (YSS) is the sole owner of the information collected through its website www.yss98.com.

Registration

This feature is only available to selected users. When the user wants to register through the website to access protected information, the user will have to fill in a registration form. During the registration process, a user includes his/her contact information that includes his/her name and email. YSS uses this information to contact the user regarding the services and researches provided. Additional information that include the demographics and unique identifiers, but we encourage users to do so to provide a more personalized service.

Use of information

Profile

We collect and store information that we obtain from the registration, log files or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that keeps track of their viewing preferences. Collected information is tied to the users’ personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the users.

Third Party Advertising

The ads appearing on this web site can come from a third party and our web advertising partners. Information about users’ visits to the advertised site, such as through the number of times user clicked on an ad, is used to serve ads more effectively to the users of this web site. This privacy policy does not cover any log files or cookies used by third parties or our web advertising partners.

Log Files

Like most web servers, we use log files to keep track of information such as hits, visits, IP addresses, browser-types, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/type stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the website and to gather broad demographic information. Here, the users will not be personally identified.

Communicating with the users

Updates

We send an invitation mail to known users and referrals and they will receive the updates by default. Out of respect to our users, the users can be withdrawn from the updates to not receive these types of communication. This is done by sending a blank email to the webmaster ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and have “unsubscribe” as the subject of the mail.

Service Announcements

On certain rare occasion, there is a need to send out announcements that are strictly related to the services provided to the users through the website. For instance, if the website is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt out of this service although they can deactivate the account that they have. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.

Additional services

We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide regular services and in regards to issues relating to their accounts we reply via phone and email.

Sharing

Legal Disclaimer

We may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.

Aggregate information (non-personally identifiable)

We share aggregated non-identifiable information with our partners and advertisers. We share statistical information such as the hits and visits that we receive to our advertisers and those related to the log files. Here, the users’ personally identifiable details will not be shared.

Choice

The users of YSS have the choice to opt out of having their information being used. Users who wish to opt out from receiving update notifications can send an blank email with “unsubscribe” as the subject to the webmaster ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or calling YSS by telephone at 603-4041 5958.

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.

Links

This website has links to other site. Note that Yayasan Strategik Sosial is NOT responsible for the privacy practice of other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy policy or equivalent of each and every website that the users visit. This privacy policy applies solely to this website.

Poll

When required, the site will conduct an online survey through a poll. The participation of the poll is completely voluntary and the users have the option of not disclosing information that is able to identify the users personally. The collected information will be used to monitor and improve the use and satisfaction of the site. Users’ personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, they may not use users’ personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Security

We take the necessary steps to protect your privacy both online and offline. When users submit sensitive information, the data will be encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – SSL. While we use SSL encryption to protect the sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect the information offline. All of the user’s information is restricted in our office. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific task (e.g. sending out mails to users) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The server is protected by firewalls and anti-virus software. Moreover the server that contains the details is protected by backup generator.

If users have any questions about the security at our web site, please contact us by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Updating Personal Information

If the user’s personally identifiable information changes, or if the user no longer wish to use the services provided, we provide a way to correct the information or status of the account. This can be done by emailing us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Notification of changes

If there is a need to amend the privacy policy, the changes will be posted on this privacy policy, the homepage and other places or sites that we deem appropriate. This is so that our users are aware of the information that we collect, how we use it and under what circumstance we disclose it.

Contact Information

If users have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at:

Phone: 603-4041 5958
Fax: 603-4041 5681
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
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