Online Privacy and Moderation Policies

[Carol Gipson]

ZIBF Privacy Policy

The Zug International Business Forum's online member forums are designed for networking, resource exchange and discussion. ZIBF believes that your personal data should be under your control. The ZIBF default privacy settings limit the information that other members can see in your Member Profile. You can decide which images, personal data, and other information to include in your ZIBF Member Profile. By registering to use ZIBF's online forums, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about the privacy policies, you should contact us at Carol.Gipson@ZIBF.Biz.

The Information We Collect or Store
When you register with ZIBF, you provide us with personal information such as your name, email address, telephone number, postal address, and other information such as your interests. ZIBF does not share any of your contact information with third parties without your permission. Information you provide is used by ZIBF when a) reasonably necessary to offer the service 2) legally required or 3) permitted by you. ZIBF may, for example, use your membership information to send you announcements via email regarding activity on your ZIBF account. We may relay information, such as a private message from another user, or a post in response to one of your threads.

When you enter ZIBF, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all ZIBF visitors. In addition, we store information from your browser in "cookies" for later use as required. ZIBF stores certain information so that you can view activities on your account, such as messages and posts you have created.

Your Profile Information
When you use ZIBF, you may set up your personal profile, form friends and contacts, send messages, perform searches, set up events, and transmit information through a variety of channels. Your profile information, as well as your name and photo, are displayed to other ZIBF members so that you can easily connect with one another.
Any content you post on the ZIBF Forums is done at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users in your specified networks, and therefore we cannot guarantee that your user content will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings contained on the ZIBF site. You understand and acknowledge that copies of user content may remain viewable in cached or archived pages even after removal, or if other users have copied or stored your user content. Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on ZIBF is a violation of ZIBF Terms of Use and should be reported to Carol.Gipson@ZIBF.biz.

Links
ZIBF contains several links to other websites. Once you have left the ZIBF site, however, we have no control over the other websites, and therefore we are not responsible for their privacy practices. This privacy policy applies only to information collected or stored by ZIBF.

Third Party Advertising
ZIBF does not have access to or control of the cookeis that may be placed by third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on ZIBF, unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookes by ZIBF and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information
ZIBF users are able to modify or remove any of their profile information at any time through the use of the profile editing tools. Anyone wishing to delete their ZIBF account information may do so. Information so removed may remain in backup copies for a reasonalbe period of time. Information provided to other ZIBF members, such as in a personal message to a friend or contact, cannot be removed.

Security
ZIBF takes precautions to protect our members' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number or a password) that information is encrypted using secure socket layer (SSL). However, email and instant messaging are not recognized as completely secure communications; therefore we request that you do not send credit card numbers or other sensitive information via email or instant messaging services.

Terms of Use and Revisions
Your use of ZIBF is subject to this privacy policy as well as to our moderation policy and forum rules. We reserve the right to change our policies and rules at any time, and advise you to refer to these policies at regular intervals in order to understand the current policies at all times.

Contacting Us
Please feel free to contact us at www.zibf.biz if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, the moderation policy, or the forum rules.


ZIBF Online Forum Moderation Policy

The Zug International Business Forum provides online networking and information exchange within a professional business atmosphere. In order to provide a friendly and respectful environment, we’ve developed a few rules governing online behavior.

Due to the high caliber of our members, online interaction will be self-regulating for the most part. However, we will make use of the moderating functions to keep the ZIBF Online Forum a useful, welcoming place. This policy statement is subject to review but serves as a guideline for both the ZIBF community in general and to our moderators in particular.

1) The use of real names (personal and corporate) typically promotes a more professional environment than pseudonyms or nick-names (as found elsewhere on the Internet). That is why we require your actual name and encourage you to post your photo when you create your “Member Profile.”

2) Helpfulness, friendliness, genuine interest, active involvement, constructive criticism, and a positive attitude are all encouraged.

3) We reserve the right to comment about your posts, publicly on the Online Forum or privately via a direct message to you, to move, trim or modify your posts, and to delete one or more of your posts.

4) Behavior you wouldn't want in your office -- negative attitudes, destructive criticism, etc. -- are discouraged in our Forum, and may be subject to modification or deletion.

5) Aggressive and rude behavior, insults, trolling, hate speech, racist, sexist, sexual, religious, or political discussions do not belong in the ZIBF Online Forum and will be removed by the moderators. Anyone posting such comments is subject to censure or expulsion at the discretion of ZIBF.

6) Discussions taking place on the ZIBF Online Forum should remain relevant to the concerns of the membership. Conversations may include business and professional issues, expat issues, and a variety of topics pertaining to business and life in the region around Zug, Switzerland. Although some conversations may naturally drift, moving too far into unrelated topics may cause the moderator to move a thread to another forum, or start a new thread, possibly in another sub-forum. We will re-locate threads which appear to be in the wrong sub-forum, so before starting a thread, please carefully consider the appropriate posting location.

7) For topics which don't clearly fit into one of the defined forums areas, there's always the Water Cooler, a place for unrelated chit-chat or off-topic discussion.

8) The moderators will make a good effort to keep an eye on the discussions, but can't be expected to see every post immediately. However, you can help with the moderation here. If you find a post which you believe violates this policy, click on the "Report Post" icon (small red "hazard" triangle) in the upper right corner of the post.

Comments or suggestions are welcome and may be directed to: moderator@zibf.biz.
Thank you!