The Development Action for Women Network has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy issues. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for DAWN.

At DAWN, we are very committed to your privacy, so here is our PRIVACY PROMISE TO YOU: DAWN will never sell, exchange, or release any of your individual personal information to a third party without your express permission.

Information we may collect:

Occasionally, we may conduct online surveys which, we may ask users for contact information (like email addresses) and demographic information (like zip code, age, or income level, etc.). We use contact data to send user information about our company and, of course, to notify people of the result of such surveys.

We understand, though, that you may want to participate in these surveys but may not want us to send you email. Accordingly, as part of these surveys, we will always give you the option of declining to receive information from DAWN. Hey, if you don't want to receive email, just let us know, and we won't send it. It is as simple as that.

Like other web sites, your IP number is visible to us when you visit our web site. What is an IP address, you may ask? It is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're connected the Internet. Your IP number is visible to most of the websites that you visit. Don't worry, though, at DAWN, we only use IP numbers to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer our Web site. Other sites may use your IP number for marketing purposes. We don't.

From time to time, we may share with third parties aggregate information-- such as, how many of our users are men, or how many DAWN visitors search on Internet-related topics. Such information will not contain any personal identifying information.

Cookies

Like many sites, DAWN uses cookies. Cookies are data files that are stored on your computer. They contain identification information that enables us to see how our users are interacting with our site and how frequently they are returning. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information.

We use cookies for the benefit of our users. Cookies let us know if we have repeat visitors and if we are delivering a quality service to our visitors. We also use cookies to identify which sites our repeat visitors are coming from. Essentially, it is an anonymous way to survey how we are doing and to look for other visitors who we think will like our site.

If you do not want to accept cookies from DAWN or other sites, your browser software should allow you to not accept cookies. Look in the Preferences (Netscape) or Internet Options (Microsoft Internet Explorer) feature to do this.

Links to other Web sites

DAWN contains many links to other sites. DAWN is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. DAWN does not share any of the individual personal information you provide DAWN with the sites to which DAWN links, although DAWN may share aggregate data with such sites (such as how many people use our site). This includes other third party sites on the Internet for which DAWN provides search services.

Please check with those sites to determine their privacy policy.

Opt-out

If you do not wish to receive future communications from us, you can send an email to privacy@dawnphil.org.

Contacting DAWN

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with DAWN, please contact:

Privacy Policy Issues
Development Action for Women Network
Room 514, Don Santiago Building.
1344 Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila, Philippines 1000
Telephone #: (632) 526-9098
Fax #: (632) 526-9101
E-mail: dawnphil@i-next.net