SESRIC takes personal privacy with respect to information collection, processing and usage very seriously, and shares your personal information protection concerns. SESRIC collects and uses information through this website only in the ways disclosed in this policy. This policy is only valid for information collected at SESRIC website.

At several points, SESRIC collects information through this website. SESRIC may collect the following information including your contact details (your name, address, phone number and email, field of expertise); and your demographic, social and economic data where appropriate.

Demographic data collection is for user request completions, content customization and website improvement.

SESRIC cannot validate the correctness of this information since all collected information is given voluntarily with the truly informed consent of the users/visitors.

On SESRIC website are registration forms which ask users appropriate questions falling into the related website sections. SESRIC uses these forms as a means for information collection. SESRIC website users are free to fill in these forms.

SESRIC does not use cookies to track user traffic patterns and browsing behaviors. An HTTP cookie is a parcel of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. An HTTP cookie is used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences and the contents of their electronic shopping carts. If you would like to know more about cookies, or would like to disable cookies in your browser settings (i.e. refuse cookies) please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

SESRIC uses the collected information for user request completion, content customization, website operation and improvement. SESRIC may send email announcements about the recent upcoming events at SESRIC and recent publications by SESRIC to the users who provide their information.

SESRIC may share data with OIC member country agencies and OIC sub-organs. Users may opt out to have their information shared with third parties.

SESRIC website may contain links to other websites whose privacy policy standards may be different from that of SESRIC. SESRIC encourages its users to read their privacy policies, when they click on the external links found at SESRIC website.

SESRIC offers contact information of experts in specific fields. Please be advised that information posted in these venues becomes public knowledge.

SESRIC policy on information collection or uses may change without any notice. Please be aware to regularly check this page for the most recent version of our Privacy Policy.

SESRIC maintains the correctness of the collected information by providing the users instant access to it and allowing updates to take effect after our revision. Users may access their own personal information and contact SESRIC about errors they may find. Please email such errors to webcontent@sesric.org. Users may ask SESRIC to delete their information from its database.

If problems arise, users may contact SESRIC by emailing to oicankara@sesric.org. SESRIC is committed to resolving disputes within 5 business days.

SESRIC applies the following technological measures to ensure safety and to prevent loss, theft, leakage, modification or damage of the personal information:

1. Personal information of users is protected with password, and file and transmitted data are encoded, thus cannot be accessed by other users. 
2. SESRIC undertakes all possible efforts within its budget to prevent damage from computer virus, using antivirus programs. The antivirus programs are updated on a regular basis.
3. In defense against intrusion from outside, such as hacking, SESRIC stores all information provided by the user in another server computer completely separated from the Internet, establishing 100% security system fundamentally blocking the hacking threats. Furthermore, SESRIC makes full efforts for security using firewalls and weakness analysis system in each server.