SERS is firmly committed to protecting the privacy of personal information provided
by those visiting and interacting with our organization online. The following discloses
our policies for information gathering and dissemination on this website.
Website Usage Information
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and administer
our website. We may use cookies and we associate Institutional IP addresses with
their institutions only to track usage of the SERS site. We may also track the quantity
of traffic to the various areas of our site. SERS does not track what individual
users read but rather how often each page is visited. This helps us to maintain
a useful and informative website.
No Ad Servers: We have no relationships with any ad server companies.
The Information We Collect
Our order forms ask users to give us contact information that includes name, email
address, email preferences to receive or not receive email, email format preference
(HTML vs. Text), postal address, phone numbers, and facts about their order. In
some cases, we may request sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit
card numbers during the placement of orders.We use customer contact information
from these order forms to send the user order confirmation via email, follow-up
information, as well as information about SERS and our scientific and product offerings.
We may, from time to time, share or trade our customer information with other trusted
organizations. If you do not wish to receive mailings, please let us know
by emailing us, using the contact information provided on our Website. Persons who
supply us with their telephone numbers when ordering may receive calls from us regarding
the orders they have placed, and associated product offerings.
Links
This site contains links to the websites of other organizations. SERS is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the changing content of such websites. Please review
the privacy policies of these sites as you are reviewing ours here.
Security Technology
SERS will always keep updating our self to have a secured database, backup and firewall
technologies to protect our information assets. In future our plan is to use industry-standard
encryption technologies when exchanging data with our users. We have appropriate
security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss,
misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you via the web.
We will maintain safeguards to protect the security of the servers handling your
personal information.
SERS Email Practices
When you subscribe to any SERS Journal, purchase SERS publications and/or products,
submit your information to an SERS sales Executive in person, or register on our
website, we will use the email address (and format preference if applicable) you
provide to send you information about our product offerings. You may remove your
name from our mailing lists at any time or change your email address, or mail preferences,
by sending an email to
editor@sers.og.in
SERS Direct Mail Practices
If you supply us with your postal address when ordering you may receive periodic
mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events
related to the products you have purchased. If you do not wish to receive such mailings,
please let us know by calling us, emailing us, or writing us using the contact information
provided in this policy.
SERS Surveys
We may conduct occasional online surveys via our website or via email. These surveys
are entirely voluntary and you can easily decline to participate. Participating
in an online survey does not automatically add your name to subscriber lists for
Annual Reviews mailings of any kind.
Email Communications
Via telephone, mail, or email you can decline to receive further communications
from us, and your online unsubscribe requests will be processed immediately. You
can also correct or update your contact information by emailing us at
editor@sers.og.in.
To report an incident of unsolicited email (spam), please email
editor@sers.og.in
Policy Modifications
We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If/when SERS changes its
policies on the use of personal information, or we begin to use customer information
for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice, we will
state our revised policies here.
How to Contact SERS about Information Privacy
If you have any questions about our Privacy Statement, the information we have collected
from you online, or our information-privacy practices on this site, please contact:
patron@sers.og.in
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information-privacy policy,
please contact us.