Privacy policy

How we use your information

DIF only collects information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about our programs.

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

* See what data we have about you, if any.

* Change/correct any data we have about you.

* Have us delete any data we have about you.

 * Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security 

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy,  contact us immediately.

Cookies 

We use cookies on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

How you can use material on our site

You should assume that everything you see or read on this Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the written permission of the Development Innovation Foundation (DIF). DIF neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Site will not infringe the rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with DIF.

You may download, display, or print information from this Site (the “Information”) solely for non-commercial personal use.

You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, repost, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including text, images, graphics, audio, and video, without the written permission of DIF.

With the exception of the foregoing limited authorization, no license to or right in any copyright of DIF or any other party is granted or conferred to you.

The DIF site may contain or reference trademarks, patents, proprietary information, technologies, products, processes, or other proprietary rights of DIF and/or other parties. No license to or right in any such trademarks, patents, trade secrets, technologies, products, processes, and other proprietary rights of DIF and/or other parties is granted to or conferred upon you.

While DIF uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on the Site, DIF makes no warranties or representations with respect to the content of the Site, which is provided “as is”.

DIF accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever arising from or in any way connected with the use of this Site or its content. In particular, DIF will not be liable for the accuracy, completeness, adequacy, timeliness, or comprehensiveness of the information contained on the Site. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

DIF also assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.

DIF reserves the right to interrupt or discontinue any or all of the functionality of its Site. DIF, as the entity controlling this Site, accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any interruption or discontinuance of any or all functionality of its Site, whether the result of actions or omissions of DIF or a third party.

Any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, feedback, ideas, queries, comments, suggestions, or the like, is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post becomes the property of DIF or its affiliates and may be used for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting.

Furthermore, DIF is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing products using such information.

The information may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. DIF reserves the right to make changes, corrections, and/or improvements to the Information, and to the products and programs described in such information, at any time without notice.

The DIF site contains information on its products and services, not all of which are available in every location. A reference to a DIF product or service on the Site does not imply that such product

or service is or will be available in your location.

Because DIF has no control over and does not endorse any of the sites to which the Site is linked and because DIF has not reviewed any or all of the sites to which the Site is linked, you acknowledge that DIF is not responsible for the content of any off-Site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to the Site, off-Site pages, or other sites is at your own risk and without the permission of DIF.

Although DIF may from time to time monitor or review postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on the Site, DIF is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.

DIF will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing DIF to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

DIF may, at any time, revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should, therefore, periodically visit this page to review the then-current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.

Framing of this Site by sites or site elements of parties not part of DIF is not permitted. In-line linking or any other manner of incorporating parts of this Site into sites of parties not part of DIF is equally prohibited.