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Overview of Privacy Policy

This privacy policy statement describes the privacy policy pertaining to the Network Barbados Website maintained by the Invest Barbados. It indicates what type of information we gather, what we do with it, and what you can do about it.

Collection of Information

Here are the types of information we gather

• Information You Give Us: We receive and may store any information you enter on our Portal or give us in any other way.

Security of Your Personal Information

We are committed to protecting and securing of your personal information. Personal information is information that you provide us which personally identifies you, such as your name, national registration number, email address, billing information, or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by using the portal. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example,

• We store the personal information you provide and transaction data on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, access to your personal information is restricted to provide the greatest security possible.
• We store the personal information you provide and transaction data on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, access to your personal information is restricted to provide the greatest security possible.
• Your credit card information is not stored at any of our facilities.
• Persons who legitimately come into possession of another’s personal information while using the portal are not permitted to use or disclose such information without the consent of the owner of the information. This applies particularly to persons who may be temporarily acting as the agent of the owner of the information, example, lawyers acting on behalf of clients.

You may access some of our services by signing up for a Network Barbados account and providing us with some personal information. This account information will be used to authenticate you when you access the portal and protect your account from unauthorized access by others. Your account information is NOT shared with anyone except as specified in the Privacy Policy or with your consent.

If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. DO NOT share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always choose to log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.

Information Security issues considered when implementing our policy governing the security of personal information include the following:

• The theft of clients' credit card details which would jeopardize not only our organisation's reputation with clients and the Card Issuers, but also places the card holders at financial risk.
• Disclosure of clients' credit card details to anyone who is not explicitly authorised, jeopardises not only our organisation's reputation with clients and the Card Issuers, but also places the card holders at financial risk.

Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

• What are Cookies and Web Beacons: These are unique alphanumeric identifiers or text files transferred to your computer through your web browser. Web beacons are electronic images which allow tracking of general user-traffic patterns. Web beacons allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. When you visit a website again, the cookie records that information and allows that site to recognize your browser when you visit again. Cookies may store user preferences and other information.
• What we use cookies and web beacons for: Cookies are used to assist you to securely login to the portal and use some services provided on the portal. Web Beacons or Web Bugs are not used on the Network Barbados.

What you can do about Cookies

You can either accept or decline cookies, but your experience may be reduced on the portal if you choose to decline cookies.

Information Security issues considered when implementing our policy pertaining to the use of cookies and web beacons include the following:

• Where viruses, Trojan applications and malicious code are able to penetrate your defences and activated by your Web browser, serious damage may result.
• Users may not be aware of the necessary settings and related policy for ensuring security when using web browsers.

Use of information gathered:

We use the information we gather for several general purposes:

• To enhance the user experience in our network of sites. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you;
• To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in paid services, polls and message boards;
• To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• inform you of other products or services offered by government departments.
• Information gathered while using the portal must be used in accordance with the business purposes expressly authorized by management.
• Persons who store, copy or distribute illegal or offensive material may be committing an offence.
• Authority to access the organisation's systems may not be assumed, because unauthorised access is not expressly prohibited.
• System software messages, displayed prior to authenticated logon, should not be construed as an invitation to use the computer system, and potentially encourage unauthorised access.
• Pre-login information screen messages which describe the services or options available to users once they have logged in, can increase the risk of further attempts to access your information systems.

Sharing of Information Gathered

Personally Identifiable Information

We will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or persons when:

• You volunteer information or create a public profile in the course of your participation in our community features such as forums, user opinions and reviews, chat rooms, photo sharing or other forms of public communication and interaction.
• When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process.
• We believe that your actions violate applicable laws, Network Barbados’s Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.

Information Security issues considered when implementing our policy pertaining to the use of sharing information gathered via the portal include the following:

• The following examples of Internet access via the portal not only detract from business efficiency, but can even result in legal and criminal proceedings, which will almost certainly damage the organisation.
  1. Downloading of pornographic material from Web sites
  2. Playing games and using 'Chat Rooms'.
  3. Subscribing and contributing to news groups using the corporate internet address and signature.
  4. The use and abuse of office equipment for the storage and printing of inappropriate material, example, large pictures/images.
  5. Sending and receiving personal correspondence by e-mail, the volume and content of which is deemed as excessive and / or inappropriate.
  6. Excessive 'surfing' of Web sites during business hours for personal reasons.
  7. Retrieval and distribution to other staff of offensive 'joke of the day' e-mails
  8. The use and abusive of office equipment for the storage and printing of inappropriate material e.g. large pictures / images.

THE USE OF INFORMATION SUCH AS THOSE GIVEN IN THE EXAMPLES ABOVE ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.

Aggregate Information

We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.

What are my options?

Users who do not wish to provide any user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with www.networkbarbados.com. A large portion of content can still be viewed without registration, however the user may be unable to participate in or use some services offered.

Users also have the following options:

• Opting not to receive calendar event notifications. Users may opt to remove themselves from these notifications at any time via our subscription management pages.
• Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a site, will result in your not being able to use some of our services without providing us certain information.
• Users may choose to only view unsecured information such as will be provided in the content management process, e.g., historical information and general information such as recipes.

How can I review or update my personally identifiable Information

You can review, correct, or change the information collected during registration for any of our sites. The instructions for doing this can be found in our member-services areas. Users may change information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems with our services or who have questions about how our services work can contact us using e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.

At the Profile Center you can:

• View and edit personal information you have already given us at www.networkbarbados.com
• Tell us whether you want www.networkbarbados.com to send you marketing information.
• Choose whether you want third parties to contact you.
• Subscribe, or cancel subscriptions, to newsletters about our services and products.

Protection of children’s Personal Information

www.networkbarbados.com does not knowingly allow children under the age of 18 to participate in any of the services offered. Participation of children in services offered by www.networkbarbados.com can only be done by the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Examples of information we collect

Information You Give Us

You provide information when you search, buy, pay, post, participate in a questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; pay taxes through www.networkbarbados.com; provide information in your Account; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire; participate in Discussion Boards or other community features; provide and rate Reviews; specify a Special Occasion Reminder; and employ other Personal Notification Services, such as Available to Order Notifications. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number; content of reviews and e-mails to us; and financial information, including National Insurance and driver's license numbers.

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; payment and purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for; and the phone number you used to call our Customer Service number. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Changes to this statement

We routinely update this privacy statement. When this update is done, we place the “last updated” date at the top of the privacy statement. We encourage users to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed on how we help to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.

Contact information

Questions regarding this privacy statement or any other aspects of our network of Web sites should be sent via e-mail contact@investbarbados.org or to our office at Invest Barbados, Trident Financial Centre, Hastings, Barbados. We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the information.

Information Security issues considered when implementing our contact information security policy include the following:

• Sensitive information may be stolen because callers masquerade as you over the telephone.
• Secure or unlisted phone numbers may be acquired from your stored information.
• Secure or unlisted phone numbers may be acquired from global information stored in your PBX.

1. As part of the contact information policy, telephone numbers must be included as well as the e-mail address.
2. Mailing addresses must also be provided

NB. These policies are governed by the laws of Barbados in relation to the Data Protection Act http://www.commerce.gov.bb/fyi/news00a.asp?artid=166 and the Electronic Transaction Act, http://www.barbadosbusiness.gov.bb/miib/Legislation/documents/electronics_transactions_act_cap308b.pdf and is also in agreement with those international standards ISO 17799 AND BS 7799 governing data protection and the privacy of personal information.