Clearinghouse Terms of Use and User Agreement

© AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition / Family Health International 2009

Terms of use and web site user agreement

Welcome to the Web site of the Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention, a global resource centre on male circumcision research, programme implementation, documentation, and information. Your access to and use of the Clearinghouse (henceforward, "Web site") is subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement and to all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Web site, you agree to and are bound by these terms and conditions. The materials, reports, and studies that appear on the Web site are for information purposes only. The Web site is provided to you "as is," with all faults, and is "as available." The Web site’s initiating partners are the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), and Family Health International (FHI). The Web site’s initiating partners, affiliates, agents, and licensors cannot and do not make any guarantee that the Web site will be error-free or continuously available, or that the Web site will be free of viruses or other harmful components. Service to all or part of this Web site may be discontinued at any time.  There is no guarantee or warranty that any report, research, article, or any other editorial content will be available online.


Disclaimer

The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) and Family Health International (FHI), hold joint copyright of the Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention (henceforward, “Web site”) as a Web site. Copyright of each publication included in the Web site is retained by the entity which submitted it.

Neither the Web site nor WHO, UNAIDS, AVAC, nor FHI warrant that the information contained herein is complete and correct and they shall not be either jointly or severally liable for any damages incurred as a result of its use. The Web site and its initiating partners reserve the right to make updates and changes without notice and accept no liability for any errors or omissions in this regard. Any alteration to the original content brought about by display or access through different media is not the responsibility of the Web site or its initiating partners.

All information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The Web site makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this Web site and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in its content.  Additionally, it does not assume any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product, or process disclosed herein, nor freedom from computer virus, and does not represent that use of such information, product, or process would not infringe on privately owned rights. Under no circumstances shall the Web site or its initiating partners, copyright holders, affiliates, agents, or licensors be liable to you or to anyone else for any damages arising out of use of the Web site, including, without limitation, liability for consequential, special, incidental, indirect or similar damages, even if we are advised beforehand of the possibility of such damages.

Trademarks, service marks, and logos

Visitors to the Web site may not use any trademark, service mark, or logo appearing on the Web Site, except where otherwise noted (e.g., Link to our Site page) without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark. Requests for permission to use a trademark, service mark, or logo may be sent by e-mail by using the Webmaster link at the footer of this page, or to this address: Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention Clearinghouse Webmaster, Family Health International, PO Box 13950, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.

Web photography policy

The inclusion of persons in images or photographs within this Web Site should not be construed as indicating their health status. For a list of photography credits, click here.

Other terms of web site service

Information changes over time, and reports that were accurate when posted can become out-dated. Though this Web site may post follow-up reports, and may continue to provide access to the original reports, as in an archive of publications, we do not necessarily change the original report to reflect new developments. If you seek the most recent information on a given subject, and not the history of how the story unfolded, please verify that you are not looking at an out-of-date report. Note: We recommend that this site’s research, reports, and other information be downloaded directly from this Site (www.malecircumcision.org) and not through other sources that may change the information in some way or exclude material crucial to the understanding of that information.

Privacy statement

The Web site values your privacy. The information we collect during your visits to www.malecircumcision.org depends upon what you do while visiting our site. If you visit our site to read or download reports, we collect and store only the following information about you:

  • Date, time, country, and city location from which you access our site
  • Internet address of the Web site from which you came to visit our site
  • Web pages and files you view or download while you visit our site

We use this information to measure the number of visitors to different sections of our site, find out what information is viewed most, and to help us make our site more useful. 

If you send us an email, we will not obtain information that identifies you specifically when you visit our Site, unless you choose to provide such information to us via email.

Use of cookies

In general, the Web site does NOT use the "cookies" that other sites use to gather and store information about your visits. Cookies are essentially tokens of information, such as preferences and passwords, which some web servers collect when you access them. That data is stored on your hard drive — not on the Web site's server. When you visit a "cookie" site, the server looks for its cookie on your hard drive and reads the information it stored there. Read your Web browser's help files to learn more about cookies.

Electronic news subscription privacy

The Web site will not sell or otherwise make available to any third party names, emails addresses, postal addresses, or other personal information from its electronic news subscription list. We use a double opt-in system that sends a confirmation email to new subscribers to make sure that they want to be added to the Web site’s electronic news subscription list. Subscribers may choose to unsubscribe at any time. Unsubscribe information is located at the bottom of each electronic news update that the Web site sends to subscribers.

The Web site stores all email addresses submitted through its online sign-up form on a secure server hosted by a third party, Groundspring.org. Groundspring.org does not access the contents of the Web site’s email address list. The Web site will not sell or otherwise make available names, email addresses, postal addresses, or other information from its electronic news subscription list to any third party.

Legal requirements

Though the Web site makes every effort to preserve user privacy, there may be times when it needs to disclose personal information when required by law. Examples of such requirements include responding to a court order or in response to requests from law enforcement authorities.

Privacy policies of other web sites

The Web site includes links to other web sites. When you click to other sites, we are not responsible for, and have no control over, the information collection, or privacy practices of that site. It is important that you review and understand the privacy policies posted on any linked sites you visit before volunteering any of your personal information. These sites may also collect cookies or allow third-party advertisers on their sites to collect cookies. You can often find information regarding a site and its privacy policy on the site's home page.