Your privacy is very important to us. At the non-profit International Association for Hydrogen Safety “HySafe” we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

The International Association for Hydrogen Safety “HySafe” operates several websites including hysafe.info, hysafe.net, ichs2017.com, ichs2019.com, ichs2021.com and preslhy.eu.

It is HySafe’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, HySafe collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. HySafe’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how HySafe website’s visitors use its website. From time to time, HySafe may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

HySafe also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. HySafe only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to HySafe’s websites choose to interact with HySafe in ways that require HySafe to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that HySafe gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, HySafe collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with HySafe. HySafe does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

HySafe may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, HySafe may monitor the most popular pages on respective web services or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. HySafe may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, HySafe does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

HySafe discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its members, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on HySafe’s behalf or to provide services available at HySafe’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those members, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using HySafe’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. HySafe will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its members, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, HySafe discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when HySafe believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of HySafe, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a HySafe website and have supplied your email address, HySafe may occasionally send you an email to tell you about news, new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with HySafe and our products and projects, like the International Conference for Hydrogen Safety ICHS. We primarily use our various blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. HySafe takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Users of websites for International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (ICHS) buying conference tickets

To allow users of ICHS websites to purchase conference tickets, Hysafe implemented an e-commerce plugin on the above mentioned web sites. All the data gathered via the e-commerce tool are used only for billing purposes; such data are protected exactly in the same way as all other data collected by HySafe.

Authors and reviewers for ICHS submissions

The ICHS Scientific Committee, the reviewers and the authors submitting their papers to the ICHS conference can find their dedicated Privacy policy here:

http://conference.ing.unipi.it/ichs2021/privacy_policy.php

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. HySafe uses cookies to help HySafe identify and track visitors, their usage of HySafe’s website, and their website access preferences. HySafe visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using HySafe’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of HySafe’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If HySafe, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that HySafe goes out of its current activities or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of HySafe may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by HySafe and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, HySafe may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in HySafe’s sole discretion. HySafe encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.