Privacy Policy
For use by the National CyberWatch Center; and all its programs, initiatives and affiliates, owner of www.maccdc.org.
The National CyberWatch Center is committed to protecting your privacy and to holding any information received in strict confidence. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer, and we are the sole owner of all information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that we have not mentioned in this statement.
1. Introduction
This privacy policy describes how and why we obtain, store, and process data that can identify you. We may update this policy from time to time and shall indicate on the website when changes have been made.
2. The information we collect
Information is collected from you when you register with us, or when you contribute to or use some of the advanced features on the site. The information we collect is clearly set out on the webpage on which we collect it. See for example our Registration page.
3. Why we collect it
We collect information about you so that we can personalize your use of the site, assist your use of the site, and improve the site generally.
4. Who we disclose it to
4.1 We will only pass on information about you as an individual (as opposed to aggregate information) to other National CyberWatch Center staff or third parties to enable us to perform services requested by you or with your prior consent. Any personal information provided is confidential and protected and may be disclosed only under specific conditions and with prior written authorizations and consents.
4.2 If you give your consent, we will pass your contact details to third parties who may then occasionally send communications to you to provide information and services that may be of interest to you.
4.3 In certain circumstances we may need to disclose information about you if you breach this privacy policy or if you breach the Terms of Use. We may also disclose or access your account if required to do so by law.
5. How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file that is placed on your computer’s hard drive if you give permission. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to our users’ needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser’s setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
6. Security
Keeping information about you secure is very important to us, and certain sections of the site may encrypt data using cryptographic and hashing standards. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. We strive to protect your personal information, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you send to us, and you do so at your own risk. We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose in your browsing secure and to only release this information to third parties we believe share our commitment to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of these parties.
7. Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.
Through this website you are able to link to other websites that are not under the control of the National CyberWatch Center. We have no control over the nature, content, and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.
Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, the National CyberWatch Center takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable because of technical issues.
8. Liability
The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by the National CyberWatch Center, and while we endeavor to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability, or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. The National CyberWatch Center provides general information on its website. The National CyberWatch Center’s website is not intended to provide legal advice. Any person needing legal advice should consult an attorney.
In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.
9. Questions?
If you wish to change any information you have given us, or have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at info@nationalcyberwatch.org. Please note Privacy Policy in the subject line of your email.
Terms of Use
Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.
This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to the National CyberWatch Center’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of the Center’s privacy policy/cookies policy.
License to use website
Unless otherwise stated, the National CyberWatch Center and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
- republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
- sell, rent, or sub-license material from the website;
- reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
- edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
- redistribute material from this website, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.
Acceptable use
You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material that consists of (or is linked to) any malicious software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without the National CyberWatch Center’s express written consent.
You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without the National CyberWatch Center’s express written consent.
Restricted access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. The National CyberWatch Center reserves the right to restrict access to certain areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at the National CyberWatch Center’s discretion.
If the National CyberWatch Center provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential and protected using credential management best practices.
The National CyberWatch Center may disable your user ID and password in the Center’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.
User content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material, and audiovisual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to the National CyberWatch Center a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to the National CyberWatch Center the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or the National CyberWatch Center or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
The National CyberWatch Center reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on the Center’s systems, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding the National CyberWatch Center’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, the National CyberWatch Center does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
No warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. The National CyberWatch Center makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the National CyberWatch Center does not warrant that:
- this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
- the information on this website is complete, true, accurate, or non-misleading.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any [legal, financial, or medical] matter, you should consult an appropriate professional.
Limitations of liability
The National CyberWatch Center will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts, or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
- to the extent that the website is provided free of charge, for any direct loss;
- for any indirect, special, or consequential loss; or
- for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if the National CyberWatch Center has been expressly advised of the potential loss.
Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit, and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit the National CyberWatch Center’s liability in respect of any:
- death or personal injury caused by the National CyberWatch Center’s negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of the National CyberWatch Center; or
- matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for the National CyberWatch Center to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.
If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
Other parties
You accept that, as an academic and research organization, the National CyberWatch Center has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its staff. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against the National CyberWatch Center’s staff in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.
Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect the National CyberWatch Center’s staff, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns, and subcontractors as well as the National CyberWatch Center.
Unenforceable provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify the National CyberWatch Center and undertake to keep the National CyberWatch Center indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities, and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by the National CyberWatch Center to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of the National CyberWatch Center’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by the National CyberWatch Center arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to the National CyberWatch Center’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, the National CyberWatch Center may take such action as the Center deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your Internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website, and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation
The National CyberWatch Center may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
The National CyberWatch Center may transfer, subcontract, or otherwise deal with the Center’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, subcontract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire agreement
These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and the National CyberWatch Center in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Maryland law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Maryland.