Our Privacy Policy

The World Kashmir Forum is led by a devoted group of individuals, advocates, scholars, philanthropists and civil society activists who share a common core set of values and are keen on providing a strong voice for consciousness for Kashmir, its sovereignty, integrity, its citizens in all its forms and manifestations regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation and physical abilities.

Our Privacy Policy outlines how we obtain information from you and what we do with it. It also explains the choices you can make to control your privacy when you use and logon on our website.To run our service and show you relevant content we need to know a little about you and your interests. Here we outline what information petition.worldkashmirforum.com collects, and how we collect it.

When you sign or create a petition via our petition.worldkashmirforum.complatform, an account is created for you; all of your activities on our website are then tied to this account. In the chart below, we’ve detailed the information we may collect about you, depending on your activities on the platform, and how we obtain this information.

What we collect	How we collect it
Your name.	We require you to provide a chosen name when you create a petition.worldkashmirforum.com account.
Your email address.	We require you to provide an email address when you create a petition.worldkashmirforum.com account.
Your password.	We require you to enter a password when you create a petition.worldkashmirforum.com account.
Your IP address. Your “IP Address” is a designator that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).	An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you use our platform and services, along with the time of your visit and the specific page(s) that you visited.
Your postal address.	You may choose to provide your postal address when you create a petition.worldkashmirforum.com account. Providing this information is not required to use the service.
Your telephone number.	You may choose to provide your telephone number when you create an account. Providing this information is not required to use the service.
Your city.	We use the IP service NTIER to suggest your city from your IP address, in order to show you local petitions that may be of interest. You can change this information if it is displayed incorrectly. We do not share your information with NTIER. Providing a city is required to use the service.
Your country.	As mentioned above, we use the IP service NTIER to suggest your city from your IP address, in order to show our local petitions that may be of interest. This enables us to determine your country. We do not share your information with anybody. Providing a city is required to use the service.
Your profile picture.	You may choose to upload a profile picture when you create an account, or at any time. Providing this information is not required to use the service.
Your specific activities on or connected to our online platform. These might include petitions you have started or signed, shared or promoted, or whether you decide to become a petition.worldkashmirforum.com member.	When you are signed in or identified as particular user, your activities on or connected to our online platform are automatically associated with your account.
Any other information you voluntarily submit.	You may be offered the choice to provide other information to us. For example, we may collect information when you respond to user surveys or provide information if we assist you by telephone. Providing this information is not required to use the service.
The name of the browser you use to access our website.	Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows PC or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of ouronline platform you are using. Collecting this information helps us build and deliver the best possible and updated version of all applications to you.
Your social media account ID, and information shared with us via your social media account.	We may obtain certain information through your social media accounts connected to your petition.worldkashmirforum.com account, if you choose to link them. Linking a social media account is not required to access the service. For example, if you log in to our website via Facebook, we ask for your permission to access certain information about your Facebook account, activities and friends. Social media sites make information available to all apps through their API, such as friend lists. The information we receive depends on what information you or the social media site decide to give us.
Information inferred about the issues you care about based on your activities on the platform.	As part of our efforts to connect people to causes that interest them, petitions you sign might be tagged by our users or by us as particular cause areas. For example, a petition may be tagged as “human rights” or “women’s rights”. If you sign one petition tagged in a particular cause area, we may infer that you would be interested in other petitions tagged in the same way. We may also send you petitions that are relevant to your general geographic area.
Information collected through cookies as disclosed in our linked Cookies Policy	We, and/or our service providers may use cookies, pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs), and other similar technologies to understand user activities. Like other websites, our website will not function properly if cookies are not enabled. We use third-party analytics services like Google Analytics provided by Google Inc. (“Google”), the Amplitude service provided by Amplitude (“Amplitude”), the Optimizely service provided by Optimizely (“Optimizely”), and the Chartio service provided by Chartio (“Chartio”). These analytics services may use cookies and similar technologies to analyze how people use our services and provide statistical reports about aggregate user behavior. Such services may also collect information about platform visitors’ use of other websites. Please review our Cookies Policy for detailed information on the cookies we use, and how you can manage these.

When you sign or create a petition via our online platform, an account and user profile page are created for you. Any petitions that you sign will not appear on your user profile by default. Any petitions that you have started and published will appear on your user profile by default. You can change your Privacy settings or you can edit or remove the permissions you have granted to our online platform to use information from your social media accounts by using your application privacy settings on your social media account If you have signed in on petition.worldkashmirforum.com through Facebook connect, you are likely to have been cookied by Facebook. You can modify or change those cookies through the settings on your Facebook account. For more details on cookies, please see our Cookies Policy. Some of the information above reveals your specific identity, or is directly tied to your specific identity, such as your name and email address. Some of this information does not reveal your specific identity, or does not directly relate to you, such as your picture, browser and device information or information collected through cookies. If we ever combine non-personally identifiable information with personally identifiable information, the combined information will be treated by us as personally identifying information and protected accordingly.

Our services are not directed to people under the age of sixteen (18), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.