PRIVACY POLICY

The (https://www.epseth.com) is a website owned and operated by the Ethiopian Pediatrics Society. In this privacy policy, the words "we", "our" and "us" refered to The ’Ethiopian Pediatrics Society’.  In this privacy policy, the words "they", "you", "your" is refered to the ’Visitors’, ’users’ of the https://www.epseth.com.

Notice that each time you try to access our site with http://www.epseth.com you are redirected or the software will force you to access via https://www.epseth.com . We purposely made this inforcement so that your access to oursite is fully encrypted plus your connectivity to our website will be more faster. In this days, security is more important as you surf on the internet. We did our best to secure your lines of communication withour site. 

We collect data from our users while they are on our site, the information they provide to us is stored into our database. Some of the information our visitors/users give to us while they are on our site is while

Creating Account:

• Personal information such as name
• Electronic address information such as mobile, electronic mail
• Physical address information such as sub cities and location or place where you live
• Location from where our users are currently accessing our site
• The platform you are using meaning the type of device and the browser you are using while accessing our site

From conference registration:

• Personal information such as name, Electronic Mail address such as the mobile and mail
• Location (meaning physical location)
• time/date of registration

From CPD:

• Personal information such as name, Electronic Mail address such as the mobile and mail
• time/date of registration 

We collect information for number of reason

• To present our website and its content to our users
• To alert our users via mail when an exam is uploaded and ready to be taken
• To alert our users who have not finished their course when the day approach to an end
• To verify a new registration
• To reduce spammers
• To update our most visited page with new features and make user friendly
• To send message via email concerning about CPD registration receipt approval rejection status [new]
• To send a bulk email message to CPD registered users concerning about the zoom meeting link and to send a certification on CPD training completion [new]
• To send certificate to our users who completed their CPD training program via Zoom. [new]

This information will help us to make it better for you while you are on EPS. We want to present our website for you as user friendly as possible by accessing the platforms that you are using.

BEST VIEWED
We have constructed the site and is functional across all types of browsers. But Ethiopian Pediatrics Society advice all user to view or access its page with the latest browser. The advantage of accessing with the latest browser is:

• Safety and security, latest browsers are integrated with latest anti malware software and
• programmed to load all html website faster
• present all output files easy and attractive

SECURITY

• ACCOUNT

• Your Profile information is secured with encryption. The admin does not have the access to your information. We only contact you when you finish CPD course successfully. You have the full access and authority to make a change on your profile information.
• As always, after finishing activity in your EPS account, DO NOT FORGET TO PRESS LOGOUT! To make it easy and simple for you we have placed the logout link on the footer

• MESSAGE/CHATTING

• We are not responsible for the privacy or security of your information once you provide it to your chatting group and we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your chatting partner before entering into any personal matter. * This is true even where the third parties to whom you disclose personal information on our site.

• SENSITIVE INFORMATION

• We do not collect sensitive information such as your account number or bank accounts because of the limitation on our country for online transaction, we will use third party software for online transaction in the future. 

• SPAMMER

• We don’t tolerate any spam registration or spam entry from our users. We have the right to terminate or put users or visitors into our black list from never to access our site ever again, without no notification. For more information please read our Terms of Use
• We have installed a third party software GOOGLE CAPCHA to help us identify spams. We use the Google Capcha to identify and block automated crawlers from registering or filling any malicious query on our any given open form such as, the regisration form, the contact form, our login form, etc. By using the thrid party software program we protect our database and also the safety of our users while surfing on our website.

• TRACKING SYSTEM

• We use tracking system to identify our widely visited page, and make an update on the page to make it more user friendly and load faster for you to access.
• We use this system to improve our customer service,
• EPS receives and records traffic data using Google Analytics including your IP address, EPS cookies and the page you requested. EPS uses this data to help diagnose problems with its server and analyze trends. We may also use any data we collect through the site to better understand and market to our customers or website visitors.
• Facebook share button has been added inorder to keep the website more active. The more you share stories to the social media the more the visitor attraction. Know that there won’t be any data collection what so ever from us. You only share stories that we post on your Facebook timeline the moment you hit the share button on each stories that you land on. ^[new]

• WE USE COOKIES
  
  • Cookies are small files of numbers and letters that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive. Some cookies used on this site are essential and are needed to ensure that the site works correctly, such as maintaining the background image that you see on each web page.

    • Session cookie/transient cookie contains information that is stored in a temporary memory location and then subsequently deleted after the session is completed or the web browser is closed. This cookie stores information that the user has inputted and tracks the movements of the user within the website.

NOTICE * We humbly ask that you keep your account confidential, nothing is 100% or has ever been 100% perfect. We have tried our best to protect your data from breach by using firewalls and encryption. But the safety of your account also depends on you, make sure after using our system to logout and always please keep your password confidential.

CHANGE POLICY

This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website and Application after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page.

Updated on: Sept 21,2022