Your Privacy Is Important to GOSS
In the course of serving you as a member or as an individual client, GOSS Institute of Research Management Ltd., may obtain personal information about you. Obtaining this information is important to our ability to deliver the highest level of service to you, but we also recognize that you expect us to treat this information appropriately. GOSS has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.
This policy describes the types of personal information we may collect about you, the purposes for which we use the information, the circumstances in which we may share the information and the steps that we take to safeguard the information to protect your privacy.

GOSS reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to alter and update this Privacy & Security Policy from time to time; therefore, we urge visitors to our website to review the current version of the Privacy & Security Policy each time they return to our website.

The Information We Have about You
The personal information we collect about you comes primarily from the member applications or other forms and materials you submit to GOSS during the course of your relationship with us. In addition, depending on the products or services you require, GOSS may obtain additional information about you.

The typical information we collect about you may include but be not limited to:

• Your name, age, gender;
• Your role/position/title and area of responsibility;
• General company information;
• Address, email address, telephone number and other contact details;

Of course, you can refuse to provide any of the personal information that we may request. However, failure to do so may result in our being unable to open or maintain your account or to provide services to you.

What We Do with the Information We Gather
We may use your personal information to:

• Internal record keeping;
• Administer, operate, facilitate and manage your relationship and/or account with GOSS;
• Contact you or, if applicable, your designated representative(s) by post, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., in connection with your relationship;
• Provide you with information (such as the latest research achievement, internal analysis report, etc.), recommendations, or advice concerning products and services offered by GOSS;

If your relationship with GOSS ends, GOSS will continue to treat your personal information, to the extent we retain it, as described in this policy.

And GOSS will never sell your personal information. 

Information Security
GOSS is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. We limit access to your personal information to authorized GOSS employees or our service providers are held to stringent standards of privacy. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorized access or disclosure.

Privacy and the Internet
We may use cookies or other technology to obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our website. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Our website may use cookies and other technology to store pertinent user information during a session to speed navigation and keep track of items and to collect anonymous traffic data that we may use to enhance our website and for marketing and promotional purposes. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive new cookies, and how to disable cookies altogether.

This Privacy &Security Policy does not apply to any information you may disclose publicly in any chat rooms, message boards, or similar web pages, including those hosted on or linked to our website. You should keep in mind that whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online that information could be collected and used by people whom you do not know. In addition, certain message boards and similar user forums may display IP addresses along with the message poster's name and message. GOSS bears no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information users may disclose on the message boards, chat areas or other user forums, if any, on this website.

Last Updated: Jan 8, 2013