Privacy Policy
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Centre of Excellence are committed to providing quality information and services to the scientific community. In order to do this, we need to know a little about you. For the purposes of data protection, natureasia.com is the Internet publishing platform for NPG Asia Materials. The web site is hosted in Japan. Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a trading name of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, and Nature Japan K.K. (trading as NPG Nature Asia-Pacific), a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers Limited.
What user information is collected?
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific collects only the domain name, but not the email address of visitors to the website, and any additional information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations. NPG Nature Asia-Pacific also collect aggregate and user-specific information on which pages consumers access or visit. The collected information is used for internal review, to improve the content of web pages, to notify consumers about updates to the website, and occasionally, to contact consumers for marketing purposes. It is not sold or traded with other organizations for commercial purposes, though occasionally you may be sent information on behalf of carefully selected commercial partners.
Cookies
We use cookies to record session information and to track a user's path through our websites. This enables us to respond to any problems with our service and to offer a more personalised service. We also use cookies to deliver banner advertisements that are appropriate to each visitor, but these do not uniquely identify our visitors in any way.
The search facility
Banner advertisements on the search results page may be matched to suit the results of your search.
What about the information requested during registration?
When registering at the NPG Asia Materials website, we need information from you that identifies you personally. These include your location, general interest and position. We also ask some further, voluntary questions so we can gain a clearer understanding of our users. We use some parts of your personal information (such as your username and password) to operate certain functions, for example, banner advertising, contained within the NPG Asia Materials website. We need your email address in order to send you confirmation of your user identity and password.
If you supply information relating to your field of work, place of work, specialty and position, this may be used to determine the advertising banners that are displayed to you.
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific ensures that your personal information is stored securely in their database.
Emails from the NPG Asia Materials website
When registering on the NPG Asia Materials website, you may be offered the option to receive:
- Periodic email alerts about the latest published highlights.
- Occasional news from NPG Asia Materials.
- Occasional new product information alerts - information about new journal launches and the latest products from the NPG Nature Asia-Pacific or the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
- Occasional special offer alerts - information about special promotions, discounted subscriptions, conference packages and other money-saving opportunities.
- Occasional third party alerts - relevant information on behalf of third parties (without selling, exchanging or disclosing your personal information to the third party).
You may opt out of these at the registration stage, or any time thereafter, by following the instructions at the bottom of the alert, or by logging in and modifying of your account.
Your privacy is important to us
We strive to do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. We do not sell or exchange personally identifiable information with any third parties.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes on our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, we recommend that you review this Privacy Statement periodically, as the NPG Asia Materials may update it from time to time.
If you would like to ensure that you are not contacted by us as a result of having used our site, please contact us at feedback@asia-materials.com.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at feedback@asia-materials.com. We will be sure to address your concerns.
Linking to and from the NPG Asia Materials website
Please contact us at feedback@asia-materials.com if you would like to link to or from our site, and we will be pleased to advise you about our policies. Please provide full details of your site and how the linking will be used.
