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Data Use Policy
The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (after this referred to as ‘ISIJ’) receives various forms of personal information from users who use Steel Science Portal (after this referred to as ‘this service’).
1. Information we receive and how it is used
1.1. Account Information
Upon new user registration, users are required to provide personal information such as name, Email address, country, organization/company, or their research field.
1.2. User Property and Activity Information
We aggregate users’ activity information such as keywords on search, articles that a user viewed or bookmarked, and users’ property information such as IP address or browser via which a user use our service.
2. Purpose of Aggregation
We aggregate and analyze information on users’ activities to improve our service in terms of features.
Also we may utilize users names and contact information in order to contact users in reply to their inquiries. After statistical processing, we may publish or provide third parties with anonymous forms (without the name, email address, or IP address) of users’ information as below:
Users’ statistic information on activities such as keywords on search and/or viewed/bookmarked articles
Users’ property information such as their research field within account information
3. Account Closure
You may delete your account at any time. After the closure of the account, you lose all the rights to this services and can no longer access your personal information and bookmarks.
We will retain the information for a certain period to prevent misconduct such as violation of use policy.
4. External links
This service includes many external links to web sites outside our service. However, we are not responsible or liable for using personal information on the sites. You are highly recommended to learn about privacy policies on the sites before you visit the sites from the links.
5. About the use of Cookies
This service uses Cookies to make our service usable and for user authentication.
Meanwhile, Cookies are also used on the sites outside our service, that can be accessed through external links on our site. In this case, Cookies shall be used in compliance with the policy stipulated by the administrator of the sites.
6. Revision of Policy
The Data Use Policy is subject to change as necessary. Important change shall be announced explicitly, for example, on the top page of our service.