As a members organisation parts of our site invite you to subscribe to Nanoforum to obtain more information on nanotechnology and our activities. For our membership, we ask for your name and email address. Besides this personal information, we also collect information relating to the way you use our site, such as what pages you visit or what information you search for, and information such as your IP address or browser type. However, this data is not associated with your personal information. Instead, we use this "anonymous data" to operate our site and statistically to improve our site, for example by identifying which parts of our site especially interest users as a group. You may change your email address on file with us as necessary, or cancel your request for membership. With your permission, we may also use contact information to send you information about our products and services. Even if you choose not to receive such information from us, we reserve the right to use your contact information if we consider it necessary to send you crucial information or in other unusual circumstances.

We keep personal information concerning you on a secure server. It is protected by a firewall and other electronic security from unauthorized access through the Internet or our network. It is also physically secured against intruders. Our staff is provided access on a "need to know" basis only.

We provide links that take you to other web sites. We encourage you to review privacy and other policies at third party sites you visit, since those sites are not bound to follow our policies.