Contact Us

If you communicate with our Customer Services department through the "Contact Us" link on our website or by post or telephone, we may ask you for information such as your email address, your location, and whether you are a registered user or a website visitor. You may also choose to provide additional personal information, for example, in the form of an attachment or by post. We may hold these details in our customer services query database and use such personal information to respond to your questions and comments. We may use such personal information to evaluate the quality of our products and services.

Registering with www.nature.com/scitable.

Website visitors may choose to register with our website in order to gain access to various website features such as personal pages, group pages, blogs, and product purchase. If you choose to register with our website, we may ask you to provide information such as your full name, email address, general field(s) of interest and employment details. We will use such personal information to provide you with the services and/or products you select. For example, we will use your email address to notify you of information relating to your account, or when another user in your network sends you a message. Information you provide at registration or in your "Profile" section will also be used to customize your experience on the site. For example, when you log in to your account, we may show you content related to your areas of interest. We may also use such personal information to contact you about other services, products and/or content which we think may be of interest to you.

Creating a Personal Profile

Once a registered user, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your skills, professional experiences, and educational objectives. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the Nature Education system.

Commenting and Forums

As a default, all comments you post on Scitable will be attributed to you and your profile. All comments posted on blogs, news articles, and discussion forums will be publicly visible. You can, however, choose to remain anonymous on any given reply in the forums.

Information about Your Contacts/Groups

In order to invite others to connect with you directly in Nature Education, you will enter their names and email addresses. This information will be used by Nature Education to send your invitation including a message that you write. The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders. In a group profile, the description of the group, a list of its members and their publications, and its public events will be visible to all users.

You can form a "Private" group on Scitable, which will be visible to only the members of that group. Members can join "Private" groups only by invitation.

Other Website Features

We offer website visitors various features for their information and enjoyment, which we may change from time to time. We may ask you to submit certain personal information so we can provide you with these features.

Other Uses of Information

We may use the personal information you provide on our website for internal purposes, such as for website administration, data analytics and compliance purposes.

Log Files

When you visit the Nature Education web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave Nature Education. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the Nature Education service.

Cookies

Use of Cookies: Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

About cookies: Cookies are files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies on this website: We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

How we use cookies: Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. The cookies used on this website include those which are strictly necessary cookies for access and navigation, cookies that track usage (performance cookies), remember your choices (functionality cookies), and cookies that provide you with targeted content or advertising. We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

(1) to recognise your computer when you visit our website

(2) to track you as you navigate our website, and to enable the use of any e-commerce facilities

(3) to improve the website's usability

(4) to analyse the use of our website

(5) in the administration of this website

(6) ) to personalise our website for you, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

Third party cookies and web beacons: When you use our website, you may also be sent cookies by third-party advertisers and service providers. For example, collection of site usage information is performed on our behalf by a third party service provider. In addition to cookies, such third parties may use web beacons to obtain notification of web page access by visitors. Such third parties may retain usage information they obtain from these cookies or web beacons for their own purposes, including, without limitation:

(1) to track your browser across multiple websites

(2) to build a profile of your web surfing

(3) to target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

You can use some portions of our site without accepting cookies. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Remember, though, if you disable all cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all features of this website.

We may use third-party web analytics services on our website, such as Google Analytics and Webtrends. These service providers help us analyze how users use our website. The information collected for this purpose (including your IP address and other information collected by automated means) will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers. To learn more about opting out of data collection through Google Analytics and Webtrends, click the relevant link below:

• Google Analytics
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