Privacy Policy

Please read the following carefully. By using ILOCOS SENTINEL (IS) Site, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions herein stated. IS reserves the right to change, at any time, the policies below. Please check this page of the Site periodically for any updates.

Ilocos Sentinel is committed to respecting the personal privacy of individuals who visit our Web site.

Visitor information is not disclosed to anyone except to IS personnel who need the information in order to respond to a request. We do not use the information to create individual profiles, unless otherwise stated, nor do we disclose the information to anyone other than those working to provide you with a response.

We strive to keep your personal information in strict confidence and maintain appropriate procedures to ensure that personal information in our possession is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. Where we choose to have certain services, such as data processing, provided by third parties we do so in accordance with applicable law and take all reasonable precautions regarding the practices employed by the service provider to protect personal information.

We undertake all reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

Copyrights

The contents of the IS World Wide Web pages, including but not limited to text, graphics, and icons are copyrighted material (“Materials”) owned or controlled by IS and contain IS’s name, trademarks, service marks, and trade names, as well as, product designs covered by Philippine design patents. You may download one copy of the Materials on any single computer and print a copy for the Materials for your use in learning about, evaluating, or acquiring services or products from IS. Any copy of these Materials, or portion thereof, must include this copyright notice and any trademark notice that is part of or linked to the Materials printed. No other permission is granted to you to print, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, upload, download, store, display in public, alter, or modify the Materials. No permission is granted to you to use IS’s icons to hyperlink other Web sites with this Site, or to use IS’s name, trademarks, trade names, or patented designs for any reason.

Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks to other Internet resources are provided for your convenience. IS has selected these resources as having some value and pertinence, but their development and maintenance are not under the direction of IS. Thus, the content, accuracy, opinions expressed, and other links provided by these resources are neither approved nor verified by IS.

Submissions

Except for clients’ information provided to IS by the client upon IS’s request, all information submitted to IS via this Site shall be deemed and remain the property of IS, and IS shall not be subject to any obligations of confidentiality regarding submitted information. You warrant that the information is fit for publication. You agree to indemnify IS if any third party takes action against IS, and agree not to take action against IS in relation to the material you submit. By submitting information, you warrant that IS may publish the information, and/or incorporate it or any concepts described in it in products or services, without liability.

Users who submit content to IS’s Site, whether articles, images, stories, software or other copyrightable material must ensure that the content they upload does not infringe the copyrights or other rights of third parties. After proper notification by the copyright holder or its agents, and upon confirmation through court order or admission by the user that they have used this Site as an instrument of unlawful infringement, we will terminate the infringing users’ rights to use and/or access to this Site. We may, also in our sole discretion, decide to terminate a user’s rights to use or access to the IS Site prior to that time if we believe that the alleged infringement has occurred.