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This privacy policy describes what information is made available to the UNESCO and third parties when you visit unesco.org or official UNESCO pages on other sites, and how the UNESCO uses and stores that information.

If you have questions about this policy or suggestions for its improvement, please let us know.  You can contact us at http://en.unesco.org/contact/privacy.

We will revise or update this policy if our practices change, or as we develop better ways to keep you informed about them. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information and the effective date of any changes. If we decide to change this policy, we will post a new policy on our site and change the date at the bottom. Changes to the policy shall not apply retroactively.

1. Information received and stored by UNESCO when you visit UNESCO/IYIL2019.org
   • By accessing the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages website created by UNESCO, certain information, such as Internet protocol
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   • If you provide unique identifying information, such as name, email address, postal address and other information on forms stored on this website, such information will be used only for statistical purposes and will not be published for general access nor disclosed or sold to third parties. UNESCO, however, assumes no responsibility for the security of this information.

Updates to this privacy policy

Updated: September 20, 2012

Authorizing the use of the name, acronym and/or logo of UNESCO is the prerogative of the General Conference and the Executive Board. In specific cases as set out by the Directives, the governing bodies empower, by delegation, the Director-General and the National Commissions for UNESCO to authorize such use to other bodies. The power to authorize the use of the name, acronym, logo and/or Internet domain names of UNESCO may not be granted to other bodies.

Any decision authorizing the use of the name, acronym, logo and/or domain names of UNESCO shall be based on the following criteria:

1. relevance of the proposed association to the Organization’s strategic objectives and programme;
2. compliance with the values, principles and constitutional aims of UNESCO.

The use of the name, acronym, logo and/or domain name must be expressly authorized in advance and in writing, and must comply with the specified conditions and procedures, in particular with respect to its visual presentation, duration and scope.

United Nations Offices, Funds and Programmes and other subsidiary organs and organizations of the United Nations System may use the 2019 International Year logo without obtaining prior authorisation. However, they are asked to provide information to UNESCO after their activities for the purpose of reporting after the end of the International Year.

Entities outside the UN System, including governments, intergovernmental organizations, not-for-profit organisations, and other entities may also use the stand alone logo IYIL2019 on conditions as follows:

• The logo is the property of the United Nations and UNESCO as the UN lead agency for the organization of the International Year, owns all rights thereto, including the right to giving or withdrawing permission in terms of its use.
• The logo is only used to identity information material, events and activities that are directly related to the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages in 2019.
• The logo is not used for self-promotion or for obtaining commercial or financial gains.
• The logo is not used in a way that falsely suggests the endorsement by the United Nations or UNESCO of the activity or of the entity that organizes the activity.
• The United Nations and UNESCO does not assume any responsibility or liability for the activity of the entity.
• The logo or the emblem is used in its entirety and is not in any way altered.
• Permission for the use of the international year logo does not extend to use of the United Nations logo or the logo of any of its agencies, including UNESCO.
• The United Nations and UNESCO do not assume any responsibility or liability arising from the translation of the logo into languages beyond the six official UN languages.

• Register on the IYIL2019 website
• Complete an application form
• Once, authorization is granted by UNESCO to use logo, download of emblem.

Please consult IYIL2019 logo use guidelines.

Some cases of individuals claiming to act on behalf of UNESCO have been reported to the Organization by means of “phishing” and/or fraudulent emails.

Please note that UNESCO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions concerning persons or companies claiming to be recruiting on behalf of UNESCO and requesting the payment of a fee, please contact: recrutweb@unesco.org

For complete, accurate and up-to-date information on UNESCO vacancies, please only use the following address: http://www.unesco.org/careers

All photographs, video, audio and text content as well as other elements of the UNESCO/IYIL2019 website are protected by international treaties on intellectual property and other applicable laws. The elements its displays may not be copied or retransmitted by any means without explicit authorization from UNESCO or partner organization as the copyright holders.

We welcome links to https://iyil2019.org and ask that you observe the following guidelines:

• Do not incorporate any content from this site into your site
  e.g., by in-lining, framing or creating other browser or border environments around the UNESCO/IYIL2019 website content). You may only link to, not replicate content.
• Unless we enter into a specific written agreement with you, you may not use any UNESCO or IYIL2019 names, emblems, designs, abstracts or service marks in or with your links, except that you may link to the IYIL2019.org website using the plain text name of that site or the plain text name of UNESCO/2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. For further information about Partnership development see PACT regulatory framework. For further information about the Rules and Regulations governing the use of the IYIL2019 emblem please see Logo use guide.
• Your site should make every effort not to present false information about UNESCO or IYIL2019.
• You may not sell, license, or otherwise assign the use of any material from UNESCO’s or the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages’ web site.
• Do not present the link to UNESCO/IYIL2019 in any way which would suggest that UNESCO/IYIL2019 has any relationship or affiliation with your site or endorses your site, products or services, unless there is a specific written agreement between our two entities.
• Do not use any of UNESCO or IYIL2019 names, emblems, designs, abstracts or service marks or any other words or codes identifying UNESCO/IYIL2019 ‘s web sites in any “metatag” or other information used by search engines or other information location tools to identify and select sites, without UNESCO/YIL2019 ‘s express written permission for a particular use.
• Your site should not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive, controversial or that is in any way incompatible with the aims and principles of UNESCO.
• UNESCO controls and operates this web site from UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris, France. If you use UNESCO/IYIL2019 materials from locations outside of France, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws.
• UNESCO/ IYIL2019 may at any time revise this Linking Policy. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the current version of the policy. 

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• This website and its content is protected by international law. Any republication, online or in any other form, of any UNESCO/IYIL2019 data requires prior written authorization.
• Individuals or organizations may ask for written permission to syndicate the content of the sections that are specifically made available
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• Each syndication use must include the following copyright notice: “Copyright © 2018 – [current year] UNESCO/2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. All rights reserved.” The correct reference is included in the Channel Description element of the XML/RSS/KML/XLS feed.
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