Once you provide your personal information through the aforementioned enrollment process that the CWB requested for a web service or event registration, the CWB will only use and may share it with event planners, as will be described in the enrollment process, to fulfill your request or for processing. As for the general information automatically collected and stored about visitors to or users of the CWB web site, the CWB will only use it on an aggregate basis, but not individual, to conduct surveys and obtain demographic information for better understanding your needs and improving our services.

Cookies are tiny text files of messages placed onto the hard drive by a web server for the purpose of identifying user preferences and also preparing customized web pages. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests the same page from the server. Cookie feature in your browser can be turned off or changed to accepting all cookies or being notified as cookie setting has been changed and such like. In the case of rejecting all cookies, some custom web pages or web interactions may be unavailable.

The CWB web site currently only stores the cookie information to your web browser and makes use of it, in accordance with this policy statement, on the basis of the following situations:

• To collect personal information about you that is only freely provided by you upon signing up and logging in/out to this web site; and to customize web services.

• To track information about visitor's and user's activities at this web site for demographic analysis and for monitoring our site's effectiveness to improve our services.

The CWB will not sell, rent, or market your personal data to a third-party without your consent or as permitted by this policy statement. Nevertheless, the CWB may disclose personal information in response to legal requirements, under these circumstances:

• Required by such as a court order or subpoena which is issued conforming to the law and complying with legal processes.

• According to a requirement of investigation into purported illegal activities of users at the CWB web site or a violation of the rules of this web site, and in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights of the CWB web site, related third parties, or visitors to and users of the CWB web site; or otherwise may identify personal data at times to promote our products and services which may be of interest to you and for other statistics purposes.

The CWB will send e-mail correspondence to you once upon registration at the CWB web site or with your consent. The e-mail you receive from us will always be shown with the Central Weather Administration heading. For unsubscribing email from the CWB web e-mail list, you can simply make it by clicking on the link inserted into each e-mail we send you.

Apart from the CWB web news updates and new opportunities, we will not send you any commercial e-mail.

Any personal information such as name, nickname, address, telephone number, and e-mail address which you submit to the CWB web site through an enrollment process can be altered at any time by accessing it with your member ID and password.

Please help us keep your personal information secure. Do not give any of your personally identifiable data away, especially your password. Be sure to log out after an operational process in your account is completed, and also to close the browsing windows you were using if you share your computer with other people.