Privacy Policy

We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. CWA reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement.

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The Cyber Warfare Academy Ltd. “(CWA)” has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.cyberwarfare.ac.

CWA reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement.

The Cyber Warfare Academy Ltd. “(CWA)” respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the type of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.cyberwarfare.ac (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using Website, you agree to this policy.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
From your registration for a CWA examination
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by CWA or any third party; or
Any third party (including affiliates) including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Collection of Data

“Personal Information” means information associated with or used to identify or contact a specific person. Personal Information includes (1) contact data (such as email address, telephone number and employers); (2) demographic data (such as gender, date of birth, or zip code) and (3) certain Usage Data (defined below), such as IP address, user generated content or purchases.

“Usage Information” or “Usage Data” is information about an individual’s online activity that, by itself, does not identify the individual, such as browser type, operating system, top viewed and visited pages and links on our web site, top entry and exit points, number of form completions, time spent on pages, top downloads, top keywords used offsite to lead customers to our website, information collected via cookies, and other device event information such as system activity, crashes, and hardware settings.

Generally, we do not consider Usage Data as Personal Information because Usage Data by itself usually does not identify an individual. Personal Information and Usage Data may be linked together. Different types of Usage Information also may be linked together and, once linked, may identify an individual person. Also, some Usage Data may be Personal Information under applicable law.

CWA collects information that you provide to us and from your use of the Website and the services. The information that we collect and how we process it depends on how you use and access the Website. Some information is collected automatically through the use of cookies and similar data collection tools. Click here for more information on CWA’s use of cookies.

We collect information from you when you:

Use the Website: We collect Personal Information and Usage Data from you when you create an account to use one of the services, post material, contact us for help or information or otherwise provide your Personal Information, or request other services.We collect the information and content that you submit to us when you download an Ultimate Study Guide, input your information in a form on our website, request additional information on a service, and when you enter comments or submit a review or complaint.In certain limited circumstances (for instance in our Examination Registration Form), we may ask you to provide information regarding your prior criminal convictions to assess your suitability to become a CWA member, or information regarding your disability or health condition so that we can make suitable arrangements to accommodate you at examinations, seminars, and other events. This information is characterized as sensitive and subject to stricter regulation than other personal information.Before providing it to us, we urge you to carefully consider whether to disclose your sensitive Personal Information to us. If you do provide sensitive Personal information to us, you consent to its use and disclosure for the limited purposes for which it was collected.
Connect with Social Media though the Website: The Website may offer you the ability to use Facebook Connect or other social media services (collectively, “Social Media”) in conjunction with certain services. When you access the services through your Facebook or other Social Media account, the services may, depending on your privacy settings, have access to information that you have provided to the Social Media platform. We may use this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or at the time the information was collected.
From our Business Partners and Service Providers: Third parties that assist us with our business operations also collect information (including Personal Information and Usage Data) about you through the services and share it with us. For example, our vendors collect and share information with us to help us detect and prevent fraud and collect information regarding your registration for a CWA certification exam.
Usage Data: We also automatically collect Usage Data when you interact with the Website, participate in a sweepstakes or contest, when you complete a customer satisfaction or market research survey, make a purchase/complete a transaction. Whenever you use the Website or the services, we use the location information from your mobile device or browser to tailor the services and website experience to your location.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Click here for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

What We Collect

This policy explains what information we gather when you visit Cyber Warfare Academy (CWA) website, and explains how that information is used. It is important for you to appreciate that the website provides extensive links to other independent sites. This policy applies only to direct accesses to the CWA website. You will need to consult the appropriate information on other sites for information on their policies.

In common with most websites, this site automatically logs certain information about every request made of it (see below for more details). This information is used for system administration, for bug tracking, and for producing usage statistics. The logged information may be kept indefinitely. Relevant subsets of this data may be passed to computer security teams as part of investigations of computer misuse involving this site or other computing equipment at CWA. Data may be passed to the administrators of other computer systems to enable investigation of problems accessing this site or of system misconfigurations. Data may incidentally be included in information passed to contractors and computer maintenance organisations working for CWA, in which case it will be covered by appropriate non-disclosure agreements. Otherwise the logged information is not passed to any third party except if required by law. Summary statistics are extracted from this data and some of these may be made publicly available, but those that are do not include information from which individuals could be identified.

HTTP Request

The following data is automatically logged for each request:

The name or network address of the computer making the request. Note that under some (but not all) circumstances it may be possible to infer from this the identity of the person making the request. Note also that the data recorded may be that of a web proxy rather than that of the originating client
The username, when known during authenticated (logged in) access to the site
The date and time of connection
The HTTP request, which contains the identification of the document requested
The status code of the request (success or failure etc.)
The number of data bytes sent in response
The contents of the HTTP Referrer header supplied by the browser
The content of the HTTP User-Agent header supplied by the browser
Logging of additional data may be enabled temporarily from time to time for specific purposes. In addition, the computers on which the website is hosted keep records of attempts (authorised and unauthorised) to use them for purposes other than access to the web server. This data typically includes the date and time of the attempt, the service to which access was attempted, the name or network address of the computer making the connection, and may include details of what was done or was attempted to be done.

Contact Form

A number of online forms are provided on this site and the submitted information on those forms will be processed and used in accordance with this policy.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Cookies

What is a “Cookie”?

On the internet, and as it pertains to online functionality, a “cookie” is a small piece of information sent by a web server to be stored on a web browser so that it can be read back later from that browser. This becomes useful for having the browser remember specific information about a visitor to a particular Website. The cookie is a text file that is saved in the browser’s directory and is stored in RAM while the browser is running. The cookie may also be stored on the computer’s hard drive once a user logs off from that website or web server.

CWA and Cookies

CWA is committed to continually improving the experience for members as they use the CWA website. “Cookies” are currently the only way to effectively identify a member in order to provide personalised access to member information. By using cookies, CWA can personalise its Website and offer secure services for each member. Cookies and registration are two methods that CWA uses to offer member features and services that are unavailable to the general public. To measure site activity and provide a better user experience, CWA may allow our service providers or business partners to compile information from the cookies, web beacons or other technologies on our websites which may include information about your visit (such as demographic data, browser type, IP address, pages visited, activities conducted on the page and the day and time of your visit). We may also use this information to develop personalised content and appropriate advertising based on your visits over time on CWA websites. CWA will treat any personally identifiable information that is gathered on this site as confidential. It will not be shared, bartered or sold to ANY third party. Please review our Privacy Policy for more details.

How can the use of “Cookies” be controlled or turned off?

Cookies can be controlled through browser settings. While not utilised on cyberwarfare.ac, Flash cookies can be disabled or deleted in the Flash player application. Be aware that setting the cookies controls to be too restrictive, or declining cookies, may affect your ability to use certain features of the CWA website, including accessing member-only areas. Please refer to your browser Help instructions to learn more about cookies and other technologies and how to manage their use. If you elect to refuse or delete cookies, you will need to repeat this process if you use another computer, or change browsers.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

On CWA operated sites and unaffiliated sites, CWA displays interest based advertising using information you make available to use when you interact with our site, content, or services. Interest-based ads, are displayed to you based on information from activities such as purchasing on our sites, visiting sites that contain CWA content or ads. To opt out of these ads, please disable the cookies through your browser settings. Click here to learn more about CWA’s use of cookies.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How Your Information is Used

We use the Personal Information that we collect to operate, improve, and personalize the Website and services including to provide customer service, customize our advertising and marketing, to detect, prevent and mitigate fraudulent or illegal activities. You agree that we may use your Personal Information as follows:

to provide the services to you;
to fulfil any other purpose for which you provided it;
to operate, improve and personalize the products and services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
for customer service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, or and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Services;
to verify your certification status with CWA
to communicate with you, either via email, telephone, text (SMS) messages (if applicable based on your consent), postal mail, or otherwise as authorized by you to inform you about the Services, special offers, etc.. Message and data rates may apply.
to better understand how users access and use the website and services, for the purposes of trying to improve the Website and services and to respond to user preferences, including language and location customization, personalized help and instructions, or other responses to users’ usage of the services;
to help us develop our new products and services and improve our existing products and services;
to provide users with advertising and direct marketing that is more relevant to you;
to enforce our Website Access Policy or other applicable policies; and
to assess the effectiveness of and improve advertising and other marketing and promotional activities on or in connection with the Services.
for any other purpose with your consent.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Disclosure of Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
For legal purposes: We also may share information that we collect from users, as needed, to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose Personal Information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share Personal Information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
Corporate Changes. We may transfer information, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, sale, acquisition or other change of ownership or control by or of us or any affiliated company (in each case whether in whole or in part). When one of these events occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to notify users before your information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Please note that for the purposes of seeking to provide our users with a better experience and to improve the Website and services, information collected through the website and services may, subject to user privacy controls, be used in an aggregated or individualized manner. For example, personal information collected during use of one of the website or other services may be used to suggest particular content that can be made available to the user on another of the services or be used to try to present more relevant advertising in another of part of the Website or Services.

Where We Store Your Personal Data

The data we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored in, the United Kingdom. It will also be processed by staff operating within the United Kingdom who work for us or for one of our suppliers. This includes staff engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. CWA will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to CWA is stored on secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

Biometric Data

Where permitted by law, CWA’s examination vendor uses biometric data to authenticate those taking its exams. CWA does not collect or store this data. While neither CWA nor its examination vendor retain raw biometric data, the examination vendor does retain, for a period of five years following the person’s last contact with the vendor, data based upon an algorithm of the palm scan received when accessing an examination site. This assists CWA in assuring the identify of those taking its exams and preventing fraud in the exam process. This data is destroyed after the five-year period and is used for no other purpose. For more information on CWA’s use of palm vein pattern recognition please click here.

Your Rights

CWA is a certification organization and maintains information on those who possess its certifications or have expressed an interest in them. If you would like to see the information CWA retains about you, please see our Privacy Page for information on how to request the information.

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by not checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at membersupport@cyberwarfareacadmy.tempurl.host or by updating your marketing preferences.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information and Opt-Out

CWA is a membership organization and, as such, must maintain contact information on its members to communicate relational or transactional information. CWA also sends promotional material promoting its conferences, training opportunities, or other offerings. From time to time, CWA collaborates with other security organizations and companies to promote other programs that may be of interest to information security professionals and CWA members. We will always obtain your prior “opt-in” before sending you marketing communications. If, at any time, you do not wish to receive marketing material, every marketing e-mail will include an opt-out link at the bottom or you may notify CWA in writing at the address below. This does not include opting-out of CWA relational (member meetings, newsletters, PDU notices, CWA functions) or transactional notices. Be aware that if you possess any CWA certification, you may not opt-out of any CWA relational or transactional notice.

To opt-out of Interest-Based Ads, please disable cookies through your browser settings. Click here to learn more about CWA’s use of cookies.

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at membersupport@cyberwarfareacadmy.tempurl.host to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.

We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Website Access Policy

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any Personal Information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use]. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at membersupport@cyberwarfareacadmy.tempurl.host

CWA Certification Verification

As an organization that certifies individuals in information security, CWA is frequently requested to verify whether an individual’s assertion that they possess our certification is accurate. It is an implied duty that CWA identify and attest to the certified status of those individuals who do possess our certification. As such, CWA will verify whether an individual is certified by CWA or not upon receiving sufficient identifying information regarding the subject of the inquiry. CWA also provides a verification process on its public website which lists members based on last name. This listing provides the name, city/state/country, and certification title held by the member. However, under no circumstances is any contact or other information disclosed.

URL Links

This site contains links to other sites; CWA is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. Users should check the applicable privacy policy of such a party when providing personally identifiable information. In any event, users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personal data (e.g. user name, email address) on the CWP Directory for the CWA sites, that such information, along with any substantive information disclosed in the directory, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of CWA

Lists for Employers

Periodically, CWA is asked by an employer to identify those employed by their organization who hold CWA credentials. To that end, we provide names of those CWA members who list the requester as their employer. No information, other than name, is revealed, and it is provided only to the employer upon written request. If you are an CWA member and do not wish to be identified as such to your employer, do not list your employer in your contact information, as this is the information used to identify you for inclusion to such a list.