Privacy Policy

Who are we?

We are the Digital Identification Bureau Limited, a private company registered in Papua New Guinea, currently owned by the PNG Digital Commerce Association Inc. We act as a consortium vehicle to drive the adoption of e-KYC in PNG. We will eventually be owned by a range of interested parties, but we have to start somewhere.

Our website address is https://yutru.org. If you navigate to our site using the insecure ‘http://’ protocol, we will switch you to the secure protocol ‘https://’ without asking. This is so that your communications with the website, i.e. information transmitted between your web browser and our web server, is encrypted. When it is encrypted it means it cannot be listened in on or tampered with. You know you are always communicating with the real YuTru website with this security measure in place.

Our website uses a domain-validated SSL or DV-SSL certificate. This means you can be sure that the domain you are browsing is ours. At a later time, we will upgrade this certificate to an extended-validated SSL or EV-SSL certificate.

What data do we collect and why?

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 anonymised 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact Us and Subscribe Forms

If you complete a contact us or subscribe form on our website, we use that information to be able to return an email to you and respond to any queries you might raise.

If you fill out the subscribe form (located on the right hand side of our blog page), we add you to a mailing list.

If you fill out a contact us form (located on the contact page), we DO NOT add you to our mailing list.

We do not advertise the information you provide. We may cite the total number of contact requests we get in a particular period, but this would only be a single digit that is reported and not involve individual contact records.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

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.

How do we analyse collected data?

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data at any time, unless to comply with an order of the court.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. But we don’t send your data anywhere. We don’t share it or use it in other applications or services linked to this website.

How to contact us

How do we protect the data collected?

How we protect your data

Your data is stored in a MySQL database on a HostGator server based out of Texas, USA. Access to the server is limited to the database administrator. The database administrator uses a strong computer-generated password to access the database. Passwords chosen by you are not visible to the database administrator as they are ‘salted’ then encrypted before being stored.

Data we hold about you is not transferred by us to any other applications or services. It may however be moved by HostGator for distributing content to be closer to our typical web site visitors’ locations, or for load balancing of their servers to provide faster response times.

What third parties we receive data from

We use WordPress plugins on this web site and each of them may or may not link to external services and rely on third-party data in order to function properly. For example, we use the Akismet anti-span plug in to make sure robots don’t place spam in our forum comments. Akismet looks up data about the comment poster and compares that against its own databases of spam sources, before categorising a post as spam.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We use Google Analytics (GA) trackers on each page in the website, as part of the template which generates each page you visit. GA may install a cookie in your browser to be able to recognise you when you return. GA data is used by us to know where website visitors come from, the browser they use, the device they use, and the time of day they visit; so we can improve the performance of our website and help with understanding our website audience.