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Philippine Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health Privacy Statement

The Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, one of the sectoral councils of the Department of Science and Technology, maintains the Philippine Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health (TKDL). This website serves as the national repository for information on the use of medicinal plants for traditional healing practices, medicinal plants herbarium, and terminal report or published research of completed projects related to documentation of Traditional Knowledge on health involving Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs), Indigenous Peoples (IPs), and local communities.

The PCHRD is committed to the protection and fair use of personal information that you may provide through browsing and/or requesting information from this website. This Privacy Statement provides information on the collection, processing, securing, and disclosing collected Personal Data following the Republic Act No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and its Implementing Rules and Regulations.

Personal Information and Other Data We Collect and Process

The TKDL Website allows you to directly reach us through the “Contact Us” field for inquiries, and an account is needed to request information specifically fulltext of the completed research via Health Research and Development Information Network (HERDIN) website. Personal data is also collected for account creation. The following are the data collected from the TK Project Team, researcher, or general public:
1. Full Name
2. Email address
3. Institution
Providing the above mentioned data is a must to address your inquiries, requests, and to upload data to the website. Details of your visits to this website such as logs, location data, and views to the specific information on the website are being recorded using automatic data collection technologies. We also use cookies to ensure full functionality and an excellent user experience on our website. You may find details or the extent of the use of cookies by clicking this Privacy Notice of PCHRD.
Processing and Use of Personal Information and Other Collected Data

Upon receipt of your inquiries, requests for full-text, or account creation including accompanying personal data, a duly authorized personnel of PCHRD will contact you via email to address your concerns or requests.

The authorized personnel shall ensure that all personal information will remain confidential and will only be used during the following:
1. Review and provide your request/s (Full-text request is coordinated with the HERDIN Document Delivery Team).
2. Answer any inquiries you may have.
3. Reach out to inquire if your request has been addressed.
4. Provide your personal data to the knowledge owners (ICCs/IPs), agency governing the rights of the ICCs/IPs or the local communities, and the project’s Implementing agency if there is a request for information that needs to be reviewed.
5. Use your personal data as provided under the Council's policies should you use the traditional knowledge stored in TKDL for further scientific studies which is still subject to the knowledge owner's approval.
6. Compile your personal information for reporting, monitoring of inquiries or requests, and account creation and retrieval.
Website Visitor Belonging to ICCs/IPs

The personal information of the ICCs/IPs must be obtained for clearly defined, lawful, and adequate purposes, processed fairly and lawfully, and retained for a minimum period of time necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the data was obtained. The data should additionally be adequate, kept up to date, and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which it is collected and processed. The PCHRD, through the TKDL Team, will use plain and simple language (with English, Tagalog, and native dialect translation if necessary) in the consent form to inform the ICCs/IPs on how exactly their data will be used and the consequences of providing such.
Security of Personal Information and Other Collected Data

The PCHRD implemented technical, physical, and organizational measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal data and collected data and secure such data from destruction, unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, fraudulent misuse and/or any other unlawful processing, as well as other natural and human dangers. Requests for sensitive personal information are subject to the agency’s approval as well as the knowledge owners. The Council ensures that strategies such as providing controlled access, data encryption, data minimization, regular updates and patches are being implemented.
Privacy Policy Changes/Updates and Correcting Personal Information

The Council exercises its right to amend, modify, or change the privacy policy from time to time in accordance with mandated regulations or policies. We encourage you to regularly visit the privacy policy in case of modifications. Furthermore, you have the right to access and correct your personal information, object to the handling of personal information, and lodge a complaint before the National Privacy Commission in case of violation of your rights as the data subject.
Contact Information

Should you have any questions and/or concerns regarding this Statement or your rights in relation thereto under the Data Privacy Act of 2012, you may contact the Council’s Data Privacy Officer through the contact information below:

Email address:dpo@pchrd.dost.gov.ph
Office address: Saliksik Building, DOST Compound, Gen. Santos Ave., Bicutan, Taguig City 1631