Policy

FAO holds copyright on all its media, including Web sites, unless otherwise stated. However, FAO offers its information for the benefit of people and organizations interested in its efforts to combat hunger in the world. For this reason, FAO actively encourages the re-use of its material, particularly for educational and non-commercial purposes.

All information products issued by FAO, whether printed or electronic, should therefore carry the standard copyright clause. Each page of your Web site should contain a copyright mark and the current year (i.e. © FAO, 2010) which, when clicked, links to the following page in the appropriate language:

• Arabic: http://www.fao.org/copyright_ar.htm;
• Chinese: http://www.fao.org/copyright_zh.htm;
• English: http://www.fao.org/copyright_en.htm;
• French: http://www.fao.org/copyright_fr.htm; or
• Spanish: http://www.fao.org/copyright_es.htm.

If you are producing an FAO product that might be subject to particular copyright conditions not covered by the standard clause, a specific copyright notice should be drafted in consultation with the Publishing Management Service. To publish non-FAO copyright material on the FAO Web site, formal permission is required from the copyright owner. For more details please contact the Publishing Management Service.

Scams implying association with FAO

FAO is aware of various correspondence being circulated either by e-mail, from Internet Web sites, and by regular mail or fax, falsely claiming that they are issued by or in association with FAO.

These scams may be crafted to look like they originate from FAO, such as by using the FAO logo or a FAO e-mail address, and seek to extract money and/or personal details from the recipients of such correspondence.

Suspicious e-mails or Web sites should be reported to abuse@fao.org, for more information see the FAO Scam Alert page.

FAO policy on privacy

In general, users can browse the FAO site without telling us who they are or revealing any personal information about themselves.
The only information gathered during general browsing is from standard server logs. This includes IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, domain names, type of browser, operating systems and information such as the Web site that referred the user to FAO, the files downloaded, the pages visited and the dates/times of these visits.

This information is only used internally for Web site traffic analysis.

For more information on FAO’s policy concerning the gathering and sharing of visitor information, see the FAO Privacy Policy. It applies to all sites within the “fao.org” domain and sites hosted by FAO.