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Privacy of Personal Information
Out of respect for the privacy of its users, Our website refrains from obtaining personal information from users without their explicit consent, other than as described below.
Our website either directly or through a third-party vendor, Omniture, stores the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, the browser software and operating system used, and the date and time of your visit.
This information is used by our website to understand which countries the users of the website visit from, when they visit, and other information about how users access the website.
We also monitors network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage to the site.
We does not distribute, sell or rent any personal information collected via its website. This is also true for personal information sent to the website’s email addresses. We does not send unsolicited emails to users of its site.
Policy on Cookies
Our website uses both persistent cookies (text cookies) and session cookies. A persistent cookie is a file that might contain user personal information. It is stored on a user's computer. The IMF website uses persistent cookies to understand which pages on the website are popular, and to recognize repeat visitors. Session cookies allow the website to validate access to any secure areas after you have logged in - these are not stored on a user’s computer.
Your browser software should permit you to disable the use of cookies, if you do not want our website to collect this information.