This site was created for versions of Internet Explorer equal to or greater than version number 4.0 - our webpages may not be displayed properly with older versions.
Moreover, the website was built for machines running the Microsoft operating systems. It has not been tested yet on machines running Macintosh.
Due to bugs present in some browsers, with certain commands the pages may not be displayed properly even with the latest versions. The Opera browser, although less known, seems better designed than either Internet Explorer or Google Chrome and has so far revealed no problems at all.
Please report any problems you encounter during your visit to webmaster(at)venezie.org - [replace (at) with the correct symbol to get a valid e-mail address].

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You can download the latest versions, for free, at the following official Opera, Netscape, Microsoft and Google web sites:

• Opera, from the Opera Download Centre
  
  
• Google Chrome, from the Google Chrome Download Centre
  
  
• Internet Explorer, from the Microsoft Download Centre

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PDF format, as recognizable by the following icon - - has become the standard format for documents available on the Internet.
As such, all the documents downloadable from our website (such as Articles, Research Papers, Donation Forms, Questionnaires, and many others) are in PDF format.
These documents can be viewed and printed on your home printer using the Adobe Reader software, which you can download for free from the official Adobe website by clicking on the following icon:

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To allow for easier reading, the website was created with a font size which is already larger than the size currently used on most websites. However, if you still find it difficult to read our webpages (and this is not caused by a flickering or old screen) you can increase the font size using the following commands:

• Internet Explorer: choose View >> Text Size >> Larger (or Largest).
  However, due to a bug, some versions of Internet Explorer will not be able to increase the font size or will introduce various distortions on the page.
• Google Chrome: choose Spanner Icon>> Zoom.
  However, it may happen that only the text size is increased and not the size of the cells containing the text. Thus various distortions may appear on the page.
• Opera: choose View >> Zoom >> 120% value.
  However, it may happen that only the text size is increased and not the size of the cells containing the text. Thus various distortions may appear on the page.

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This "broken link" message doesn't necessarily mean that the page doesn't exist. Just that your browser didn't find the page at the location (URL) specified by the address you entered or by the link you just clicked. Probably that page has been renamed or moved without updating the link pointing to it.
Please help us keep this site in order, and report missing pages and broken links to webmaster(at)venezie.org - [replace (at) with the correct symbol to get a valid e-mail address].

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A search function on a website is useful only if the website contains a lot of documents or articles. A search function will thus become available only when the Institute's archive becomes so large as to necessitate such search function.
Usually, the Site Map function is just as useful as the search command, and it is more likely to point you straight away to the page you are looking for.

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Unlike some other websites, we have not made our pages come to life by making them blink, sing, and dance with sound, video or other advanced animation. Although exciting, these technologies have various drawbacks all of which would limit our audience.
First, all these technologies require a plug-in of some type on the visitor's computer. Not all visitors have the necessary plug-in installed, thus being forced either to go to another website to get it or to skip our website entirely.
Second, these flashy multimedia effects are easy to overuse; blink and flash too much, and our visitors would be running for the exit.
Third, these effects can bulk up a webpage considerably, making it much slower to load - and making it more likely that some of our visitors (especially those using dial-up modems) won't bother sticking around.

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Information about you is gathered in two ways:
(1) indirectly - for example, through our site's technology; and
(2) directly - for example, when you provide information on various pages of this website. When we collect this type of information, we will notify you as to why we are asking for information and how this information will be used. It is completely up to you whether or not you want to provide it.
We do not generally seek to collect sensitive personal data through this site. If we do seek to collect such data, we will ask you to consent to our proposed uses of the data.
We analyse the information collected to determine what is most effective about our site and our organization, to help us identify ways to improve them, and eventually, to determine how we can tailor the Institute's products and services more effectively. We may also use data for other purposes, which we would describe to you at the point we collect the information.
You are entitled to know whether we hold information about you and, if we do, to have access to that information and require it to be corrected if it is inaccurate. You can do this by contacting us via our webmaster at webmaster(at)venezie.org - [replace (at) with the correct symbol to get a valid e-mail address].

For a more detailed answer please refer to our Privacy Statement page.

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