Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://www.coolingthecommons.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal Information is information that identifies you as an individual. Examples of personal information we collect include: name, address, email address, website address, IP address.

This Personal Information is obtained by us through our website https://www…., Google Analytics, from media and publications, from other publicly available sources, and correspondence by email. We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of improving the information we make available to the general public about Cooling the Commons research and projects, and understanding the impact of this website.

When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.

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.

Contact forms

If you contact us by email or using our contact form, we will store the information you provide us with (your name and email address) to respond to your query. We will erase the data we collected on this basis when it is no longer required.

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.

Links from our website to other websites

Our website may contain links to third party websites. We do not operate these websites and therefore are not responsible for the collection or handling of personal information by the operators of these websites.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track data about visitors to our website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service for gathering, collection and analysis of data about the behaviour of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website.

The operator of Google Analytics is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Google Analytics uses cookies. You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.

In addition, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics.

Further information and Google‘s applicable privacy regulations can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and the following link provides a further explanation of Google Analytics https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.

Security of your data

Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information.

How long we retain your data

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

Policy Updates

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.