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Privacy
Policy

The Seaweed School & Community Network (“we”, “our”, “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this privacy policy carefully.

 

Last updated on the 23rd of July 2024 

What information do we collect?

We may collect some personal information about you when you access our website, register, subscribe to our blog updates, or fill out a contact form. Other necessary data may be collected by agreeing to our cookies. The data that we may collect include: 

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  • Information you provide us. Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and demographic information, such as your gender, country of origin or school, are collected when you create an account for this website, participate to online discussions, or when you fill out one of our contact forms. 

  • Information we collect when using our website. When you visit or download material from our website, we may collect further information about your browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity, non-identifying personal information regarding your device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language, date/time stamps, etc 

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Why do we collect this information?

We may use the information we collect to: 

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  • Create and manage your personal account. 

  • To manage your messages and answer your questions. 

  • To improve the website and provide a better user experience. 

  • To detect and prevent fraud, security attacks and unauthorized access and abuse. 

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Sharing your data

We may share information we have collected in the following cases: 

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  • By legal requests and to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. 

  • Third Pary Service Providers: We may use some third-party services for fraud detection and prevention services, to collect web analytics and data optimization.  

  • With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent. 

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Data retention

We may retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active. You may request access to the data we have about you, to edit or fully delete any personal data we may have collected about you. 

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Community Portal

We strongly recommend not posting any personal information via any means on our community portal (“groups”). While we have put security measures in place to protect all our visitors, we cannot control the actions of other users. Do not upload any information that you wouldn’t wish to be public. 

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Policy for children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children and will delete any such information from our records if we become aware that we have inadvertently received this type of information. 

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If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13 (or 16 in the EU), please contact us at seaweedschoolnetwork@gmail.com 

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Updates to the privacy policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on this page, and the updated version will be indicated by the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. 

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Contact information

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: 

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Seaweed School & Community Network 

sartrac@soton.ac.uk

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