Privacy and Cookie Policy

Copyright

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Privacy

Women Writing Architecture is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how any personal information that you provide is treated. If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices please contact the editors@womenwritingarchitecture.org.

When you use this website, we may collect personal information about you when you

  • send us a citation recommendation
  • send us your personal collections
  • sign up as a subscriber to our newsletter

Any information you provide is held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Specifically, personal information is never shared with any third-party organisation. We take appropriate measures to safeguard databases against unauthorised access and the personal details you submit to us will only be used for the purposes specified below.

Cookies

A cookie is a small digital signature file stored by your web browser that allows our servers to track visitors. When you use the website a cookie identified with our domain name womenwritingarchitecture.org is stored in your web browser, to collect information through Google Analytics. Your consent to this is assumed in your continued use of the site. If you choose to reject cookies, you will still be able to use the Women Writing Architecture website.

To find out more about cookies and how they are used, visit About Cookies, a site that has information on how to control the use of cookies through your browser settings, including how to manage, remove, block and delete them.

Where other website applications (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) are included in our pages, these sites will usually install cookies in your browser, listed under their respective domain names. You may be able to opt out of receiving these altogether, depending on whether or not your web browser gives you the choice of accepting or blocking third party cookies.

Data Usage

When you visit the Women Writing Architecture website our servers automatically collect feedback for us through Google Analytics in the form of your IP address, geographical location, the type of browser and operating system you are using, the pages you visit, the date and time you access our site, length of visit and page views. The information we compile is used to improve your experience when using the website. The information is anonymous and cannot be used to identify you personally.

When we send emails to our subscribers, Mailchimp tracks how many users open the emails, where, and when. You can read more about how this works on Mailchimps’s Privacy Policy page.

Email

If you provide us with personal information in an e-mail message to the address listed on the site: editors@womenwritingarchitect.org, either directly or via submitting a citation or personal collection, we will use this information only to respond to your message. If you provide us with personal information by registering as a subscriber for our e-mail newsletter, we will use this information only to send you an e-mail newsletter at regular intervals, which will feature details of recent content to go up on the website, events or invitations, or other news items of relevance to Women Writing Architecture. You have the option to unsubscribe from this at any time.

Third Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.