Privacy policy
www.carbon.place (“This site”) is operated by the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) project on behalf of the University of Leeds and the University of Oxford. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information (‘personal data’). This policy describes how we collect and use your personal data during your use of our site, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and associated data protection legislation.
Who is using your personal data?
The University of Leeds is the “data controller” for the information that you provide to us when visiting this website. This means that we decide how to use it and are responsible for looking after it in accordance with the GDPR.
Access to your data within the University will be provided to those staff who need to view it as part of their work in connection with the operation of this website. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We may update this policy at any time.
By visiting our site, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
Types of data we collect about you
We will collect, store, and use the following category of data when you use our site: Anonymous data: If you consent to our use of cookies:
We will retain and evaluate information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our site so that we can make it more intuitive.
When we collect your data
We will not collect personal data about you, only anonymous technical information about your visit from your computer.
How we use your data
We process your data to ensure that we understand how our site is used. Information processed for this purpose includes collection of anonymised data through Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
Sharing your data with third parties
We will not share any data with third parties.
Where we store or use your data
We may store data collected by the website manually or electronically. Google Analytics data is stored securely by Google in a cloud-based service, while any analysis of that data is stored on our secure servers and/or in our premises within the UK.
Third party websites
Our site contains links to and from various third-party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Retaining your data
We will only retain your data for as long as we need it to fulfil our purposes, including any relating to legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Your rights
You have the option to refuse analytics cookies which will prevent your visit to our website being recorded for our records.
Contact
If you wish to raise any queries or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected] or CREDS, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.
Cookies
Our site Statistics cookies: These cookies collect information about how users use a website, including what pages are visited and what links they click on. Google Analytics cookies fit into this category.
You have the option to refuse analytics cookies which will prevent your visit to our website being recorded. We do not use any other type of cookies on this website.
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This cookie is used to record if you have opted-in to tracking cookies on this website.