Privacy Policy

Scope

This privacy policy and legal notice is specific to the Portraits in Oxford web site and complements the University of Oxford Privacy Policy.

Information collected

We request personal information such as your name and e-mail address from you when you register or when you contact us with technical problems or to comment on the Portraits in Oxford web site.

We may store this information manually or electronically. By supplying this information you are consenting to Portraits in Oxford holding and using it for the purposes for which it was provided.

We make use of cookies to keep track of user sessions. These are small files stored in your computer for the purpose of managing and improving the services on the website. Cookies do not contain any personally identifying information.

We do not log the specific identity of visitors. We do keep log files of the requests that reach our web servers, this includes logging the search terms used as well as the typical technical data such as the originating IP address and the Referrer and User-Agent information that is included in an HTTP request.

Use of Information

Your email and other personal information will not be given to anyone else. Personal information will never be sold to third parties, or provided to direct marketing companies or other such organisations.

Demographical and statistical information about user behaviour may be collected and used to analyse the usage and effectiveness of the Portraits in Oxford website. Any disclosure of this information will be in aggregate form and will not identify individual users.

Logged information is kept indefinitely as administrative and research material; it is not disclosed outside of the University of Oxford host site personnel. Aggregate statistics generated from these logs may be reported as part of research results.