SoCDR

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit our website.

Information We Collect

We only collect the minimum amount of data necessary to run our website and communicate with you.

Voluntarily Provided Data

  • Email Address: We collect your email address only if you explicitly choose to sign up for our newsletter.
  • Name: We may optionally collect your name if you provide it during the newsletter sign-up process.

Automatically Collected Data

  • We do not log or track personal information automatically.
  • We do not use tracking cookies to identify you.

 How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information strictly for the following purposes:

  • To send you the newsletters you subscribed to.
  • To respond to direct inquiries if you contact us.
  • To monitor general website traffic trends.

Third-Party Services We Use

We share data with trusted third-party services to keep our website running. These providers are bound by their own privacy policies.

Mailchimp
(Newsletter Provider)

  • We use Mailchimp to manage our email marketing subscriber list.
  • When you sign up, your email address and name are stored on Mailchimp servers.
  • Mailchimp may use web beacons in emails to measure open rates and clicks.
  • You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email.

Read the Mailchimp Privacy Policy.

Plausible Analytics
(Website Statistics)

  • We use Plausible Analytics to understand our website traffic in a privacy-friendly way.
  • Plausible does not track individuals.
  • Plausible does not use cookies, generate persistent identifiers, or collect personal data.
  • All data is fully anonymised and aggregated.

Read the Plausible Privacy Policy.

WordPress
(Website Platform)

  • Our website is built on the WordPress platform.
  • Because user registration and logins are disabled, WordPress does not create user profiles or track your identity.
  • Standard server logs may temporarily capture your IP address for security and DDoS protection purposes.

Cookies

  • We do not use marketing, targeting, or tracking cookies on this website.
  • Because we use Plausible Analytics, no cookies are placed on your browser to track your visits.

Your Rights

Depending on your location (such as the UK or EU under GDPR), you have the following rights regarding your data:

  • Access: You can request a copy of the email data we hold about you.
  • Correction: You can ask us to fix incorrect information.
  • Deletion: You can request that we delete your email address from our database entirely.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information below.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at: socdr@smithschool.ox.ac.uk.