Privacy policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com.
We are the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, a research project based at the University of Sussex, UK.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Mailing List
If you chose to contact us to be added to our mailing list, your name and email address will be added to a distribution list at the University of Sussex. This list is manually monitored by our project team through Microsoft Outlook and access to it is maintained by our Information Technology Services. We will not share this information with any other service, for profit or otherwise. You have the right to retract your details from our mailing list at anytime.
We endeavour not to over-communicate to our mailing list. You will receive a regular newsletter from us, and occasionally one-off communication about special opportunities.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not directly share any user data that identifies individual users recorded onto this website elsewhere for profit or otherwise, unless you have given us permission to do so (e.g., as a contributor to an blog post or dialogues).
Comments that you share on our website are publicly available and therefore can be collected by web scrapers. Your WordPress username will appear alongside your comment.
For reporting purposes, we do share aggregated data based on number of visitors and users to our site, and their geographical location. This data is share as quantitative reports and no individual’s identity can be linked to it.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments.
If you provide your details for our mailing list, you have the right to remove this at any time. Our retention schedule for data handling is available on request.
What rights you have over your data
If you have contributed content to this site or left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We do not otherwise directly share any user data that identifies individual users recorded onto this website elsewhere for profit or otherwise, unless you have given us permission to do so (e.g., as a contributor to an blog post or dialogues).
Ethics
This website is part of the broader work of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, which is an academic research project and as such must be compliant with research ethics in the UK. The project received ethical clearance from the ethics board at the University of Sussex in July 2024 under the application no. ER/VW62/10. This ethical clearance refers to our broader data collection efforts for research purposes, particularly in relation to our living database-archive.
If you have any questions or concerns relating to the ethics of this research please contact the Chair of the Social Science and Arts Cross Schools Research Ethics Committee (c-recss@sussex.ac.uk).