Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is https://www.benthamsgaze.org/. The website is operated by the Information Security Group in the Computer Science Department of University College London.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Email subscription

If you request to be subscribed to email updates on this site and other news from the UCL Information Security Group, we will retain your email address and name (if provided). Each email you receive will contain instructions on how you can unsubscribe from this mailing list.

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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We collect access logs in order to understand how visitors use this website and to detect abuse. These logs contain the visitor’s IP address, page requested, browser user agent string, referrer URL and TLS cipher-suite. Access logs are retained indefinitely.

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 automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have 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 permitted to keep for archival, administrative, legal, or security purposes. Content submitted is also subject to our contribution policy.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments are checked for spam using the Akismet service. Their privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Contact details

The administrators of the website can be contacted at benthamsgaze @ cs.ucl.ac.uk.

The UCL Data Protection Officer can be contacted at data-protection@ucl.ac.uk or +44 (0)20 3108 8726.

You can contact UCL by telephoning +44 (0)20 7679 2000 or by writing to: University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

If you have a complaint about this website you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF or at https://ico.org.uk/.

Changes to our policy

Our privacy policy may be updated from time to time. Any updates will appear on this webpage. This policy was last updated on 2018-06-11.