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Privacy policy

Who we are

The address of our website is: https://thesocialstudy.be.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address and the browser’s user agent to combat spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (this is also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service if you use it. The privacy policy page can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Images

When uploading images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain GPS location data (EXIF data). Website visitors can download the images from your website and see this location data.

Cookies

When you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to have your name, email address and website stored in a cookie. We do this for your convenience so that you do not have to re-enter this information for a new comment. These cookies are valid for one year.

If you have an account and you log into this website, we store a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted as soon as you close your browser.

Once you login, we will store some cookies related to your login information and screen display options. Login cookies are valid for 2 days and cookies for screen display options are valid for 1 year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will be saved for 2 weeks. Once you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie is stored by your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only contains the post ID of the article you edited. This cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this website may contain embedded (embedded) content. For example, videos, images, messages, etc. Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor visited this other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed tracking from third parties and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Who we share your information with

The TSS shall only share information with the partner universities when this is neede to provide you with information about the study or are applying for us of the data. At that time you will be informed about what data, by whom and for how long your personal data will be stored.

How long we keep your data

Wanneer je een reactie achterlaat dan wordt die reactie en de metadata van die reactie voor altijd bewaard. Op deze manier kunnen we vervolgreacties automatisch herkennen en goedkeuren in plaats van dat we ze moeten modereren.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store personal information in their user profile. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (only username cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and change this information.

What rights do you have from your own data

If you have an account on this Web site or you have posted comments, you may request an export file of your personal information that we have about you, including any information you have given us. You may also request that we delete this personal data we hold about you. This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.