Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.uv4plants.org.
The publisher of this site is the UV4Plants Scientific Association, a not for profit organization.
Address: Biocenter 3, University of Helsinki, Viikki Campus, 00790 Helsinki, Finland.
Contact: info@uv4plants.org
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 plus additional information is collected by the Akismet anti-spam service. See below for details.
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.
Chatroom
When you use the chatroom we gather user name, first name, last name and e-mail in order that you can open a user account, let the user login, be able to identify the user and communicate with them. Usernames, first and last names will be published on the site and in forum profiles, topics and replies, but email addresses will only be visible to administrators of the site. None of this information is shared with other parties, or used for any other purposes.
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.
Contact forms
We do not use contact forms at this site.
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 select “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 do not use analytics services external to our server. We analyse only anonymous access statistics by ourselves.
Who we share your data with
We do not share your data with any external parties.
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 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.
For protection from spam we use the Akismet service as follows:
Akismet anti-spam service collects information about visitors who comment on the site. The information they collect depends on how we sets up Akismet for the site which may change in time, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
We use the ShortPixel service for reducing the size of images served from this web site. If you upload images or other media files they may be automatically or manually sent to the ShortPixel service to be compressed, as this reduces the workload of our server and results in pages loading faster:
When images are optimized via the ShortPixel online compressor, ShortPixel stores them for two hours, together with the optimization details. After that, they delete the images, but they keep the info for 40 days.
If you use the share buttons at our site, you should be aware that to achieve this we need to send data to these services.
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Your contact information
Is maintained only in our server (e-mail and name) and in off-line backups (membership and other related information).
Additional information
How we protect your data
Connections between browser and our server are encrypted, and we use a certificate from the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority (https://letsencrypt.org/).
We use Google’s reCAPTCHA service to block logins and user registration by bots and non-human agents. We may also use this service with other kinds of user input.
What data breach procedures we have in place
As we do not highly store sensitive data, the breach procedure in place is to inform affected users as soon as possible. If needed we will put the site off-line while any known vulnerability is not repaired.
What third parties we receive data from
We receive no personal data from third parties. The content is not tailored to user behaviour elsewhere and we do not serve any advertising from third parties.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None.