Privacy Policy

The MOOD project’s policy is to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, the MOOD project collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The MOOD project’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use the MOOD website. From time to time, the MOOD project may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The MOOD project also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments. The MOOD project only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

The MOOD project discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, employees of affiliated partner organisations, project members, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on the MOOD project’s behalf or to provide services, publications, and technology available at its website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, employees of affiliated partner organisations, project members, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using the MOOD websites you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The MOOD project will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, the MOOD project discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when the MOOD project website administrators believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the MOOD project, third parties or the public at large. Personally-identifying information such as copies of personal documents and similar received from 3rd parties during events will be removed from the MOOD project website within three (3) weeks after the end of event.

If you are a registered user of the MOOD project website and have supplied your email address, the MOOD project may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with the project and our publications and tools. We primarily use our multimedia communication channels to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The MOOD project website administrators take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The MOOD project uses cookies to help MOOD website administrators identify and track visitors, their usage of the MOOD website, and their website access preferences. MOOD website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

This website follows the European Commission’s guidelines on privacy and data protection and inform users that cookies are not being used to gather information unnecessarily i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulation and the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications.

Website Transfer

When the MOOD project ends as the funding period for the project expires in its current form either through completion or adaptation of the project, user information will be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of the MOOD website may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by the MOOD website and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, the MOOD project may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at the MOOD project’s sole discretion. The MOOD website administrators encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of any such changes.

This Privacy Policy document is an adaptation of the Privacy Policy on Automattic.com, available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license with adjustments for the MOOD project’s privacy policy.