We are committed to protecting your privacy while contributing to the scientific understanding and restoration of the natural world. This policy explains how we handle personal data when you visit our website.

Who We Are

We are the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, part of the University of Oxford. Our website address is: https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk.

Information we may collect from you when you visit the Site

The personal information we collect when you visit the Site (“Information”) includes:

e-mail address – if you subscribe to our newsletter
records of emails and other correspondence (including any further information we may request from you) when you contact us to request information, report a problem, or provide feedback on our products and services;
standard information automatically collected by our web server including your IP address, browser type, and operating system;
details of your visits to our site, including access time.

If you contact us to enquire about a job vacancy, we will collect details relevant to your enquiry and any subsequent application you may make, which will include your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number(s), CV and work experience, and (in certain cases) your personal circumstances. We will provide you with further details at the time.

How we use your information

We will only use the Information we collect as follows:

to provide you with the information about our products and services that you request;
for internal record keeping, billing, accounting and market research purposes;
to respond to any queries, complaints or requests for further information;
to improve the content of the Site;
to customise the content and/or layout of the Site; and
to provide you with marketing information about other products and services we supply that may be of interest to you.

If you contact us to enquire about a job vacancy, we will only use your Information for that purpose.

On what basis do we use your information?

We will process the Information that you provide, or we collect from you, on the basis that it is necessary for our legitimate interests in promoting and marketing our products and services, and for the other purposes mentioned above, or (as appropriate) for providing you with information about job vacancies.

Your Information will not be used for any other purpose, or disclosed to any third party, unless we are required to do so by law, or as mentioned in the next paragraph.

How long do we keep personal information for?

If you contact us with an enquiry but you do not (or the organisation you represent does not) enter into a contract with us, we will normally delete your personal data after 10 years.

If you contact us about a job vacancy, we will normally delete your personal data after 10 years, unless you become an employee of ours.

Your rights as a data subject

As a data subject you have certain legal rights including:

the right to access the personal data held about you;
the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes;
the right to withdraw at any time any consent you have given to receive marketing material from us;
the right to ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data about you;
the right to ask for the restriction of personal data concerning yourself that is inaccurate, unlawfully processed, or no longer required;
the right to ask for the erasure of personal data concerning yourself where processing is no longer necessary, or the legitimate interests we have in processing your personal data are overridden by your interests, rights and freedoms as the data subject; and
the right to make a complaint about to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office).

Internet security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect your Information from unauthorised use. However, as no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot take responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.

Please remember that other methods of Internet communication, such as emails and messages sent via a website, are not secure unless they are encrypted. We take no responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.

Changes to this Privacy Policy and future developments

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of this Privacy Policy will govern our use of information about you and will be located on this page. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy then where appropriate we will notify you by email or by posting a notice on the Site prior to the effective date of the changes.

Analytics and Cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to help us understand how visitors use our website. This includes aggregated information such as pages visited, time spent on the site, browser type, and general location (based on anonymised IP data).

GA4 automatically anonymises IP addresses before they are stored. No personally identifiable information is collected through analytics, and we do not combine analytics data with any other personal data.

Our cookie banner allows you to manage your consent preferences for cookies, including those used for analytics. You can change your preferences at any time through the banner or by adjusting your browser settings.

We retain analytics data for up to 14 months, which allows us to analyse trends over time while respecting your privacy.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Some pages may include embedded content such as videos, maps, or articles from third-party sites. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the originating site directly and may collect data or use cookies. We do not control these external platforms and recommend reviewing their respective privacy policies.

User Accounts and Comments

This website does not offer public commenting or user registration. Only authorised administrators have access to the website backend.

Your Rights

Under UK and EU data protection laws, you have the right to:

Request access to any personal data we may hold about you
Request correction or deletion of your data
Object to or restrict how your data is used

If you contact us directly via the website, we may retain the communication for administrative purposes.

Contact

For privacy-related enquiries or data requests, you can contact us via our contact form or through the University of Oxford’s Information Compliance Team. You can also email naturerecovery@ouce.ox.ac.uk

For more information, refer to the University’s full privacy policy: https://compliance.admin.ox.ac.uk/privacy-policy

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