Privacy Statement

This website presents the professional profile, research, publications, consultancy, popular science work and writing of Professor Dorrik Stow.

The data controller for this website is Professor Dorrik Stow.

Contact: d.stow@hw.ac.uk

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Depending on how you use the site, the following information may be collected:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number, if provided
• Organisation or role, if provided
• The content of any enquiry or message
• Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type and website usage data, where analytics or security tools are used
• Cookie preferences

Personal information may be collected when:

• You use a contact form
• You send an email
• You enquire about consultancy, training, lectures, publications or research
• You download or interact with website materials
• You accept optional cookies or analytics

Personal information may be used to:

• Respond to enquiries
• Discuss research, consultancy, training, speaking or publication opportunities
• Manage correspondence
• Provide requested information or documents
• Improve the website and understand general usage
• Maintain website security

The lawful basis for using personal information will usually be one or more of the following:

• Consent, where you have given consent, for example to optional cookies
• Legitimate interests, such as responding to enquiries and maintaining a professional website
• Contract or pre-contract steps, where an enquiry relates to possible consultancy, training, speaking or other professional work
• Legal obligation, where information must be kept to comply with legal requirements

Personal information is not sold. It may be shared only where necessary with trusted service providers who help operate the website, email, hosting, analytics, file storage or professional services. These providers should only process information for the relevant service.

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Some website, hosting, analytics or storage providers may process data outside the UK. Where this applies, appropriate safeguards should be used.

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Personal information is kept only for as long as needed for the purpose it was collected. Enquiry emails may be kept for a reasonable period to manage correspondence and professional records. Cookie preferences may be kept for the period stated in the Cookie Policy.

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Under UK data protection law, you may have rights to:

• Access your personal information
• Ask for inaccurate information to be corrected
• Ask for information to be deleted
• Restrict or object to certain uses of your information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office

To exercise your rights, contact: d.stow@hw.ac.uk

You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office if you are unhappy with how your personal information is handled.

This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time. The latest version will be published on this page.