Welcome to the SEAwise Privacy Policy page. SEAwise respects your privacy, and is committed to protecting your personal data. This policy notice will inform you how the project looks after your personal data, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Our website URL is www.seawiseproject.org and you can find links to our social media channels in our footer.
Our website is managed by our communications leads at Mindfully Wired Communications, contactable via elle@mindfullywired.org. The SEAwise project is coordinated by Anna Rindorf at DTU Aqua, contactable via ar@aqua.dtu.dk.
This website does not collect any data about visitors, other than that related to cookies and anonymous statistics used for visitor analytics. How these processes are managed are outlined further in the sections below.
To make this site work properly, and for better user experience, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most websites do this.
Every visitor has control over their cookies placement. You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish by checking your browser settings on each device.
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking on any external web links mentioned throughout this website. For a list of cookies that we use, please see the
table below:
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to identify users and generates statistical data on the way they use our website. | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to identify users and generates statistical data on the way they use our website. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to limit request rates. | 10 minutes |
| cerber_groove | website | A security cookie used to validate the user session. | 2 weeks |
| wordpress_test_cookie | website | Used to identify if the current browser supports the use of cookies. | session |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | website | Used to identify if the current user is logged in. | session |
| wordpress_sec_[hash] | website | Used to store authentication details. | session |
| wp-settings- | website | Used to customize users view of the admin interface, and possibly the main site interface. | session |
| wp-settings-time- | website | Used to customize users view of the admin interface, and possibly the main site interface. | session |
| cookie_consent | website | Stores the users cookie consent state for our website | 90 days |
| landing | website | Used to determine whether the user has landed on the homepage of the website. | 1 week |
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any external linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
A visitor analytics platform measures the traffic coming to this website. By collecting statistics about the visitors to this website (e.g. which pages they visit and when, where the users are approximately located, where they land first or if they are coming from a specific referral), we can make your visitor experience better, as we use this information to tailor a more user-friendly experience.
Communication, engagement and actions taken by this website and its owners on external social media platforms are custom to the terms and conditions and the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely, and communicate or engage with them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms. We encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact us through primary communication channels such as by the email address provided below.
This website and its owners, on their social media accounts, may share web links to relevant web pages. Users are advised to take caution and use good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking, and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
All data collected for analytics is pseudonymised. We will never use the collected data to identify individual users or to match it with additional information on an individual user.
We don’t share your data with any third party sites. On rare and occasional moments (such as a competition) we will only share your information once contacted and you’ve given consent.
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 may hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you have any privacy-specific concerns please contact us at elle@mindfullywired.org.
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