The European Aquaculture Society Student Group values your privacy. The following policy describes the way in which we collect and manage information which you supply to the site or which is collected automatically. If you have any questions about this policy please feel free to contact us. This policy does not cover any other website which our site may contain links to.

Information you provide

In order to access the majority of services on the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website we require that you register to create an account. To do this you will be asked to provide a name, an email address, your EAS member number, as well as selecting a password. Once you have entered the site you will have the option to create a personal research profile page which can contain information including, but not limited to, your university/institute, some basic course information, an overview of your work and any publications you have. Although we try and encourage people to take an active role in the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website to create a sense of community, supplying this extra information is entirely optional. You can choose to leave your profile blank and remain a passive member of The European Aquaculture Society Student Group website.

What we do with this information?

The only required pieces of personally identifiable information are your name, email address, and EAS member number and we take great care not to disclose this email address to anybody on the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website.

For members of the the European Aquaculture Society Student Group community, other members viewing your profile pages will have the option to email you via a double-blind messaging system but will not be shown your email at any time. We encourage members to safeguard their own personal security and not to disclose their email to other members by posting it on their profile page or by putting it in the body of a message. Additional information supplied by you is visible to other members on your public profile page in order to facilitate the formation of links and collaboration. This information is not visible to any person who is not logged in to The European Aquaculture Society Student Group website.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website, as with almost every other web site you visit, the server automatically gathers some information about your visit. None of this information identifies you personally. This information includes the IP address from which you accessed the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website, the type of browser and operating system used to access the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website, the duration of your visit and the pages you view. If you linked to the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website from another web site then the address of that other site is noted. This information is really useful to help us make the site better and see what are users are most interested in.

Third parties

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the total number of members or listings in a particular field or how many visits the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website receives. We may, occasionally, work with other companies or organisations to try and improve our services. At that time, we may give trusted businesses or persons access to some personal information provided we feel it is necessary to help us improve our services.

Updating or removing personal information

Members of the European Aquaculture Society Student Group website can, at any time, log into their account and edit their personal information. Additional information can, be removed from a profile page and the contact email address can be changed.

All registered members and listing providers may have their accounts deleted. If you decide you would like your account completely removed from our system, please email us from the address which you used during the registration process requesting that your account be deleted and that all other related database entries are removed. We will carry out this procedure within 30 days of receiving your request.

Changes to this policy

Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of policy changes). Each version of this policy will be identified at the bottom of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this privacy policy in an archive which can be viewed upon request via email.