Privacy policy

AIK Platform Privacy Policy

AIK platform is an academic-led initiative supported by Brunel University London and funded by STFC Food Network + 2.0; a network funded by the UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council in the United Kingdom. AIK Platform aims to enable sharing and learning of indigenous knowledge of food system related practices in the form of data such as pictures, videos, audio, and research and education through reports, papers, presentation, posters, and others.

The Type Of Personal Information We Collect:

We currently collect and process the following information:

Ø Registering with us: Personal identifiers and contacts details (e.g., name, email) are collected from those register as collaborators or users, meaning those that create an account to share their resources and or use the available resources (e.g., download files).

Ø Communications with us: We may collect personal information from you such as email address, first and last name, institution, and generic location (e.g., country) when you choose to request information about our resources, or otherwise communicate with us.

Our forms requests for the following information:

- Your name and contact details

- Online profile data/usage

- Education and professional information

- Subscription preferences

- Location information

- Author and peer review information

- Other information you upload or provide to us

How We Get The Personal Information And Why We Have It

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Cookies are small bits of information that we place on your device. We use necessary cookies to make the site work, and others to help us do things like monitor site usage. We do not use them to contact you unless you sign up to hear from us and we never sell your information to anyone else.

However, most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

Ø By registering an account as collaborator or user

Ø By contacting us directly with requests or other reasons

Ø By following us in our social media channels – direct messages, etc.

We use the information that you have given us in order to:

Ø Disclose authorship of resources: when uploading resources, you are required to fill an authorship form, to acknowledge your authorship and enable user to cite you appropriately. Personal information is not disclosed in this statement, except if the author agrees to share email or social media channel.

Ø To administer products: We may use this information to confirm compliance with licensing and other terms of use and may share it with your company/institution. [list how you use the personal information].

We may share this information with our partner organisations listed on the website for research, education, policy development and improving AIK website.

How We Store Your Personal Information

Your information is securely stored.

  • We keep your data on the platform as long as you want, and that your data still meets the original reason it was collected. You can contact the AIK if you want your data deleted.
  • AIK has the legal obligation to refuse to erase your data to comply with legal obligations as described on the UK ICO website such as complying with financial, public interest or other regulations.

Some information may be shared within the website, for example:

  • Visualization of resources: We may use information from the shared resources to visualize content; for example, maps of where the resource is from or relate to. Personal information about Authors/Owners of resources will not be disclosed; only information for citation – authors, title, year, etc.
  • Authorship: as soon as the resources are available in the AIK repository and you have not contacted us to removed or amended authorship, the details filled and agreed by you will be available with the correspondent resource.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Ø Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Ø Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Ø Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Ø Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Ø Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Ø Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Ø You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us Contact| AIK (aikproject.org) if you wish to make a request.

How to Complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at Contact| AIK (aikproject.org).

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk