SONCITIES website privacy statement

This statement describes how we collect and use your personal data during your use of SONCITIES’ website (www.soncities.org).

Types of data we collect about you

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

·         Information about your browser, network and device

·         Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

·         Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use the sites. Google Analytics uses a cookie to record information about usage. We use the information to compile reports and to help improve the site. The cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the websites, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited. For further information on how Google Analytics handles user data please, see the overview of Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

Squarespace Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

·         Information about your browser, network, and device

·         Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

·         Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

·         Clicks

·         Internal links

·         Pages visited

·         Scrolling

·         Searches

·         Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. To know more about the types of cookies Squarespace uses, click here.

Marketing emails – Mailchimp

We use Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group LLC) to manage email marketing subscriber lists and send emails to our subscribers. Read their privacy policy.

You can unsubscribe at any time from our maillist by sending an email to soncities@music.ox.ac.uk.    

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

·         Information about your browser, network, or device

·         Your IP address

Cookies

We use cookies in order to allow the site to operate. Please refer to our cookies policy for more details.

How we use your data

We process your data for purposes arising from your use of the website, for example, to ensure that we understand who uses our site and how our site is used and to improve our site. If you opt to subscribe to our maillist, we will use your email to send you the newsletter and other information of relevance.

We use anonymous statistical data for the purpose of demonstrating the project’s impact to our funding body: the European Research Council.  

Social Media

We maintain facebook and twitter pages. We do not store any data on our own systems for this purpose. Use is controlled by your agreement direct with facebook and twitter for use of their systems. https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Contact

If you wish to raise any queries or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at soncities@music.ox.ac.uk