Who we are

The address of our website is: https://www.oapublishing.ch.

You can find out more about what the OAPublishing Collective co-operative is all about at https://www.oapublishing.ch/blog/oapublishing-collective-genossenschaft/

Comments

Comments are usually turned off on this site. As a rule, comments can therefore neither be submitted nor saved.

When visitors write comments on the website, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the user agent string (which identifies the browser) to help recognise spam.

An anonymised character string (also known as a hash) can be created from your email address and sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. You can find the Gravatar service’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

Cookies

If you write a comment on our website, this may constitute consent to store your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that you don’t have to re-enter all this information when you write another comment. These cookies are stored on your system for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie on your system to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and will be discarded as soon as you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up some cookies on your system to store your login information and display options. Login cookies expire after two days and cookies for display options after one year. If you select “Stay logged in” when you log in, your login will be maintained for a fortnight. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted from your system.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you have just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Posts on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if visitors had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we store your data

When you post a comment, it will be stored indefinitely on our system, including metadata. This allows us to automatically recognise and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (the username cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and change this information.

What rights you have to your data

If you have an account on this website or have written comments, you can request an export of your personal data from us, including all data that you have provided to us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data that we have stored about you. This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be analysed by an automated spam detection service.

Usually you cannot log in to this website. This is not necessary. Rather, we recommend that you contact the people at OAPublishing Collective by email.