Privacy Notice

Who is responsible for the website

This website is operated by Professor Kevin Lam for the Lam Research Group, Laboratory of Synthetic Electrochemistry, University of Greenwich. It is independently hosted on WordPress infrastructure provided through Hostinger and is not the University’s main website.

Data controller and data-protection contact

Enquiries submitted for University research, recruitment or collaboration activity are handled through University systems. The applicable data-controller arrangement for enquiries submitted through this independently hosted form requires written confirmation from the University’s Information Compliance team. Until that review is complete, questions about University data protection can be sent to compliance@gre.ac.uk; see the University privacy information.

Information collected

The contact form collects your name, email address, organisation, enquiry type, subject and message. Member accounts may contain an account name, email address, role, password hash and security information. Hosting and security systems may process an IP address, browser information, requested pages, timestamps and error or security events.

Privacy-conscious audience measurement

The site uses self-hosted Koko Analytics in cookieless mode to count visits, page views, popular pages and referring websites. Nothing is sent to an advertising network or external analytics provider. Raw IP addresses and user-agent strings are not retained by the analytics dashboard; cookieless visitor recognition uses a one-way hash with a daily rotating secret and its temporary session records are cleared each day.

The site also keeps daily aggregate counts for visits to the Partnerships page, clicks on DOI links and successfully sent enquiry categories. These outcome counts contain no names, email addresses, message content, IP addresses, cookies or individual browsing histories. Browser Do Not Track signals are respected by the outcome counter.

Purpose and lawful basis

Contact information is used to read, route and respond to an enquiry and, where a discussion continues, to manage the resulting research, recruitment, facilities or collaboration correspondence. The applicable lawful basis depends on the nature of the enquiry and requires written confirmation from the University’s Information Compliance team; this independently maintained website does not make a final determination on that basis.

Recipients and service providers

Information may be processed by Hostinger and the website’s mail service, then delivered to Professor Lam’s University email account. It may be shared within the University with colleagues responsible for the relevant enquiry. The group does not sell contact information. External websites linked from this site have their own privacy notices.

International processing

Hosting and service providers may process information in more than one country under their applicable contractual and legal safeguards. Contact-form correspondence is also processed through University email and information systems.

Retention

The website is configured not to retain a separate archive of contact-form submissions. However, hosting, mail and security systems may retain technical logs or message copies according to their configured retention periods. Email correspondence is retained under the University’s applicable records requirements. Member-account information is retained while access is required and should be reviewed when a member leaves.

Individual rights and complaints

Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to access, correct, restrict or erase personal information, to object to processing, or to receive information in a portable form. Use the contact form or contact the University’s Information Compliance team. You may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Security

The site uses HTTPS, authenticated mail delivery, form validation, a hidden anti-spam field and submission rate limiting. Member passwords are stored by WordPress as password hashes. No internet service can guarantee absolute security, so do not submit confidential structures, unpublished results, identity documents or other sensitive information through the public form.

Photographs and biographies

Current and former members can ask for a photograph, biography or profile detail to be corrected or removed. Requests should identify the page and requested change.

Changes to this notice

This notice will be revised when the form, hosting, service providers or applicable University guidance changes. Material changes will be published on this page.