Privacy Policy
Applies to the SJEC Tree Guide website.
The short version
Browsing this site requires no account. There is no advertising and nothing here is sold or rented to anyone. We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages get read, which is the only third-party service on the site.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how the register is used: how many people visit, which plants get looked up, and roughly where visitors come from. It helps us decide what to document next.
Google Analytics sets its own cookies and receives your IP address and browser details as part of this. Google processes that data on our behalf, and their handling of it is covered by the Google Privacy Policy. We do not attempt to identify individual visitors, and we never combine analytics data with anything else.
If you would rather not be counted, browser do-not-track and content-blocking extensions work normally here, and Google offers an opt-out add-on. Nothing on this site stops working if you block it.
What we store
The site holds a register of plants on the SJEC campus: botanical names, descriptions, locations on campus, and photographs taken by the survey team. None of it is personal data about visitors.
Aside from the analytics described above, two things are recorded, and both relate only to site administrators:
- An administrator session cookie. Set only after a successful sign-in at the admin page. It is strictly necessary, holds no personal information, cannot be read by JavaScript, and expires after one week.
- Failed admin sign-in attempts. The IP address of a failed attempt is stored with a counter so repeated password guessing can be slowed down. Each record is discarded automatically 15 minutes after the last attempt.
If you are a visitor rather than an administrator, neither of these ever applies to you.
What we do not do
- No advertising, profiling, or automated decision-making.
- No selling or renting of data to anyone.
- No accounts, newsletters, or contact forms for the public.
- No attempt to identify individual visitors.
Photographs
Photographs on this site are of plants. They are taken on campus by the survey team for identification purposes. If a photograph unintentionally includes you and you would like it replaced, contact us and it will be removed.
Hosting
Like any website, the server that delivers these pages may keep short-lived operational logs, which can include IP addresses. These are handled by the hosting provider and are used only to keep the site running and secure.
Contact
Corrections to a plant record go to the Ecovex Club, who maintain the register. Questions about this policy or how the site handles data can go to The Sceptix Club, who built and run it.