Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy
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Who we are
Established in 2017 as the premier research center for the study of ancient Iran, the mission of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is to engage in transformative research on all aspects of Iranian antiquity, including its reception in the medieval and modern periods, by expanding on the traditional domains of Old Iranian studies and promoting cross-cultural and interdisciplinary scholarship.

The Pourdavoud Center intends to be a disciplinary home to stimulating intellectual encounters and exchanges for scholars working on ancient Iran and the ancient world, and will contribute to the development of collaborative research projects in such diverse areas as Assyriology, Biblical Studies, Central Asian studies, Classics, Egyptology, ancient History, Indology, Sinology, and the Study of Religion.

Our website address is: https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu.  The privacy policy below applies to visitor interaction with the Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran (https://irangazetteer.ucla.edu).
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What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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Contact forms
All data is submitted via SSL.
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Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
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Analytics
We may use Google Analytics, we may use UCLA IT Services provided analytics.  Both should be secure systems that you do not need to worry about as an end-user.  Our data is secure.
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Who we share your data with
No one.  We do not share user or visitor data.
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How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
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Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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Your contact information
If you fill out a contact form, we may use that to contact you back, per your request.  But your contact information will not leave our system other than to go to the intended party, and will not be used in any other way except to reply back to you.
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Additional information
How we protect your data
We use SSL, we run regular security updates, we do everything that we can to make sure that our systems are not compromised in any way.
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What data breach procedures we have in place
Please see https://it.ucla.edu/it-support-center for our hosting system’s procedures.
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What third parties we receive data from
These are some of the sites: https://arcgis.com, https://gmpg.org, https://cloudflare.com, https://gravatar.com, https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer (https://*.googleapis.com).   There could be more.  The above is not a definitive list.  Please be advised.
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What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None.
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Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
None.
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