The Mind Attic respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. In this privacy policy we explain how we collect and use your personal information when you visit our website.
Who we are
The Mind Attic (www.mindattic.org) is an educational website designed to introduce people to interesting ideas within the social sciences. We are not a corporation or institution. The website is run by one person who is passionate about using technology to improve access to educational materials.
Information You Provide Us
If you contact us using the “Contact Us” form on The Mind Attic website, we will receive your name, email address and any other information you choose to provide. We will use this information solely to communicate with you and respond to your query. We will not share your information with any “third parties.”
Information We Automatically Collect
The Mind Attic uses cookies to help us understand how our readers use our website.
A cookie is a small text file that is sent by a website server to your browser and stored on your computer. Cookies enable website operators to capture useful information on how you use their website. For example, they can tell us whether you have visited our site before, which pages you view and links you follow, your general location, and the type of device you are using to access our website (e.g. mobile phone, desktop computer).
We use cookies to monitor how people use our website, including estimating audience size and patterns of use, to help us provide you with a better service. Cookies also make it easier for you to use the website on future visits, and allow us to personalise the content of the website to you by recording information about your preferences.
We use both persistent cookies (which expire on a specified date) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser).
We use the following cookies on the website.
- _ga (Google Analytics) – Used to distinguish users. Expiration: 2 years
- _gid (Google Analytics) – Used to distinguish users. Expiration: 24 hours
- _gat (Google Analytics) – Used to ensure server requests are conducted in an orderly sequence. Expiration: 1 minute
- AMP_TOKEN (Google Analytics) – Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Expiration: 30 seconds to 1 year
- __utma (Google Analytics) – Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration: 2 years from set/update
- __utmt (Google Analytics) – Used to ensure server requests are conducted in an orderly sequence. Expiration: 10 minutes
- __utmb (Google Analytics) – Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration: 30 mins from set/update
- __utmc (Google Analytics) – Used to determine whether the user is in a new session/visit Expiration: End of browser session
- __utmz (Google Analytics) – Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration: 6 months from set/update
- __utmv (Google Analytics) – Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration: 2 years from set/update
We understand that not everyone wants to contribute to statistics on website use, so you can configure your cookie settings in your web browser. However, please bear in mind that if you don’t allow us to use certain cookies it may prevent you from accessing parts of our website or result in a loss of functionality which degrades your experience of the website.
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 you had 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.
Storing your Personal Information
We will only store your personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes for which it was collected. The information you provide to us is stored on third party secure servers in the UK.
Protecting your Personal Information
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.
We try to ensure that all information you provide to us is transferred securely via the website. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will do everything we can to prevent unauthorised access.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about your privacy on our website, or our use of your personal data, please contact us using the Contact Us form.