Privacy Policy

Who we are

The Language Centre is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University, Prague in the Czech Republic. One of our many activities is running the Writing Point blog, which aims to help users learn more about English academic writing. The Writing Point address is https://writing-point.fsv.cuni.cz.

Comments

When a visitor leaves a comment on this site, the following data is collected: data shown in the comment form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This helps spam detection.

An anonymised email hash may be provided to the Gravatar service. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. When your comment is approved, your profile image becomes visible to the public alongside your comment.

Contact forms

Data from the contact form is stored in our database for up to one year. We only use such data to respond to enquiries. We do not use the data for marketing purposes (e.g. we do not send unsolicited newsletters or marketing announcements).

Cookies

This website uses cookies, through which it stores information on your computer via the internet browser. Some cookies ensure the proper functioning of this site and without their use it would not be possible to display the site properly. Other cookies help us to improve the site by allowing us to see how the site is used. We use cookies based on your consent, which you express by setting your internet browser so that the storage of these cookies is allowed. If you wish to revoke your consent to the use of these cookies, please set your internet browser appropriately.

We also use cookies for statistical and analytical purposes – measuring traffic, tracking movement on the site, time spent on the site, etc. For this purpose, we use Google Analytics.

Read our Cookies policy

Third-party services

Cloudflare Turnstile

We use Cloudflare Turnstile on our website to verify that a visitor is a human and not an automated bot. This service helps protect our forms from spam and abuse.
Cloudflare Turnstile does not use tracking cookies and processes only essential technical data (such as IP address, browser type) for security verification purposes.
For more information, visit: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/

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.

Analytics

We use the Google Analytics service which tracks website visitor traffic and stores data anonymously. This data does not allow tracking of the online behaviour of an individual person.

Who we share your data with

The data collected from visitors to our site is processed and shared with Google Analytics, a service run by Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Our plugins send requests to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information. This request made by a web browser may include an IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.

How long we retain your data

We store the data sent via the contact form for the period necessary to process your message and any subsequent communication, but no longer than 1 year from the last communication, unless longer retention is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g. handling complaints).

What rights you have over your data

You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for legal, or security purposes.

Contact information

GDPR guarantor at FSV UK: Bc. Angelika Hajkova, angelika.hajkova@fsv.cuni.cz

Additional information

More information about the protection of your personal data and what we do in case of data leakage you can find on the website of Charles University: https://cuni.cz/UK-9056.html